Gulf Shores, AL’s second annual Hangout Music Festival kicked off Friday afternoon. The festival’s opening day boasted numerous festival scene staples, including headliner Widespread Panic, My Morning Jacket, Warren Haynes Band, STS9, Umphrey’
s McGee, Bassnectar, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Railroad Earth and Greensky Bluegrass, among many others.

Widespread Panic’s single set on one of the festival’s marquee beach Hangout Stage stretched from 8:30-11 PM. Partway through the performance, Warren Haynes also emerged a run from “Ride Me High” into “Stop Breakin Down Blues.” Like last year’s Hangout festival, Haynes also collaborated with Grace Potter—the singer emerged during Warren Haynes Band’s set for a cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Honkytonk Woman.” Elsewhere, Karl Denson sat in with Railroad Earth at the end of its set for “Hard Livin.’”

My Morning Jacket used its set of the beach Surf Style stage to publicly debut a handful of songs of its forthcoming studio album Circuital. The group opened its set with the first live version of “Victory Dance” and later debuted both “First Light” and “Holdin On To Black Metal.” The group also played the new album’s title track, which has been in rotation for some time. The Hangout continues this afternoon.

Additional reporting by David Camferdam