Overview Valley of the Seven Stars is GRiZ's three-day camping festival in the hills south of Charlottesville, Virginia, and the 2026 bill put GRiZ down for three sets in one weekend. It runs on the LOCKN' and Oak Ridge Farms ground in Arrington, it is 18 and over, and 100x and Playa Luna Presents produce it with GRiZ Presents. GRiZ brought the festival back in October 2025 after a two-year break. He is Grant Kwiecinski, a producer from Southfield, Michigan, who plays saxophone over his own funk and electro-soul records and started the All BAD label. On site Three stages carry the music. Ouroboros keeps going into the late night, and the Barn Burner turns into a dance floor under a technicolor canopy after dark, when the festival's Starlight Hours put interactive art around the grounds. By day there are breathwork, Qi Gong, sound baths and guided meditation, mindful forest walks, mountain bike trails for every skill level, open crafting at the Launchpad, panels at Polaris and scavenger hunts. Virginia vendors run the food, with vegan and gluten-free options, next to craft beer, regional wines and cocktails. The site is cashless, water refills are free, re-entry is allowed and the shows go on rain or shine. Audience People stay on the farm. The campground opens Thursday morning and closes Monday at noon, with tent and RV sites, pre-set tents, glamping, RV rentals and hotel packages that shuttle guests in, and the festival says its crowd travels from all 50 states. It publishes seven pillars for that crowd, from Leave No Trace, a pledge to keep the grounds clean, to Sharing and Bunga, which it defines as wild abandon. Talent and Influencers The 2026 lineup listed more than 80 acts. Under GRiZ's three sets it carried LSDREAM, Ganja White Night, Subtronics, CloZee, Crankdat, AVELLO, Of The Trees and Wooli, with Manic Focus, The Funk Hunters, Levity, Dr. Fresch and Justin Jay further down, and back-to-back pairings of Thought Process with parkbreezy and Smoakland with Sippy. The 2025 return, per the festival, ran on three GRiZ headline sets, surprise back-to-backs and late-night dance parties.