SulaFest 2026 returns to Nashik for its 15th edition with a focus on homegrown music

SulaFest 2026 returns to Nashik for its 15th edition with a focus on homegrown music

There are few music festivals in India that can claim to have aged alongside their audience. Fewer still have done so without losing their original intent. SulaFest, now returning for its 15th edition on January 31 and February 1, 2026, at Sula Vineyards in Nashik, belongs firmly to that small category.

Long before vineyards became shorthand for lifestyle travel or music festivals turned into content farms, SulaFest positioned itself as a meeting point for sound, land and people who came not just to be entertained, but to listen.

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The festival’s return last year, after a five-year hiatus, felt like a recalibration. The pause, according to Rajeev Samant, CEO of Sula Vineyards, allowed the team to strip the festival back to its essentials.

“The break helped us reimagine SulaFest as a more intentional, immersive experience rooted in authenticity,” he says. Scale, he realised, was never the point. “Connection has always been our intent. Between artists and audiences, between wine and music, and between the festival and the landscape that hosts it.”

That thinking carries through into the 2026 edition, which leans decisively into homegrown talent while retaining the sense of discovery SulaFest has always been known for. The line-up reads like a snapshot of India’s contemporary independent scene: Nucleya and King headline, artists who have each reshaped the mainstream conversation in their own way, while still remaining deeply rooted in personal storytelling. Midival Punditz return with Karsh Kale and Kutle Khan, bringing together electronic production, live percussion and Rajasthani folk vocals in a collaboration that has long been foundational to India’s fusion movement.