Dave Chappelle's Summer Camp Returns to Yellow Springs for Its 6th Year

Summary

• Dave Chappelle has announced the return of Dave Chappelle’s Summer Camp at the Wirrig Pavilion in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with nine shows across three weekends in July and August 2026
• Tickets for all dates go on sale Wednesday, June 10
• The event is a phone-free experience enforced via Yondr pouches, with all phones, smartwatches, and accessories secured upon arrival and accessible only in designated Phone Use Areas throughout the venue

Dave Chappelle has announced the 2026 edition of Dave Chappelle’s Summer Camp, returning to the Wirrig Pavilion in Yellow Springs, Ohio for its sixth consecutive year. The newly announced dates span three weekends: July 1, 2, and 3; August 20, 21, and 22; and August 27, 28, and 29.

Summer Camp’s format has remained consistent across its six-year run for good reason. The outdoor cornfield setting at the Wirrig Pavilion in Yellow Springs gives the shows an intimacy that arena comedy cannot replicate, placing Chappelle and a rotating cast of friends in front of an audience that has made a specific choice to be there. The phone-free policy, enforced through individual Yondr pouches that secure all phones, smartwatches, and accessories upon arrival, removes the layer of mediation that has come to define most live entertainment experiences. Devices remain in the audience’s possession throughout and are accessible in designated Phone Use Areas within the venue, but anyone seen using a device during the performance is escorted out. The policy is not incidental to the event — it is central to what Summer Camp has always been trying to create.

What began in 2020 as a pandemic-era response to support the local Yellow Springs community has become one of the most distinctly positioned live comedy events in the country. Six years in, Summer Camp occupies a category of its own: an outdoor show in a small Ohio town, phone-free, featuring some of the most sought-after talent in comedy, returning to the same cornfield every summer with a consistency that reflects Chappelle’s sustained commitment to his hometown rather than the demands of a touring schedule. The 2026 run’s nine dates across three weekends gives the event its largest footprint yet.

Yellow Springs isn’t a concession to geography or a nostalgic gesture. Chappelle has lived in the town for years, and Summer Camp’s identity is inseparable from the specificity of its location. A show that could be staged anywhere, staged here every summer, says something about what the event is actually for.

Dave Chappelle’s Summer Camp runs July 1, 2, and 3; August 20, 21, and 22; and August 27, 28, and 29 at the Wirrig Pavilion in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Tickets go on sale June 10 via Ticketmaster.