Charlie Murry on Fête du Void
🎙️NOLA EDM UNPLUGGED: FÊTE DU VOID
Ten years into the Void, Fête du Void co-founder Charlie MurrMurryy takes us inside the artist-run Louisiana festival, from its beginnings in a two-story house to the community-built experience now taking over the historic Hardwood Mill in Oakdale.
Fête du Void has never been interested in feeling like a conventional music festival.
Built around camping, music, art, and community, the Louisiana festival has grown from an event held inside a two-story house into a multi-stage weekend at the historic Hardwood Mill in Oakdale. But even as Fête has expanded, co-founder Charlie Murry says its intimacy remains one of the things that defines the experience.
As one of Louisiana’s few camping music festivals, the weekend removes much of the separation between the festival itself and everything happening around it. Once attendees enter the grounds, camping, music, artists, and the community surrounding Fête become part of the same experience. Murry contrasts that with larger festivals where attendees may travel considerable distances between parking, camping, and the actual event.
That closeness extends to the people on stage.
Fête is artist-run, and the artists performing throughout the weekend don’t necessarily disappear behind the scenes once their sets end. They experience the festival alongside everyone else, something the team has come to describe as “the world’s largest green room.” For Murry, that relationship between artists and attendees is part of what makes the community one of the most important pieces of Fête du Void.
In 2026, that community reaches a major milestone: ten years of Fête du Void.
For this episode of NOLA EDM Unplugged, we sat down with Murry, one of Fête du Void’s original founders and a member of The Iceman Special, to talk about ten years inside the Void, transforming an abandoned Louisiana lumber mill into a festival home, building an artist-run event, discovering underground music, and the community that has kept Fête growing.
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From a House to the Hardwood Mill
Before Fête du Void became a camping festival in Oakdale, it started much smaller.
Murry traces the festival’s beginnings back to a two-story house. By his telling, that first gathering pushed the limits of what the house could safely hold, convincing the team that whatever Fête was becoming needed to move outside.
The festival eventually found its home at the Hardwood Mill in Oakdale, where 2026 marks Fête’s seventh year on the property. The location itself has become part of the identity of the festival.
Murry says the former lumber mill dates back to 1912 and has been out of operation since the early 1970s. Rather than dropping a festival into a conventional field or established event space, the Fête crew has spent years working with the property itself.
That work continues year-round.
The team maintains and cleans the grounds while developing new structures and areas for attendees. As Fête has grown, the Hardwood Mill has changed with it, gradually becoming a space curated specifically around the experience the crew wants to create.
Every year it expands and grows.
For a festival celebrating a decade of existence, that physical evolution gives Fête something unusual: its history isn’t only documented through old lineups and photographs. Parts of it are built directly into the place where the festival happens.
The World’s Largest Green Room
For Murry, understanding Fête means looking beyond who’s playing.
The festival is independently and community funded rather than built around large corporate sponsorships. Its smaller scale also means attendees repeatedly cross paths with the same people throughout the weekend, creating an intimacy Murry sees as fundamentally different from much larger festivals.
And the line between performer and attendee can become equally blurry.
Fête describes itself as “the world’s largest green room.”
These artists are also enjoying the festival just like the ticket buyers.
Artists can play a stage and then remain in the crowd, exploring the grounds and experiencing other performances rather than immediately disappearing backstage or onto a tour bus. Murry says that dynamic helps create the family-like atmosphere surrounding the weekend.
It’s also why the art, camping, environment, and moments between scheduled performances matter.
At Fête, those aren’t necessarily extras surrounding the lineup. They’re part of the festival itself.
NOLA EDM Unplugged documents the artists, DJs, promoters, organizers, festivals, venues, and people shaping New Orleans and Gulf South electronic music, past and present.
Interview: NOLA EDM
Guest: Charlie Murry
Audio: Art Yves
Series: NOLA EDM Unplugged
Location: Louisiana
Published: September 25, 2026
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