TRADE MART
DOORS, TATTOO EXPO & ROYAL MARKET OPEN
Live tattooing, accepted artists, vendors, appointments, and walk-in opportunities begin.
PLAN EVERY MOMENT
Three days of tattooing, live competition, Southern food, vendors, and live music at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds.
PRELIMINARY 2027 SCHEDULE
This working schedule highlights confirmed planning targets and major moments. Performer set times, doors, registration windows, crawfish serving periods, and some event times remain subject to change. The final schedule will control.
CHOOSE A DAY
Select Friday, Saturday, or Sunday to view the current schedule.
Southern roots, opening-day tattooing, competition, food, and Friday-night music.
Live tattooing, accepted artists, vendors, appointments, and walk-in opportunities begin.
The Friday program opens with blues, Southern roots, and regional talent. Artist set times will be announced.
Horror, Lettering, Geometric, Color Anime/Comic, and Black & Grey Anime/Comic. Registration and staging times are coming.
Friday’s two Best of Day winners are presented.
Friday’s final scheduled performance begins. Artist announcement coming soon.
A full day of tattooing, vendors, competition, crawfish, festival food, and high-energy music.
The Tattoo Expo, Royal Market, festival experiences, and planned music programming begin.
Menu, pricing, purchase procedures, and serving availability will be announced.
Traditional, Neo-Traditional, Asian, sleeves, placement, cover-up, portraits, realism, and specialty categories.
Saturday’s two Best of Day winners are presented.
Final performance and complete set times will be announced with the lineup.
The final day of tattooing, competition, Southern food, Best of Show, and Sunday-night music.
The Tattoo Expo, Royal Market, festival experiences, and planned music programming begin.
Menu, pricing, purchase procedures, and serving availability will be announced.
Small, medium, and large Color; small, medium, and large Black & Grey; and final qualifying entries.
Sunday’s Best of Day Color and Black & Grey winners are recognized, followed by the weekend’s single Best of Show.
The 2027 Sunday headliner closes the Southern InkFest weekend. Artist announcement coming soon.
SAVE THESE MOMENTS
These planned moments should be on every Southern InkFest itinerary.
Color and Black & Grey winners.
Color and Black & Grey winners.
The weekend’s highest tattoo honor.
Sunday-night music finale.
KNOW WHERE TO GO
The Tattoo Expo and Royal Market are inside the Mississippi Trade Mart. Live music, festival food, and the crawfish boil are planned outdoors. Allow time to move between locations.
VIEW VENUE & TRAVEL INFORMATION →Tattoo Expo, Royal Market, artist booths, and most tattoo-competition activity.
Main stage, live music, festival food, and crawfish-boil experience.
Best of Day and Best of Show presentations at the announced times.
BEFORE THE EVENT
Performers, locations, times, and activities may change. The latest official schedule posted by Southern InkFest will control.
Allow time for parking, entry, security screening, walking between locations, and tattoo-competition staging.
Individual tattoo appointments are scheduled directly with artists and may not appear on the public event schedule.
Review the website, email announcements, and official social channels before and during the event.
DON’T MISS A CHANGE
Join the Royal List for performer announcements, final set times, competition details, ticket releases, and schedule updates.