Festival Title: Hangout Music Festival 2024 Festival Duration: May 17-19, 2024 Venue: Gulf Shores, Alabama Performers Include: Lana Del Rey, The Chainsmokers, Odesza, Zach Bryan, and more Ticket Information: Get Your Tickets Here Hang loose with your friends and enjoy the ultimate summer kick-off, Hangout Music Festival, on the white sand beaches along the Gulf Shore of Alabama from May 17-19, 2024. It’s three days filled with music from your favorites across genres – from pop and country to electric music, rock, alternative, and down to rap! It’s definitely a paradise for music lovers, especi ..read more

Festival Title: Freshgrass | Bentonville 2024 Festival Duration: May 17-18, 2024 Venue: Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas Performers Include: Trampled by Turtles, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, and more Ticket Information: Get Your Tickets Here Celebrate the best of roots music on May 17-18, 2024, at the FreshGrass Festival at the cultural hub of The Momentary in the Ozarks in Bentonville, Arkansas. The festival offers non-stop live music on multiple stages, courtyards, and galleries! And for this year’s line-up, expect knockout performances from Jason Isbel ..read more

Festival Title: Sleeping In The Woods Songwriter Festival 2024 Festival Duration: May 17-19, 2024 Venue: Hidden Ridge, Lake Cumberland, Kentucky Performers Include: Cristina Vane, Nicholas Jamerson & The Morning Jays, Maggie Noelle & Ryan Allen, Darrell Scott, Hunter Flynn, and more Ticket Information: Get Your Tickets Here Sleeping In The Woods Festival, a weekend in the forest along Lake Cumberland at Hidden Ridge Camping in Kentucky, listening to intimate songwriter sets and learning the mystical alchemy of songwriting, is going for a second home run. Hosted by alt-country artist an ..read more

Festival Title: Highways 2024 Festival Duration: May 17-18, 2024 Venue: Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom  Performers Include: The Cadillac Three, Brett Young, and more Ticket Information: Get Your Tickets Here Hosting iconic events since 1871, Royal Albert Hall, along with Live Nation, proudly presents Highways Festival, a British country music festival, on May 17-18, 2024. It’s the event’s sophomore year, and with last year’s line-up of Kip Moore, Morgan Wade, Jackson Dean, and Stephen Wilson Jr., everyone’s anticipation is high, and they’re excited to catch it again this time ..read more

Festival Title: Bear Shadow Festival 2024 Festival Duration: May 11-12, 2024 Venue: Windfield Farm on The Highlands-Cashiers Plateau, North Carolina Performers Include: Black Pumas, J.J. Grey & Mofro, and more Ticket Information: Get Your Tickets Here Get out of your den, welcome the new season, and join the annual spring festival on Windfield Farm on the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau, North Carolina, for the Bear Shadow Festival, a celebration of American, folk, and alt-country, this coming May 11-12, 2024. The sister festival of Highlands Food & Wine, Bear Shadow, debuted in 2021 and ha ..read more

American country music group Highway 101’s “Somewhere Tonight” is one of their greatest hits that paved the way for slick 1980s country sound when it was released in September 1987. It is the third single from their debut album Highway 101 and became the band’s third country hit, making it their first of four times.  Rodney Crowell and Harlan Howard were behind the success of the chart-topping single. The two tunesmiths’ lyrical genius combined with Highway 101’s pastoral sound became the group’s most popular song as it spent two weeks as No.1 on the Hot Country Songs.  Highway 101 a ..read more

The chart-topping hit “If You Leave Me Tonight I’ll Cry” became Jerry Wallace’s No. 1 song on the Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart. It sold 800,000 copies and peaked in the charts for two weeks. The song garnered a huge number of listeners after it got played for Rod Serling’s 1972 Night Gallery episode, The Tune in Dan’s Cafe. Wallace was nominated the same year for Male Vocalist of the Year and Single of the Year for his song “To Get to You” at the Country Music Association Awards. The American pop country singer was dubbed Mr. Smooth for his sweet and radiant singing style. Wallace alr ..read more

“Hello God” is one of Dolly Parton’s top hits that is included in her thirty-ninth solo studio album, “Halos & Horns,” released on July 9, 2002. The album is one of Parton’s critically acclaimed bluegrass trilogy in her experimentation with bluegrass and folk sounds.  In 2022, Dolly Parton performed “Hello God” at the 36th annual Country Music Awards in Nashville, TN, backed by The Church Christ Choir of Nashville.  “Halos & Horns” was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Album in 2003. It is one of Dolly’s albums that highlights storytelling with her spiritual incli ..read more

In 1970, country music star Lynn Anderson recorded her rendition of the “Rocky Top.” Her version reached number 17 on the Billboard Country Singles chart and became a bigger hit than the original. The song has been recorded by other performers such as Buck Owens, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, and Conway Twitty since she first recorded it.  “Rocky Top” is a song written by husband-and-wife Boudleaux and Felice Bryant in August 1967. The couple wrote it in ten minutes, set it aside, and continued working on other projects. In a few months, the Bryants sent the song to The Osborne Brothers for ..read more

Festival Title: Big As Texas Fest 2024 Festival Duration: May 10-12, 2024 Venue: Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Conroe, Texas Performers Include: Thomas Rhett, Dierks Bentley, Billy Strings, and more Ticket Information: Get Your Tickets Here The Lone Star State definitely just got bigger with the landing of its newest independently organized Americana festival, Big As Texas, on May 10-12, 2024, at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Conroe. And it’s serving a sizzling hot roster every single day that will indulge the music cravings of its more than 50,000 attendees.  The three-day musi ..read more