![]() ![]() ![]() The only act on the bill for this year’s Country To Country that could have possibly played at Wembley the first time around was Dwight Yoakam, and his main stage appearance following Charles Esten, who plays Deacon Claybourne in the Nashville TV series, proved that there was still a place for timeless classic hardcore honky tonk country in amongst all the Thomas Rhetts and the Sam Hunts. It was revived briefly in 2012, but the following year the inaugural Country To Country festival took its place in the calendar. ![]() With over 60,000 tickets sold for the three days across the three cities, and an additional 10,000 people coming down to London for the pop-up festival that takes place during the day, it’s obvious that whether you like it or not, something is definitely happening right now with country music on the wrong side of the Atlantic.Ĭountry To Country isn’t the first big international country music event to take place in the UK – the International Festival Of Country Music took place annually between 19 and hosted legends like Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Tammy Wynette, but by the early nineties country was on the turn again, and the line-ups began to feel out of touch with the way country was heading. The success of the Nashville TV show, Dolly Parton’s appearance at Glastonbury and Taylor Swift’s increasingly unassailable world domination are all flashpoints behind the resurging interest in country over here, and with Radio 2 and the BBC pushing and playlisting country artists, the annual Country To Country festival has grown from being a two day event in London with eight artists performing to a three day extravaganza taking place in Dublin and Glasgow as well as London. In the last couple of years all that has been changing though. Since the nineties boom of Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, line dancing and The Woolpackers, country music has been something of specialist interest. ![]()
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