Country To Country, aka C2C, is the biggest dedicated country music festival in Europe, taking place each year in London, Dublin and Glasgow.
A pioneering event in bringing country stars to UK audiences, C2C has announced this year’s headliners: CMA, ACM and Grammy Award winning Brooks & Dunn will headline C2C for the first time ever, marking the Country Music Hall of Fame recipients’ first appearances in the UK since 2010. CMA, ACM and Grammy Award winning Keith Urban returns to C2C for the first time in 7 years. Finally, reigning ACM ‘New Male Artist of the Year’ Zach Top performs in the UK for the first time ever, after recently being nominated for 5 CMA awards.
They are joined by C2C fan favourites Scotty McCreery, Russell Dickerson and Drake Milligan alongside a host of rising stars returning to the festival after breakout years, including Bayker Blankenship, Kameron Marlowe, Ashley Cooke, Mackenzie Carpenter, Tyler Braden and Alana Springsteen, who co-hosted the main stage alongside Bob Harris in 2024. Completing the line up, Waylon Wyatt and Noeline Hofmann will make their C2C debuts.
The festival was conceived in 2013 by two of the UK’s biggest promoters in conjunction with the Country Music Association. The first iteration took place that year at The O2 over two days, with performances from Nashville royalty including Carrie Underwood, Darius Rucker, LeAnn Rimes, Vince Gill and Tim McGraw, the latter in his first ever UK appearance.
Ensuing years grew both in duration, size and stature, as extra stages were added, hosted by BBC Radio 2 Country and Nashville’s revered Bluebird Café. The line-ups remained as star-studded as that debut outing, with some of country’s finest making the journey across the Atlantic, from The Chicks, Kacey Musgraves and Rascal Flatts to the Zac Brown Band, Reba McEntire and Dwight Yoakam.
Country To Country also earned a reputation for bringing over some of country’s most exciting rising stars, including Chris Stapleton, Margo Price and Lukas Nelson.
Country to Country has become a staple in the UK festival calendar and has brought country music to the UK and Ireland masses, with tens of thousands of fans attending each year. The festival will bring three days of the best in country music and programming that fans have come to love and expect from the weekend, with performances from the world’s best country stars as well as emerging talent from Nashville, UK and Europe.
Country To Country returns once again in March 2025 for three-days of country music across the United Kingdom, with a rotating line-up of country music’s biggest stars and most-exciting newcomers travelling between London, Glasgow and Belfast between 14-16 March.
A game-changing, revolutionary event in bringing country stars to UK audiences, C2C is delighted to announce this year’s headliners: Grammy award-winning, CMA award-winning and reigning CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year Lainey Wilson; CMA award-winning and multi-platinum artist Dierks Bentley, returning to C2C for the first time since 2014; and CMA award-winning Cody Johnson, making his C2C debut. All three artists are headlining the event for the first time in their careers.
They are joined by further C2C debutants, Dylan Gossett, Tyler Hubbard, Chayce Beckham, Shaboozey, Tucker Wetmore and Niko Moon, as well as returning favourites Nate Smith, 49 Winchester and Avery Anna, performing on the main stage for the first time after stunning fans on the festival and spotlight stages in past years. C2C has also consistently celebrated emerging talent in the genre, with rising stars Wyatt Flores and Tanner Adell progressing from the festival stages to perform on the main stage, whilst neo-traditional trio The Castellows make their C2C debut.