13th - 15th March 2026 / London, Belfast, Glasgow
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Europe's biggest country music extravaganza
Country To Country, aka C2C, is the biggest dedicated country music festival in Europe, taking place each year in London, Dublin and Glasgow.
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.
This ain't Texas... but there's plenty of great country music coming the UK this year
Just the best weekend of the year, meeting other country fans and bonding even more with my family ones. Spectacular acts, but Saturday night was one of the best ever ❤️🤠❤️🤠
Despite some anxiety about the quality of the overall bill this year all ends well. The headliners were all superb and many of the support acts were great as well. Looking forward to next year already!
Had a great time, but feel that too many people are now coming, which is great in one way that Country music is more available, but all we seem to do is queue to get in to venues, also feel the prices for drinks, food, etc is sooooo expensive 🤠🤠🤠
Great weekend, so many amazing acts, just love listening to new up and coming performers as well as the class acts headlining on the main stage- yet again a brilliant C2C 🤠
Even though I am blind and never been to the o2 I found the experience very good and easy to navigate the area 🤠
Was an amazing weekend of country music, well done C2C. The only thing that let it down was the venue. Having been to the OVO in Glasgow the god like rules at the O2 were frustrating. This is the only venue I know off that does not have a smoking area or allow guests, that's right guests out for a cigarette!! Treat you like children, you may go out ONCE before bedtime, sorry 7pm but we change it on a Sunday with out telling you to 6pm. Yet it you vape you can do it wherever your want. Bloody madness. What right does the O2 have to tell us we can't smoke? But the music was amazing as ever.
Absolutely amazing show and day was had by myself and my partner the only downside was the extortionate price for food and drink in the arena