The curator and namesake songwriter behind Sand in My Boots: the Sneedville, Tennessee country star named the festival after the opening song on 2021's Dangerous: The Double Album and closed its sold-out 2025 debut with a 23-song set.
View artist →Miami rapper with a long run of Hot 100 party hits who has been leaning toward country lately, most loudly on 2025's George Strait-sampling "Carrying the Club."
View artist →Australian synth-pop project led onstage by Luke Steele, whose 2026 "Ask That God: Afterlife" tour paired rotating costumed dancers and a rubble-heap stage set with "Walking on a Dream" and "Alive."
View artist →Norwegian producer behind "Firestone" and "It Ain't Me" whose 2026 singles leaned toward Nashville, with vocals from Carter Faith, Max McNown and bluegrass singer Dan Tyminski.
View artist →St. Louis rapper whose 10-million-selling 2000 debut, Country Grammar, led into two decades of country crossovers, from "Over and Over" with Tim McGraw to the "Cruise" remix and 2021's Heartland.
View artist →San Francisco band led by Stephan Jenkins whose 1997 self-titled debut, with "Semi-Charmed Life" and "Jumper," is certified six times platinum.
View artist →East Texas country-rocker from Pittsburg whose Jessie Murph duet "High Road" was country radio's most-played single of 2025; his Columbia album The Night Champion followed in June 2026.
View artist →Georgia country singer who opened 16 Morgan Wallen tour dates in 2026 and released The Day I Hang It Up, an album more than two dozen songs long, that October.
View artist →Texas country singer-songwriter whose second album, Made You Look, arrived November 6, 2026, with his name in the writing credits of all 16 songs.
View artist →Dripping Springs, Texas trio of Mark Wystrach, Cameron Duddy and Jess Carson whose fifth album, Stages, brought in Clint Black and songs from Dean Dillon and Ryan Beaver.
View artist →Bronwood, Georgia, hitmaker behind "Chillin' It," "You Should Be Here" and "She Had Me at Heads Carolina," back at country radio in 2026 with "Girl Dad."
View artist →Atlanta trap veteran behind Trap House, The State vs. Radric Davis and the No. 2 comeback Everybody Looking, still releasing through his 1017 label as of 2026's Against All Odds.
View artist →Carol City, Miami rapper and Maybach Music Group founder whose 2006 debut Port of Miami opened at No. 1; his 2026 album Set in Stone ended a solo gap dating to 2021.
View artist →Flagstaff, Arizona, singer-songwriter who broke through with "Narcissist" in 2022 and built 2025's let go letters out of letters her fans wrote her.
View artist →Memphis rapper-producer from Three 6 Mafia, the group whose "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" won the 2006 Oscar for best original song, and the guest verse on Katy Perry's "Dark Horse."
View artist →Atlanta-area country singer who spent 2026 opening stadiums for Morgan Wallen, earned an ACM New Male Artist nomination, and has a 21-date headline tour booked for early 2027.
View artist →TikTok-discovered South Carolina singer whose debut album, Something to Say (July 2026), runs from "Bet On That" to "Boots by the Wrong Bed"; he heads to Australia's CMC Rocks in March 2027.
View artist →Bixby, Oklahoma singer behind "Wild as Her" whose 2026 album Heartland Rock and Roll leans on Springsteen and Petty as much as Nashville, with Koe Wetzel and Jason Aldean as guests.
View artist →Folk-country songwriter whose collaborators include Bayker Blankenship, Wyatt Flores and Carter Faith, and whose Dustpiles World Tour stretches from Europe to Australia.
View artist →North Carolina country singer on Columbia Nashville who spent the fall opening Ella Langley's Dandelion Tour, with a self-titled album due January 22, 2027.
View artist →2026 CMA New Artist of the Year nominee from Davidson, North Carolina, who wrote "Still the Sparrow Sings" for Netflix's Heartland, the film she acts in alongside Jessica Chastain.
View artist →Memphis rapper and longtime Three 6 Mafia affiliate behind the 2001 Dirty South hit "Chickenhead," who made the joint album Dem Goats with his brother Juicy J in 2026.
View artist →Atlanta crunk duo Kaine and D-Roc, the voices on Lil Jon's "Get Low" and behind "Salt Shaker" and "Wait (The Whisper Song)."
View artist →Fayetteville, Georgia singer whose 20-song debut I'm What You Get features Brooks & Dunn, Brent Cobb and Bayker Blankenship, led at radio by "Get To Drinkin'."
View artist →Alexander City, Alabama, Navy veteran and former firefighter whose 2026 Big Loud debut, Act I, mixes old-school country with soul, R&B and Southern rock.
View artist →Songwriter behind Morgan Wallen's "Jack and Jill" whose seven-song MCA debut EP, What Took You So Long, tells one breakup in order.
View artist →Pawhuska, Oklahoma songwriter who reached Hollywood on American Idol in 2023 with his own song, "Osage County," and has been releasing country singles since late 2024.
View artist →Neotraditional singer from Woodstock, Georgia, whose "I Gave Her The Moon" took off after Charlie Puth shared it; Vince Gill guests on his 2026 single "Movin' On's Movin' In."
View artist →Pittsburgh's Gregg Gillis, the laptop mash-up artist behind Night Ripper and Feed the Animals, who can run 300 or 400 samples through an hour-long set.
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