Following the resounding success of its latest installment featuring headliners Kane Brown, Brad Paisley, and Old Dominion, Country to Country (C2C) Festival is thrilled to announce its highly anticipated return in March 2025. Early bird tickets for the festival, scheduled from Friday, March 14th to Sunday, March 16th, will be available for purchase starting today! (Friday, March 15th) at 10 am.
C2C Festival will once again take centre stage at London’s The O2, Glasgow’s OVO Hydro, and The SSE Arena in Belfast, promising three days of unparalleled country music experience. Early bird tickets can be purchased from reputable ticketing platforms including www.gigsandtours.com, www.AXS.com, and www.ticketmaster.co.uk. This limited-time offer presents an exclusive opportunity for fans to secure their spots at the festival’s upcoming edition.
To celebrate the release of the early bird tickets we are going to make our predictions for what we think could be the 2025 line up although this is not traditionally announced till each October. These predictions are based on a mix of who we would (realistically) like to see and who we think the CMA, the organisers and the record labels will want to promote in the UK. It is not a pie-in-the-sky wish list as we’d have Brooks and Dunn on that, right? It is also based on no internal or inside knowledge either!
Friday March 14th 2025
Introducing Nashville: Anne Wilson, George Birge, The Castellows
Jackson Dean
Megan Moroney
Dierks Bentley or Keith Urban or Cody Johnson
The three Introducing Nashville artists will all be making great career progress this year with debut albums and are all rising stars with a slightly different sound. The Dierks prediction is a bit pie-in-the-sky given his seeming unwillingness to come back to the UK after nearly a decade away but we figure if the organisers can get Jake Owen over here, anything is possible (apart from Kenny Chesney!). Can CoJo come straight in as a headliner from nowhere? His sales in the USA seem to indicate that and there is a level of demand here in the Uk that would shift tickets. Is he that big that he could do his own shows – Wallen style? Who knows but we do think 2025 will be the year he makes his UK debut in some form or other.
Saturday March 15th 2025
Restless Road
Hailey Whitters
Tyler Hubbard
Lainey Wilson or Ashley McBryde
The perennial shortage of female headliners mean that a Lainey or Ashley headlining set is a no brainer for 2025. Carrie Underwood could be a possibility but she seems to be in her own head about Country music and the industry right now. BK played this year and it seems obvious that Tyler should be next, he’ll have a new album and Big Machine have a close relationship with the organisers. Hailey is due a return after ‘what happened’ last time and Restless Road are born entertainers who rocked the Indigo and Spotlight Stages this year and have built up a firm relationship with their UK fans.
Sunday March 16th 2025
Randall King
Bailey Zimmerman
Kelsea Ballerini
Eric Church or Tim McGraw
Randall King is another artist who is is steadily becoming a much-loved artist over here in the UK and he will have the ‘Drake Milligan’ effect on this day’s line up. Bailey is over here for a short tour in May and that will be a good time to sign him up for next year. Kelsea is an interesting one – is she headline material? Have we done her a dis-service in asking her to play underneath The Chief or McGraw? That’s up to the headliners to decide – she certainly made a great impression when she toured here in 2023. Eric Church still owes us a ‘cancelled pandemic’ appearance and will have a new album out by then and Tim McGraw is just a good fit for a popular headline slot that would sell well too.
Go get your early bird tickets today! www.gigsandtours.com, www.AXS.com, and www.ticketmaster.co.uk.
