List of country music festivals

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Country music festivals

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The following is an incomplete list of country music festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on country music. This list may have some overlap with the larger topic list of folk festivals, and may also overlap with the related topics list of blues festivals, list of jam band music festivals, list of bluegrass music festivals, and list of old-time music festivals. Many of the festivals take place in North America.

Country music is a genre of American popular music that originated in Southern United States, in Atlanta, Georgia in the 1920s,[1] and It takes its roots from the southeastern genre of American folk music and Western music. The origins of country music are the folk music of mostly white, working-class Americans, who blended popular songs, Irish and Celtic fiddle tunes, traditional ballads, and cowboy songs, and various musical traditions from European immigrant communities.[2] Barn dancing and other folk dance styles would be featured at country music gatherings, and many modern festivals have continued to feature dance, rodeo, or other cultural aspects.

The term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term hillbilly music, it came to encompass Western music, which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots, in the mid-20th century. The term country music is used today to describe many styles and subgenres, and festivals may focus on Americana genres such as bluegrass, or newer genres such as country rock, country pop, or alternative country.

## Festivals

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See also: Category:Country music festivals

### Oceania

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See also: Australian country music § Awards and festivals

CMC Rocks QLD  | Ipswich, Queensland  | Australia  | Remarks

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Nambung Country Music Muster | Nambung Station via Cervantes, Western Australia | Australia | (Annual - Late October)
Boyup Brook Country Music Festival | Boyup Brook, Western Australia | Australia |
Canberra Country Blues & Roots Festival | Canberra | Australia |
Gympie Muster | Gympie, Queensland | Australia |
Groundwater Country Music Festival | Gold Coast | Australia | (Annual - Last weekend July)
Mildura Country Music Festival | Mildura, Victoria | Australia |
Swan Reach Country Music Festival[3] | Swan Reach, South Australia | Australia |
Tamworth Country Music Festival | Tamworth, New South Wales | Australia | January Festival
Tussock Country Music Festival[4] | Gore | New Zealand |
Wandong Country Music Festival | Wandong, Victoria | Australia |

### Europe

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See also: Category:Country music festivals in Europe

Festival name  | City/Venue  | Country  | Remarks

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Intern. Trucker & Country-Festival | Interlaken, Switzerland | Switzerland | (Annual)
Piknik Country | Mrągowo, Poland | Poland | (Annual)
C2C: Country to Country | Dublin, London, Glasgow, Berlin, and Amsterdam | Ireland, England, Scotland, Germany and Netherlands | (Annual Festival)
Harvest Country Music Festival | Westport House and Enniskillen Airport | Northern Ireland | Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland
SummerTyne Americana Festival | Gateshead | England | Summer Festival (Annual)
Millport Country Music Festival | Millport; Isle of Cumbrae | Scotland | End of August / September (Annual)
The British Country Music Festival | Blackpool | England | Annual Festival
Country Bauska  | Bauska | Latvia | www.countrybauskafestival.lv

### North America

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Canada

* Atlin Arts & Music Festival
* Big Valley Jamboree (Alberta)
* Boots and Hearts Music Festival
* Cavendish Beach Music Festival
* CT Alberta (Country Thunder)
* CMT Music Fest
* Country on the Bay
* Craven Country Jamboree
* Dauphin's Countryfest (Manitoba)
* Halifax Pop Explosion
* Havelock Country Jamboree
* Rockin' River Music Fest
* Lucknow's Music In The Fields
* Sunfest
* Lasso Montreal

United States

* Bayou Country Superfest
* Carolina Country Music Fest
* Central Oregon Country Music Gathering, Prineville, OR
* County Line Country
* CMA Music Festival
* Country Calling Festival
* Hoofbeat
* Country Jam USA
* Country Music Jamboree Burns, OR
* Country Summer
* Country Thunder
* Country USA, Oshkosh
* Faster Horses Festival
* Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
* Country at the Heartland (Bonner Springs, Kansas)
* Hodag Country Festival
* Las Cruces Country Music Festival
* Outlaws and Legends Music Festival
* Route 91 Harvest
* Stagecoach Festival
* Cochise Country Fest (www.cochisecountryfest.com)
* Sunday in the Country, Maryland
* Tortuga Music Festival
* CT Wisconsin (Twin Lakes)
* Watershed Music Festival
* WE Fest
* We're All for the Hall
* Winstock Country Music Festival

## Gallery

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*   * Gympie Muster in Australia

* Wolvestock Line Dance

* George Strait Country Music Festival in Tampa Florida

* Taylor Swift at Cavendish

* Wolvestock 14

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## See also

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* Category:Country music festivals
* Category:Old-time music festivals
* Category:Rock festivals
* List of music festivals (Category)
* List of folk festivals (Category)
* List of blues festivals (Category)
* List of bluegrass music festivals (Category)
* List of jam band music festivals (Category)

## References

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1. ^ Richard A. Peterson (1999-12-15). Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity. University of Chicago Press. p. 9\. ISBN 978-0-226-66285-5.
2. ^ ARRP Bulletin. Vol. 53 No 1. "50 Minutes on the Road. Betsy Tower. page 50. citing Commuting in America III and Arbitron.
3. ^ "Home". swanreachcountry.com.au.
4. ^ "First-ever Tussock Country Music Festival in 2020 | Scoop News".

## External links

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* Media related to Country music festivals at Wikimedia Commons
* Country Music Festivals

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