Cowboy Charter: Country music’s unstoppable growth
As the genre infiltrates the mainstream, promoters around the world are looking to fill festival headline slots, arenas, and increasingly stadiums, with its superstars
Feature By IQ | 6 June 2025
The rapidly expanding fanbase for country music is perhaps best illustrated by the success of this year’s County to Country (C2C) festival series in Europe and the CMC Rocks QLD event in Australia,…
where tens of thousands of fans attended multiple shows to catch established A-list talent, as well as supporting scores of emerging stars, many of whom found themselves playing outside of their native United States for the first time.
This year’s C2C programme included a…
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