{"id":2053231,"date":"2026-07-21T02:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2053231"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:46:20","slug":"kacey-musgraves-and-kane-brown-lead-new-australian-country-festival-longhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2053231","title":{"rendered":"Kacey Musgraves and Kane Brown Lead New Australian Country Festival LONGHAUL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tKane Brown and Kacey Musgraves are heading to Australia for the launch of LONGHAUL, a new country music festival arriving in January 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe inaugural festival will stop in three cities across one weekend, beginning Friday, Jan. 22, at Melbourne Showgrounds, before heading to Sydney Showground on Saturday, Jan. 23, and Brisbane RNA Showgrounds on Sunday, Jan. 24.<\/p>\n

\n\tBrown and Musgraves will headline the new event in what are billed as their only Australian shows. The lineup also features Charles Wesley Godwin, Margo Price, Maddox Batson, Ava Hall and James Barker Band, alongside Australian artists Beau Shearer, Denvah, Nathan Lamont, Taylor Moss and Tyla Rodrigues.<\/p>\n

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\n\tPresented by LONGHAUL Touring and powered by TEG Live, the festival is entering the market at a time when country music\u2019s Australian audience is becoming harder to ignore. The bill brings together arena-level U.S. names, Americana favorites, emerging international acts and local artists, pointing to a wider version of country than the genre\u2019s traditional festival lane.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe have been working very hard on this festival concept for a number of years and so it is incredibly exciting to finally launch the inaugural LONGHAUL Festival with an awesome lineup of international and domestic artists, headlined by superstars Kane Brown and Kacey Musgraves,\u201d Tim McGregor, global head of touring at TEG Live, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLONGHAUL Touring is just getting started with this flagship festival and there is a lot more in the pipeline to share with you all very soon,\u201d McGregor added. \u201cIn the meantime we look forward to welcoming fans to LONGHAUL Festival next January for what will be a great summer\u2019s day out in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBrown brings major Billboard history to the lineup. In 2017, he became the first artist to top all five of Billboard\u2019s main country charts at the same time, leading Top Country Albums, Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay, Country Digital Song Sales and Country Streaming Songs in the same week.<\/p>\n

\n\tMusgraves arrives with her own chart and awards r\u00e9sum\u00e9. Her 2024 album Deeper Well<\/em> debuted at No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Top Album Sales, Top Country Albums, Americana\/Folk Albums, Vinyl Albums, Top Current Album Sales and Tastemaker Albums charts. Her 2018 album Golden Hour<\/em> won album of the year at the 2019 Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rest of the bill leans into country\u2019s broad current moment. Godwin has become one of the genre\u2019s fastest-rising live acts, Price remains a key Americana voice, and Batson represents a younger wave of country artists building global audiences online.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfterpay will serve as the official presale partner for LONGHAUL. The Afterpay presale begins Friday, July 24, at 12 p.m. local time and runs until Monday, July 27, at 12 p.m. local time. Other presales begin Monday, July 27, at 1 p.m. local time, before general tickets go on sale Friday, July 31, at 2 p.m. local time via Ticketek.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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