Chris Willman Music WriterYet another musical event that was supposed to take place in the spring has finally found a virtual home in the fall, as the iHeartCountry Festival, once set to be recorded in front of a live audience in Austin, will now be taped in Nashville in the coming weeks, to go out on iHeart stations and as a web stream on Oct.
23.The updated plans for the festival/radio special include adding hitmaking newcomes Morgan Wallen, Gabby Barrett and Riley Green to the bill.
Performances had previously been scheduled for Kane Brown, Sam Hunt, Dierks Bentley, Jon Pardi, Lady A, Kelsea Ballerini and Dustin Lynch.That full bill had been scheduled for May 2 at Austin’s Frank Erwin Center.
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