Harvest Festival adds Dan & Shay, Maddie & Tae, Charlie Pride and more
More details are revealed about August's Country extravaganza in Fermanagh
Today Aiken Promotions announce further details about August's Country mega festival 'Harvest' taking place at Enniskillen Airport over the August bank holiday weekend, 26th & 27th.
Country Hall of Famer and Mississippi legend Charley Pride joins the bill as a very special guest to headliners Miranda Lambert and Nathan Carter. The artist who has scored a remarkable 52 top ten hits in the Billboard Country charts has a huge following and a special connection with Ireland.
Texas and Oklahoma duo Maddie & Tae also join the main stage lineup, the new darlings of the American country music scene whose debut single “Girl In A Country Song” made them only the third female duo to peak their debut single at #1 in the history of the Billboard Country singles chart.
Another Nashville duo, Dan + Shay, AKA Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney, have built up a great live reputation opening for the likes of Hunter Hayes and Blake Shelton in recent years having recently thrilled crowds in Ireland opening the Sunday of 2017's C2C: Country 2 Country event.
Aiken's also add plenty of homegrown talent to the bill with former Saturdays star Una Healy joining Donna Taggart from Omagh, County Tyrone, County Down's, Catherine McGrath and country pop and rock star Lee Matthews.
A big favourite in Ireland right now is Cliona Hagan from Tyrone who is bringing a real natural vibrancy to the live scene, as is Niamh Lynn who Ryan Tubridy called “The Imelda May of Country Music” for her fantastic retro-country aesthetic.
Westport local heroes Hurricane Highway have been bringing their US country-rock styled show all over Europe in the last two years, and Riah Butler from Galway is making huge waves in Nashville after the release on her new EP ‘On Sundays’.
Harvest 2017 will now include an extra stage taking the total to 40 artists over 4 stages, festival goers will get the chance to get up close and personal to songwriters with the addition of the Harvest Café performance stage to Harvest 2017.
Harvest Café will feature the people behind the music with the likes of US multi #1 hit writer Earl Bud Lee famous for songs such as ‘Friends In Low Places’ (Garth Brooks), ‘Who Are You When I'm Not Looking’ (Blake Shelton) and ‘One Night at a Time’ (George Strait), Don Mescall famous for ‘Secret Smile’ (Rascal Flatts) as well as many hits for artists such as Neal McCoy, BackStreet Boys, Boyzone and more, Victoria Shaw behind award-winning songs like ‘The River’ (Garth Brooks) and ‘I Love The Way You Love Me’ (John Michael Montgomery) and Stephania Urbina Jones who wrote the #1 hit ‘My Baby’s Got a Smile on Her Face’ for The Voice USA winner, Craig Wayne Boyd.
Homegrown songwriters will also feature including Justin McGurk and Megan O’Neill whose song ‘Don’t You’ was featured on hit TV Show Nashville.
Harvest Café will be curated by Pete Kennedy and will be a great opportunity for the fans to hear the stories behind the music directly from the creators in an intimate setting, such as the famed "Bluebird Cafe" in Nashville.
As well as the music, there will be dedicated Dancing sessions over the weekend. For those Country Music fans that want to enjoy the full Festival experience, a food village, market stalls, funfair, full bar facilities, camping options including Glamping, campervan facilities and family camping area will all be on offer.
The full line-up will be the same for both festival sites. The artists playing Enniskillen on the Saturday will play Westport House on the Sunday and vice versa.
Enniskillen Lineup:
Saturday 26th August
HEADLINE ARTIST - MIRANDA LAMBERT
Plus Charley Pride, Maddie & Tae, Ward Thomas, Mo Pitney, Sam Palladio, Una Healy, Donna Taggart, Hurricane Highway, Cliona Hagan, Lee Matthews, Frankie Davies, Niamh Lynn, Riah Butler with more to be added….
Sunday 27 August
HEADLINE ARTIST - NATHAN CARTER
Plus Kip Moore, Dan & Shay, The Shires, Jake Carter, Catherine McGrath, Courtney Marie Andrews with more to be added….