When: July 26th & 27th, 2025 Where: AREA 506 | Saint John, New Brunswick
Why: Boxcar Country Music Festival might be small, but it’s mighty and has festival-goers making tracks to the Saint John waterfront for two amazing nights of top Canadian country music artists supported by New Brunswick fan favourites and other homegrown artists. The Boxcar Country Music Festival will again be at the AREA 506 Waterfront Container Village. It will host a weekend-long country fest featuring some of the very best in whiskey, lots of smoky BBQ, and twelve bands to keep the party going all weekend long. The party is not just limited to the waterfront as many of the bars, pubs, and restaurants like Picaroon’s in Uptown Saint John get into the action, offering numerous before and after party experiences. They’ve got a jam-packed schedule for y’all with tastings of BBQ sauces and premium whiskies, cowboy karaōke, lasso skills competitions, and a second stage with live BBQ demos and MORE. (And don’t forget the line-dancing workshop and lasso lessons!)
ARTISTS (Main Stage Lineup and Schedule subject to change)
SATURDAY, JULY 26TH Tenille Townes, JoJo Mason, Anna Graves, BakerBeaton Band, Moyenne Rig, and Sean Michael Ryan
SUNDAY, JULY 27TH Tim Hicks, Big Sugar, Robyn Ottolini, The Martin Boys, Colin Fowlie & The Humble Few, and Pretty Western
For more information or tickets to this event, go to: https://countryfest.ca/
Why: For over 23 years, Country Thunder Music Festivals has brought fans the best artists Country Music has to offer Country Thunder performers have included huge country artists such as Miranda Lambert, Toby Keith, Jason Aldean, Big & Rich, Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley, and Jake Owen, to name a few. It’s Thunder on the Open Plains of Saskatchewan as the famous country music festival series heads to central Canada for three days in July. Country Thunder always boasts one of the top country-style lineups of the summer. Country Thunder’s lineup will keep on dazzling spectators and exceeding expectations, so grab a cowboy hat, an RV, or a tent if you want to camp, and come and enjoy the world’s premier country acts with the camaraderie of over 100,000 fans! When: July 10th - 13th, 2025 Where: Country Thunder Saskatchewan Grounds | Craven, Saskatchewan
See y’all on the waterfront!
ARTISTS (Main Stage Lineup and Schedule subject to change)
THURSDAY, JULY 10TH Hunter Brothers (In the Beer Garden)
SUNDAY, JULY 13TH Def Leppard, Kip Moore, The Road Hammers, Owen Riegling, Hailey Benedict, and Togue (In the Beer Garden) FRIDAY, JULY 11TH Jason Aldean, Nate Smith, Tim Hicks, Sara Evans, and Tommy Charles
SATURDAY, JULY 12TH Bailey Zimmerman, Tyler Hubbard, James Barker Band, Jess Moskaluke, and Mackenzie Carpenter
For more information or tickets to this event, go to: https://countryfest.ca/
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