You is likely to be shocked to be taught that Birmingham, Alabama proper within the coronary heart of the nation music homeland doesn’t have an annual nation music pageant. Effectively it does now. It’s referred to as the Iron Hills Music Competition, and the oldsters placing it on clearly have good style in nation, from the impartial, to legends, to a number of the higher names within the mainstream.
The Iron Hills Music Competition has introduced its inaugural lineup for October eleventh and twelfth, occurring on the historic Sloss Furnaces Nationwide Historic Landmark in downtown Birmingham.
The 2-stage pageant options The Turnpike Troubadours, Ryan Bingham and the Texas Gents, Midland, Travis Tritt, Chase Rice, and Jo Dee Messina because the top-line headliners, with an undercard that additionally consists of the fast-rising Mountain Grass Unit, American Aquarium, Kashus Culpepper, Channing Wilson, and extra.
Sloss Furnaces Nationwide Historic Landmark is a 15-acre retired iron plant first based in 1887. Birmingham, Alabama, can be proudly known as “The Metal Metropolis,” and was as soon as an iron ore mecca, noteworthy for being one of many solely geological websites on earth the place the 4 central parts in iron can all be discovered. The placement has hosted massive music concert events prior to now.
“The present local weather of the music pageant expertise tells us that the followers expectations are on the highest stage,” Co-founders Johnny Grimes and Chad Johnson say. “Followers need what they pay for. Each principal concerned on this occasion began out as a music fan lengthy earlier than we have been those producing the occasions. How can we lengthen past what cash should buy and produce, not only a live performance or a pageant, however a world-class expertise that may present recollections that final a lifetime? We welcomed the concept of such a problem.”
For extra info and to buy tickets, go to ironhillscountry.com.
