Tip your hat to the parents who curated the roster for the 2025 FareWell Fest in Redmond, Oregon, as a result of it is perhaps the most effective unbiased nation lineup we’ve seen thus far in 2025. Topped by Tyler Childers and Sturgill Simpson, and bolstered by Dwight Yoakam, Cody Jinks, and Sierra Ferrell, it’s as stacked of a lineup as it is possible for you to to search out. It’s set to go off July 18th and nineteenth.
The attention-popping expertise extends properly into the undercard. Not solely do you see high degree names like Tanya Tucker, Wyatt Flores, Flatland Cavalry, Charles Wesley Godwin, Brent Cobb, and Kaitlin Butts, you even have among the hottest up-and-comers like Noeline Hoffman and William Beckmann. They even booked Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, who so many of those huge festivals are lacking.
Unsure how Ludacris made it onto the lineup. If you wish to add a performer of shade, there are many precise nation artists that would actually profit from being on a lineup like this. Have none of those individuals ever heard of Aaron Vance? What are we doing right here?
Sadly, that’s not the one fly within the ointment with regards to the C3 Presents/Dwell Nation-produced FairWell Fest. As Saving Nation Music reported in 2023, this pageant is shading out numerous different necessary locally-owned occasions within the space, together with the Jackalope Jamboree in Pendleton, and Huge Ponderoo in Sisters, Oregon.
However the place the 2024 FairWell Fest took a decidedly Americana flip from their inaugural 12 months in 2023—and their sister occasion Railbird Fest in Kentucky spit the bit with the headliners (Jelly Roll and Bailey Zimmerman?)—this one bought the combination nearly excellent. Hell, this is perhaps the place we lastly see Sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers take the stage collectively as soon as once more.
Presale for Central Oregon residents is dwell. Remaining passes go on sale to most people this Friday, February 14 at 10 a.m. PT. For extra data and to buy tickets, go to fairwellfestival.com.
