Ask any country music fan in the Orlando area where they go for a real outdoor festival experience, and the honest answer has always been: somewhere else. Central Florida has the fans, it has the culture, and it has a country music community that runs deeper than the tourist economy gets credit for. What it…
Twenty-four cities. A summer run that stretches from Nashville to the California coast. Thomas Rhett's Soundtrack to Life Tour launched July 9 and runs through October 24, 2026, and when we mapped out the full schedule this week the ambition of the thing hit us immediately. From back-to-back stadium appearances with Niall Horan to a…
It is the end of July 2026, and we have finally made peace with the fact that we cannot stop adding to this list. Every week this summer, a new song has come through our rotation that earned its place here, whether it landed at No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, went viral on…
One hundred and sixty-three radio stations put their hands up for Jelly Roll in the first week of “Hands Up” at country radio. We have been tracking country radio chart moves here at Sunset Country Fest for a while now, and that number stopped us in our tracks. Released June 27, 2026, “Hands Up” became…
Halfway through summer 2026, we sat down as a team and tried to count every major country music story we had tracked since Memorial Day. The list was longer than any of us expected. This has been one of the most packed, most surprising, most genuinely exciting stretches of country music news we can remember…
Eight cities. One headlining run. And a fall window that we think could not be timed any better. On July 14, Ingrid Andress announced her 2026 "Nowhere Else to Go Tour," and we have been talking about it ever since. The four-time GRAMMY-nominated, multi-platinum singer-songwriter is heading back out on the road this fall with…
Apopka, Florida is not the first city most people picture when they imagine a major country music festival. That is exactly what makes it right. Here is why Apopka is the perfect home for Sunset Country Fest 2027.
Oklahoma country singer Kaitlin Butts and her viral TikTok anthem You Ain’t Gotta Die To Be Dead To Me have crossed 123 million views. Here is why she is one of the most important artists in country music right now.
Zac Brown Band kicks off the Love and Fear Tour with 27 dates, a Sphere residency in Las Vegas, and top-tier openers including Brothers Osborne and Grace Potter. Here is what country fans need to know.
Country music's biggest argument in 2026 has nothing to do with which album sold the most copies or which arena tour moved the most tickets, even though both of those metrics are sitting at historic highs. It is an identity question. And the fact that it is getting louder precisely while the genre is also…
Twenty-one. That is the number we kept staring at when Ella Langley announced the expansion of her 2026 Dandelion Tour, adding a fall run that stretches deep into October and hits venues she has never headlined before. We had been following this tour since its spring launch, watching Langley build one of the steadiest momentum…
April 17, 2027 is now less than nine months away, and we have been fielding the same question from fans across Central Florida all summer: how do we plan this trip? Sunset Country Fest 2027 is the largest country music festival in Central Florida, and it is coming to Apopka, Florida, just northwest of Orlando,…