Name: WE Fest 2024
Start: 2024-08-01
End: 2024-08-03
Location: Detroit Lakes, Minnesota

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After a spitfire 2023 edition of "America's biggest camping and country music festival," WE Fest will make its celebrated return to the Soo Pass Ranch in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota next August.

The 2024 line-up has excitingly been unveiled, with Eric Church, Parker McCollum and Jelly Roll confirmed as the headliners. They'll be joined by Carly Pearce, Koe Wetzel, Elle King, Trace Adkins, Warren Zeiders, Paul Cauthen, Lonestar and more. 

2023 saw a top-tier slate of talent take the WE Fest stage, including country superstar Morgan Wallen, who closed out the first of three jam-packed nights, icon Brad Paisley and genre-bender Kane Brown, who brought out his wife Katelyn for a special performance of their chart-topping duet 'Thank God.'

Also on the bill for the music-filled weekend were Brothers Osborne, Gabby Barrett, Chase Rice, Travis Tritt, Blackberry Smoke, Ernest, Bailey Zimmerman, Jo Dee Messina, Ben Burgess, Ashley Cooke and plenty more.

Here, we'll have all the up-to-date news on line-up announcements, the latest ticket and festival pass details, and any further exciting info and details for We Fest 2024. 

Although there was some inclement weather on Sunday night that pushed around some of the night's programming, WE Fest attendees were treated to another phenomenal year of music.

The successful event comes after another stormy 2022 festival, which resulted in Miranda Lambert and Priscilla Block's sets cancelled. Nevertheless, the stage still saw headlining sets from Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan, alongside performances from Blanco Brown, Elvie Shane, Lee Brice, Riley Green, Tanya Tucker and more.

WE Fest originally launched in 1983 with an opening slate of headliners that included Tammy Wynette, Alabama and Merle Haggard. In years since, its lineup has included high-flying acts like Hank Williams Jr., Charley Pride, George Strait, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, George Jones, Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Chris Stapleton and many others.

When tickets to WE Fest 2024 are released, they'll be available to purchase below. A special 24-hour pre-sale opens on September 19 2023 at 9am ET:

For more information on tickets and for other country festivals set for 2023 and 2024 - head here.

Jelly Roll, Parker McCollum, Eric Church and More Announced for WE Fest 2024

All the latest line-up announcements, date confirmations and ticket details for WE Fest 2024.

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When you look at the landscape of country music, you'll mostly find good ole boys in cowboy hats or ball caps singing about trucks, beer, girls, heartbreak and, more than likely, a vague, off-the-grid backroad in some small, picturesque town.

What you wouldn't find, until the last few years, is Jelly Roll: a tatted-up rapper from middle Tennessee with a past that includes dozens of trips behind bars, drug dealing and more obstacles than we could ever think up.

Despite all of that, though, weaved throughout all of Jelly Roll's music is an unbreakable thread of hope, vulnerability and raw honesty that you'd be hard-pressed to find elsewhere in the genre.

Born Jason DeFord, he was raised in Antioch, a neighborhood just outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Coming up in a middle-lower class community as the youngest of four kids, he was witness to his mother's enduring mental health and addiction issues from a young age. Exposed to drug dealing and other hardships, he spent the better part of 12 years in and out of juvenile detention and jail systems, earning multiple counts of possession and attempted robbery, among other things.

Upon being released from jail, Jelly Roll admitted that he wasn't qualified to do much other than talking and singing, so he set his sights on music. He originally began his career in the hip-hop space as part of the group SNO and eventually waded into the rock scene, but now, he sits in the upper echelons of today's country music icons.

, Jelly Roll has been on the fast track to stardom. The genre-defying album included both his first No. 1 at rock radio, 'Dead Man Walking,' as well as his debut country single, 'Son of a Sinner,' which hit the peak at country radio in January of 2023.

Quickly checking off items on a new artist's country music check list, including making his Grand Ole Opry debut in November 2021, Jelly Roll successfully sold out Nashville's Bridgestone Arena in December 2022 and simply hasn't stopped since.

After stealing the show at the 2023 CMT Music Awards in May as a first-time nominee with three wins for the Male Video of the Year, Male Breakthrough Video of the Year and Digital-First Performance of the Year, Jelly Roll brought everything to a head this June with the release of his debut country album, 

, which features breakout single 'Need A Favor.'

Exploring themes of addiction, pain, struggle and redemption, Jelly Roll’s music combines southern-tinged rap beats with his soulful vocals, and it has proven to strike a chord with listeners far and wide.

As Jelly Roll continues to make his meteoric impact on country music, he will embark on his 44-city Backroad Baptism Tour this summer.

Home of all the latest news, information and coverage of Jelly Roll on Holler.

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Scratch beneath this glossy exterior, and you'll find a traditionalist crooner with a penchant for George Strait. This is best exhibited on McCollum's first two independently released records, 2015’s 

, both of which blended folk and alt-country with a classic Texas twist. 

, a record that he funded off his own back after a chance meeting with Ryan Bingham’s former band-member, Corby Schaub, began to build McCollum a burgeoning regional following.

, McCollum introduced hints of the radio-friendly sound that he has become known for. The album landed at No. 6 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart, with the project’s forlorn closing track, ‘Hell Of A Year’, quickly becoming a fan-favourite.

Somewhere between the burning agony of ‘I Can’t Breathe’ and the cool blues of ‘South of the City Lights’ is where Parker McCollum’s sonic sweet-spot lies - and after signing with Universal in 2019, his debut single hit it on the screws. ‘Pretty Heart’ surged to the top of 

’s US Country Airplay charts and broke into the upper half of the 

The anthem remains McCollum’s most recognisable song to date, and it paved the way for his 2021 album, 

. Despite being a more polished offering with slick, Nashvillian production, the project made a point of holding fast to McCollum’s Texas country roots. The record spawned ‘Pretty Heart’’s moody follow-up hit, ‘To Be Loved By You’.

In 2022, Parker McCollum won the ACM Award for New Male Artist of the Year. In the same year, McCollum went on to release ‘Handle On You’ and ‘Stoned’, two singles that once again zeroed in on his hypnotic, brooding brand of country.

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When you first see Parker McCollum emerge onto the stage, donning a white t-shirt, a thin gold chain and his trusty snapback, you might assume that he’s attempting to instigate a Bro-Country revival.

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Many artists get started when they’re younger, but Eric Church had a regular gig performing at a local bar in his hometown by the time he was a senior in high school. Despite that, he first went on to study at Appalachian State University before deciding that Nashville was where he ultimately needed to be. 

After moving to Music City post-graduation, Church began writing for other artists before catching the eye of Capitol Nashville. His debut album, Sinners Like Me, was released in 2006 and began a steady output with Carolina (2009), Chief (2011), and The Outsiders (2014) and Mr. Misunderstood (2015) following in quick succession. In 2021, he released his seventh studio LP, Heart & Soul, which was a triple album set.

His third album Chief earned Church the ACM Award and CMA Award for Album of the Year in 2011. He also won the ACM Award for Top New Solo Vocalist.

Around that time, Church founded the charitable organization Chief Cares, which helps underprivileged families in Tennessee and Church’s home state of North Carolina.

Famously, Church’s penchant for big, lively performances got him kicked off Rascal Flatts’ tour in 2006. He regularly went over his allotted time and was warned repeatedly to stop. Eventually, Rascall Flatts traded Church for newcomer Taylor Swift. At the time, Church joked that Swift should send him her first gold record for the increased exposure she got. She eventually did, writing him, “Thanks for playing too long and too loud on the Flatts tour. I sincerely appreciate it. Taylor.” 

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Church is a country singer who began writing for other artists before catching the eye of Capitol Nashville and had a quick succession after

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A native of Taylor Mill, Kentucky, a young Pearce once declared that one day she would play the Grand Ole Opry. Now, a couple of decades later, she's become a member of the Opry family, tallied 100 appearances in the hallowed Circle and become one of the leading ladies in the country format.

Since first gaining recognition in 2017 with her independently released, Gold-certified single, 'Every Little Thing,' which eventually became her first of four No. 1s at country radio, Pearce has been on a steady climb into the upper echelons of country music and making her fair share of history along the way.

With tried and true hits, including the No. 1 tune of 'I Hope You're Happy Now' with Lee Brice, 'Hide the Wine,' 'Closer to You' and 'Next Girl,' Pearce has brought a bluegrass-inspired brand of contemporary country into the forefront of her music and coupled it with her deeply personal and cleverly crafted songwriting, as evidenced on her 2021 studio album, 

Over the last two years, the Grammy-nominated artist has nabbed two more trips to the top of the charts, including with her blockbuster, Ashley McBryde-graced duet, 'Never Wanted To Be That Girl,' which also earned the pair an ACM Award and a Grammy.

She most recently earned her fourth No. 1 with the Platinum-certified single, 'What He Didn’t Do,' making her the first woman in 80 weeks to top the country radio charts with a solo track.

With multiple RIAA certifications, three CMA Awards, four ACMs and a CMT Music Award, the Kentucky Music Hall of Famer has created her own special concoction of starpower, fit with her signature Kentucky-bred twang and fierce lyrical vulnerability to boot.

As the world awaits the newest installment of her beloved artistry, one can only imagine how proud the little girl from Kentucky would be of the proud woman currently sitting atop her country music throne.

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Carly 

When it comes to artists that were destined for stardom, Carly Pearce's name should be embossed in gold and perched promptly at the top of that list.

Carly Pearce: News, Songs & Reviews | Holler

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Lydia Farthing is a Nashville-based music journalist and Nashville native who has spent her life immersed in the music industry. With career stops at MusicRow Magazine, Provident Music Group and Aristo PR, she's always in search of the best concerts and new music, and is an avid supporter of females in the country format.

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