WE Fest Announces Headliners for August 2021 Festival

If you’re hankering for a return to summer time songs festivals, WE Fest has you included. They’ve taken the daring step of announcing headliners for their August 5 – seven competition: Florida Ga Line, Dierks Bentley and Blake Shelton are slated to participate in at Soo Move Ranch this summer time. Their grandstand performances will carry on WE Fest’s 37-calendar year custom of bringing country’s biggest names to Detroit Lakes’ humble Midwest outpost. 

And of the headliners? Florida Ga Line (reportedly, the duo’s to start with band identify concepts concerned oranges and peaches, ahead of they settled on this geographic bit) has been making state hits due to the fact 2012. The Grammy-nominated pair’s 11x platinum song “Cruise” skyrocketed them to fame—four studio albums and 17 number 1 singles have followed. Their very anticipated fifth studio album, Everyday living Rolls On, is forthcoming in February. 

Dierks Bentley is one more state celebrity: his present single “Living” places him a hair ahead of Florida Ga Line at 18 occupation number kinds. He has racked up 14 Grammy nominations, and quite a few much more nods from the Academy of Place New music, American New music Awards, Billboard, Place New music Awards, and Place New music Television awards. Blake Shelton will near out WE Fest on August seven, the commonly celebrated coach of The Voice is 1 of the finest-acknowledged names in state songs. 

In accordance to tour dates on his web-site, Shelton’s only other scheduled exhibit at present is at the Iowa Point out Fairgrounds shortly adhering to WE Fest. Dierks Bentley, however, has a handful of other reveals lined up for the summer time, and Florida Ga Line is halting by for WE Fest in the middle of their comprehensive-blown Chillaxification Tour with Kenny Chesney.

WE Fest is resuming festivities right after sitting down last calendar year out, though not because of COVID—in a prescient 2019 move, competition leaders decided to just take a 1-calendar year crack to regroup and arrive back again powerful in 2021. The website states that planners will be preserving a near eye on the COVID condition as the competition dates tactic, and changing well being and safety protocols appropriately. Mpls.St.Paul achieved out to WE Fest to specify the aspects of its COVID precautions at the competition, and will update this story if we listen to back again. In accordance to the festival’s web-site, if the occasion is cancelled because of to COVID, tickets will be refunded. 

In addition to WE Fest, other state concert events that are continue to prepared for this summer time include George Strait and Chris Stapleton at U.S. Financial institution Stadium and Miranda Lambert at the 2021 Point out Fair. 

WE Fest is Minnesota’s biggest and oldest state songs festival—with nearly all live songs on pause for the previous calendar year, its August return will be a very long-awaited stomp in the mud. Tickets go on sale Friday, January fifteen, at 10 a.m. CST, and aspects on other performances will be released soon. Check out the WE Fest web-site for aspects on admission, camping, and other FAQs.