Country on the Ocean City beach — Chris Stapleton and Lainey Wilson top two October days that run from Travis Tritt's catalog to Wyatt Flores and the red-dirt new class.
Country Calling stacks two October days on the beach at Ocean City, Maryland — Lainey Wilson headlining Friday, Chris Stapleton headlining Saturday, with Miranda Lambert, Rascal Flatts and Dierks Bentley directly underneath.
The 26-act bill splits its personality cleanly: '90s-and-2000s catalog acts (Travis Tritt, Clay Walker, Rodney Atkins) against the sharpest of the new writing class — Kaitlin Butts, Noeline Hofmann and Carter Faith all land on the same weekend. Every act's day is already published, so the Friday/Saturday split is easy to plan around.
Expect country, country-pop, southern rock and red dirt country across 26 acts.
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A songwriter's songwriter with a howl that turns Nashville craft into something closer to Muscle Shoals soul — 'Tennessee Whiskey' just the entry point of a stacked catalog.
From Lexington, KY · Sounds like Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson, Marcus King, Jason Isbell
Bell-bottoms, Louisiana drawl and a run of CMA hardware — the hardest-working woman in mainstream country right now, with the catalog to back the swagger.
From Baskin, LA · Sounds like Ashley McBryde, Ella Langley
Maryland brothers splitting the difference between country radio and Southern rock guitar heroics — TJ's baritone up front, John's Telecaster doing the rest.
From Deale, MD · Sounds like Eric Church, Midland
Honky-tonk and Gulf Coast blues delivered by a genuine road-worn troubadour with a hat and a story to match — an album-a-year work rate straight from the old school.
From San Benito, TX · Sounds like Colter Wall, Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers
90s Texas neotraditionalist with a stack of chart-toppers and a honky-tonk tenor that hasn't aged.
From Beaumont, TX · Sounds like Tim McGraw, Mark Chesnutt
Two decades of arena country with a bluegrass streak — an easygoing showman who still sneaks banjo records between the radio hits.
From Phoenix, AZ · Sounds like Eric Church, Jon Pardi
Party-ready country radio staple — a decade of neon-lit number ones.
From Tullahoma, TN · Sounds like Luke Bryan, Cole Swindell
Texas firebrand with the deepest song catalog of her generation — kerosene anthems and quiet gut-punches in equal measure.
From Lindale, TX · Sounds like Kacey Musgraves, Ashley McBryde
Nashville-born hooksmith working the seam between country radio and R&B-tinged pop.
From Nashville, TN · Sounds like Chris Young, Jordan Davis
The 2000s country-pop hit machine back on the road — three-part harmonies and a greatest-hits set where every song was once on the radio.
From Columbus, OH · Sounds like Lonestar, Keith Urban
Feel-good pop-country with a preacher's-kid energy — wedding-playlist hits delivered like a headline set.
From Union City, TN · Sounds like Thomas Rhett, Old Dominion
Class of '89 outlaw — Southern-rock muscle under 90s country gold, still singing 'T-R-O-U-B-L-E' like it's brand new.
From Marietta, GA · Sounds like Marty Stuart, Hank Williams Jr.
Oklahoma red-dirt songwriter who went from dorm-room recordings to theatres in about eighteen months — Stillwater sincerity at full sprint.
From Stillwater, OK · Sounds like Zach Bryan, Turnpike Troubadours, Charles Wesley Godwin
Dreamy neo-traditional country from a fast-rising Nashville transplant — twang with a soft-focus, retro glow.
From Charlotte, NC · Sounds like Kacey Musgraves, Carly Pearce
Gravel-voiced Maryland native writing country with a dark, cinematic edge — 'Don't Come Lookin'' was just the opener.
From Odenton, MD · Sounds like Zach Bryan, Eric Church
Red dirt country with a theatrical streak and a sense of humour that cuts — Oklahoma storytelling that plays like a one-woman show with a band.
From Tulsa, OK · Sounds like Kacey Musgraves, Sierra Ferrell, Charley Crockett
Alberta prairie songwriter whose 'Purple Gas' turned heads across the border — stark, old-soul country from ranch country.
From Alberta, Canada · Sounds like Colter Wall, Sierra Ferrell
Country with a rap cadence and a rock chorus — one of the format-blurring new class.
From Tennessee · Sounds like Jelly Roll, HARDY
Blue-collar 2000s country mainstay — 'Watching You' and 'If You're Going Through Hell' still land like town anthems.
From Cumberland Gap, TN · Sounds like Trace Adkins, Craig Morgan
October 2–3, 2026 — Friday and Saturday.
On the beach at Ocean City, Maryland — the stages are set directly on the sand.
Lainey Wilson headlines Friday and Chris Stapleton headlines Saturday, with Miranda Lambert, Rascal Flatts and Dierks Bentley in the top-billing slots.
26 acts across the two days.
Every act's day is published — the lineup-by-day section below has the full Friday/Saturday split, and each act card shows its day.
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few bands you love — it'll match you with the acts on this lineup you shouldn't miss, with reasons why.
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