{"id":500056,"date":"2026-10-18T10:26:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T10:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500056\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T10:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T10:26:40","slug":"sacramentos-country-music-festival-goldensky-announces-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500056\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento&#8217;s country music festival Goldensky announces lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Abridged version:<\/p>\n<p>Zach Bryan and Megan Moroney will headline the 2027 return of GoldenSky Festival, the Sacramento region\u2019s biggest country music festival, at Discovery Park.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll be flanked by acts such as Ty Myers, The Band Perry and Treaty Oak Revival.<\/p>\n<p>GoldenSky is scheduled for Oct. 9-10, 2027, and ticket presales begin Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After two years off, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abridged.org\/news\/golden-sky-returns-to-sacramento\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">GoldenSky Festival will return to Sacramento\u2019s Discovery Park<\/a> in 2027, anchored by some of country music\u2019s biggest names.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Megan Moroney and Zach Bryan will headline the two-day music festival from Oct. 9-10 next year, organizers Danny Wimmer Presents announced Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moroney launched into the spotlight with \u201cTennessee Orange,\u201d a Top 10 single from her first album in 2023, and ascended to become one of country music\u2019s top female artists over the next few years. Pink cowboy boots and hats flooded Downtown Sacramento for her August concert at Golden 1 Center, touring her new album \u201cCloud 9.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bryan left the U.S. Navy in 2021 to pursue his ascending music career, then broke out as a star a few years later. His album \u201cAmerican Heartbreak\u201d and its single \u201cSomething in the Orange\u201d helped him win \u201cTop New Artist,\u201d \u201cTop Rock Artist\u201d \u201cTop Rock Album\u201d and \u201cTop Rock Song\u201d at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards, and he was nominated for 10 other categories.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tSign Up for the Cultural Capital<\/p>\n<p>In your inbox every Thursday, Abridged&#8217;s entertainment newsletter from Chris Macias highlights things to do in the Sacramento region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moroney will be joined by Treaty Oak Revival, The Band Perry, Wyatt Flores, Kaitlin Butts and more that Saturday, while Whiskey Myers, Max McNown, Avery Anna, Ty Myers and others will play before Bryan on Sunday. The full lineup is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/goldenskyfestival.com\/lineup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">GoldenSky\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Launched in 2022, GoldenSky drew A-list acts such as Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Tim McGraw in its first three years, which also featured beer festivals, line dancing and more. But it was nixed in 2025, then again in 2026 as competition for booking top acts surged and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/sf-culture\/article\/california-music-festival-bubble-bursting-19786530.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">festivals struggled nationwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GoldenSky normally runs the weekend after <a href=\"https:\/\/aftershockfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Aftershock<\/a>, the biggest rock, metal and punk music festival, at Discovery Park. Aftershock\u2019s 2027 dates and lineup have yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ticket presales begin Friday at 10 a.m., with VIP options, hotel packages and student discounts available. GoldenSky attendees will also be able to book camping reservations at Cal Expo for the first time, following in Aftershock\u2019s footsteps earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Abridged version: Zach Bryan and Megan Moroney will headline the 2027 return of GoldenSky Festival, the Sacramento&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-500056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}