{"id":76870,"date":"2025-12-09T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76870\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:33:08","slug":"gavin-adcock-to-headline-2026-country-thunder-florida-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76870\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Adcock to Headline 2026 Country Thunder Florida Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shaboozey, Randy Houser, Braxton Keith are also playing the annual festival, held for the first time on St. Pete Beach in Florida<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe 2026 Country Thunder Florida festival is getting a new location. After last year\u2019s three-day concert in Tampa, the fest is putting its boots directly in the sand about 25 miles southwest at the TradeWinds Resort on St. Pete Beach with a dynamic crop of headliners led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/gavin-adcock\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gavin-adcock\" data-tag=\"gavin-adcock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Adcock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/gavin-adcock-blasts-zach-bryan-podcast-1235410667\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pot-stirring<\/a> Georgia singer and songwriter, who released the album Own Worst Enemy in August, tops the bill with co-headliners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/zach-top\/\" id=\"auto-tag_zach-top\" data-tag=\"zach-top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Top<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kane-brown\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kane-brown\" data-tag=\"kane-brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kane Brown<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/gretchen-wilson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gretchen-wilson\" data-tag=\"gretchen-wilson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gretchen Wilson<\/a>, the \u201cRedneck Woman\u201d hitmaker who has been serving as tour manager on Taylor Sheridan\u2019s CBS reality competition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/the-road-cbs-taylor-sheridan-gretchen-wilson-1235458834\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Road<\/a>, is also on the bill, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/randy-houser\/\" id=\"auto-tag_randy-houser\" data-tag=\"randy-houser\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Randy Houser<\/a>, one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/country-music\/\" id=\"auto-tag_country-music\" data-tag=\"country-music\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">country music<\/a>\u2019s most enduring country voices, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/shaboozey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shaboozey\" data-tag=\"shaboozey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shaboozey<\/a>, who\u2019s been on a roll with a string of collabs like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/shaboozey-stephen-wilson-jr-took-a-walk-single-1235422133\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cTook a Walk\u201d<\/a> (Stephen Wilson Jr.) and \u201cAmen\u201d (Jelly Roll).<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-rollingstone-2022\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CountryThunder_Admat_Florida_1080x1080.png\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"1024\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCountry Thunder CEO and president Troy Vollhoffer announced the lineup with Rolling Stone on Tuesday morning. Other performers include the genre-pushing Dasha, neo-traditionalist Braxton Keith, viral songwriter Elizabeth Nichols, and the country-folk fusion artist Max McNown. Cole Goodwin, Solon Holt, and Jay Webb round out the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSet for May 8 through 10, Country Thunder Florida is the Country Thunder franchise\u2019s first beachfront festival setting. Tickets for the weekend can be purchased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countrythunder.com\/fl-tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cBringing Country Thunder to St. Pete Beach marks an exciting new era for our festival,\u201d Vollhoffer said in a statement. \u201cFrom the moment we first stepped onto the white sands at TradeWinds, we knew this was the perfect home for an elevated fan experience\u2026. With the Gulf as our backdrop and Country music\u2019s biggest artists on our stage, 2026 will be one for the books.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaboozey, Randy Houser, Braxton Keith are also playing the annual festival, held for the first time on St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[17319,43300,43301,43302,43303,9292,43304,43305,202,204,203,199,201,200,43306],"class_list":{"0":"post-76870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-country-music","9":"tag-festival-announcement","10":"tag-gavin-adcock","11":"tag-gretchen-wilson","12":"tag-kane-brown","13":"tag-live-music","14":"tag-randy-houser","15":"tag-shaboozey","16":"tag-st-pete","17":"tag-st-pete-headlines","18":"tag-st-pete-news","19":"tag-st-petersburg","20":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","21":"tag-st-petersburg-news","22":"tag-zach-top"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}