Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic CMA Fest has announced its lineup for the festival’s 2024 edition, taking place in Nashville June 6-9, and as usual, the roster for the nightly stadium shows is a who’s who of recent country charttoppers and awards contenders, with Jelly Roll and Lainey Wilson foremost among the newer crop of headliners.
The names gracing the Nissan Stadium main stage lineup aren’t entirely that fresh. Luke Bryan, Keith Urban and Thomas Rhett are in the mix to represent faces of the genre that have longer than a decade of stardom under their belts.
But the stadium shows also feature a number of acts who’ve only started amassing No. 1s in the course of the last few years, like Cody Johnson, Bailey Zimmerman, Parker McCollum, Jordan Davis, Hardy and Megan Moroney.
The stadium-show roster for 2024 is rounded out by such familiar faces as Kelsea Ballerini, Brothers Osborne, Ashley McBryde, Carly Pearce, Jon Pardi, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the War and Treaty.
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