Big names announced as headliners for Boots and Hearts 2025
The headliners for the region’s biggest outdoor country music festival are locked in, and once again, the multi-day event has garnered big names.
In just 281 days, tens of thousands of fans will don their cowboy hats, belt buckles and spurs and hit the highway to Burl’s Creek in Oro-Medonte for the 2025 Boots and Hearts Music Festival.
The 2025 edition will kick off with headliners Bailey Zimmerman and Tyler Hubbard, known for their fan-favourite tunes.
Bailey Zimmerman, whose chart-topping singles Religiously, Fall in Love, and Rock and a Hard Place shot the young singer to fame. Tyler Hubbard, who is best known for being one-half of the duo Florida Georgia Line, has created number one solo hits like Back Then Right Now, Five Foot Nine, and Dancin’ In The Country.
Concert crews are putting the final touches on at this week's Boots and Hearts concert held at Burls Creek Event Grounds in Oro-Medonte. (CTVNews/Rob Cooper)
Fans will want to stick around for Saturday’s headliners as Sam Hunt and Chase Rice take the stage.
In 2017, Sam Hunt rose to stardom with his hit single Body Like a Back Road, and has gone on to become a multi-platinum country music singer/songwriter, while Chase Rice’s single Eyes On You climbed to number one and held the spot for two weeks.
Closing out the festival are HARDY and Koe Wetzel. HARDY is known for singles like Truck Bed, Wait In The Truck, and Give Heaven Some Hell, and American singer/songwriter Koe Wetzel’s blend of rock and country produced High Road, Sweet Dreams and Damn Near Normal.
"This is a big deal. Guys like Bailey Zimmerman and Hardy, they are selling out arenas and stadiums all over the place, and now they're going to turn Boots and Hearts into the party of 2025," said country singer/songwriter and Pure Country 106 morning show host Jason McCoy.
Brooke Dunford with Republic Live believes the fans make the experience incredible. “It’s just the energy the fans have, and when the artists step on stage [the fans] sing every word, and the whole field is just filled.”
The 2025 Boots and Hearts Music Festival will take over the Burl’s Creek event grounds from August 7 – 10. Tickets go on sale starting Wednesday.
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