Tim McGraw & Faith Hill Announced
As Headliners At C2C 2018!
Coming up - our exclusive @C2Cfestival announcement! #spoilers @WhisperingBob @BBCR2Country pic.twitter.com/zHh8Fnnn1T— Bob Harris Country (@BHarrisCountry) 28 September 2017
Grammy© award-winning
superstars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have been announced as the
first headliners for Country to Country 2018 and will be bringing their
highly acclaimed and record setting Soul2Soul tour to this year’s event.
Living legend Bob Harris (OBE; dubbed the UK’s King
Of Country) made the exclusive announcement live on Bob Harris Country on BBC
Radio 2 after playing Tim McGraw
& Faith Hill’s duet "Speak
To A Girl" listen back on the BBC iPlayer at 52 minutes
After the spin Bob
said:
"The
twitter reaction to the announcement is ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE, it’s
incredible the reaction, that the first headliners are Tim McGraw & Faith
Hill"!
— Faith Hill (@FaithHill) 28 September 2017
Literally can't wait!! ππππππ pic.twitter.com/LUxOnHtHZn— Sarah Anne (@SarahPrudham) 28 September 2017
The official C2C 2018 launch event will take place
on Friday 6th October at
London Bush Hall with BBC Radio 2’s Bob Harris exclusively unveiling the
line-up.
Faith
Hill and Tim McGraw have been dominating the music charts since the early ‘90s.
They began touring together in 1996 on McGraw’s Spontaneous Combustion
tour. In 2000 they created the Soul2Soul
franchise with their record-breaking “Soul2Soul” tour, becoming that year’s top
grossing and most successful U.S. tour. Their success continued in 2006-2007
when “Soul2Soul II” returned to the road, which was the most attended tour of
the year in any musical genre and remains the highest grossing multi-year North
American tour in country music history.
Faith Hill is one of the top-selling and most-awarded female artists of all time with 5 Grammy Awards, 12 Academy of Country Music Awards, 3 Country Music Association Awards, 4 Billboard Music Awards, 4 American Music Awards and 4 People’s Choice Awards. She has consistently broken chart records with her #1 singles and has had major crossover success with the hits “This Kiss,” “Breathe,” “The Way You Love Me,” “Cry” and “There You’ll Be.” She has had multiple albums top both the Billboard Top 100 and Country charts simultaneously and with only seven original studio albums, has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide.
Tim
McGraw
who headlined the very first Country to
Country festival in 2013, has sold more than 50 million records and
dominated the charts with 43 worldwide #1 singles. He’s won 3 Grammy
Awards, 16 Academy of Country Music Awards, 14 Country Music Association
Awards, 11 American Music Awards, 3 People’s Choice Awards and numerous other
honors. His iconic career achievements include being named the BDS Radio’s Most
Played Artist of the Decade for all music genres and having the Most Played
Song of the Decade for all music genres. He is the most played country artist
since his debut in 1992, with two singles spending over 10 weeks at #1.
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw will be joined by a
whole host of multi-platinum and acclaimed artists across the weekend.
The launch event at Bush Hall is part Country Music Week’s New Country US Night featuring; Logan Brill, Temecula Road, Levi Hummon and Walker McGuire. SEE associated BLOG POSTS
The organisers of the hugely
successful Country to
Country (C2C) music
festival launch Country
Music Week, the exciting,
brand new week-long series of shows taking place from this Mon 2 to Sun Oct 8,
2017 in London venues!
To be
part of the action tickets are onsale now via www.axs.com/uk and www.CountryMusicWeek.com.
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C2C is
Europe’s biggest Country Music Festival. It brings three days of the best
country music and programming with performances from the world’s best country
stars as well as emerging talent from Nashville, UK and Europe. Country to
Country is now entering its sixth year with ever increasing popularity and for
the first time and due to popular demand, C2C Glasgow will take place at The
SSE Hydro having out grown the Clyde Auditorium.
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