In exciting news, the city of Birmingham is set to welcome its first-ever country music festival this fall. The 1st annual Iron Hills Country Music Festival will be held at the historic Sloss Furnaces. Major names in country music will take the stage alongside promising new talent the weekend of October 11th and 12th.
See the full lineup featuring some of Alabama’s finest:
Saturday, October 11th
- Turnpike Troubadours (headliner)
- Travis Tritt
- Midland
- TBA
- Mountain Grass Unit
- Drew Baldridge
- TBA
- Maggie Rose
- Matt Stell
- Dan Spencer
- Smokeshow Rodeo
Sunday, October 12th
- Ryan Bingham & The Texas Gentlemen (headliner)
- Chase Rice
- Jo Dee Messina
- Dylan Marlowe
- Eli Young Band
- Conner Smith
- Chayce Beckham
- Kashus Culpepper
- American Aquarium
- Channing Wilson
- Tiera Kennedy
On producing a music festival in 2025, Iron Hills Co-founders Johnny Grimes and Chad Johnson state, jointly:
“The current climate of the music festival experience tells us that the fans expectations are at the highest level. Fans want what they pay for. Every principal involved in this event started out as a music fan long before we were the ones producing the events. We trust that we have the collective experience of being fans first to ask ourselves — what kind of event would we want to attend? How do we push Iron Hills to be something that stands on its own among a sea of other epic concert events out there today? You can book great talent. You can hire in great food and great drink vendors. How do we extend beyond what money can buy and produce, not just a concert or a festival, but a world-class experience that will provide memories that last a lifetime? We welcomed the idea of such a challenge.”
In choosing Sloss Furnaces Historic Landmark as the site for Iron Hills Country Music Festival:
“This location was a no-brainer. Sloss Furnace is as synonymous to Birmingham as the Gateway Arch is to St. Louis. Regardless of which direction you enter the city, from I-65 up from Mobile and Montgomery, or south from Nashville, from I-20 coming in from Atlanta, 59 from New Orleans, or even Hwy 280, the very moment you set your eyes on Birmingham, Sloss Furnace is hovering over the city. Its presence in the skyline towers above everything else. In the last 5 years since we began producing music events here, we have seen artist after artist — instead of being held up in some bus or hotel room, arriving mid-day, demanding just to get lost in the endless tunnels, the engine rooms, or just aimlessly walking the giant perimeter to take in the magnitude of the very place that built Birmingham. Nowhere else on earth can you stage a concert at an abandoned iron mill. From the viewpoint of not only ourselves but many artists, vendors, and especially fans, Sloss Furnace is one of only a handful of venues in the world where the site itself plays as much of a role as the event taking place there.”
Purchase tickets at www.ironhillscountry.com and follow Iron Hills Country Music Festival on Instagram for updates at @ironhillscountry.
