Here’s who will take the stage at the 2026 Country Thunder Arizona music festival

Country Thunder Arizona announced the headliners and additional acts for the April 2026 festival. Here's a look at who will be performing.

BY JEFF VINTON

Nov 17, 2025, 10:49 AM Updated: 10:58 am

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PHOENIX — Country music fans got a little giddy up in their steps on Monday morning as the lineup for next spring’s Country Thunder Arizona music festival was released.

The annual celebration of country music will be held April 9-12 at Canyon Moon Ranch in Florence and will be the first of five Country Thunder festivals in the U.S. and Canada next year.

Who will be headlining Country Thunder Arizona?

The four-day festival will be headlined by Gavin Adcock, Lainey Wilson, Zach Top and Brooks & Dunn.

A rising country music star and former college football player, Adcock will be making his debut at Country Thunder. The Georgia native is known for hits “A Cigarette,” “Run Your Mouth” and “Deep End.”

Wilson will be making her return to Florence after headlining Country Thunder Arizona in 2024. The singer-songwriter from Louisiana is a Grammy Award winner and was named the Academy of Country Music’s (ACM) entertainer of the year and female artist of the year in May. She is best known for hit songs “Somewhere Over Laredo,” “4x4xU” and “Whirlwind.”

Country Thunder will be the second Arizona performance in 2026 for Top, who will also be performing at the Coors Light Birds Nest at the WM Phoenix Open in February. His second album, “Ain’t in It for My Health,” was released in August and peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard 200 album chart. He was also named the ACM’s new male artist of the year in May.

Brooks & Dunn, a duo comprised of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, have sold more than 30 million albums over the past 30 years. The Country Music Hall of Fame inductees have also won two Grammy awards and saw their most recent album, “Reboot,” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart.

Who else will be performing at Country Thunder Arizona?

Along with the announcement of the headliners, festival organizers announced many of the additional acts, which include:

Waylon Wyatt
Ian Munsick
Lonestar
Scotty McCreery
Jay Webb
Jackson Dean
George Birge
Dasha
Logan Layman
Billy Dean & Collin Raye
Lanie Gardner
Austin Snell
Lauren Watkins
Annie Bosko
The Wilder Blue

Dates and times of performances have yet to be announced.

Festival passes, parking passes and campsite passes are on sale now for Country Thunder. General admission tickets cost $360 and VIP packages start at $695.