Whiskey Myers Curated Firewater Festival Announces Lineup
Texas-based Southern rock band Whiskey Myers is set to launch their own personally-curated festival and annual gathering for their fans called the Firewater Festival, and they have just announced the inaugural lineup. The Drive-By Truckers, Whitey Morgan, Ray Wylie Hubbard, The Steel Woods, Shane Smith and the Saints, Chris Knight, Jaime Wyatt, Bones Owens, Tennessee Jet, and Rob Leines will all join Whiskey Myers at the festival.
The Firewater Festival is set to take place October 1st through 3rd, 2020 in Ly Cynge, Kansas about 45 minutes south of Kansas City at the Wildwood Outdoor Education Center—the same location as the last two years of the Tumbleweed Festival, with Borda Productions behind the effort. The event has been cleared by state and local officials to move forward.
“Firewater gives us the chance to bring all of our friends and fans together in one place to just hang out and enjoy some really great music,” says Whiskey Myers frontman Cody Cannon. “It’s going to be one hell of a weekend!”
Along with camping options, outdoor activities on the 150-acre property include canoeing and rock climbing, and obviously there will be lots of music performances by entertainers hand picked by Whiskey Myers. The festival will also include “special moments” with artists as well as “secret sets” and artist interaction.
“We’ve been involved in every aspect of putting this together,” says lead guitarist John Jeffers. “From the location and the activities to the badass artists that will be joining us, we wanted to make sure this festival is 100% Whiskey Myers.”
Whiskey Myers announced their presence as a premier band in independent music when their 2019 self-titled album debuted #1 in country, #2 in pure album sales overall, and #6 on the all-genre Billboard 200, putting the band in the very rare company of Blackberry Smoke, Aaron Watson, and Jason Isbell as independent artists topping the country albums charts.
Tickets and more information can be found at www.firewatermusicfestival.com .
June 11, 2020 @ 11:33 am
If we can get out of this drought and all my lawns don’t dry up, I’ll go to this!
June 11, 2020 @ 1:25 pm
Dry here as well, dirt roads turning into puddles of bulldust. Its annoying.
I like the festival sound of the festival though
June 11, 2020 @ 5:23 pm
Everyone is so distracted and no one is reporting that regions of this country are barreling towards a severe drought.
June 11, 2020 @ 12:35 pm
I miss live music
June 11, 2020 @ 1:42 pm
It’s interesting that this was approved to go on by officials considering cases are starting to rise again and Stagecoach/ Coachella just got cancelled in October. Obviously not the same thing whatsoever, but I just didn’t think anyone was going to be planning on having live music this year.
June 11, 2020 @ 2:06 pm
Many parts of the country are experiencing their highest number of COVID cases right now. With so many people thinking “opening up” means “it is over,” I guess we’ll have to see if a lot of these shows take place. I miss the hell out of live music.
I also read a story the other day where disease experts said the two most dangerous things you can do are go to a concert and go to a bar. Meaning live music in a bar — my favorite thing — is a double whammy.
June 11, 2020 @ 3:32 pm
The same experts that told us this would be 10 – 30x as bad as the flu and millions would die in the US alone? I think folks are over it.
June 11, 2020 @ 6:32 pm
Well, those experts were pushing an agenda. They wanted to wreck the economy to influence the 2020 election.
Transparent agenda.
June 12, 2020 @ 7:36 am
Depends on what experts you listen to. If you mean the talking heads who have an obvious political agenda to downplay or overstate COVID-19, then yes. If you mean actual “in the trenches” scientists, I don’t think that is a fair statement one bit.
Couple things, #1 COVID-19 is a novel virus, meaning from the very start and still today we don’t have a great idea of how it will play out. We could have just kept the economy and society rolling along and maybe nothing would have happened. But we didn’t know that back in March and judging by how bad it hit parts of Spain & Italy, I don’t think we could have assumed that would have happened.
#2, scientists tend to skew liberal. Liberals tend to want large, strong public programs to address various issues in our society. While I tend to be highly critical of these programs, I would like to highlight that liberal scientists choosing to murder the economy has and will continue to result in state & local governments cutting or eliminating those very same social programs liberals tend to love.
See the disconnect in your statement?
June 14, 2020 @ 1:24 pm
I’d sure like to see Whiskey and Whitey here for the Myrtle Beach rally. Either the postponed date now happening in July one or the fall rally.
Enough with the liberal bs agendas… time to get back to living!
June 12, 2020 @ 12:11 pm
I first saw Whiskey Myers at Tumbleweed in 2019 and really enjoyed their show and became a fan. Hopefully can make this one, looks amazing.