Auditorium line-up on Friday, May 16, 2025:
Eric Church
Molly Tuttle
Caylee Hammack
Auditorium line-up on Saturday, May 17, 2025:
Eric Church
Special Guest to be revealed soon
Bella White
ADDITIONAL FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS:
A must-see for those looking for more intimate moments with incredible talent, The Songwriters Round will take place on Saturday afternoon. This event gives fans a glimpse into each artist’s intricate, personal preparation and unbelievable performance skills as they take turns performing some of their most loved tracks acoustically. Presented by Absolute Radio Country, with other performers to be announced. Doors open at 2pm, and the event runs from 2.30pm – 4.30pm.
Country for Kids is back again this year on the second day of festivities. This family-friendly event is the perfect opportunity for children to let loose and express themselves in a relaxed environment, with no expectation to stay still or be quiet. Recommended for ages 4-11, but babies and budding musicians of all ages are welcome! Doors open at 9.30am, and the event runs 10am – 11am.
After the action of the main auditorium concludes, the party is far from over! Attendees can keep the celebration going each night at the Late Night Special & After Show, located in the Elgar Room. The festivities will feature DJ sets and live performances by Country and Americana’s finest new talent to cap each night off. The party runs from 11:00 PM to 1:00 AM.
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TICKET INFORMATION:
Due to capacity restrictions, tickets to additional events are sold separately and subject to availability. For all additional events you can purchase tickets for the specific event outside of the main auditorium ticket.
Dining, VIP, and hospitality packages are available for purchase. Tickets for Highways 2025 will go on sale to the public on Friday, January 31st, 2025, at 10 AM GMT and can be purchased at www.highwaysfestival.co.uk.
Age restrictions: Customers aged 14 or below must be accompanied by an adult aged 18 or over. All timings are subject to change.
ABOUT ERIC CHURCH:
A seven-time ACM Award winner, four-time CMA Award winner (including the 2020 award for Entertainer of the Year), and 10-time GRAMMY nominee, Eric Church has amassed a passionate fan base around his critically acclaimed catalog of music. Church’s October 2024 release, “Darkest Hour,” saw the superstar signing over all of his publishing royalties to the people of North Carolina to provide immediate relief following the devastation of Hurricane Helene while also providing ongoing funds to support a more resilient future for his home state.
This was his first new music since 2021’s Heart & Soul triple album that followed the Gold-certified Desperate Man, which earned a GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album (his third nod in the category) and prior releases including the Platinum-certified Sinners Like Me (“How ’Bout You,” “Guys Like Me”), Carolina (“Smoke a Little Smoke,” “Love Your Love the Most”) and Mr. Misunderstood (“Record Year,” “Round Here Buzz”), the Double-Platinum certified The Outsiders (“Like a Wrecking Ball,” “Talladega”), and the 3x Platinum-certified Chief (“Springsteen,” “Drink In My Hand”), as well as 36 Gold, Platinum, and multi-Platinum certified songs.
Church is also a minority owner of the Charlotte Hornets, a co-owner of the iconic Field & Stream brand, has his own SiriusXM music channel, “Eric Church Outsiders Radio,” his own liquor offering, Whiskey JYPSI, and recently opened Chief’s, a six-story venue on Nashville’s famed lower Broadway.
ABOUT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL:
The Royal Albert Hall is the world’s most famous stage. Throughout its 154-year history, it has welcomed a who’s who of world-renowned figures: artists, athletes and activists. No other place on earth has played host to Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein and Muhammad Ali, Ella Fitzgerald, The Beatles, and Adele. This was the Suffragettes’ “temple of liberty” – the site of Votes for Women rallies that helped change the course of British history – the home of the Stonewall concerts, and a place of celebration during Nelson Mandela’s state visit. But its eccentric history has also seen it used for a séance, an indoor marathon and the world’s first bodybuilding contest (judged by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).
In an ordinary year, the Hall’s extraordinary auditorium presents around 400 world-class events: encompassing rock, pop and classical music, theatre, dance, films, Cirque du Soleil and sport. It typically welcomes 1.8 million visitors a year, while its 1,000 events in secondary spaces help to attract a young, diverse audience. Its Engagement program includes music therapy, concerts in the community, and workshops with A-list artists, often in collaboration with other charities, such as Nordoff Robbins and Music for Youth.
ABOUT BAYLEN LEONARD:
Baylen Leonard broadcasts six days a week on Absolute Radio Country, including his long running Americana and Roots focused show The Front Porch. He also hosts the UK Country Radio Airplay Chart and the popular Country Music Talk podcast interviewing the biggest names in country music.
Baylen is a two-time CMA International Broadcaster of the Year award winner and has become known for giving a diverse range of artists their first ever UK radio play. Away from the mic he is Creative director of The Long Road Festival and Head of Music for Holler. A proud native Tennessean, he still says Y’all and Toe-MAY-toe, even though he’s lived in the UK for over 20 years.
ABOUT BELLA WHITE:
Born and raised in Calgary, Bella White is the daughter of a native Virginia banjoist who instilled in his child a love of Appalachian folk, country, and bluegrass. She learned how to play music at an early age, writing her first song when she was seven. As a child she regularly attended folk festivals and music camps, branching outside traditional bluegrass as she became a teenager. As her adolescence progressed, so did her songwriting skills.
Just Like Leaving, her 2020 debut album, sounds as if it came from the Appalachian hills, not Canada. A close listen reveals that White wasn’t a revivalist — she bent old ways to suit herself, adapting Americana styles to fit her introspective and impassioned songwriting. White worked with producer Patrick M’Gonigle, a fiddle player in the Lonely Heartstring Band, to record her debut. Released on Rounder, the album helped establish her in Americana circles.
She decided to expand her musical purview for her second album, Among Other Things, working with Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty and Angel Olsen). Deemed a Best Folk and Americana Album of 2023 by Spotify, this record embodies an enchanting sound that matches the immense depth of White’s inner world—an element brought to life by her lived-in exploration of complex themes. Recorded at Fivestar Studios in Topanga Canyon, the album featured several indie musicians, including Buck Meek of Big Thief and Drew Erikson (Lana Del Rey and Weyes Blood).
Following the success of Among Other Things, White released a covers EP, Five For Silver, in 2024 recorded in conjunction with her previous record. The five tracks that make up White’s EP feature songs from contemporary writers who have had a huge influence on her including Neil Young, Ted Lucas, Lucinda Williams, Tweedy, and Emmylou Harris.
Her remarkable rise has seen her playing on some of the biggest stages, recently making her Grand Ole Opry debut, performing at SXSW, Stagecoach and Newport Folk Festival. White recently supported Tyler Childers, Dierks Bentley, Band of Horses, John Craigie, The Paper Kites, Ashley McBryde, The Teskey Brothers, and The Red Clay Strays.
ABOUT CAYLEE HAMMACK:
With her sophomore studio album Bed of Roses, available March 7th from Capitol Records Nashville, artist Caylee Hammack keeps her musical roots intertwined with the country greats—while branching out to the outer edges of psychedelic Americana, fortifying her country backbone. An Ellaville, Georgia native with a self-described green thumb and stop-you-in-your-tracks vocals that cross the warbling buzz of hummingbird wings with the sting of a thorn, Hammack landed in Nashville at 19, turning heads with her unique mix of influences ranging from David Bowie and Kate Bush to Dolly Parton and Tom Waits.
Releasing her standout 2020 album debut IF IT WASN’T FOR YOU, she went on to share stadium stages with Luke Bryan and Brothers Osborne, stun tiny listening rooms into rapt silence, and captivate the Grand Ole Opry. All told, she has so far racked up 235.8 million career global streams to date, won an ACM Award for Musical Event of the Year (“Fooled Around And Fell In Love” with Miranda Lambert), and picked up Artist to Watch accolades from The Bobby Bones Show, Rolling Stone, among other honors.
Bed of Roses tracks five years of patient growth. Featuring 13 fresh cut blooms, the rising star learned to tend her “garden of life” not just for a short pop of beauty, but for a long-lasting, healthy environment. “As a little girl who always just wanted a man to bring her flowers—I decided I’d be better off if I just learned how to grow my own,” she says.
For more information, follow Hammack on Instagram, X, and TikTok @cayleehammack.
ABOUT MOLLY TUTTLE:
“A virtuoso guitarist with a galvanizing charm that electrifies her audience” —Guardian
Raised in Northern California, Molly Tuttle moved to Nashville in 2015. In the years since, she has received many accolades, including two GRAMMY wins plus a nomination for Best New Artist. She earned three wins at the 2023 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards and won Album of the Year at the 2023 International Folk Music Awards. Additionally, she has earned Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Awards, and Guitar Player of the Year at the IBMAs in both 2017 and 2018. Tuttle has performed around the world, including shows with Billy Strings, Dierks Bentley, Dave Matthews, Béla Fleck, Tommy Emmanuel, Hiss Golden Messenger, Jason Isbell, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Dwight Yoakam, as well as at several major festivals including Newport Folk and Pilgrimage. She is featured on Ringo Starr’s acclaimed 2025 album Look Up and joined his band for performances of the music at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium in January. She also performed the Tom Petty classic “American Girl” with Dierks Bentley on the Country Music Association Awards in late 2024.
In 2023 and 2024, Tuttle earned consecutive GRAMMY and IBMA wins for Best Bluegrass Album/Album of the Year for her Nonesuch records Crooked Tree and City of Gold. She and her band were nominated for eight IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards..
Nonesuch released the six-song EP Into the Wild in the fall of 2024. The EP included three new songs — the title track, “Getaway Girl,” and a cover of Kate Wolf’s “Here in California”—as well as previously released covers of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “good 4 u” and an alternate version of the City of Gold track “Stranger Things.”
Tuttle says of the record: “With this new EP we invite you to come on a journey with us Into the Wild. I wrote the title track with Ketch Secor after a week spent in the redwoods. This song is about getting lost in the wilderness even if it’s just in the forest of your mind. ‘Getaway Girl’ was an unfinished song I had started writing for City of Gold. It’s about a whirlwind romance set in New York City, kind of like Carrie Bradshaw meets bluegrass.
“In addition to these two new original songs, we included some of our favorite covers that we’ve woven into the live show, ‘White Rabbit’ by Jefferson Airplane and ‘good 4 u’ by Olivia Rodrigo,” she continues. “We paid tribute to one of my favorite California songwriters, Kate Wolf, with a new version of her song ‘Here in California’ that features my dad, Jack Tuttle, and longtime friend AJ Lee singing with me. I used to play this one with my family band back in the day! On ‘Stranger Things’ (Down the Rabbit Hole Version) I wanted to go for a stripped back ethereal version of this song originally played by the full band on City of Gold.” Molly Tuttle is currently working on her next album, which will be announced later this year.