The 2025 Field & Stream Music Festival has just been canceled. Miranda Lambert, Eric Church and Lynyrd Skynyrd were set to headline year two of the festival.
Unfortunately, year No. 1 was also canceled.
- Field & Stream Music Fest was scheduled for Oct. 3-5 in Winnsboro, S.C.
- ZZ Top, Riley Green and Bailey Zimmerman were also on the lineup.
- Organizers say all tickets will be refunded.
Why Was 2025 Field & Stream Fest Canceled?
A statement at the festival’s social media pages doesn’t provide many answers. “Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control,” it begins.
All other posts on their Instagram have been wiped clean. The news hits Church especially hard as in addition to headlining night No. 3, he owns a stake in the company.
In early 2024, Church and Morgan Wallen revealed that they’d purchased Field & Stream from Dick’s Sporting Goods. They promised the festival, as well as a return of the old magazine to print.
While the live event has had trouble succeeding, a twice yearly print edition did begin to circulate in mid-2024.
The 2024 F&S Music Festival was canceled with a more definitive explanation: Hurricane Helene made conditions for a coastal music festival dangerous, and thus, it was scrapped.
“It is with heavy hearts that we announce the postponement of the inaugural Field & Stream Music Fest due to Hurricane Helene,” organizers wrote at the time. “Given the state of emergency and challenging conditions on the ground, this decision has been made out of an abundance of caution.”
The future of the event moving forward seems very unclear.
Church is currently on the Free the Machine Tour with dates through November. Lambert has seven more arena and amphitheater shows planned through the end of the year.
This fest is hardly the only one to get scrapped this year. Faster Horses Festival in Michigan was canceled for 2025. Overall, some events have had trouble navigating a changing live music landscape since the pandemic.
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