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\n\tTop acts were cut from the Stagecoach roster on Friday after high winds forced thousands of fans to temporarily evacuate<\/a> the grounds. The festival resumed an hour later, with headliner\u00a0Lainey Wilson<\/a>\u2018s set pushed back to 10:30 pm. Scheduled sets by Gavin Adcock and Pitbull were also delayed, while\u00a0Journey<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Riley Green<\/a>\u00a0had their performances canceled altogether.<\/p>\n \n\tWhen the \u201cWatermelon Moonshine\u201d singer finally took to the stage, she was welcomed by the roar of the crowd and she thanked fans who had stuck out the gusts of dirt to see her show. \u201cHopefully you sat in y\u2019alls cars for a bit and drank some tequila,\u201d she told the crowd.\u00a0\u201cWe came to Stagecoach to have a damn good time and that\u2019s what we gonna do,\u201d she declared and launched into \u201cCan\u2019t Sit Still.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHer followed up with the sentimental \u201cDreamcatcher\u201d and \u201cThings a Man Oughta Know,\u201d while offering \u201cWildflowers and Wild Horses,\u201d swaggering across the stage in leather chaps with fringe. As her Wilson\u2019s fiddle player performed \u201cSomewhere Over The Rainbow,\u201d the singer sang \u201cSomewhere Over Laredo,\u201d Wilson\u2019s single off her deluxe re-issue of Whirlwind<\/em>, interpolating the melody of Garland\u2019s hopeful ballad into its chorus.<\/p>\n \n\tYet one of the most touching parts of her 90-minute set arrived when she invited Green, whose set had been nixed, on to the stage alongside Little Big Town (who performed earlier in the day). Together they performed a rendition of Merle Haggard\u2019s 1980 hit, \u201cI Think I\u2019ll Just Stay Here and Drink,\u201d which Green followed by his song \u201cI Wish Grandpas Never Died,\u201d which he wrote in tribute to his grandfathers (who he credits as cow-writers.<\/p>\n \n\tWhile Saturday was Wilson\u2019s first time headlining Stagecoach, the country star last performed at the festival in 2023<\/a>. She has since won Best Country Album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards for her fourth studio LP, Bell Bottom Country<\/a><\/em>. The album also garnered Album of the Year at the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards, and Album of the Year at the 57th Annual Country Music Association Awards. <\/p>\n