The inaugural Boardwalk Country Music Festival is heading to some of Australia’s favourite open-air locations.
There’s a new event coming to town and it’s a doozy. The Boardwalk Country Music Festival is a mammoth undertaking, rolling from city to city throughout our fair country this April and bringing in some of the most celebrated names in the Australian and International country music scene.
With ambitions of becoming an annual event, the festival is coming out of the gate hot with a stacked lineup and dates planned at some of the most beloved outdoor amphitheatres across the East coast.
Boardwalk Country Music Festival
- April 15 – Sandstone Point, Brisban
- April 16 –Stuart Park, Wollongong
- April 18 –Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Newcastle
- April 19 – Hordern Pavillion, Sydney
- April 22 – Kryal Castle, Ballarat
- April 23 – Hastings Foreshore, Mornington Peninsula
- April 26 – Port Melbourne Industrial Centre for the Arts, Melbourne
- April 27– Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide
- April 29 – Broadwater Parklands, Gold Coast
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Poised to become an annual music event on the Australian country music calendar, the first ever Boardwalk Country Music Festival will be bringing one of USA’s biggest rising, multi-platinum selling country stars & GRAMMY® nominated artist, Jimmie Allen, to headline, alongside GRAMMY® nominated, multi-platinum American singer/songwriter, Gavin DeGraw.
Jimmie Allen exploded onto the country music scene with his 2018 debut album Mercury Lane, featuring two singles – “Best Shot” and “Make Me Want To” – which went on to become No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. In 2021, he released the critically acclaimed album Bettie James Gold Edition, was nominated for Best New Artist at the 64th GRAMMY Awards and took home the New Artist of the Year award at the CMA Awards as well as New Male Artist of the Year at the ACM Awards. His most recent album, Tulip Drive, was released in June 2022 and features the hit single “Down Home,” which reached the top of the Country Radio chart in Australia last September, marking Allen’s fourth overall career No. 1 single.
Gavin DeGraw’s inimitable voice and soulful style boldly bloomed on his 2003 platinum-certified full-length debut, Chariot. It included the gold single “Follow Through,” as well as both platinum hits, “Chariot,” and “I Don’t Want To Be.” In 2008, his self-titled second album, Gavin, bowed in the Top 10 of the Billboard Top 200 powered by the platinum-selling single “In Love With a Girl.” 2011’s gold-certified Sweeter saw him return to the Top 10 as the single “Not Over You” went four times platinum. Meanwhile, his 2013 duet with Colbie Caillat, “We Both Know,” garnered a GRAMMY® Award nomination in the category of “Best Song Written For Visual Media” for Safe Haven. He’s the rare talent who could seamlessly share the stage with Billy Joel and The Allman Brothers or Maroon 5 and Shania Twain.
They will be joined by some of our country’s biggest & best local artists, including Lee Kernaghan, Kasey Chambers, Busby Marou, Shannon Noll, The Wolfe Brothers, Casey Barnes, The Buckleys and Darlinghurst.
The festival grounds will also have food trucks and pop-up boutique bars, making it an easy place to waste the day away. If you’re a country fan at all, we suggest you toss on that classic flannel-and-blue-jeans combo and come see what all of the fuss is about first-hand.
Tickets for Melbourne’s Boardwalk Country Music Festival will be taking place on April 26. To find out more and grab your tickets, head here.
