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Nashville's Big Bash Lineup
Ring in the new year in Music City with Little Big Town, The Red Clay Strays, and HARDY, and thousands of your closest friends at Nashville's Big Bash.
Little Big Town
Little Big Town includes Karen Fairchild, Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Schlapman, and Jimi Westbrook, and they are one of country music’s most enduring and celebrated groups. Over a 25-year career, the GRAMMY, ACM, CMA, AMA, and Emmy Award-winning band has delivered a string of genre-defining hits including “Boondocks,” “Pontoon,” “Tornado,” “Day Drinking,” and the history-making, best-selling country single of 2015, “Girl Crush.” Their acclaimed albums Tornado, PainKiller, The Breaker (which debuted at No. 1 and featured the GRAMMY-winning “Better Man”), Nightfall, and Mr. Sun have produced multiple No. 1singles and earned widespread critical praise. The band’s 12th studio album It’s A Dying Art, arrived in August to widespread acclaim from Rolling Stone, Billboard, American Songwriter, People, and more. Co-produced by Little Big Town’s own Karen Fairchild and two-time GRAMMY winner Gena Johnson, the project blends intimate storytelling, emotional balladry, and a focus on human-made music shaped by imperfection and lived experience. The band first previewed the project with the poignant “Hey There Sunshine,” which debuted at the 61st Academy of Country Music Awards to widespread acclaim, with The Tennessean calling it “a hopeful, healing moment” and Billboard praising it as “a timely message from one of country music’s greatest vocal groups.” They followed with “Over and Over,” which Billboard hailed as a “top-shelf post-breakup anthem,” “Sucker For A Sad Song” featuring Ashley Monroe, which Rolling Stone declared a “song you need to know,” and the piano-driven ballad, “We Could Have It All.” Additional standout tracks include the late night “Closing Time” featuring Kelsea Ballerini, the relationship-worn “The Door” featuring Jason Isbell, the fiery “It’s Coming Around,” and the visceral “The Idea.” Just off the heels of their 2026 CMA nomination for vocal group of the year, they will embark on their North American headline For The Art Of It Tour, which kicked off Sept. 24. To date, Little Big Town has amassed more than 45 major award nominations and taken home over 20 wins across GRAMMYs, CMAs, ACMs, AMAs, People’s Choice Awards, and an Emmy. With It’s A Dying Art, Little Big Town continues to build on a legacy as one of country music’s most respected and influential groups.
The Red Clay Strays
One of music’s fastest-rising bands, The Red Clay Strays released their debut album, Moment of Truth, in 2022, which featured the breakout single, “Wondering Why,” propelling them inside the top 20 of the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart. In 2024, the group signed to RCA Records and released their critically acclaimed sophomore album, Made by These Moments. Produced by GRAMMY-winning producer Dave Cobb, the album is filled with the band’s signature genre-blending sound, as they meld electric rock and roll with southern soul. The record marked the band’s first entry into the Billboard 200 and debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart, helping to earn their first Billboard Music Award for “Top Country Group,” and the 2025 ACM Award for “New Duo or Group of the Year.” They also garnered back-to-back CMA Award nominations for “Vocal Group of the Year” in 2024 and 2025, taking home the award at the 59th Annual CMA Awards. In May 2026, the band won the ACM Award for “Group of the Year” and the “Groundbreaker” Award at Billboard’s Country Power Players event. In June, they released their third studio album, Grateful. Once again produced by Dave Cobb, the album debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart. NPR praised it as a “10 out of 10…another one of those no-skip albums,” while Rolling Stone hailed that the band “level up — and power up — on their excellent new album.” With magnetic performances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, CBS Saturday Morning, and NPR’s Tiny Desk, the group recently made their Stagecoach debut and headlined Madison Square Garden. They are set to perform two headlining shows at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena later this year.
HARDY
HARDY is “a high concept craftsman” (The New Yorker), producing “some of the most intriguing music to emerge from Nashville in years” (SPIN). His latest album COUNTRY! COUNTRY! and follow up single “McArthur” feat. Tim McGraw, Eric Church, and Morgan Wallen, add to over 8 billion career streams. A 5X ACM award winner, 2X CMA award winner, 3X CMA Triple Play award recipient, and 3X AIMP Songwriter of the Year winner, the 2022 BMI Country Songwriter of the Year counts 22 No. 1 singles globally, and is “one of Nashville’s most prolific, versatile voices, a songwriter and artist who can put forth a twangy country anthem as easily as a bone-rattling rock song” (Billboard).