Huge country music festival planned here in 2015 - Mountain Home News

A huge country music festival that could draw as many as 25,000 people to Elmore County was announced Tuesday.

Among the headline acts signed to perform are Blake Shelton and Florida Georgia Line.

The Mountain Home Country Music Festival will be held July 31 through Aug. 2 of next year, 2015, at a site that will be prepared on the prairie in northern Elmore County.

The location will be on the flats just northeast of the Highway 20 turnoff to Pine/Featherville, known as the Faulkner property, where a stage and campsite for visitors will be built for the show.

The festival in Elmore County will be the third in a 'family' of events Bi-Mart has sponsored in Brownsville and Sixes, Ore. Now entering its eighth season, the Bi‑Mart Willamette Country Music Festival in Brownsville hosted over 25,000 fans in 2014. The Cape Blanco Country Music Festival in Sixes on the Oregon coast boasted 15,000 in attendance its first year in 2014.

The design for the Mountain Home event, approved by the county planning and zoning commission last week, foresees a maximum capacity of 25,000 people.

'We couldn't be happier to announce that the Mountain Home Country Music Festival will bring to Idaho what we've created in Oregon,' said Anne Hankins president of Willlamette Country Concerts, LLC, the promoters organizing the event. 'We think the fans will make Mountain Home the destination for country music and camping in Idaho.'

For more details see Wednesday's Mountain Home News.

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