Heart of Country Music Festival at Kenton County Fairgrounds

Justin Cole Moore is an American country music singer and songwriter, signed to Big Machine Records imprint Valory Music Group. For that label, he has released seven studio albums: his self titled debut in 2009, Outlaws Like Me in 2011, Off the Beaten Path in 2013, Kinda Don't Care in 2016, Late Nights and Longnecks in 2019, Straight Outta the Country in 2021, and Stray Dog in 2023. His songs have also charted twenty-one times on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, including number-one singles "Small Town USA", "If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away", "Til My Last Day", "Lettin' the Night Roll", "You Look Like I Need a Drink", "Somebody Else Will", "The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home", "Why We Drink", "We Didn't Have Much", "With a Woman You Love", and "Time's Ticking"; and the top-10 hits "Backwoods", "Point at You", "You, Me, & Whiskey", and "This Is My Dirt".

Carly Pearce is an American country music singer and songwriter. Her material contains elements of both traditional and contemporary country-pop music. Pearce began performing professionally in her teens, appearing on several albums of bluegrass material in the 2000s. After moving to Nashville, Tennessee, she began gaining more widespread notice.