The Chicks and Kacey Musgraves Complete Historic All-Female Headline Bill for State Fayre 2027

The Chicks and Kacey Musgraves will join Shania Twain as headliners at State Fayre 2027. Organizers say the all-female headlining lineup is a first for a major U.K. camping festival.

After its inaugural edition this summer, State Fayre will return to Hylands Park in Chelmsford, Essex, from June 18 to 20. Twain was confirmed in a post on the festival’s Instagram account on Nov. 2.

The Chicks, comprising Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines and Emily Strayer, will return to the U.K. for the first time since 2023, when they appeared at Glastonbury and supported Bruce Springsteen at BST Hyde Park. Musgraves will make her first festival headline appearance in the region. Twain’s State Fayre performance is part of a U.K. and Ireland summer run through June 29, with stops including Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast.

The festival’s first wave of additional acts includes Billy Strings, Sam Barber, The Corrs, Drake Milligan, Sons Of The East, Brothers Osborne, Bear’s Den, Evan Honer, Noah James, Aaron Rowe, Mountain Grass Unit, Danny Worsnop, Taylor Acorn, Alyssa Bonagura and Bella McCormick. More artists are expected to be announced in the coming months.

Weekend and Saturday day tickets are available through the official State Fayre website. A PayPal presale for Friday and Sunday day tickets is live, ahead of the general sale at 9 a.m. GMT on Nov. 13.

In a press statement, festival organizers Anna-Sophie Mertens and Alex Simmonds described The Chicks, Musgraves and Twain as “three incredible artists who each in their own way have inspired and represented vital change, within not only these genres but music as a whole.”

They continued: “To bring all three together as a U.K. festival first is something we’re very excited about. With further additions including in-demand Sam Barber, Billy Strings Brothers Osborne and The Corrs showing the breadth of what makes State Fayre what it is (and much more to be announced), we’re asking if it can be June 2027 already?”

The festival will also feature fairground rides and The Fume Pit, a barbecue area with more than 15 U.K. and international traders across the weekend.

Speaking to Billboard U.K. earlier this year, Mertens discussed the festival’s aim of bringing different strands of country and roots music together. She is senior VP of touring at Live Nation UK and sits on the Country Music Association’s board.

“It’s really important for us to bring together a few different musical elements, but to ensure they blend together so that we could showcase the real depth of each genre,” she said. “There really isn’t any other event doing that at such a large scale.”

Source: Billboard