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Big State Festival – October 13 & 14 – Bryan-College Station, Texas

September 12th 2007 in Americana, Bands, Benefits, Concerts, Legends

The good folks at the country music blog 9513.com are giving away tickets to the Big State Festival. Now I lived in Texas most of my life and never heard of the Big State Festival. Well turns out this is the first year it’s being put on.

The Festival is held on October 13 & 14 at the Texas World Speedway; Bryan-College Station, Texas (Gig ‘em!) and will have more than 50 country music stars on 5 stages over 2 days as well as stock car racing as (this is my favorite part) a Barbecue Showdown. The performers will include Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett and his Large Band, Drive-By Truckers, Leon Russell, Billy Joe Shaver, Charlie Louvin , Gary Allan, Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Bruce and Charlie Robison, Luke Bryan, Kelly Willis, Sunny Sweeney and more. Head over to the official Big State Festival website to see a full lineup.

The festival will benefit the Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation.

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“Big State Festival – October 13 & 14 – Bryan-College Station, Texas”

Brody
wrote on September 12th, 2007

Thanks for the pub Baron. The festival sounds like a winner to me with all the different sub-genres that they have, although it might be hard to see everyone that I want with multiple stages performing at the same time.

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