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After a two-year hiatus, the festival returns July 28-31 with a lineup that also features Chris Janson, Billy Currington, HARDY, Randy Houser, Kip Moore, Jo Dee Messina and other country-music artists.

Surrey含羞草研究社檚 rising star Tyler Joe Miller is also on the bill, along with Rodney Atkins, Aaron Pritchett, Cam, Mackenzie Porter, Madeline Merlo, Kenny Hess, Chris Buck Band, Donny Grubb Band, Appaloosa, Becca Hess, Karen Lee Batten, Cross Parallel and Merle Swaggard.

The festival lineup was announced Tuesday (March 15) by , and tickets go on sale starting Thursday, March 17, at 10 a.m. on .

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McGraw, a three-time Grammy Award winner, will return to the Rockin River stage 17 years after playing in Merritt, during Merritt Mountain Music Festival.

含羞草研究社淚 can含羞草研究社檛 begin to explain how happy I am to see the return of the Rockin River Music Festival,含羞草研究社� Merritt Mayor Linda Brown said in a news release.

含羞草研究社淭his has been an unquestionably challenging couple of years for the City of Merritt, culminating with the November 2021 flood. Now more than ever, we need things to be excited about. We need things to look forward to, that make us feel vibrant and remind us that life can and will be good again, even if times are hard right now. We are thrilled to be a small part in bringing the sounds of Rockin River back to the Nicola Valley.含羞草研究社�

Elsewhere in B.C. this summer, John Fogerty and Tom Cochrane with Red Rider are among the artists booked to perform at , a two-day festival at Laketown Ranch in Lake Cowichan, July 22-23. Passes and camping will go on sale March 18 and 10 a.m. at . The Live Nation-presented festival will also feature performances by Wide Mouth Mason, Big Sugar, Keb含羞草研究社� Mo含羞草研究社� and others.

Fogerty will headline his own concert at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Sunday, July 24, as part of a Canadian tour.

Also in Vancouver, Scottish alt-rock band Franz Ferdinand will bring its 含羞草研究社淗its to the Head Tour含羞草研究社� to Granville Street含羞草研究社檚 Orpheum Theatre on Friday, Aug. 26, Live Nation announced.

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