The fifth-annual Country LakeShake “Cheers-ed to Five Years” this weekend on the lively shores of Lake Michigan at Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, delivering “some of country’s finest” (Billboard) artists for a three-day weekend getaway experience, with the festival hosting its highest attendance to date.
“In a never-been-done-before style” (Sounds Like Nashville) Country LakeShake hosted an all-female artist lineup on Friday showcasing eleven “female country singers who country fans adore” (CMT) across two stages. With Miranda Lambert headlining, with the Pistol Annies, Lambert closed out the first night of the festival by inviting her fellow main stage artists from the day including Lindsay Ell, Cassadee Pope, Lauren Alaina and Maren Morris back to the stage for a collaborative performance of U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” for what Billboard claims as an “epic country moment”.
The DISH Presents Next From Nashville Stage served as another hot spot for energetic performances through the weekend, where fans gathered to watch the next generation of country music shred in the festival scene including Caylee Hammack, Rachel Wammack, Rita Wilson, Seaforth and Travis Denning, who took to the crowds of LakeShake to asks fans who they were most excited to see perform.
