After the hullabaloo of C2C, it was back to UK Grass Roots music at its most creative, with an area in a bookshop in the outskirts of Oxford, turned into a performance space. It has to be said, a very fine book shop at that, the sort that you treasure as opposed to funding billionaires to go into space. It would in truth be a quite surreal night, breaking many of the established rules of gig going, no tiresome ticket checking, it seemed to be assumed if you were there then yo

Appearing on The Dutton Ranch Stage just as she has successfully completed finding the funding for her second album was Vic Allen. It seems incongruous that she has not played the Festival before considering all of her work with the "Write Like A Girl" team, and an unbroken run of excellent singles going back many years, yet this was to be her C2C debut. Thrown somewhat in at the deep end, being a solo performer on the Dutton Ranch with just a stomp box for company, she woul

With impeccable timing McCoy Moore chose to make his C2C debut just as he announced his debut album "Sunshine State" is due out May 22nd. Dressed in the Nashville Singer / Songwriter de rigeur outfit of cap, and jeans, the Florida born native would give us a feel for what we are likely to get when it arrives.

Heading to make her UK debut at Country Calling 2026 is Macartney Reinhardt and ahead of that, comes her latest single "Do I Even Count?", which is certainly her biggest and boldest song, in terms of both sound and songwriting with a bold tune and lyrics that will surely reach out to a wide audience.

One of the undoubted good news stories of C2C 2025 was that of Maria Byrne returning after a ten year absence to grace the festival one more. The story did not end there though, as later in the year on a writing trip to Nashville last summer, she worked with Rodney Crowell, T Bone Burnett, Vince Gill and Mike Campbell at a songwriting retreat where one of the songs to emerge was "My Mother's Daughter".

After another hugely successful festival this year with headliners Zach Top, Keith Urban and Brooks & Dunn, C2C is delighted to announce that it will return in March 2027.

One of the cornerstones of #TEAMw21 history is Hannah Jane Lewis, for it was at her London show at The Borderline that a number of the team actually first met. After quite a few years off genre, it was great to see signs of a return with her single of last year "Everyone's But Mine", and then with the announcement that she'd be playing C2C on the Friday then there was only one place for the team to be. Of course it was always unlikely that she was going to run through "First

The "Naked Heart" tour continues to dazzle and delight, when #TEAMw21 saw the album launch late last year it was a show that seemed to be the culmination of all Brooke Law's effort to date, a show that simply could not be bettered, yet only a few short months later, it was not only matched but surpassed and not only once but twice! Both nights would prove just how good an album "Naked Heart" is, with no sign of a filler anywhere, the respective live bands on each night really