Third Annual GoldenSky Festival Unites Over 75K Country Music Fans

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GoldenSky Country Music Festival 2024. Photo: Jake Miller

The third annual GoldenSky Country Music Festival brought over 75,000 fans from across the nation and beyond together last weekend (Oct. 18–20) at Discovery Park in Sacramento, California.

Extended to a three-day function this year, the festival featured more than 35 performances on two stages from headliners Keith Urban, Thomas Rhett and Luke Bryan as well as Turnpike Troubadours, Riley Green, Bailey Zimmerman, Elle King, Gabby Barrett, Ashley McBryde, Clint Black, Shaboozey and GoldenSky Rising Star competition winner Burke., among others. One of multiple highlights included Green joining Rhett for their tune “Half Of Me” on Saturday (Oct. 19).

Thomas Rhett and Riley Green during GoldenSky Country Music Festival 2024. Photo: Steve Thrasher

Additionally, fans could choose from over 150 samples of local, regional and national craft beer, hard seltzer and cider each day from 12:30–3:30 p.m. at the GoldenSky Beer Festival, and enjoy nonstop music, line dancing lessons and partner two-stepping at The River City Dance Hall & Saloon. Local food experience The Farmhouse, presented by the California Farm Bureau, offered selections from Urban Roots Brewing & Smokehouse, Mulvaney’s B&L, Druthers Sutter Park and Jayna Gyro, and the El Dorado Market highlighted local businesses in Sacramento and the Central Valley.

Following the festival on Saturday and Sunday (Oct. 20), many fans attended the Goldfield Trading Post afterparty, which featured a live DJ and line dancing.

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