Tyler Childers & Chris Stapleton To Headline Healing Appalachia Festival

/by

Tyler Childers and Chris Stapleton will headline this year’s Healing Appalachia Festival, the largest recovery-based music festival, taking place Sept. 19-20 in Ashland, Kentucky.

“Moving the festival to Eastern Kentucky and to the heart of The Country Music Highway, we could not be more excited or humbled to have two of the Commonwealth’s greatest songwriters and voices for their people – Chris Stapleton and Tyler Childers,” shares Dave Lavender, Board President for Hope in the Hills. “Not only have they both urgently and boldly shared their journeys and songs of home with the world, but both are first in line to roll up their sleeves and help folks in need. We can’t wait to leave the porch light on for them here in the hills of home at Healing Appalachia.”

Childers and his team at WhizzbangBAM! founded the event as the flagship production of Hope In The Hills. The non-profit based in West Virginia is dedicated to fighting the opioid crisis and supporting recovery. For the past five years, the festival has been held in West Virginia, but is now taking place in Childers’ home state for the first time.

“We are thrilled to host Healing Appalachia in Kentucky for 2025,” says Andrew Steele, Executive Director of Boyd County Tourism. “We are beyond excited to show off the Country Music Highway with a few of our very own! The mission behind this festival is so important to our region, and we can’t wait to help the event grow.”

“Moving Healing Appalachia to Kentucky is special for a lot of reasons. It exemplifies the growth of something that started as an idea on how we could create change in a world that we were watching destroy our friends and families first hand,” adds Ian Thornton, Founder of WhizzbangBAM! “Watching it start at home in WV with 1500 people, to becoming the movement that it is today and being able to start traveling through Appalachia, it’s an honor to have Tyler and Chris headline this inaugural trip across the Big Sandy as a couple of local boys who did it right.”

Tickets to Healing Appalachia Festival are on sale now. More performers will be revealed at a later date.

Madison Hahnen
Latest posts by Madison Hahnen (see all)