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Shinedown Drop Off Kid Rock’s Rock the Country Festival

Kory Grow

created: Feb. 6, 2026, 5:55 p.m. | updated: Feb. 8, 2026, 4:21 p.m.

Shinedown announced today that they will no longer perform at the Rock the Country festival, which has ties to the MAGA movement, this summer. They join a quorum, including Ludacris, Morgan Wade, and Carter Faith, who have decided to drop out of the touring festival, which Kid Rock, a key investor in the event, is headlining. If the rest of the lineup holds, the Rock the Country festival will be held in two-night stands in cities around the country this spring and summer. In addition to Kid Rock, performers are Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, Jelly Roll, Brooks and Dunn, Miranda Lambert, and Hank Williams, Jr., among others. Creed and Shinedown were scheduled to perform at the date, as were Ludacris, Gretchen Wilson, and Lakeview — whose names no longer feature on the festival’s website.

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