Welcome to CBMF day 2, it was a wet one out there! Rain poured down during Chad Brownlee and Russell Dickerson’s sets, but that did keep the fans away! Saturday was another action packed day at the beach with lots of homegrown Canadian talent taking the stage, oh and also Carrie Underwood is headlining day 2 of the festival! Check out our recap of the days events below!

The Launch Contestants perform at Cavendish Beach Music Festival

The Launch

The first performance of the CBMF main stage included the winners of Season 2 of “The Launch”. All artist performed the songs that they launched on the program.

Cassiopeia (Better), T. Thompson (Hope), Saveria (Down to the Roots), Olivia Lunny (I Got you), Michelle Treacy (Emotional) and Maddie Storvold (Don’t Say You Love Me). Maddie worked with none other than Bryan Adams on “The Launch” and even performed an impromptu duet with him during her audition. Amazing talent!

Shawn Austin performs at Cavendish Beach Music Festival

Shawn Austin

Another Canadian artist hit the main stage for the 3rd performance of the day. Shawn Austin was a semi-finalist in Sirius XM’s Top of the Country in 2018. During his set, Shawn performed some if his original songs like “What Do I Know” but also covered songs like Thomas Rhett’s “T-Shirt” The late afternoon crowd absolutely loved him, and went crazy for his original songs, and his covers. 

Chad Brownlee performs at Cavendish Beach Music Festival

Chad Brownlee

A fan favoritehas returned to the CBMF main stage. Chad Brownlee is a talented Canadian artist, who debuted with his first single, “The Best That I Can”, in 2009. Chad opened with “Smoke In the Rain” which was fitting since it was absolutely pouring during his set! The fans never missed a beat. They sang along to each and every song. By the end of his performance Chad was completely soaked but that didn’t stop him from putting on an amazing performance from start to finish.

Russell Dickerson performs at Cavendish Beach Music Festival

Russell Dickerson

The sun may have been setting over Cavendish but the country music was just getting started! Russell Dickerson, an american artist who hails from Tennessee, released his debut album “Yours” in 2017, and has been having huge success ever since! His singles “Yours” and “Blue Tacoma” were both top 5 hits on the Charts in the US and Canada! Russell took to the stage in Cavendish and opened with his smash hit, “Billions” . The crowd absolutely loved him and sang and danced to every word. Russell’s set was full of high energy hits and romantic love songs like “Yours”. Dickerson closed out his set with one of his most popular songs, “Blue Tacoma”, and the rain soaked Saturday’s night crowd.

Carrie Underwood

Carrie Underwood tweeted, “Had so much fun at Cavendish Beach Music Festival last night, my ears are still ringing from the crowd! Thanks for partying in the rain with us” and what a party it was. Tens of thousands of fans packed the rain soaked venue to get a glimpse of Underwood’s performance. The roar of the crowd when Underwood took the stage was absolutely deafening.

Carrie Underwood’s musical career began early, she started out early, when she traveled to churches and local events to perform. In 2004 Underwood’s life took a dramatic turn when she auditioned for American Idol. The next year she was announced as the winner, and her stardom took off from there. In 2005 Carrie released her debut single “Inside Your Heaven” which debuted at no 1. on the Billboard Hot 100. She released her second single “Jesus Take The Wheel” and her career went full speed ahead from there! Underwood is now a 7 time Grammy award, 11 Billboard Music Award, and 14 Academy of Country Music Awards just to name a few.

Underwood’s Current album “Cry Pretty” was released in September of last year, and she is now touring to promote the album. Cavendish Beach Music Festival was luckily one of the stops of the Cry Pretty 360 tour which kicked off in May. During her performance at CBMF Carrie performed hit after hit including “Two Black Cadillacs”, “Cowboy Casanova”. Underwood closed off her set with “Before He Cheats” and the crowd was screaming the entire time. After Carrie finished the crowd was relentless, they wanted more. The entire place went wild when Carrie returned to the stage and performed two encores “Cry Pretty” and Love Wins”. Saying her performance was electric would be an understatement. If Carrie ins’t on your bucket list of artists to see, she should be!

What a night it has been its been here in Cavendish! We have seen sun, rain and some amazing country acts! Check back here tomorrow for more from the beach! We will be covering some amazing acts like The Washboard Union, and Eric Church! 

If you want to keep up to date with everything that is going on at the beach, check out https://www.cavendishbeachmusic.com/ for live updates from the festival!