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Sound Check Entertainment made its way to Jasper Dandy located at 725 Queen Street East in Toronto, Ontario for the Country Music Mega ticket launch presented by Budweiser.

Boots and Hearts is wasting no time getting their 2019 lineup out there. The dust has barely had time to settle from the 2018 event and as of this morning all 4 headliners for the 2019 event are known and half of them are women!!

After a false start last week we believe a major Boots and Hearts lineup announcement is imminent and can come as soon as tomorrow (Thursday) morning.

The last time Dierks Bentley came to Ottawa was in December 2014. For that show he brought Tim Hicks and Randy Houser…it was also the first show we ever covered at the Canadian Tire Centre. That show was amazing… last night, however, was something that, when it was over, made me sit in awe asking #WhatTheHell did I just witness.

So, the dust has settled, the Boots hangover has likely subsided a bit.  So now we wanna know, Who do you wanna see @ Boots & Hearts 2017?  Last year we only got 4 of the artists out of the 20 we had put on our WISH LIST.   Hoping that this year we are a little more correct.  Here is who we have put together for #BH6

Atlantic Canada has a new Country Music Festival, Dooly’s Beach Blast, which has come and gone this past weekend.  The show took place at Parlee Beach, Shediac New Brunswick.  This event will not be forgotten and will talked about for sometime.  Some talk will be for good reasons and some for not so good reasons.

I recall a time, not so long ago, when women dominated the country music scene. Fast forward to the second decade of the 21st century and it’s almost the exact opposite…to the point where one radio consultant, Keith Hill, actually went on the record and said “If you want to make ratings in country radio, take females out.”

Wishing all of you a happy Valentine’s Day today.  Whether you are lovin’ or leavin’ (or cryin’) today we’ve got a playlist setup just for you. We even made the playlists collaborative so if your favourite love, or heart-break song isn’t on the list feel free to add it, all you need to do is Follow the playlist on Spotify.

Ok so I think we can officially say that Ontario has quickly become a HOT BED for Country Music Festivals for 2016 in Canada.   Seriously its unreal… With nearly 13.8 Million people in Ontario and lets say you take 3% of that population that are ticket buying country music fans.  You are looking at just over 380,000 people are looking to buy tickets into an event this summer.   The big question is, which one or two are they going to be spending their hard earned cash on?  

It was the last of the Country concerts to hit the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto and Cole Swindell just so happened to be playin’ direct support to Mr. Jason Aldean.   Before that show we had a chance to hang with Mr. Swindell and let me tell ya this fella is the real deal.