Randy Houser, Craig Morgan and Thomas Mac to perform at the first Backroads N’ Campfires

CADIZ ‒ The first Backroads N’ Campfires event will be held Aug. 16, at Sally Buffalo Park. Gates open at 3 p.m., and music begins at 5 p.m. The show will run about five and a half hours.

The open-air event will feature country artists Randy Houser, Craig Morgan, and Thomas Mac. Opening the show will be Isaac Cole, a returning favorite and former American Idol contestant. Cole performed at last year’s Mark at the Park event.

Mac, who performed at the Muskingum County fair in 2024, is from Dayton. After graduating from Dayton’s Archbishop Carroll High School in 2017, he moved to Nashville.

“I started going to all the writer’s rounds and networking and meeting other people,” he previously told the Times Recorder. “It was fun and great, but I realized it was turning slow, so I started looking into different routes and getting my name out there more. The turning point was figuring out how to combine social media and his passion for music. “I was posting a lot of songs on Facebook and I got my song, ‘God Why’ to go viral, and that led to a lot of opportunities.

“I love music. I couldn’t see myself not doing it,” Mac said of his career. Like most musicians, the comparison is often likened to an addiction, a virus, something so powerful as to take hold of the mind and body in a way that not doing it isn’t even an option. “At my core, I think what I’m addicted to is actually the entertaining.”

The event will include food trucks and vendors. Tickets are available on Eventbrite.

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