{"id":2184837,"date":"2025-12-03T00:53:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2184837"},"modified":"2025-12-03T00:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:53:22","slug":"edmonton-is-getting-a-boots-and-hearts-country-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/edmonton-is-getting-a-boots-and-hearts-country-music-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton is getting a Boots and Hearts country music festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-222794\">\n<p>A massive country music festival is heading west, with the Boots and Hearts festival set to take place in Edmonton next August.<\/p>\n<p>Republic Live, the company behind the long-running Ontario festival, is partnering with OEG Sports &amp; Entertainment to launch Boots and Hearts West on Aug. 28 and 29, 2026, in Fan Park @ ICE District.<\/p>\n<p>Some big names have already been announced as headliners, with platinum-selling artist Russell Dickerson headlining opening night on Friday, Aug. 28, and Grammy-nominated Shaboozey closing out the festival on Aug. 29. More performers will be announced at a later date, the festival says.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRuZ8F-jiVl\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The move brings Boots to Western Canada for the first time, expanding the festival that has built a massive following over the past 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid has been a longtime regular at the Ontario festival, from joining his brother Cam on stage in 2021 to appearing in an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/calgary\/nickelback-oilers-flames-outdoor-game\">interview at the festival with teammate Leon Draisaitl<\/a> and headliners Nickelback in 2023. With Boots and Hearts heading west, we wonder if he\u2019ll stick around for the summer!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CSV0PiNLpCu\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pre-sale tickets open Dec. 3 at 10 a.m., with general sales starting Dec. 5 at 10 a.m. through the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bootsandhearts.com\/west\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boots and Hearts website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Boots and Hearts West<\/h2>\n<p><strong>When:\u00a0<\/strong>Friday, Aug. 28 to Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026<br \/><strong>Where:\u00a0<\/strong>Fan Park @ ICE District \u2014 10104 104th Ave. NW<br \/><strong>Tickets:\u00a0<\/strong>Ticket prices vary and can be purchased <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bootsandhearts.com\/west\/\">online<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source dailyhive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive country music festival is heading west, with the Boots and Hearts festival set to take place in Edmonton next August. Republic Live, the company behind the long-running Ontario festival, is partnering with OEG Sports &amp; Entertainment to launch Boots and Hearts West on Aug. 28 and 29, 2026, in Fan Park @ ICE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2184838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Edmonton-is-getting-a-Boots-and-Hearts-country-music-festival.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184839,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184837\/revisions\/2184839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2184838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}