{"id":2250467,"date":"2026-01-26T04:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2250467"},"modified":"2026-01-26T04:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:17:16","slug":"two-more-music-artists-drop-out-of-rock-the-country-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/two-more-music-artists-drop-out-of-rock-the-country-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Two More Music Artists Drop out of Rock the Country Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Days after Ludacris pulled out of Kid Rock\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.suggest.com\/rapper-kid-rock-rock-country-tour-backlash\/2912520\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rock the Country music festival<\/a>, two more music artists have decided to bail out on the upcoming tour. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"video-header\" class=\"\" style=\"padding-top: 20px;\"><span>Videos by Suggest<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>According to Us Weekly, Morgan Wade and Carter Faith have quietly followed Ludacris by canceling their Rock the Country festival appearances. <\/p>\n<p>In a TikTok comment, Faith said she was no longer performing at the festival. Wade did not reveal any details about her departure from Rock the Country. <\/p>\n<p>Although the festival\u2019s posters and website have removed Ludacris and Wade from the performance roster, Faith has not been removed. <\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, Ludacris\u2019 rep <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ludacris-drops-off-maga-rock-the-country-tour-1235500605\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated<\/a>\u00a0there was a \u201cmix-up.\u201d They also noted that the famous rapper shouldn\u2019t have been on the performance lineup in the first place. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLines were crossed, and he wasn\u2019t supposed to be on there,\u201d the rep explained.<\/p>\n<p>Just before Ludacris dropped out, his fans took to social media to criticize him for even considering performing at the festival. This is because many of the artists scheduled to perform at the festival, including Kid Rock, have publicly supported President Trump over the years.<\/p>\n<p>On its website, the Rock the Country music festival is described as a \u201ccelebration of community, tradition, and the spirit that\u2019s carried America through 250 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among those set to appear at the festival are Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, Jelly Roll, Miranda Lambert, Brantley Gilbert, Creed, and Riley Green. Rapper Nelly will also be making an appearance. <\/p>\n<p>The festival, which kicks off this spring, will take place in eight cities. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-shinedown-drummer-revealed-the-band-received-online-hate-for-participating-in-rock-the-country\">Shinedown Drummer Revealed the Band Received Online Hate For Participating in Rock the Country <\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">During a recent appearance on the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m0x9vahbqRI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vinyl Road<\/a>\u00a0podcast, Shinedown drummer Barry Kerch said he and his bandmates have received a lot of online criticism for participating in the Rock the Country tour.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been tons [and] the knives come out when they don\u2019t like it,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are an apolitical band, but the knives have come out. It\u2019s crazy, and to be honest, I had no idea.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Kersh further stated that he and his bandmates were not aware that Rock the Country was \u201cKid Rock\u2019s thing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just, \u2018Hey, here\u2019s an offer. It looks like a cool lineup, and it\u2019s a mix of country and rock [artists],\u201d Kersh said. \u201cWe took the offer\u2026 and then, all of a sudden, we found out this [has] got some political leaning to it. I don\u2019t care, I\u2019m just going to play a show.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He then noted, \u201cYou keep our politics to yourself. I have no opinion one way or the other on Kid Rock. I love his music [and] this is about music.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\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 www.suggest.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after Ludacris pulled out of Kid Rock\u2019s Rock the Country music festival, two more music artists have decided to bail out on the upcoming tour. Videos by Suggest According to Us Weekly, Morgan Wade and Carter Faith have quietly followed Ludacris by canceling their Rock the Country festival appearances. In a TikTok comment, Faith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2250468,"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":[25173],"tags":[22846,21800],"class_list":["post-2250467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-country-music","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Two-More-Music-Artists-Drop-out-of-Rock-the-Country.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250467","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=2250467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250469,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250467\/revisions\/2250469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}