RBC Rock the Park 2024 London Ontario Harris Park

RBC Rock the Park 2025 Lineup

 

Wednesday July 9th, 2025

Thursday July 10th, 2025

Friday July 11th, 2025

Saturday July 12th, 2025

*Rock the Park is a rain or shine event
*Artists are subject to change
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*Lawn chairs not permitted

The Red Clay Strays

Those in search of songs to fuel life’s soundtrack – the highs, the lows and the rest – need to drop a needle on Made by These Moments, the new album from fast-rising Alabama band The Red Clay Strays. Cut by Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb, the 11-song Made by These Moments chronicles love worth searching for, knock-down fights with self-prescribed demons and a hard-earned faith found by the end of each day. 

“There is a message of going down and being in low spots of life and finding your way out of it,” singer-guitarist Brandon Coleman said about Made by These Moments, “climbing back to the top and realizing that you’re alright. It has a message of preserving and getting through something and coming out having hope.” 

Hailing from Mobile, Alabama, The Red Clay Strays – Coleman, Drew Nix (guitar and vocals), Zach Rishel (guitar), Andrew Bishop (bass) and John Hall (drums) – straddle fiery Southern rock riffs, tender-hearted soul music and tried-and-true country crooning. The success of 2022 self-released debut LP Moment of Truth – including breakout single “Wondering Why” – led to the Strays inking a deal with RCA Records and enlisting Cobb to produce Made by These Moments. The band and Cobb, who’s recorded Brandi Carlile and Chris Stapleton, among others, cut the album at the producer’s home studio in Savannah, Georgia, largely tracking live in Cobb’s living room. 

“The whole thing was incredible,” Hall said. “It was a dream come true. We used to sit around and talk about, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if [we recorded with Cobb]?’ and then, boom, we’re in there.” 

From start-to-finish Made by These Moments showcases the band’s jukebox-like ability to jump between high-flying rock like the speaker-scorching “Ramblin’” to soul-inspired songwriting like the myth-making groove on “No One Else Like Me” and roof-rattling gospel-roots, such as the timeless “On My Knees.” But no song may grab attention on first listen like “Wanna Be Loved,” a soft-touch ballad where Coleman delivers a familiar tale in his warming voice. He sings, “Can you tell me I’m worthy, or important? Am I working hard enough? I just wanna be loved.” 

“I feel like everybody can relate to it,” Coleman said. “Everybody’s just wanting to be accepted. Wanting to be heard. Wanting to be loved. I’m hoping people hear it and relate to it in that way. When the music connects to people and relates to it, that’s when you make a difference.” 

And the album digs into life’s dark members with songs like “Drowning” – a balladeering plea for help – and “Devil In My Ear,” a number that finds the narrator wrestling with demons like depression, anxiety and self-doubt, to name a few. 

“It’s important for us to shine a light, because you don’t need to go there,” Nix said about the song, “because there’s somebody out here who does love you.” 

 

Wyatt Flores

Pressing play on the new album from Wyatt Flores can feel a bit like turning down a gravel road. At times, it may challenge you, like when the steering wheel shakes as your tires catch on a few loose rocks. But tucked between waving tree branches and rolling across wild-growing fields of fescue, there’s beauty and honesty in each passing mile. 

You may get a little lost. But you may also find yourself along the way. 

The album’s called Welcome To The Plains, and it takes listeners to the corner of the world that this 23-year-old country-folk singer-songwriter knows best – Oklahoma. 

“Welcome To The Plains is all about my fight to come home,” said Flores. “The struggle of coming from home – the little towns – and going out in the real world. Just being lost in it all.” 

A 14-song trek through tales of fiery love, small-town truths and lighthearted mortality, Welcome To The Plains captures the grounded, sincere storytelling forged by Flores in-part during formative years in his hometown, Stillwater, Oklahoma. He was raised on time-tested rock ‘n’ roll, like the Eagles and John Mellencamp. At age 12, his sister passed him a copy of Turnpike Troubadours’ sophomore album, Diamonds & Gasoline, unlocking a love for roots music that later extended to artists like Jason Isbell, 49 Winchester and Sturgill Simpson. 

Flores began his songwriting career in earnest after studying at Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology for a semester in late 2020 that ended in his dropping out, because “college will take your money no matter how old you are, I’m gonna go chase down a dream,” he said. After his brief run on campus, Flores ranched while moonlighting as an aspiring songwriter. He began independently releasing music, and soon took extended trips to Nashville in hopes of honing his craft alongside seasoned songwriters. 

In the months after releasing a handful of singles – including the fan-favorite, “Please Don’t Go,” – and his debut EP, The Hutson Session, Flores began building a steadfast following of listeners who often heard shades of their life experience in his honest songs. Gigs in tiny Oklahoma bars turned into shoulder-to-shoulder club shows and, eventually, a contract with Island Records. With 2023 EP Life Lessons and early 2024’s eight song collection Half Life under his belt, Flores’ music now reaches millions each month. In summer 2024, he joined the soundtrack of Twisters: The Album alongside trendsetting artists like Tyler Childers, Luke Combs, Leon Bridges and more. His standout summer continued with a nomination for Emerging Act of the Year at the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards. 

And before this year ends, he’ll deliver Welcome To The Plains, an album that opens with the scene-setting title track, co-written by Ketch Secor, bandleader of the Grammy Award-winning group Old Crow Medicine Show. In the foot-stomping country-folk tune, Flores stretches a new take on his homeland. In the chorus, he sings, “It’s red dirt poor and wanting more/ Mr. Weatherman knocking at my door/ Where dreams go drying up like rain … Welcome to the plains.” 

On writing “Welcome To The Plains,” Flores said, “You don’t have to scratch the surface to figure out the state is pretty messed up. We just have a rough history of who we are and where we come from, and how you’re gonna make it out.” 

The album continues with “When I Die,” an ode to celebrating life after it ends. Like a laundry list of tongue-in-cheek dying wishes, the song requests that the narrator be cut in half after he passes, because funerals can cost a fortune. And if you talk shit, be prepared for a ghost to spook your kids. In a sincere chorus, Flores sings, “Oh no, don’t you cry/ Life was worth living, well I did it, didn’t I?/ I can only get so much time/ So don’t focus on the wrongs I never got right/ I hope it’s you who’s on my mind/ When I die.” 

Cut in Los Angeles and Asheville, North Carolina, and produced by Beau Bedford, Welcome To The Plains digs into heavy topics, like on “Oh Susannah,” which comes from the emotional toll Flores felt as he connected nightly with fans who shared stories of depression, anxiety and other struggles. Earlier this year, Flores canceled a handful of tour dates to prioritize his mental health. 

“I couldn’t keep up with myself,” he said. “I wasn’t thinking about myself. I was trying to be whatever I needed to be to help others heal themselves, but I wasn’t healing.” 

Welcome To The Plains also plays into Flores’ throwback country tastes, like on the 1990s-inspired “The Only Thing Missing Is You,” and showcases his ability to deliver campfire folk ballads, such as the love torn standout “Habits.” 

Flores channels the aforementioned Mellencamp in “Little Town,” which offers his country-roots take on heartland songwriting. In the song, he invites listeners to a place that doesn’t need city lights to shine in his eyes. But he strikes a different note on small-town life in “Stillwater,” a sobering song from the perspective of a longtime local who understands the give-and-take of living – permanently – in a college town. On “Stillwater,” he sings, “It’s the best four years of her life until they’re gone/ But to me she wrecked the one place that, well, I call home.” 

About the song, Flores shared, “I love my hometown. I’ve had to realize that it is a love song for my hometown.” 

This fall and winter, Flores tours extensively to support Welcome To The Plains. Dates include two nights at Washington’s famed Gorge Amphitheater (supporting Luke Combs), as well as London Music Hall in the United Kingdom, Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club, The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, an appearance on the coveted Grand Ole Opry program and two nights at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. 

In the meantime, when you next turn down a gravel road, turn on Welcome To The Plains. Maybe you’ll find something you weren’t searching for. 

Bayker Blankenship

Nineteen-year old Bayker Blankenship from Livingston, Tennessee has had one heck of a few months, going from playing his first home town gigs to signing his first record deal and going viral with his first hit “Maxed Out” in a short amount of time. “Maxed Out” is hitting new peaks at such an incredible speed- to name a few, it reached #2 on the Spotify Viral charts, #43 on Apple Country, and has over 100k creates on TikTok. Bayker has garnered over 40M+ streams in just a few months. “Maxed Out” highlights Bayker as one of Country’s rising stars, with fans falling for his bright personality and warm heart along the way. Bayker’s debut EP “Younger Years” released in July 2024, hitting over 4M+ streams the first week and making it obvious he is far from a one-hit wonder.

 

Waylon Wyatt

 

Waylon Wyatt is an 18-year-old Folk/Country artist born and raised in Hackett, Arkansas. Inspired by red-dirt contemporaries Tyler Childers and Zach Bryan, Waylon began writing songsat fifteen, workshopping them after long summer days spent working with his father onconstruction jobs. Waylon recently released his debut EP, Til The Sun Goes Down, now havingreceived over 100M combined streams cross-platform. He is in the process of recording hissecond body of work, and is touring with artists such as Dwight Yoakam, Dylan Gossett, and Sam Barber throughout the rest of the year.

Maggie Antone

Maggie Antone’s voice has always won people over. Singing along to the radio from her carseat, it first won her parents over—enough so that they supported her through voice lessons, musical theater, and national anthem gigs around her hometown of Richmond. Later, with her recording of Tyler Childers’s “Lady May,” Antone’s voice would win the Internet over, too, gaining so much praise that she would go on to release an entire collection of covers, Interpretations, the following year. But lately, the fans at Antone’s packed-out gigs are singing every word to her songs: After all, even if her voice is what draws you in, it’s the vulnerability of her songwriting that will keep you coming back.

Antone’s recently released debut album Rhinestoned offers ten songs worth of compelling evidence that this Virginia native just might be country’s next big thing. Released on August 23rd, 2024 on her own label Love Big via Thirty Tigers, the album only builds on the runaway success of her debut original single “Suburban Outlaw”—a song Holler praised for “lyrics that land like zippy teen movie one-liners.”

Raucous, witty, and irresistible, album opener “Johnny Moonshine” shows off Antone’s flare for storytelling one croon-worthy double entendre at a time. On the timeless “Mess with Texas,” Antone leans into her honky-tonk sensibilities, playfully recounting the exes she collected across various locales before landing on the real thing in the Lone Star State. And standout track “High Standards” contrasts evocative harmonies with biting wordplay, delivering a blunt tell-off to a presumptuous stoner on a late night gone hazy. The clever lyrics and catchy melodies make fitting vessels for Antone’s larger-than-life charisma and natural stage presence—qualities she’s shown off on the road this past summer during gigs with Kat Hasty, the Red Clay Strays and 49 Winchester as well as on stages at Bonnaroo, and Bourbon & Beyond.

But for all the hard-partying lyrics and self-deprecating jokes, Antone’s biggest strength on Rhinestoned may be her willingness to show weakness. “I don’t write love songs,” she sings on “Everyone But You,” “’cause I don’t wanna sing ’em when the love is gone.” The slow tempo of “I Don’t Wanna Hear About It,” a heartbreaker that mourns a breakup even while wishing the person well, lays bare Antone’s emotional vocals. And Antone is perhaps her most raw on the closing track, “Meant to Meet,” a song about the vices and shortcomings that can wreck a relationship—even one that feels fated.

“With situationships and such nowadays, it feels like no one is looking for the real thing anymore,” she says. “This album, and that song specifically, is for the people who didn’t get the ‘I’m sorry’ text. I want it to be closure for people who need it.”

In some ways, opening up like this comes naturally to Antone; she’s been writing songs since she was 16. But she’s quick to credit her collaborators in the studio and the writing room for the way they’ve embraced and emboldened her. While several songs were solo writing endeavors (“Suburban Outlaw,” “One Too Many,” “Me & Jose Cuervo”), Antone leaned into co-writes: Trent Dabbs (Ingrid Michaelson, Kacey Musgraves), Aaron Raitiere (Lady Gaga, Ashley McBryde), Jillian Jacqueline (Keith Urban, Little Big Town), and others all contributed.

Working with longtime writing role model Natalie Hemby (The Highwomen, Miranda Lambert) on “Johnny Moonshine” was a particular high point: “Natalie is my hero,” Antone says. “She’s the first songwriter that I ever truly loved.” And frequent writing partner Carrie K. (Noah Kahan, Jessie Murph, Suki Waterhouse) helped bring Rhinestoned  to life alongside Antone as her co-producer. “Working with Carrie,” Antone says, “I felt like all my thoughts were seen.”

What emerged is a work that offers Antone’s raspy drawl space to shine and her big heart room to heal. “Sometimes you don’t have that full love story where you meet someone, you fall in love, you date for a long time, you break up, and then you’re upset; sometimes we just have these short-lived little things,” she says. “This album is about a million of those teeny tiny little things, all wrapped up into one story. No matter how big or small it is, when you’ve gone through something and you hurt, it matters.”

Lee Brice

When Curb Records recording artist, Lee Brice, isn’t selling out arenas, writing and recording songs, or building new brands like American Born whiskey, you’ll find the family man with his wife Sara, two young boys, and daughter. Meanwhile, with over 3.7 billion on-demand streams, and over 4 billion spins on Pandora, Brice continues to enjoy massive success at country radio, digital streaming services, and on the road. He has reached the #1 spot at Country Radio with Platinum-selling “Memory I Don’t Mess With,” which consecutively follows three prior #1s: ASCAP’s 2021 Country Song of the Year and 3x Platinum track “One of Them Girls,” “I Hope You’re Happy Now” with Carly Pearce, and the 4x Platinum hit “Rumor,” which was nominated in the category Single of The Year at the 55th Annual ACM Awards. One of the most-played country artists of all time on Pandora, he was the second country artist behind Keith Urban to receive the Pandora Billionaire plaque. Lee is also a GRAMMY nominee, a CMA and ACM award winner, and he’s taken nine radio singles to Number One: “A Woman Like You,” “Hard to Love,” “I Drive Your Truck,” “I Don’t Dance,” “Drinking Class,” “Rumor,” “I Hope You’re Happy Now,” “One of Them Girls,” and “Memory I Don’t Mess With.” Garth Brooks, Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney and others have recorded his songs, and he’s performed on numerous TV shows, including NBC’s Today, ABC’s The Bachelor, NBC’s The Voice and FOX’s Miss USA 2018. Lee performed as part of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song honoring Garth Brooks, aired on PBS March of 2020. At the 54th Annual CMA Awards, Lee took home the prize for Musical Event of the Year for his song with Carly Pearce, “I Hope You’re Happy Now.” At the 56th ACM Awards, “I Hope You’re Happy Now” won Single of the Year and Music Event of the Year, and Lee and Carly Pearce performed the song live. Lee’s album, Hey World, was recently certified Platinum and features several of his multi-Platinum selling hits. Lee kicked off 2024 with an intimate acoustic tour, the Me & My Guitar Tour, and is bringing fans brand new music with his recent singles, “Drinkin’ Buddies” with Nate Smith and Hailey Whikers, and the nostalgic “Summer of Us,” out now. Be sure to check out Lee on the road in 2025 as he brings back his Me & My Guitar Tour to cities across the U.S.

The Reklaws

The Reklaws are a one-of-a-kind duo made up of siblings Jenna and Stuart Walker, proud to bring the party to every stage they stand on. The Reklaws found breakout success with their debut single “Long Live the Night,” the most-streamed domestic song of all Canadian country artists and theme song for the CFL Thursday Night Football national broadcast in 2018/2019. 2021 was a record-breaking year for the duo when their viral TikTok hit “What the Truck” earned PLATINUM-certification, making it the fastest-ever Canadian country song to go PLATINUM in the streaming era. In 2023 the pair landed three coveted JUNO nominations, hosted the 2023 CCMA Awards, winning Top Selling Canadian Album for their 2022 release Good Ol’ Days and landed their fourth #1 with “Honky Tonkin’ About” feat. Drake Milligan.

The Reklaws hold 8 JUNO nominations, 8 CCMA Awards, 4 #1s at Canadian Radio, 2 DOUBLE PLATINUM, 8 PLATINUM and 13 GOLD singles and a GOLD-certified debut album (Freshman Year). In addition, the pair have 300M+ Global Streams, 6 of the top 20 streamed singles by a Canadian country artist since 2019 (more than any other artist) and the most domestically streamed debut album in Canadian country history. Listen to their single “One Beer Away” out everywhere now.

Owen Riegling

If Broadway was a dirt road and tourists were trees, maybe Owen Riegling would spend a hell of a lot more time in Nashville. Until then, he’s just fine writing big songs from a small town.

Owen’s roots have taught him a good deal about humility, honesty, and the kind of hand me down lessons that turn a good kid into a good man. Growing up in a town of under 1000 people will do that to ya.

Big cities, big stages, bright lights, letting go in the rear view mirror – those all come along with writing the kind of timeless songs that still sound good in 20 years. There’s no doubt bigger things are calling. But Owen knows that when you’ve got one foot planted in big dreams, you better have the other planted on solid ground, or you might not be standing when you get there.

Owen ain’t pretending to be anyone he’s not. He’s too honest for that. He knows it’s not 3 chords and half the truth, it’s 3 chords and the whole thing. But just because he’s being himself doesn’t mean he’s got it all figured out. And honestly, who does at 24?

It’s part of the growth process as an artist – write 100 songs, write 100 more. Play 100 shows, play 100 more, and as you step further and further down the road you discover more and more about who you are and how you want to show that to the world.

There is no race to artistry. Owen knows that. Maybe it’s the slow pace of his hometown coming into play, but you can’t rush the slow burn of artist coming into their own. Owen’s next batch of songs are bound to coincide with the biggest stages and brightest lights of his young career, and there’s no doubt that the journey of figuring it all out will be worth watching along the way.

He’s an old soul with a new guitar, the kind of guy who’s gonna play the Ryman and still be home for dinner. There’s nothing ordinary about staying grounded, the best work always comes from the roots up.

Avery Anna

Only 20 years old and already attracting attention from esteemed media outlets like Rolling Stone, Billboard, American Songwriterand more, exciting newcomer Avery Anna“further displays promise and prowess” (GRAMMYAwards) on her celebrated debut album, Breakup Over Breakfast, available everywhere now. The album features17 tracks all written or co-written bythe “towering, soul-baring tunesmith”(Billboard) andshowcases her ability to harness raw emotionand infuseit into a nuanced lyricism well beyond her years.Produced by David Fanning, Breakup Over Breakfast contains stories ranging from romance to rage, penned with a sacred honesty and sung with a soulful heart.The “brave debut album” (Entertainment Focus)follows her2022 debut EP, Mood Swings, that earned her Artist To Watch nods from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Pandora, Spotify, YouTube, MusicRowand CMT. The seven-song introduction features her viral, Platinum-certified hit, “Narcissist,” that she performed on the 2023 CMT Music Awards, where she was nominated for Breakthrough Artist of the Year, before making her morning TV debut on NBC’s TODAY. With more than 500 million global streams to date, the Arizona native has quickly become an in-demand touring artist, openingforcountry stars likeCole Swindell, Jordan Davis, BRELAND, Chase Rice and more.Sheis out on the road now for her Cool, Calm & Collected tour while also making appearances at multiple festivals throughout the summer

Lonestar

Not every musician has the opportunity to revisit and even potentially improve upon their biggest hits. But on the forthcoming TEN to 1 record, the award-winning band Lonestar—Dean Sams (keyboards, acoustic guitar, background vocals), Michael Britt (lead guitarist, background vocals ), Keech Rainwater (drums) and Drew Womack (lead vocals, guitar)—are taking a fresh look at all 10 of their chart-topping country songs. 

This streak started in 1996 with the band’s second single, the rock-edged “No News,” and continued with the following year’s “Come Cryin’ to Me” and “Everything’s Changed.” The band’s quadruple-platinum 1999 album Lonely Grill spawned four No. 1 hits (including the beloved global smash “Amazed”) and established Lonestar as music’s preeminent pop-country band—a status they’d maintain through the 2000s and beyond. 

With these re-recordings, the band members were mindful of striking a balance between preserving the sonic elements fans were familiar with—and not repeating them. Fittingly, TEN to 1 record reflects the ways Lonestar’s hits have evolved over the years during the band’s rousing, high-energy concerts. Such talent has contributed to the band winning many of music’s top honors, including Academy Of Country Music awards for New Vocal Group in 1996, Single and Song Of The Year in 2000, along with Humanitarian Of The Year in 2002. They also won Country Music Association’s Vocal Group of the Year and International Artist Achievement award in 2001. All told, Lonestar have sold more than 10.5 million records since their formation. 

With the release of TEN to 1 record, the band members are full of gratitude for what they’ve accomplished already, and excited about what the future holds. “It’s amazing that we’re still standing and putting on great shows after all these years,” Sams says. “The fans are still coming out to our shows night after night, to see us and hear our music. That’s almost 30 years of touring, and I can’t tell you how grateful I am—and I’ve never once taken it for granted.”