Saskatchewan’s Last Mountain Distillery is poised to provide 22,500 liters of a signature cooler for this weekend’s Country Thunder. That number although impressive – is the tip of the iceberg for the local business. Every drop of alcohol consumed at Country Thunder this year will have been created locally by Last Mountain Distillery. Originally started […]
We’re just two weeks from Country Thunder and the countdown starts this weekend. Saturday July 9th at 4PM The first ever Road to Country Thunder is taking place in Regina’s Confederation park with Canadian country hit maker Nate Haller. The Afternoon of LIVE music will also feature food trucks, fun and beverages all in the […]
After a two year hiatus thanks to COVID-19, Country Thunder Saskatchewan is coming back to Craven with a bang in July, 2022. Headlining the event will be Morgan Wallen, Blake Shelton and Lee Brice. “Saskatchewan is home for us, and we needed to come with everything we’ve got,” Country Thunder Music Festivals CEO, Troy Vollhoffer […]
Like many country music fans, Tourism Saskatchewan is disappointed at the news there will be no Country Thunder festival this summer at Craven. CEO Mary Taylor-Ash says the weekend event pumps a lot of dollars into the provincial economy. “In 2019, the festival created an estimated 18-million-dollars to the provincial economy.” Taylor-Ash said on Tuesday. […]
Regina native Troy Vollhoffer has been nominated for an Academy of Country Music award in the promoter category. Vollhoffer who now lives in Nashville, is the founder of Nashville based staging company Premier Global Production. He is also known as the force behind the Country Thunder festivals that can be found across all of North America […]
The CMA’s male entertainer of the year is heading to the Craven valley this July. Country Thunder released the list of acts which will perform at the four-day music festival July 9-12 in Regina on Friday morning. Combs will close out the show Sunday night. All six of his singles have reached number one on […]
While we don’t know who will be performing in Craven this summer at Country Thunder yet, it is expected those in charge of the four-day show will have some country music heavyweights taking part. Organizers of the country music festival will be announcing all acts including the Sunday night headliner at an event in Regina […]
Complaints lodged against the comedy act of Williams and Ree are being looked at by Country Thunder organizers. FSIN is calling on the country music festival to remove the pair after some racist comments during the show at Craven last week. In a statement, Country Thunder GM Kim Blevins says it is a concern they […]
Williams and Ree are under the spotlight after material they used this past weekend at Country Thunder Music Festival in Craven. The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations is requesting the festival’s organizers to banish the comedians from any future events following complaints of racist material used at this year’s event. The complaint was made when the […]
The hangovers are beginning to settle in for festival goers who took in Country Thunder 2019 in Craven. RCMP said while it was a busy and eventful weekend for their members, this year was a “relatively smooth and pleasant Country Thunder experience”. 160 calls were handled by RCMP throughout the four-day event. From those calls, 27 […]
