Putting paid to rumours circulating for the past week, promoters Chugg Entertainment and Rob Potts today confirmed superstar Tim McGraw will rock North Queensland for subscription TV country music channel, CMC.CMC Rocks North Queensland will be the North's biggest ever country music event-a six-plus hour multi-lineup blockbuster to be held at Townsville's Reid Park on Saturday September 25.Tim McGraw will lead the charge on a lineup which includes Canadian Corb Lund and Aussies' Steve Forde and Jasmine Rae with more to be announced.
Tickets for McGraw's North Queensland show will go on sale the same day as McGraw's Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney east coast concerts, Monday May 17.
Waiting almost two decades, Australian fans-a big number of them in North Queensland according to record company, Sony Music, Chugg and Potts are chuffed McGraw agreed to headline CMC Rocks North Queensland."Tim gets taking it to the country music heartland," said Rob Potts. "It's why, working really hard with him and his people, we were able to schedule a Saturday night for North Queensland." "We know, and Tim understands, fans in a radius way beyond that of Townsville will travel amazing distances, and hours, to see him."
Tim McGraw is a 40-million unit selling artist. He's topped the US charts with 31 #1 singles including the title track from his latest album, Southern Voice. He is married to Faith Hill. Tim McGraw was the most played artist on US radio for the first decade of the 21st Century and his song Something Like That the most played. He's starred alongside the likes of Sandra Bullock, Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughan and Gwyneth Paltrow in seven films, including the Academy Award-nominated The Blind Side and the soon to be released Love Don't Let Me Down.
He's got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in September this star will be in Australia.Tim McGraw rocks North Queensland at Townsville's Reid Park on Saturday September 25.
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