Chicks, Kacey Musgraves Announced for State Fayre 2027
The Chicks and Kacey Musgraves will join Shania Twain as headliners at State Fayre in Chelmsford, Essex, on June 18 to 20, 2027. Organisers say it is the first major UK camping festival with an all-female top billing. Tickets go on general sale November 13.
The Chicks and Kacey Musgraves have been announced as headliners for State Fayre 2027, a country music festival at Hylands Park in Chelmsford, Essex, running June 18 to 20, 2027. They join Shania Twain, confirmed earlier this month, to complete an all-female top billing.
Organisers say that makes State Fayre the first major UK camping festival with only women headlining. Smaller UK festivals have done it before, they note, but not at this scale with camping.
Who plays which night
The Chicks headline Friday night. Twain takes Saturday, and Musgraves closes on Sunday.
Twain's slot was confirmed on November 2. It forms part of a wider UK and Ireland summer run that includes Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast, continuing through June 29.
The Chicks will return to the UK for the first time since 2023. The band was founded in 1989, has released eight studio albums and has won 13 Grammy awards. It dropped Dixie from its name in 2020 to help highlight racial inequality in the US.
Musgraves, an eight-time Grammy winner known for the hit I Remember Everything, will make her first festival headline appearance in the UK. She said she "can't wait to bring [my album] the Middle of Nowhere to State Fayre fest this summer".
Rest of the bill
The first wave of supporting acts includes The Corrs, Billy Strings, Sam Barber, Sons of the East and Drake Milligan. Brothers Osborne, Bear's Den, Evan Honer and Danny Worsnop are also confirmed. More names are due over the coming months.
Organisers promise "some of the biggest names and most exciting new voices across country, rock, Americana, folk, blues and more".
Festival organisers Anna-Sophie Mertens and Alex Simmonds called the headliners "three incredible artists". Each, they said, had "inspired and represented vital change, within not only these genres but music as a whole".
"To bring all three together as a UK festival first is something we're very excited about," they added.
Tickets and site
Weekend tickets and Saturday day tickets are already on sale through the official State Fayre website. A presale for Friday and Sunday day tickets is live via PayPal. General sale opens at 9 a.m. GMT on Friday, November 13.
Away from the stages, the site will have fairground rides and The Fume Pit, a barbecue area with more than 15 UK and international traders across the weekend.
The festival launched this year and drew 50,000 fans to Hylands Park, which hosted V Festival from 1996 to 2017.
