Luke Bryan at Bayou Country Superfest 2011. Photo by Erica Goldring.

Bayou Country Superfest Announces Move to Superdome

Bayou Country Superfest has announced that its eighth edition will take place in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

The massively popular country music festival has been held in Baton Rouge’s Tiger Stadium every year since its inception in 2010, but upcoming renovations at the stadium forced the event to relocate to New Orleans famed indoor venue. Evidently, Gonzales, LA’s Lamar Dixon Expo Center also made a pitch for hosting the festival, but in the end it looks like air-condition and a big city vibe won out.

“We are excited to announce that the Louisiana Memorial Day Weekend tradition that is Bayou Country Superfest is going under the Dome in New Orleans,” says Superfest producer/director Quint Davis. “When we started the Bayou Country Superfest, our goal was to create one of the great country music celebrations in America and grow it into an annual holiday tradition for Louisiana.  The large scale stadium-type festival we all loved in Tiger Stadium, which is not available to host the event, will make a triumphant move to the only other facility in the state that equals Tiger Stadium as a world renowned sports and entertainment venue—the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.”

Bayou Country Superfest is slated for May 26-28, 2017, but the first day will consist of an evening concert in Champions Square, an outdoor space adjacent to the Superdome. That event will be free and open to the public.

The festival proper will move to the dome on Saturday, May 27 and Sunday, May 28 when the big-name acts that have come to define the Superfest take the stage. However, Champion Square will continue to host daytime Fan Fests on Saturday and Sunday.

The full lineup and ticketing details for Bayou Country Superfest will be revealed on December 1.