Luke Bryan is making some changes to his annual Farm Tour, and one of those changes will be its location for 2025. That new location is California.
Luke said in a statement, “With the Farm Tour being such a unique type of show in rural towns we have to be really intentional on where we go in order to have the best experience for the fans all while lifting up the farming community and what they do for our country. I have always wanted to raise awareness for the West Coast farmer, and I’m so excited to get to do that this year.”
He adds, “Gonna be amazing.”
The three Farm Tour shows booked for mid-May are timed around the season finale of American Idol.
Luke Bryan, 2025 Farm Tour Dates:
- May 15 — Atwater, Calif. (Merced County) @ The Castle Airport
- May 16 — Clovis, Calif. (Fresno County) @ The Ponds at Harlan Ranch
- May 17 — Shafter, Calif. (Kern County) @ Sillect Farms
He recently talked about how his Farm Tour has grown. He said, “The Farm Tour has grown throughout the years, and the fact that we can set a stage up in a hayfield or some kind of field and people flock to it is what I envisioned when I created Farm Tour, and to obviously help some kids with scholarships and stuff like that. But the Farm Tour has grown every year, and it’s always something we look forward to. It’s really an exciting time to be able to just be out on a farm on a Fall night.”
Bryan’s Farm Tour partnerships have helped provide over nine million meals through programs that facilitate access to nutritious food for all people. He’s also awarded 84 college scholarships to students in farming families since the tour’s inception.
Luke has been a fixture on American Idol as a judge for a couple of years. What some people don’t know is American Idol actually had to talk him into being on the show.
He told us, “It’s funny, American Idol approached me. My thing was like, ‘Guys, I’m doing stadiums. I’m kinda at the pinnacle of my career, and can American Idol keep that going?’ I certainly didn’t want it to hurt at the time.”
He continued, “The American Idol brand was kind of roughed up. It wasn’t anybody’s fault. I think it had ran its course and they really had to do some talking to me to get me transitioning to a new form of my career.”
Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s.
Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.
