Country singer Luke Bryan will perform in Lowndes County this fall as part of his 2015 farm tour.
The singer’s website lists the concert venue as Starkville, but locals will know the area as a little farther south and east: Holtcamp Farms is near Artesia, on the Oktibbeha County line.
The concert will take place Oct. 7.
This is Bryan’s seventh annual farm tour, where the singer’s staff partners with smaller farming communities to put on the concerts.
Bryan’s staff notified Lowndes County Sheriff Mike Arledge in April that they were interested in having a concert in the area. The venue was selected because it is close to a college town but still in the country, according to Arledge.
Previous farm tour concerts have drawn crowds of 20,000 or so, Arledge said.
“They’re doing it on a Wednesday night and I think the reason for that is they want to manage the size of the crowd,” he said. “There’s basically one way in and one way out and part of the way, it’s a gravel road. So they want to make sure they can manage the traffic.”
In previous years, a portion of the tour proceeds went to scholarships for students from farming families in the community.
The singer, who is famous for hits like “Country Girl (Shake It For Me),” “Drunk on You,” and “Crash My Party,” is from a small town himself. Leesburg, Georgia, where Bryan grew up, has a population of less than 3,000.
Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday. They are $47, or $52 the day of the show.
Dispatch reporter Slim Smith contributed to this story.
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