Healing Appalachia Names Tyler Childers and Chris Stapleton as 2025 Headliners
Healing Appalachia has unveiled the headliners for its 2025 festival. Staging at Ashland, Ky.’s Boyd County Fairgrounds on September 19 and 21, the sixth-annual Healing Appalachia will be led by two of the biggest names in country and proud sons of the Bluegrass State: Tyler Childers and Chris Stapleton. The full artist lineup for the festival, which unites giants of country, folk, roots rock, Americana and more in service of recovery and harm reduction for communities facing opioid addiction, will be revealed in the coming days.
Childers has topped the bill for Healing Appalachia since its inaugural staging in 2018, and he’s annually reaffirmed his commitment to fighting addiction from personal experience in his headline sets. Since its origins, the fest has grown from a 1,500-capacity concert at the West Virginia State Fairgrounds to a gathering of 20,000 music lovers. This year, the festival will move from its longtime home to an Ashland mountaintop in the heart of the famed Country Music Highway
Since its foundation, Healing Appalachia has been the crowning accomplishment in the Hope in the Hills organization’s mission “to produce events that help connect and grow communities of recovery and healing in Appalachia,” per the organization’s site. After the 2023 presentation, which saw the festival’s first-ever three-day program, Hope in the Hills distributed over $450,000 to communities around the region “to combat opioid addiction through a wide array of projects and programs from youth prevention, healthy lifestyles and wellness to recovery houses and recovery to work.” 97 cents of every dollar made from the festival is invested back to the Appalachian community, and to date the festival has had an economic impact of more than $5 million for the region.
Early Bird tickets for this year’s Healing Appalachia are available now. Find more information about Healing Appalachia and this year’s festival at healingappalachia.org .
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