Pop stars will have you believe that country music is the hot new music trend of 2024. Between Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter, Zayn Malik’s Room Under the Stairs, and soon-to-be Lana Del Rey’s Lasso, it would seem as though “yeehaw season” is well and truly upon us.
For longtime UK fans of the genre, though, country music has been celebrated here for years. And that love is no more evident than here at Black Deer festival of country and Americana, where for three days amid the rolling fields of Eridge Park, Sussex, us Brits do our best to channel our neighbours from across the pond. This year, that extends to the weather, too: after an unseasonably chilly start to June, the sun comes out blazing in between the odd showery spell.
