Miranda Lambert and Green Day Lead NiFi Music Fest Lineup

05/28/2015
. (Radio.com) Kentucky's getting another music festival, and following in the footsteps of major events like Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas and Faster Horses Festival in Brooklyn, Mich., it'll be at a racetrack.

On Wednesday (May 27) NiFi Music Fest announced its inaugural event, to be held Aug. 28-30 at the Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Ken., Billboard reports.

The fest will be headlined by a mix of rock and country stars: Green Day, Miranda Lambert and Kings of Leon will play, along with Gov't Mule, Hank Williams Jr., Weezer, Brantley Gilbert and many more.

The NiFi fest is the first of potentially multiple similar fests at Speedway Motorsports Inc.-owned tracks in the U.S., with fests planned for the Texas Motor Speedway in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and Charlotte Motor Speedway in Charlotte, N.C. Further, Sonoma Raceway in California and Atlanta's Atlanta Motor Speedway may also receive similar events. Read more and see the full lineup here.

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