Following the success of the Minnesota Yacht Club Festival at St. Paul’s Harriet Island Regional Park, promoters have officially announced that a long-rumored country music festival will take place on the same site.
Details, however, are scarce at this point. The Minnesota Country Club Festival is set for July 10 and 11. An Instagram post promises “a weekend of roots, folk, country, Americana and a few surprises along the Mississippi” but does not reveal anything else beyond a website, minnesotacountryclubfest.com.
The Minnesota Yacht Club Festival debuted in 2024 with headliners Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gwen Stefani and Alanis Morissette and was a hit with critics and crowds. It returned in July 2025 with an expanded three-day lineup led by Green Day, Hozier and Fall Out Boy. The festival has drawn about 35,000 people each day.
It was the first major rock and pop festival on Harriet Island since Live Nation’s River’s Edge Music Festival in 2012. Despite promising St. Paul a five-year commitment, the concert promoting giant lost enough money to convince them to pull out after a single year.
Live Nation owns 51 percent of Yacht Club organizers C3 Presents, an Austin, Texas, company that’s also behind Austin City Limits Music Festival, Voodoo Music + Arts Experience and the modern-day Lollapalooza. But Live Nation apparently allows C3 to follow its own path and use a more personal touch in staging festivals. Concertgoers have praised much about the festival, but complained about long concessions lines and inflated prices for beer and alcohol.
The Lumineers, Matchbox Twenty and the Strokes will headline the third annual Minnesota Yacht Club Festival, which returns to Harriet Island July 17 through 19.
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