As soon as fans stepped through the air-conditioned doors mid-afternoon to the Honky Tonk stage at the 16th annual Stagecoach Country Music Festival, the atmosphere was alive and well with the rhythm ...

Charles Watlington and Jonny Nichols, who go by DJ Moonshine and DJ Prison Rodeo, started the event a year ago. “I’ve seen 77-year-olds dancing with 20-year-olds here,” says Watlington. “It’s amazing.

It’s line dancing night at Nash Bar & Stage and a couple dozen folks are out on the floor, smacking their cowboy boots to Ian Munsick’s “I See Country.” Under the glow of a sign that asks “What Would ...

My only thought was to keep hanging on as I was lurched upward, the black plastic handle digging into my right hand. “A few more seconds, a few more seconds,” I chanted in my head, surrounded by ...