by Ladys and Gentlemen, welcome to the Country To Country 2025 in Berlin! After the Passionskirche in Berlin already hosted the Thursday Bluebird Cafe kick-off, Friday morning featured the first shows of the key country music festival in Germany. Here is my report from the day session (or side stages) on Friday, 7th March 2025.
This posting comes with 519 major size pictures in the C2C 2025 Berlin section of the concert galleries.
C2C Berlin 2025 – Day 1 – Day Session Lineup
Due to the many artists being on stage on the different stages, I won’t give you a full overview in the Day Session posts, but rather focusing on a few artists, which I felt being special. Detailed overviews about the artists on stage can be found in my preview posting about the festival.
- On the Pindeck Stage, Austin Jenckes had the honor to somehow open the festival as the first act of the day.
- An artist I was especially looking forward to was Canadian country rock artist Cory Marks. He had two sessions during the day.
- Swiss Sid Bader was about to open the Town Square Stage. he is the only Central European artist on the C2C 2025 in Berlin.
- Canadian Meghan Patrick was scheduled to play sets on all three days. I love the sound of the artist and hoped to see at least one of her sets on Friday.
C2C Berlin 2025 – Day 1 – Day Session Shows
Austin Jenckes opened the festival somehow, as he had the very first session of the day on the Pindeck Stage next to a bowling alley. Great to have him back in Germany. He did a lovely, very personal show. When he lost the lyrics in one of his shows, he stated Damn, I’m like this guy from 49 Winchester, reminding of the Passionskirche kick-off the day before.
Thereafter, I headed to the Sound of Nashville Stage, where I spent most of the morning and early afternoon. First of all, the cozy stage in a cinema hosted Cory Marks. You can learn more about him in the Spotlight interview with him I just released. He presented his 30 minute 2025 acoustic set for the first time, which featured originals like (Make My) Country Rock or Outlaws and Outsiders, but also a Bryan Adams cover, Cuts life a knife. A really good set by him.
Amazing Songwriters Rounds on the Sound of Nashville Stage
I ran into Austin Jenckes again on Sound of Nashville Stage thereafter. Alongside Drew Baldridge, he was part of the Heart To Heart songwriters round. The round was hosted by the Berlin-based German country and country rock band The BossHoss, who presented Don’t Gimme That and Dos Bros, two rather classic tracks of them, in the round. Drew Baldridge shared the story of losing his record deal and then more or less stating a nationwide tour of house concerts. According to him, the best tour ever. You definitely believed him that he does not want to do Music for Nashville, but Music for people, who love country music. Austin Jenckes again underlined his songwriting excellence and great voice, so that the audience on the rather large stage had a great time.
Thereafter, Kenny Foster, Tyler Sjöström, and Jason Nix hosted the Sad Song Society on the same stage. Kenny and Tyler explained that they want to have a platform for deep and thoughtful songs and appreciate that C2C Berlin is offering that platform. However, the session was very entertaining as well. This started from the artists improvising songs for the soundcheck to Sjöström remarking that Kenny looks like my wife, adding It’s your beard, actually. Forster said This is the best part of the festival, everything else is downhill. Even if there was definitely some irony in this statement, it was definitely my highlight of the day. All three artists presented amazing and deep stories. Foster, for example, shared his first song about his son. Jason Nix, who was excellent in this round, shared how he grew from poverty to a songwriter.
Halverson and Meghan Patrick
Between these rounds, I also had a brief visit at a Pindeck Stage set by Tyler Halverson. In a rather intimate atmosphere, he shared nice songs and stories, I really liked my brief time there.
One artist I was absolutely looking forward to was Meghan Patrick. The Canadian country lady had her first-ever shows in Germany that day. I saw her at the Star FM Stage in the corner of a large meal restaurant. Even though I just had a short time there (there was a scheduled press briefing, which was finally cancelled), I really loved her set and the atmosphere there.
C2C Berlin 2025 – Day 1 Day Sessions – The Gallery
There are 519 pictures of the Day 1 Day Sessions. You find them in the C2C Berlin Gallery Group of the concert galleries:
Floorball – 2024/25 Season
Here are all my floorball-related postings released between July 2024 and June 2025:
Swiss Cup Finals 2025 (Women Small Field): Skorpion Emmental Zollbrück III – Unihockey Berner Oberland III 20-6 (9-2, 5-1, 6-3)
Swiss Cup Finals 2025 (Men): Zug United – HC Rychenberg Winterthur 2-7 (0-1, 0-3, 2-3)
Swiss Cup Finals 2025 (Women): Piranha Chur – Kloten-Dietlikon Jets 8-4 (2-2, 2-1, 4-1)
Swiss Cup Finals 2025 (Men Small Field): Tigers Langnau III – UHC Oekingen 9-10 SD (3-4, 4-2,2-3, x-1)
SSF Dragons Bonn (Women) – ETV Lady PiranHHas Hamburg 4-2 (2-0, 2-1, 0-1)
SSF Dragons Bonn II – ETV PiranHHas Hamburg II 6-7 SD (2-0, 4-4, 0-2, x-1)
Women WFCQ – P7 Match – Hungary – France 4-2 (0-1, 2-0, 2-1)
Women WFCQ – P5 Match – Denmark – Italy 6-3 (1-0, 4-1, 1-2)
Women WFCQ – Switzerland – Hungary 22-0 (4-0, 10-0, 8-0)
Women WFCQ – Denmark – Netherlands 2-5 (1-1, 1-0, 0-4)
Women WFCQ – Poland – Slovakia 2-4 (1-2, 1-1, 0-1)
Women WFCQ – Denmark – Switzerland 0-15 (0-3, 0-8, 0-4)
Women WFCQ – Italy – France 6-1 (2-0, 1-0, 3-1)
Women WFCQ – Hungary – Netherlands 1-4 (0-1, 0-2, 1-1)
Women WFCQ – Slovakia – France 14-1 (4-0, 4-1, 6-0)
SaiPa – SB-Pro 2-1 SD (0-0, 0-0, 1-1, 1-x)
EräViikingit – Classic 6-4 (2-0, 1-2, 3-2)
Flyctory.com Best Ones 2024
Pixbo IBK – IBF Falun 11-0 (0-0, 6-0, 5-0)
Pixbo IBK – IBK Dalen 9-6 (2-0, 3-2, 4-4)
ETV PiranHHas Hamburg – Blau-Weiß Schenefeld 3-5 (0-2, 2-1, 1-2)
ETV PiranHHas Hamburg II – TV Eiche Horn Bremen 7-4 (2-2, 2-0, 3-2)
SSF Dragons Bonn – DJK Holzbüttgen 5-4 SD (4-0, 0-3, 0-1, 1-x)
SSF Dragons Bonn – TSG Erlensee 2-1 (1-1, 1-0, 0-0)
Great Britain (M) – Hungary (M) 4-6 (1-2, 2-2, 1-2) – SO 2-2
Great Britain (W) – Hungary (W) 8-2 (2-0, 2-1, 4-1) – SO 0-3
Austria (W) – Slovakia (WU19) 3-5 (0-1, 1-3, 2-1) – SO 2-0
SSF Dragons Bonn II – Lilienthaler Wölfe 4-7 (1-1, 3-4, 0-2)
Unihockey Igels Dresden – UHC Sparkasse Weißenfels 3-10 (0-6, 1-2, 2-2)
My 32 Best-rated Country Music Releases
Here are the 32 best Media Reviews related to country music in descending order:
Kip Moore – Solitary Tracks
Jason Isbell – Foxes in the Snow
American Aquarium – The Fear Of Standing Still
Kyle Daniel – Kentucky Gold
Luke Combs – Fathers & Sons
Kameron Marlowe – Keepin’ The Lights On
Riley Green – Behind The Bar EP
Carly Pearce – 29 EP
The Sheepdogs – Hell Together EP
Jack McBannon – Tennessee
Randall King – Into The Neon
Kane Brown – Different Man
Richard Marx – Songwriter
Noah Guthrie – Blue Wall
Thomas Rhett – Country Again: Side A
Eric Church – Heart
Chris Stapleton – Starting Over
The Shires – Good Years
Jelly Roll – Beautifully Broken
Various – Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty
Wade Bowen – Flyin’
Scotty McCreery – Rise & Fall
49 Winchester – Leavin’ This Holler
Carly Pearce – Hummingbird
Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well
Taylor McCall – Mellow War
Hannah Ellis – That Girl
Darius Rucker – Carolyn’s Boy
TracieLynn – More Than a Bad Habit EP
The Steel Woods – On Your Time
Lucinda Williams – Stories From A Rock N Roll Heart
