My Sunday at Country To Country 2026 in Berlin (8th March 2026)

You just cannot deny it – the Country To Country 2026 in Berlin is simply exhausting. In the night before the last festival day, I simply fell asleep – right before I wanted to set an alarm clock for a reasonable wake-up call. That does not mean that the days in Berlin were boring. I even felt that they were pretty exciting. Here is the report about Sunday’s experience.

This posting comes with 1,103 major size pictures in the C2C 2026 Berlin section of the concert galleries.

 

C2C Berlin 2026 – Day 3 – The Lineup

Sunday is a bit of a consolidation day, I believe. You have seen your favorite artists already. There were not too many daytime stage acts, which have not played on Friday or Saturday already. You rather re-visit artists you enjoyed the two days before – or those who have been recommended to you by friends. There were finally two artists on my list, which I did not manage to see at all on that weekend, the Kruse Brothers and Liam St. John. I had seen Liam on Saturday at the Sound of Nashville Open Air 2025. Sometimes it is just that the venues where they play are not good for photography, so that I rather went for other spots and artists. The selection is widespread before the gates of Uber Eats Music Hall open.

Despite some people leave early on Sunday, this also means that Sunday is likely the day with the biggest focus on the two stages in main arena. With Kameron Marlowe and Zach Top, the festival closed with two big names

 

C2C Berlin 2026 – Day 3 – Day Session

My Sunday was rather convenient (or: even more convenient than C2C in Berlin is anyway). Most of the acts I wanted to see either played in one of the UCI cinema building venues or at the open air Town Square. I started at Pindeck Stage, where Kelsey Kulyk played. I so far just had seen her a round – and she really did a lovely morning wake-up gig. I especially loved her version of Jo Dee Messina’s Heads Carolina, Tails California. But listening to originals like Smokin’ Gun was really nice as well.

After that, I went to the cinema stage upstage. Matt Lang was on my “bucket list” for the festival and I hadn’t seen him so far. He was fantastic, He even managed that the audience almost entirely stood and and partied with him. But also songs like his All Night Longer were great. I also talked a lot about his background as a Quebec Canadian artist, who went to Nashville without speaking English. An artist who supported him at that time was Eric Paslay. Matt honored him with a cover of She don’t love you – a great performance.

 

Pindeck and Town Square Hopping

I went back to the Pindeck Stage, where Blake Proehl was performing. Especially having a live version of his Crazy Stupid Love was nice. I wanted to have a brief impression of Max Jackson, who I really enjoyed over the weekend. The open air stage was rather packed as well. I like the way Max is connecting with the audience. After quite a lot of moving between the stages, I took a brief rest before having some impressions of Sinead Burgess upstairs. She is a lovely storyteller, who is also having a nice connection to her friends. Her performances feel especially warm-hearted.

Sinead was followed by Danny Worsnop on the same stage. Thereafter I wanted to have a brief look into Kaylee Bell‘s show at the open-air truck stage. I did not have sufficient time to wait for Keith and listen to her big song a second time. However, it was fun watching her – especially as quite some people were line dancing to her song.

 

The Magical Event

Finally, there is that event taking place daily on the Sound of Nashville stage in the cinema. For the Sunday edition of the Sad Song Society, I just wanted to have the full show and also farewell from Kenny Foster and Tyler Sjöström. They did a great, deep round again, together with Nathan Evans Fox, who is a great writer of deep songs as well. This event is the heartbeat of the daytime stage events. Apart from listening to songs about struggle, trouble and painful experience, there s always a lot of opportunity to laugh as well.

For example, Nathan explained his view about Houston. You hate your neighbors before you even know him. They built a whole city based on that concept was his way to introduce Texas Blues No.. 7 (adding that the songs No. 1 to 6 are not sufficiently family friendly at any time of the day…). Kenny reflected about young artists. One the one hand, he stated they make him feel old. On the other hand, he sees the struggle of them making it big. He shared a song about that struggle, which he wrote together with Shelby McEntire (this family name might be familiar to you…). Tyler explicitly thanked Kenny for keeping this special event alive. There were even some tears when this round was over. And even though I had a few artists planned before heading to the big stage, I felt that my daytime stage time should stop at that point. I caught up with Nathan later in the hotel – you will find my Spotlight interview in here soon.

 

C2C Berlin 2026 – Day 3 – Uber Eats Music Call

Again, I decided to have some breaks, so that I did not go for Noeline Hofmann’s show, who opened the final day on main stage. The first show I saw was the one by Bayker Blankenship. As he has been a CMA Spotlight Stage artist on a previous event, I was really curious how he would work out on a big stage with full band. Musically, he did a good show and his band did give quite some energy. However, Bayker really struggled to use that energy on stage. There was a certain monotony

The next artist on stage was – likely – a treat for young female visitors on International Women’s Day. Ty Myers was significantly more present on stage than his predecessor. Thus, the show started well and Berlin felt to love the young artist, who has a couple of songs with roughly 100 million Spotify streams. However, I felt that he should have dared to leave his style and comfort zone more often. His songbook works well individually, but you simply need a catching twist from time to time.

 

C2C Berlin 2026 ends with a Blast

Many people felt to struggle with the main stage Sunday so far. Thus, there was a bit of a burden on Kameron Marlowe. He managed this challenge with ease. Out of all main stage artists I saw, he was the best one. A very powerful, energetic show on stage, paired with a nice connection to the people lead to a really good performance. Fun fact: Kameron and his full band even appeared at the Aftershow party at the Alex restaurant next door in the late evening. I am sure that this gave him even more love from the German audience.

The 2026 Country To Country organizers had one of their sharpest knives still in stock. With Zach Top, a rather traditional country music artist had the mission to close the festival – and maybe attract fans going for the pre-sale of Berlin’s 2027 edition. Zach Top had an impressing stage setup and delivered a very nice show. Berlin partied with him. Unfortunately, the light setup was not ideal for photography, which you might see in the pictures. Especially his band, who did a very good performance, were hidden in the darker spots on stage. His mixture of originals and covers was a nice farewell to Berlin in 2026.

 

C2C Berlin 2026 – Day 3 Day Sessions – The Gallery

There are 1,103 pictures of the Day 1 Day Sessions. You find them in the 2026 C2C Berlin Gallery Group of the concert galleries:

• 2026-03-08 C2C Berlin 2026 Day 3

 

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