Country 2 Country (C2C)

Held across a mid-March weekend, this is country music brought indoors and concentrated into one of London's largest venues on the Greenwich Peninsula. The main draw is a run of headline and support performances in the arena bowl, but the programme spreads well beyond it: free stages across the venue's concourses and neighbouring spaces host emerging Nashville names and homegrown UK country acts through the day, so there is music long before the ticketed shows begin each evening. The audience ranges widely, from dedicated country fans who follow the genre closely to newcomers drawn by a few familiar names, and the all-ages policy makes it one of the more family-suitable events of its scale. With no camping and everything under cover, it suits those who prefer a city break format over a field, and who want to see a broad cross-section of the genre in a short space of time.