Lovin’ Life Music Fest Brings Post Malone, Stevie Nicks and MORE to Charlotte!

UPDATE: Lovin' Life Music Fest has added more special guests to the lineup. Guess who else will be there? They have added Dominic Fike, Jessie Murph, Young the Giant, Mt. Joy, David Kushner, Dashboard Confessional, The Struts, DaBaby, Maggie Rogers, The Chainsmokers, Quinn XCII, and Petey Pablo coming to Charlotte for the festival! The lineup is getting crazier and crazier and it's going to be a GREAT show!

It was announced last week that Lovin' Life Music Fest, a three-day music festival, is launching in Charlotte, North Carolina for the first time. It will be in uptown Charlotte May 3-5, 2024. Today, the headliners were announced.

The three-day music festival, a first for Charlotte, will be bringing 40+ artists to three stages that span over multiple generations and genres. Their headliners prove that. The headliners they announced were Post Malone, Stevie Nicks, and Noah Kahan. More artists will continue to be announced in the coming weeks and months.

“After producing events all over the East Coast, we’ve dreamt of bringing a major music festival to Charlotte, and the Lovin’ Life Music Fest is our passion project,” said Bob Durkin, Co-Founder and Partner of Southern Entertainment in a press release. “We’re thrilled to support the ongoing effort to make our hometown of Charlotte a Music City in such a big way.”

According to the press release, Southern Entertainment, a national entertainment and production company based in Charlotte, N.C. is responsible for acclaimed music festivals across multiple states, including the sold-out Carolina Country Music Fest in Myrtle Beach. SC and the Barefoot Country Music Fest in Wildwood, NJ. The company has been a driving force behind Charlotte’s vibrant cultural scene for more than 25 years. With a rich history of managing venues, fostering entertainment districts, and supporting the production of major events like the Democratic National Convention, the NBA All Star Game, and NCAA tournaments, Southern Entertainment has made an indelible mark on Charlotte’s entertainment landscape.

With key partners such as the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, Charlotte Center City Partners, and the Hospitality & Tourism Alliance, the festival anticipates drawing an estimated 90,000 attendees over three days, with a projected economic impact of more than $30 million in its inaugural year, according to the event's press release.

“Charlotte’s ready for its own signature event,” said Rob Pedlow in the press release, Co-Founder and Partner at Southern Entertainment. “Lovin’ Life will be our very own Charlotte-flavored Lollapalooza, a new economic engine for the Queen City creating jobs, supporting area nonprofits and drawing music enthusiasts from across the Carolinas and beyond.”

Early Bird Tickets go on sale December 14 at 8 a.m. EST, available exclusively at www.llmfclt.com

Post Malone has released four studio albums thus far in his music career. In 2015, his debut had the breakout hit "White Iverson." The track is named after the iconic NBA star Allen Iverson, and the popularity of the song helped the rapper get a record deal with Republic Records. He later followed up the momentum of that single with his debut studio album Stoney. On Stoney, he also had a standout single titled "Congratulations" featuring Migos rapper Quavo.

Posty followed Stoney with his second studio album Beerbongs & Bentleys in 2018, Hollywood's Bleeding in (2019), and Twelve Carat Toothache, which dropped last year.

As for other accomplishments, in June, Post Malone received the Hal David Starlight Award at the 2023 Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Dinner in his home state.

Post Malone fans will soon have another project to enjoy. The rapper will be releasing his fifth studio album titled Austin on July 28.

"It’s been some of the funnest music, some of the most challenging and rewarding music for me, at least — trying to really push myself and really do some cool stuff," he told fans on Instagram of Austin.

He continued: "I played guitar on every song on the record, and it was a really, really fun experience, and I’m super, super excited to share it with you."

He has since released "Chemical" and "Mourning" which he dropped on May 19. He added that the album will also be accompanied by a tour titled If Y’all Weren’t Here, I’d Be Crying Tour.

"I love y’all so very much, and I’m so excited to get out and do some more shows for y’all, help me put a baby through college, and come on out some cool new production, new songs, and a very very handsome man up on stage," the rapper told his followers on Twitter.

The tour is set to kick off on July 8 in Indiana. Before you go to to the show, take a look at five Post Malone songs that everyone should know:

"White Iverson" was Post Malone's breakout hit. In an interview with XXL, he said that he did not know that the song was going to be so successful. "When I wrote it, I didn’t know that people [were] gonna f--- with it as much as I did. I didn’t plan on releasing it any time soon either, but it leaked somewhere and we just said ‘f--- it’ and recorded it." The song is from the rapper's debut album Stoney.

In "Rockstar" raps about living a fast life and name-drops rock artists such as Bon Scott (lead vocalist of AC/DC) and Jim Morrison (lead vocalist of The Doors). 21 Savage is the featured artist on the track. Fellow rapper Joey Bada$$ co-wrote the song with Post Malone. "Rockstar" was nominated for Record Of The Year and Best Rap/Sung Performance at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.

Post Malone raps about getting over an ex in "Better Now." Which was odd, as the rapper is known to be private about his love life. The record peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song is found on the rapper's second studio album Beerbongs & Bentleys which was released in 2018. "Better Now" was nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.

"Circles" was a standout record from the rapper's third studio album Hollywood's Bleeding which was released in 2019. The song was nominated for Record Of The Year and Song Of The Year at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. Hollywood's Bleeding was nominated for Album Of The Year at the Grammys that year.

"Sunflower" is from the soundtrack of the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which also features rapper Swae Lee. The track is emotional yet uplifting, something that Posty conveys well throughout his discography. "Sunflower" is the first from a soundtrack to hit number one on the Billboard charts and is 18-times platinum by the RIAA. The song was nominated for Record Of The Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.