Sunday 5 June 2025: 

Tim Holehouse (UK) @ 21u30

(Singer-Songwriter/Americana/Blues)

Global touring musician, Tim Holehouse brings experimental acoustic sounds. For the past 16 years, Tim has been one of the most hard working in the industry, travelling the globe, touring throughout the UK, US, Canada Europe, and beyond. His touring adventures have brought influences to his sound today. Breaking the 250-300 gig mark most years, Tim leads somewhat of a nomadic existence, but for all intents and purposes, treats London as his home when not out playing his trade to international and domestic audiences. Tim is equally prolific with his recording as he is with his travels, when not gigging his way round the world, he has found the time to release 20 albums and countless split releases, often with artists he tours with.

Tim's own sound is hugely varied, he’s often able to adapt to performing sets depending on the atmosphere of a show. He has been known to release folk, blues, experimental music and covers many other genres. Tim's songs come from a place of honesty and a keen ear for anything creative regardless of genre. His own philosophy is that, 'if music is good, it's just good, right?' To get a feel for Tim's wide and varied talent, be sure to check out his eclectic sounds and as Tim often quotes from one of his favourite films, 'Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure': 'Be excellent to each other.” 

Friday 27th June - Sunday 29th June 2025: 

Cowboy Up Music Revival (MR)

(Bluegrass/Folk/Americana/Country/

Blues/Bluespunk and everything in between)

COWBOY UP MUSIC REVIVAL (MR) is happening from June 27th till 29th 2025 at Cowboy Up Waardamme, Belgium.

We are 100% DIY, independent, no sponsors or whatsoever organizers. We depend on you, ticketbuyers. The vision and operation became increasingly divergent from Muddy Roots Music Festival. For this reason we put on this festival after 12 years, under a new jacket and name: "Cowboy Up Music Revival" We have no ties or partnerships with other festivals, whether or not similar. The similarity is out of our hands.

Featuring Whiskeydick and friends (WD-40) jamstage

Tickets includes free camping, hot showers, parking and ticket fees.

Sunday 6 July 2025: 

Official Music Revival after party

Pert Near Sandstone (USA) @ 15u30

(Americana/Roots)

Pert Near Sandstone is an Americana/Roots band from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, and an influential part of the Minnesota Roots Music scene that includes contemporaries Charlie Parr, Trampled By Turtles, and The Cactus Blossoms. Since forming in 2004, Pert Near Sandstone has recorded eight full-length albums, two live albums, and several singles. They have toured the United States extensively with several tours through Europe. Former full-time member (and now collaborator) Ryan Young plays fiddle with Trampled By Turtles. Dave Simonett of Trampled By Turtles has cited Pert Near Sandstone as one of his favorite contemporary bluegrass acts in the United States.^[1] Beginning in 2015, Pert Near Sandstone has curated and hosted the Blue Ox Music Festival in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, attracting acts such as The Avett Brothers and Mike Gordon of Phish. Pert Near Sandstone have shared the stage with many legendary musical talents such as Ralph Stanley, Del McCoury, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, Wilco, and Yonder Mountain Stringband.

Sunday 13 July 2025: 

Howlin' Ric & The Rocketeers (UK) @ 15u30

(Rock and Roll)

Leeds-based Howlin’ Ric & the Rocketeers play vibrant and authentic rock and roll, roving from raucous rhythm and blues right through to dreamy popcorn love songs. Wailing vocals, virtuosic sax and biting, grooving guitar will have the audience bouncing, swinging and sweating from start to finish. Their two albums, Waiting By The Dance Floor (2019) and Cautionary Tales (2022) are both products of band leader Richard Colley and his life-long love of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Rhythm & Blues and Rockabilly. Over recent years he has immersed himself in the new great roots artists such as Nick Curran, The Bellfuries, JD McPherson and the amazing bands that have been coming out of Hi-Style Records but not before refracting the sound through his record collections, drawing on classic Rock ‘n’ Roll and Rhythm & Blues. Over recent years, they have set their stall out as a hard-touring outfit, headlining shows across the UK as well as performing at a multitude of festivals including Rhythm Riot, Atomic, Underneath The Stars, SummerTyne Americana, Great British Rhythm and Blues and made lauded debuts across Europe in Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria and Italy. Howlin’ Ric & the Rocketeers deliver an exciting take on a great American tradition. Presenting original Rock & Roll and Rhythm & Blues with a classic and fresh sound and are back in the studio recording their next album, for release in 2025.  A full UK tour will accompany this release. “Howlin’Ric flips effortlessly between powerful rasps, soulful wails and shattering high notes and the band are tight as hell … wild rockers, dance floor fillers and dark blues … jaw-droopingly good” – Vintage Rock

Sunday 24 july 2025: 

The Truffle Valley Boys (IT) @ 21u30

(Bluegrass)

Founded in 2014 by Matt Ringressi and Roots music veteran Ruben Minuto, the Truffle Valley Boys have placed themselves at the forefront of the Blue Grass music scene in Europe.

Meanwhile played dozen of times here at Cowboy Up.
They perform authentic Blue Grass in the most uncompromising way, around a single microphone and using period instrumentation, with the utmost attention to musical and aesthetic details, a fiery drive and a healthy dose of good-natured entertainment!

Sunday 5 October 2025: 

Whiskeydick (USA) @ 15u30

(Hillbilly/Country/Metal)

The Fort Worth duo carry on the Texas traditions of super-powered guitar slinging and clever songwriting that make lone star music a worldwide curiosity, except Reverend Johnson will remind you more of Dimebag Darrell than Billy Gibbons and Fritz remains more lyrically akin to David Allen Coe than Robert Earl Keen.

WhiskeyDick's live show is a true spectacle: two giant, tattooed, mean-looking dudes saunter on stage and sit down on 2 chairs, then pick up acoustic guitars and proceed to amaze everyone by generating more power than a full band by means of Fritz's deep, rich vocals, Johnson's unapproachable acoustic guitar heroics, and their triumphant songwriting.

Sunday 9 november 2025: 

Ward Hayden & The Outliers (USA) @ 15u30

(Country/HonkyTonk/Americana)

Boston is one of America’s great music towns. But among the various styles the city is known for that have launched many musical acts to success and stardom, country music wasn’t a truly thriving genre there, that’s until singer, songwriter and guitarist Ward Hayden and his band The Outliers (formerly known as Girls Guns & Glory) sang and played their distinctivec take on C&W with a rock’n’roll kick to the top of the Boston scene and a thriving, critically-acclaimed and highly-awarded career across America and in Europe. Now, with their ninth LP, South Shore, Ward Hayden & The Outliers bring their “amber-soaked melodies, tight musicianship, and casual elegance” (Boston Globe) all back home, literally and spiritually. Ward notes that the release is “the closest thing I’ve ever done to a concept album. I wanted to just recount my experience of growing up in a small town and what it meant and what it took to get out and leave that behind to try and pursue something, chase after something that was and is a dream. I used to joke that my greatest achievement was I got out of here because it was no easy feat. My family had moved 12 times by the time I was 12 years old, so once there was a place I could really call home and I’d developed friends and connections, it was tough to leave that behind. But, Scituate, Massachusetts isn’t Las Vegas, if you want to get your music to a wider audience you have to get out in the world and bring it to
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