The 'Springsteen' hitmaker has been unveiled to be joining Carrie Underwood and Thomas Rhett as headliners for the music festival which got scrapped in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Jul 13, 2021

AceShowbiz - Country singer Luke Combs has been tapped to replace Eric Church as one of the headliners for the 2022 Stagecoach Music Festival.

Church had originally been booked to join Carrie Underwood and Thomas Rhett atop the bill for the spring 2020 event before it was scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now organizers are planning to bring the country music gathering back after a two-year hiatus with Underwood and Rhett still among the top acts, but this time, Combs will step in to fill the third headlining slot vacated by Church.

Sharing his excitement as one of the headliners, Combs turned to Instagram to share the news. Along with the line-up poster, the "Springsteen" hitmaker wrote in his post's caption, "See y'all in 2022 at @stagecoach! Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 16th at 10 A.M. PT on stagecoachfestival.com."

Also helping to celebrate the return of the typically-annual weekend festival will be Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Margo Price, Brothers Osborne, Jimmie Allen, Lindsay Ell, Ryan Hurd, Rhiannon Giddens, and Yola, as well as rockers The Black Crowes, Motown icon Smokey Robinson, and dance DJ Diplo, who will help to close out the three-day festival with a set on May 1.

Stagecoach 2022 will take place on the same Indio, California grounds as the popular Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which will wrap its second weekend just one week earlier. Before it was canceled in January due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Stagecoach was actually set to take place from April 23 to April 25, 2021.