Alabama’s Rock the South festival will be back on Aug. 13-14, organizers announced today. The lineup for the festival in Cullman hasn’t been revealed, but artist announcements will start on April 5, they said.
The festival, which specializes in country and Southern rock music, was canceled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. In April of last year, organizers announced they’d reschedule for June 4-5, 2021, but those dates were pushed back to August.
“With the recent announcements made concerning Alabama’s mask ordinance ending on April 9 as well as the University of Alabama’s decision to return to traditional in-classroom instruction for fall 2021 and plans to open Bryant-Denny Stadium to full capacity for football games, we are following models that predict COVID-19 herd immunity will be achieved by late spring or early summer,” Shane Quick, one of the owners of Rock…