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Tyler Childers and Chris Stapleton to Co-Headline Healing Appalachia, as the Recovery-Focused Fest Moves to the Stars’ Home State, Kentucky (EXCLUSIVE)

The Healing Appalachia festival, which focuses on recovery as well as music, is moving to Kentucky. Chris Stapleton is joining mainstay Tyler Childers.

The full lineup has not yet been revealed, but Childers announced details about his return to the festival over the weekend while performing to a sold-out crowd at the University of Kentucky’s Kroger Field in Lexington. Other artists who have previously been on the lineup include Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Gov’t Mule, Charles Wesley Godwin and Trey Anastasio of Phish. Hope in the Hills, the WV-based nonprofit that puts on the festival, has distributed more than $1 million — and all of its proceeds beyond production costs — to “boots-on-the-ground nonprofits offering life-saving prevention, recovery, and wellness programming across Appalachia and beyond… All proceeds are funneled into inspiring programs of change, including everything from yoga in women’s prisons, mentoring for teen girls in foster care, and outdoors-based camps for trauma-impacted kids, to music therapy and festival outreach nationwide, harm reduction, recovery houses, and innovative reentry and recovery-to-work initiatives.” Healing Appalachia is also involved in Naloxone education and training.

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