2026 Fall Headliner
Monty Criswell
MONTY CRISWELL is a ACM, CMA, Dove, Canadian CMA and People’s Choice Awards nominee along with being a 2-time GRAMMY nominee for Country Song of the Year (“I Saw God Today” and “Just Fishin’”). “I Saw God Today” was awarded CMA Single of the Year in 2008. He’s also an author and stage III cancer survivor. His medical memoir Two Weeks at a Time will be in stores in late 2026.
His songs have been featured on ESPN, ABC, NBC, CBS, the SEC Network, the Hallmark Channel, Netflix, and the hit TV series Yellowstone.
Monty’s had hundreds of songs recorded over the span of his thirty-two-year career as a full-time songwriter, having at least one number one in each of the last three decades. Singles and hits include “Loving Every Minute” (Mark Wills), “Tough” (Craig Morgan), “Like Jesus Does” and “Hell of a View” (Eric Church), “I Saw God Today” (George Strait), “Just Fishin’” (Trace Adkins), “Five More Minutes” and “Fall of Summer” (Scotty McCreery), “Makin’ Me Look Good Again” (Drake White), “Bottle Rockets” (Scotty McCreery with Hootie & the Blowfish), “Country’d Look Good on You" (Frank Ray), “Paper Umbrellas” (Tim McGraw), “One to Willie” (Riley Green), “Coconut Tree” (Kenny Chesney), and “Handle on You” and “Killin’ Me” (Parker McCollum), among others.