From opening up for Nashville-based superstar Sunny Sweeney to support from BBC Introducing, Black Deer Radio and Sirius XM legend Eric Alper, Americana duo Virginia Dirt really stomped their big blazing boots all over the UK Country scene throughout 2025. Their singles were aired on radios right across the globe, included in playlists on Spotify such as Trending Country and their debut album, mastered by the magician Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, propelled them to sell out shows in multiple cities and even appear at the prestigious British Country Music Festival.

With a busy festival season already in place for the summer and a new EP on the horizon for the spring (produced by Kitty, Daisy and Lewis), Virginia Dirt will be headlining upstairs at the iconic Green Note in Camden on Friday 29th May.

Lead singer Virgie Lynne was born on the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp and raised in small southern US towns. Country music was the soundtrack of her childhood and misspent youth. Inspired by iconic dive bar country artists like Waylon Jennings, as well as the California ‘Bakersfield sound’ (pioneered by Merle Haggard and Buck Owens), her songwriting is loaded with joy, witty humour and despair, and has seen her compared to the likes of Jimmy Webb.

The other half of Virginia Dirt is Suffolk-based Italian Corrado Cecere. Raised in the shadow of the Colosseum, Corrado is part metal-head rocker, part swamp blues man with a parmesan dusting of Louis Prima. With influences like ZZ Top and ACDC commingled with OG country music, his Roman heart could just have easily been born in the hills of Arkansas.

Together, they ride good with honky tonk heart, equal parts polish and grit.