Country 2 Country 2019 line-up announced: Lady Antebellum, Keith Urban and Chris Stapleton to headline

Country 2 Country, the biggest country music festival outside of America, has announced its line-up for the 2019 event. 

The festival takes place in three arenas across the UK and Ireland between March 8 - 10: at London's O2 Arena, Glasgow's SSE Hydro and Dublin's 3Arena. 

Headliners for next year's festival are trio Lady Antebellum, Kentucky-born singer songwriter Chris Stapleton and country music legend Keith Urban. 

Other acts booked to play include Hunter Hayes, Lyle Lovett, Brett Eldredge, Chase Rice, Dustin Lynch, Carly Pearce and Arkansas-born Ashley McBryde. More names are expected to be announced soon. 

Tickets for next year's C2C festival go on sale on Friday, October 26 at 10am.

This year's event in March was headlined by Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, Little Big Town and Kacey Musgraves. Kacey's latest album, Golden Hour, debuted at Number 6 on the Official Albums Chart the following month.

Atomic Kitten singer Liz McClarnon also made her country music debut at this year's festival, revealing to Official Charts she was working on a country album.