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TICKETS ON SALE THURSDAY MARCH 20th - 10 a.m.The REAL damn Farm to Table BBQ & Concert is BACK on Friday, June 6, 2025! Tickets go on sale this Thursday, Mar 20th at 10:00 a.m. at DuttonRanchNight.com.$49.00 / GA Tickets$79.00 / Premium Tickets$250.00 / Couches (8 Sold Online)$50.00 / Campsite passes$25.00 / Campground Wristbands (Entry per person)GET TICKETSTHE FOODWe’re gonna grill and smoke a dang wagon full of beef for this thing. Dutton Cattle Company’s own premium domestic Wagyu beef, pasture raised and hand fed a few hundred feet away. Everything from brisket and burnt ends, to ribeyes, chuckeyes, Tomahawks and Denvers. And, of course, burgers and all-beef wagyu hot dogs.THE FARMThe Dutton Family settled here in 1981, and at that time most of the entire landscape was either currently being stripped (away for the coal by the coal company), or had just been stripped. By our estimates, this farm land that we tend to today has been stripped of its cover four times over the last 80 years. What you see today is a result of generations of reclamation and agricultural practices to regenerate the land into viable agricultural land with rich soil that can sustain livestock.GET TICKETShttps://ledenews.com/dutton-adds-to-lineups-vibe-for-second-annual-ranch-night/https://ledenews.com/tracy-byrd-headlines-dutton-ranch-night-2025/ Read the full article

FLUSHING, OH: One of the most recognizable voices in country music is set to kick off the Summer with the “Watermelon Crawl” at Dutton Ranch Night, as the Dutton’s announce headliner, Tracy Byrd, for Friday, June 6 on their cattle ranch! The lakeside ranch venue will feel like a Texas Honky Tonk with such hits as, “Holdin’ Heaven”, “The First Step”, and “Watermelon Crawl”, and a true throwback Summer festival, with anthems like, “Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo”, “I’m From the Country,” and “Drinkin’ Bone”.The night will feature four acts from Nashville, replicating a one-night Summer festival lineup.Ranch Night owner and creator, Chris Dutton, recalled the response to the 2024 show.“The 2024 show was a much bigger party than we expected, but it felt like the crowd wanted more Nashville acts, and a bigger, revved-up performance. And I agreed with them!”He's one of Nashville's rising stars right now, and that's why Texas native Braxton Keith has been included in this year's lineup.The Duttons are expanding the lineup and doubling down on the “Honky Tonk Vibe” with one of Nashville’s next rising stars, Texas native, Braxton Keith! The “Cozy” singer features a throwback ’80s country aesthetic with a revved-up band and rich organic tones.Ranch Night has added singer-songwriter, Mackenzie Carpenter, to the lineup as well. The talented and high-energy performer has spent her young career writing songs for megastar, Megan Maroney, and has recently released a new song with Midland, with an album due out in March.“I love this lineup because they’re all such high-energy performers while being incredible songwriters. It will be impossible to keep from dancing at this show”, Dutton said candidly.Mackenzie Carpenter is a singer/songwriter who is a high-energy performer who spent several years writing songs for Megan Maroney.Aside from the additional talent, Dutton Ranch Night 2025 will largely follow the same model as its 2024 predecessor with one major addition: camping. The Duttons are adding “dry camping” to their seasonal AirBnB lodging area within the ranch for country fans to bring travel trailers and tents for a two-night experience beginning Thursday, June 5.The Dutton family’s farm-to-table country concert far exceeded expectations in 2024, which featured Sammy Kershaw, Bryan Martin, and a massive evening-encore fireworks display! Attendees dined on a variety of the Dutton family’s own premium Ohio wagyu beef, from brisket and burnt ends to burgers and all-beef hotdogs. The food prep, cooking, and service were handled by the talented staff of their own farm-to-table restaurant, The Pike 40 in Morristown.Last year's inaugural Dutton Ranch Night was attended by nearly 2,000 fans on the Dutton Cattle farm near Flushing, Ohio.General Admission Lawn ($49.00) and limited Premium Tickets will be available for purchase on Thursday, March 13. Overnight concert parking will be free again this year.A self-guided farm tour, beef sales, and an extensive whiskey menu will again be featured at the 2025 show.For more information or to pre-register for camping, visit duttonranchnight.com or email [email protected] food at this year's event will once again be the Dutton family’s own premium Ohio wagyu beef, from brisket and burnt ends to burgers and all-beef hotdogs from their farm-to-table restaurant, The Pike 40 in Morristown. Read the full article

He refers to it as, “making lemonade out of lemons.”And what Chris Dutton means by that he’s going to throw an impressive retirement celebration for the Blame My Roots country music festival featuring country legend Sammy Kershaw and the popular Bryan Martin, both of whom were signed to perform at BMR, and the event will feature a true farm-to-table food experience.“Ranch Night” is set for this evening at the Dutton Cattle Company in Flushing, Ohio.“Doing the festival was challenging for a lot of different reasons, but we gave it a go and we’re very proud of the shows we put together for the people who came,” he said. “But it’s a tough business to get into because the industry is so lopsided with which festival gets the headliners and which ones don’t. We tried to play the games for a few years, and we put on some terrific shows for the people who came.Chris works on the family ranch with his father, the original John Dutton.“We saw an opportunity after the Jamboree went away and we did what we could,” he explained. “Now, ‘Ranch Night’ is going to be a great time because it’s going to be about two things – great music and great food.”Did he say food?He did. He sure did.“There have been country concerts in parking lots and in giant stadiums, but this is going to be at an active cattle ranch. So, we’re going to have the chance for something very cool – a true farm-to-table eating experience on the actual farm,” Dutton explained. “Of course, the food will center around our beef, and we’ll have a serving line of options to go with like they have at a Chipotle restaurant.“That will be the best way to feed a large crowd great food as quickly as possible,” he said. “And I believe we’re going to have a big crowd because there’s a lot of Sammy Kershaw and Brian Martin fans out there. The folks at the Pike 40 will be creating most of the food ideas like beef tips and brisket and so on, and there will be other offerings for those who are not beef fans.”The Duttons have constructed a few Airbnbs on the ranch property and 'Ranch Night' will take place near a couple of them.A Cow’s MooWhile the country music festival was staged along U.S. 40 at the Valley View Campground, ‘Ranch Night’ will take place where Dutton was raised.The Dutton Cattle Company is seven miles from Interstate 70 and just off of Ohio 331 in Flushing, Ohio. It is reclaimed land stripped of its coal several times before agricultural practices permitted nature to return the land to viability. These days, the Dutton ranch produces thousands of pounds of Wagyu beef each year that’s distributed regionally and featured at the Pike 40 Restaurant in Morristown and the Vagabond Kitchen in downtown Wheeling.“We’ve wanted to do something like ‘Ranch Night’ on the farm for a lot of years, and we’ve talked about it a ton but never really got to the point to where it was time to make it happen,” Dutton said. “That conversation began after we started developing and building on parts of the farm where we have a couple of Airbnbs, and we realized how great of a location it would be for something like ‘Ranch Night.’ We’ve had a few ‘farm days,’ but nothing like this for sure.After decades of surface mining in the Flushing area, the Dutton family worked for years to reclaim the property for the cattle farm.“I know on the show ‘Yellowstone’ they filmed a farm day that turned into a nighttime event with live entertainment with barbecue and white tents everywhere. That’s similar to what I would like to make happen,” he said. “And we’ve had similar events, but with a few hundred people, and ‘Ranch Night’ is going to be bigger than that with a lot of different elements.”Just as he did with the BMR weekends, Dutton enjoys tweaking certain aspects of the fan experience and adding amenities he’s experienced elsewhere. ‘Ranch Night’ will be no different.“When you do an event like ‘Ranch Night,’ there’s a lot of things you have to do, and then there are certain aspects that can be twisted a little to make them unique, and that’s what I enjoy the most,” he admitted. “We did that with Blame My Roots with the cabana seating, and with a lot of things in the VIP area, and we’ll have some of those things again because of how much people enjoyed them.“’Ranch Night’ will be organic and authentic,” Dutton added. “And there’s going to be a couple of terrific shows that go along with it all. People are going to have a lot of fun at this party.”