New Queensland country festival Road to Roma to launch in March

A new country music festival has been announced for Queensland's Maranoa region, scheduled to take place in March.

The Road to Roma festival has been locked in for March 6-7 at the Club Hotel. Artists confirmed as part of the new festival's lineup include Golden Guitar winner Andrew Swift, new Melbourne group Darlinghurst, Jayne Denham, Ben Ransom, Melody Moko and Angus Gill, among others.

Darlinghurst

Festival organisers Bec Lavelle and Mathew Reynolds said Road to Roma was an opportunity to "give back" to the local community.

"It’s with big thanks to the generosity of Barry and Felicity Waldron of the Club Hotel in Roma that we are able to bring a two-day festival of incredibly talented Country music artists to town and we can’t wait to help celebrate the community’s resilience," they said in a statement.

“It’s our time to give back to the incredibly hard-working people of Roma and it’s surrounding communities. We want to start 2021 strongly by bringing some of the hottest music talent to the town to celebrate the hard work that everyone’s been putting in throughout the last year."

Tickets for the Road to Roma are on sale now through Eventbrite.