October 19th & 20th marks the 33rd Annual North Carolina Oyster Festival, a beloved festival full of seafood, hometown fun, and lots of great music! This year’s headlining band for the Oyster Festival are The Lost Trailers!
The Lost Trailers, a country music band, started as a music project of Stokes Nielson. The band was discovered by Willie Nelson, who was so impressed that he invited them to perform at his famed 4th of July Picnic. That performance launched them into a career, The Lost Trailers turned from a struggling touring regional act to snagging 3 American Country Music Nominations and several Top 20 hits on country radio while opening for Sugarland, Taylor Swift, Jamey Johnson and many others.
The Lost Trailers continued touring through 2010, first as opener for Tim McGraw’s tour with Lady Antebellum, then as a part of the Inaugural Country Throwdown Tour with Montgomery Gentry and Jamey Johnson.
In 2011, following the lead of other successful country artists, The Lost Trailers began launching singles as an independent act, opting out of their deal with Sony Records Nashville. They were the only wholly independent act (no ties to major labels through promotion or distribution) in country music to field two Top 40 singles in 2012, the anthemic “Underdog” and the barn-burning “American Beauty”.
In 2013, Nielson was tapped to produce music for the June Carter Cash biopic “Ring Of Fire”, starring Jewel. The Lost Trailers set off to begin their own 2013 summer tour in Mid-May and wrapping it up with The NC Oyster Festival in October and a USO stop overseas in November!
