Dierks Bentley Spills On His Upcoming Seven Peaks Music Festival

Dierks Bentley had a specific goal in mind when he was planning his upcoming Seven Peaks music festival in Colorado, the same spot that he recorded his last album, The Mountain. He simply wanted to have fun in the middle of the Rockies.

"If nobody else comes, I’m going to have fun," Bentley told PEOPLE in a new interview, which was released on Tuesday (August 7). "That's the goal — just me having fun and doing something really personal that has meaning for me. Selfishly, I set it there just because it gives me another excuse to go back to one of my favorite states in the country."

For the inaugural festival, Bentley decided to make some selfish (but not really that selfish) decisions in terms of admission, stage design and more. "When you’re making a festival that has your name on it you definitely want to include all those elements that make it your own, so having a ’90s night is right up my alley—very me, very my band," Bentley explained. "It's wild what's going on with that genre of music. We'll throw a few of those songs into our set and you've got kids — 16, 17 year-olds — that are singing along to these songs that were made before they were born. There's definitely a resurgence in that area of country music and we’re really excited to be the only festival that has a designated night for that genre."

Seven Peaks, which takes places August 31 to September 2, will feature performances from Miranda Lambert, Brothers Osborne, Elle King, Dan + Shay and more. Click here for more information on the festival!

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