Jeptha Creed Distillery just dropped its 2026 Jammin' at Jeptha lineup, and it's a good one. Jordan Rainer kicks the series off on June 6 as part of her Outlaw Rebellion Tour, and Colt Ford closes it down on August 8. Tickets are on sale now, and the whole thing lines up with the distillery's 10-year anniversary celebration.
There's a specific kind of Kentucky summer evening that only makes sense if you've lived through one.
The light starts to go soft around 7:30. The heat of the day loosens its grip but doesn't leave entirely — it just steps back and lets the breeze do the work. Cicadas are warming up in the tree line. Somebody nearby is unloading a cooler. A band is tuning up on a wooden stage backed by weathered barn board, and about two hundred camp chairs are already planted in the grass in front of it. There's a plastic cup of bourbon in your hand, a food truck window open behind you, and a farm full of corn stretching out past the parking lot.
That's Jammin' at Jeptha. And as of this week, the 2026 schedule is official.
The 2026 Lineup
Jeptha Creed Distillery announced this morning that its beloved summer concert series is returning for another year, with two headliners that put the Shelbyville distillery squarely on the summer country-music calendar:
- Jordan Rainer — Saturday, June 6, 2026, doors leading into a 7:30 PM show, as part of her Outlaw Rebellion Tour. Tickets are $30.
- Colt Ford — Saturday, August 8, 2026. Tickets start at $45.
Both shows take place on the scenic grounds of Jeptha Creed Distillery, and both are part of a bigger celebration: the distillery's 10-year anniversary. A decade of bourbon, moonshine, and what the Netherys call “Our Farm to Your Glass” craftsmanship.
Tickets are available now at jepthacreed.com/events-page/. If past years are any indication, the earlier you grab them, the better your seat.
Jordan Rainer — June 6
If you haven't caught up with Jordan Rainer yet, the short version is that she's one of the most magnetic new voices in country music, and she's on a tear.
She's an Oklahoma-rooted, Nashville-based singer-songwriter who broke out on national television and has spent the past couple of years turning that spotlight into a genuine touring career. Her voice has a rasp that country radio has been starved for, her writing has sharp edges, and her live show leans hard into the kind of outlaw-country energy that doesn't fake well. The Outlaw Rebellion Tour name isn't marketing fluff — it's the lane she's cutting for herself.
June 6 is early enough in the summer that the weather should still be sitting in that sweet spot between spring crispness and full Kentucky humidity. Good light, good temperature, and a singer who doesn't need a lot of stage machinery to fill the space between the barn and the back row of chairs. At $30, it's probably the best value on the Shelbyville summer calendar.
Colt Ford — August 8
Colt Ford needs less introduction, at least to anyone who's spent time with country radio over the last fifteen years. He's the artist who more or less built the country-rap lane from scratch, and he's had a hand in writing songs for half of Nashville along the way — including cuts for Jason Aldean, Brantley Gilbert, and Jake Owen.
His live show is a party, full stop. It's the kind of set where the camp chairs empty out about three songs in and the grass in front of the stage becomes a dance floor. He's also, famously, a bourbon guy — which makes Jeptha Creed a particularly natural fit. Holding a Colt Ford show at a Kentucky distillery is just good matchmaking.
August 8 will be peak summer. Bring water, bring a hat for the earlier part of the evening, and make sure somebody in your group has designated-driver duty sorted before the first pour.
Ten Years of Jeptha Creed
It's easy to forget how new Jeptha Creed actually is. The distillery has become such a fixture of the Shelbyville landscape — and such a steady presence in the Kentucky craft-whiskey conversation — that it feels older than it is.
It isn't. Joyce and Autumn Nethery — mother and daughter, an engineer and an operations leader — opened Jeptha Creed in 2016. Ten years ago. They built it on 64 acres of their own family farmland, and from the start they made a decision that still shapes the whole operation: they'd grow their own grain. Specifically, they'd grow Bloody Butcher Corn, a striking red heirloom variety that most modern distilleries won't touch because it's harder to source, harder to run through industrial equipment, and harder to standardize.
That decision put them on a different path from the beginning. Bloody Butcher is in their bourbon, their vodka, their moonshine, and their seasonal releases. You can walk from the distillery to the field where the corn is grown. There's no sleight of hand in the Farm-to-Glass language — it's literal.
Ten years in, that bet looks smarter every season. Jeptha has won a shelf's worth of awards, moved into new states, and built a tasting room that has become one of the must-stops on any serious Shelby County bourbon tour. The concert series is a natural extension of all of it: put the farm, the spirits, and the community in one place on a summer night, and let the music do the rest.
“We're thrilled to welcome Jordan Rainer and Colt Ford to Jeptha Creed for this year's Jammin' at Jeptha series,” said Autumn Nethery, VP of Operations at the distillery. “This event has become such a special tradition for our community, a true centerpiece of summer in Shelbyville. We are excited to continue creating memorable experiences that bring together great music, great bourbon, and great company at the distillery.”
What to Expect on Show Night
If you've never been to a Jammin' at Jeptha night, a few things to know.
- The Jeptha Creed bar is open. That means their flagship bourbon, their vodka, their moonshine lineup, and whatever seasonal releases they're pouring at the time. Yes, you can do a flight before the headliner. Yes, you should.
- Local food trucks rotate in, which is one of the better quiet features of the series. Jeptha uses the concert nights to spotlight Shelby County and surrounding-area food businesses, so what's parked next to the stage changes from show to show. Come hungry.
- It's a camp-chair setup. Bring a chair if you want a guaranteed seat. The grass in front of the stage is fair game for standing and dancing when the set picks up.
- It's outdoors. Kentucky weather in June and August is mostly cooperative, but a late-afternoon thunderstorm is always a possibility. Check the forecast the day of, and watch the distillery's social channels for any weather updates.
- Parking is on-site. The farm has the room for it, which is one of the quiet luxuries of a venue built on 64 acres of open ground.
The Bigger Picture
Kentucky distilleries figuring out that they're also excellent concert venues is one of the better trends of the last five years. The barn-and-barrel aesthetic, the outdoor space, the built-in beverage program, the easy partnerships with regional food businesses — it's all there, already, before the stage even gets built. What Jeptha has done especially well is keep the scale human. This isn't a stadium show. It's a few hundred people, one stage, one farm, and one family of craft spirits.
The 10-year anniversary angle makes this year's series feel like more than just another schedule announcement. It's the Netherys marking a decade of a bet that most people wouldn't have made in 2016 — that a mother and daughter with an engineering background and a field of heirloom corn could build a distillery that held its own in the single most competitive whiskey market on earth. Turns out they were right.
Whether you catch Jordan Rainer in June, Colt Ford in August, or both, you're walking into a place that earned this summer.
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