Cole Swindell shared a sweet moment with his pregnant wife before taking the stage at the 2025 iHeartCountry Festival presented by Capital One.

Swindell was part of the star-studded lineup at the festival, which returned Saturday night (May 3) to Moody Center in Austin, Texas. The Georgia-born singer-songwriter shared a kiss with wife Courtney Little Swindell, and cradled her growing baby bump, as the audience cheered for his arrival on stage.

Swindell and his wife got married in a stunning, intimate ceremony in June 2024 in Sonoma County, California. They spent their honeymoon in Turks and Caicos, and hosted a wedding reception with hundreds of family and friends in attendance when they arrived home in Nashville, Tennessee. They announced earlier this year that Courtney is pregnant with Baby No. 1, and quickly followed with a gender reveal to announce the baby is a girl. Swindell is one of several country stars welcoming a baby into the family, along with Sam Hunt, Lauren Alaina, Lady A’s Hillary Scott, Lady A’s Charles Kelley and more. See the list of pregnancy announcements here.

Throughout his set on the Moody Center stage, Swindell played a range of energetic anthems and emotional ballads. He kicked off his set with “Ain’t Worth the Whiskey” and “Chillin’ It,” and moved on with heartfelt singles “Forever To Me” and “You Should Be Here.” The former is the wedding song he wrote when he married Courtney, and the latter is about missing a lost loved one. Swindell encouraged the audience to tell the people they love that they love them during that sincere moment.

He moved forward with “We Can Always Move On,” the latest song he released from his upcoming studio album. Kyle Fishman, Thomas Archer and Michael Tyler teamed up to write “We Can Always Move On,” which Swindell said is “definitely my wife’s favorite” on the album, Spanish Moss. The 21-track record is due to release on June 27.

Swindell closed his 2025 iHeartCountry Festival set with a crowd sing-along anthem, “She Had Me At Heads Carolina.” The Jo Dee Messina-inspired single — which Swindell later released as a collaboration version with the 90s country icon herself — earned the Country Song of the Year honor at the iHeartRadio Music Awards in 2023.

Other artists who joined the 2025 iHeartCountry Festival lineup include Brooks & Dunn, Thomas Rhett, Rascal Flatts, Sam Hunt, Megan Moroney, Nate Smith, Bailey Zimmerman and special guest Dasha, who performed her viral TikTok anthem, “Austin,” in the Texas city of the same name. Festival goers also caught performances on the free Daytime Village stage before the man show, including Smith, Moroney, Matt Stell, Tucker Wetmore and Dasha in the lineup. iHeartCountry Festival viewers and listeners tuned into the show via Hulu, the Official Streaming Destination, and across 122 iHeartCountry stations nationwide and the free iHeartRadio app. It was all hosted by iHeartRadio’s Bobby Bones.

Kathi Yeager