About Us

Country Concerts comprises a fully qualified team of entertainment specialists. Our expertise in event organisation is unparalleled. The team is headed up by our two chief executives, Paul King and Linda Harris.

Paul King
Paul has been a concert promoter for over 25 years, and during that time has planned and organised many major events in the UK. Paul was the first promoter to stage an open-air concert at Scotland's National Stadium, Hampden Park. The show featured Genesis and was attended by the Princess Royal in her capacity as President of The Save the Children Fund.

Paul continues to hold the record at the Wembley Complex for the longest run of consecutive shows by one artist. Dire Straits played for fourteen nights, the first being in the presence of The Prince and Princess of Wales, in aid of The Prince's Trust.

To date, the largest concert organised by Paul was the Silver Clef Knebworth concert, which featured Pink Floyd, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, Sir Cliff Richard, Genesis, Dire Straits, Eric Clapton, Status Quo and Tears for Fears. The event was attended by 120,000 people and has since been broadcast globally on both radio and television, helping to raise in excess of £6 million for the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy charity.

Jane Duggan
Jane is a proven entrepreneur and media consultant with a strong track record in delivering high value commercial deals.

An internet pioneer, Jane has 20 years of commercial media experience. Working for FTSE 100 media company, EMAP, she managed the commercial and development aspects of media brands like FHM.com, as their New Media Director. She was one of the first people to commercialise the internet for EMAP, and landed six figure deals, driving their traffic to more than 1 million (an unprecedented level pre-broadband).

In 1997, she had the idea for scrum.com, the first ever rugby site, which she set up and ran as a successful start-up venture within emap. Upon leaving Jane helped set up madforsport, with entrepreneur and publisher, Tony Harris, which eventually became the hugely successful business Boat International.

Following that Jane moved into the Music Industry, Band management, looking after Tom McRae, in every aspect of musician management including putting on UK and World Tours, sponsorship sales and event management.

In recent years her work has included work with acts and events such as The Mojo Awards, Offset Festival, Richard Hawley, Tom McRae, Steve Reynolds, Elbow, Madness, Suggs, Gibson Guitar, The Hotel Cafe, The Hosts and the 80's band The Blow Monkeys. And with many brands that include Guinness, Beefeater, Gibson Guitar, Guitar Hero, Tuborg Beer, and My Single Friend,

Prior to EMAP Jane worked in magazines and exhibitions, coordinating the exhibitions of multi-national IT and Oil and Gas companies, setting up and running exhibitions in the UK, and setting up and coordinating exhibitions in Kazakhstan and India.