Organizers are gearing up for the 11th annual Red Ants Pants Music Festival starting this Thursday.

For years, it's brought top name entertainers to a cow pasture just outside White Sulphur Springs.

Thousands of music fans converge there for concerts that have included big names like Dwight Yoakam, Lorrie Morgan and Pam Tillis.

The event benefits the nonprofit Red Ants Pants Foundation, which supports women's leadership, working family farms and ranches and rural communities.

Organizers say the foundation provides more than $110,000 in grants and programming to support its mission of increasing women's leadership.

The event sold out last year, so people are encouraged to buy tickets in advance.

This year's performers include Grace Potter, The Dirty Shame, Great American Trainwreck and Wolf and the Moons.

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