A music festival touted as the first of it's kind could be coming to Sherman next year.

It's been in the planning for several months now. Organizers said they've even secured a headlining artist.

The North Texas Regional Airport was discussed as a venue at a meeting Thursday.

A crowd of thousands could potentially gather for a country music festival in Sherman in April.

"I think that's a feather in our cap. We have a piece of country music icon history in our county," festival founder Kevin Couch said.

Country music legend Buck Owens was born in Sherman.

And that's how the idea for the Buck Owens Festival was born.

Kevin Couch and his friend thought about bringing a statue of him to Sherman.

But they then they thought of this…

"A whole day full of music and do a music festival in his honor," Couch said.

Couch said Owens represents traditional country style.

"So that's kind of where we were going with it. We thought we should have some gatekeepers of the old guard come down and pay homage to Buck Owens," Couch said.

A lot goes into planning a music festival.

The first step is to secure a head liner, which they did, but they won't exactly say who it is.

Here's a big clue.

"But the headliner has walked the streets of Bakersfield and that's about all I can legally say, is he's done that with Buck Owens," Couch said.

That would mean it's Dwight Yoakam.

He sang a hit with Owens called the streets of Bakersfield in the 80's.

The next step is to nail down sponsors and a venue.

Airport director Bob Torti says major concerns are security, parking and clean up.

"We wanna be good partners, but we just all have to make sure we're on the same page. Because safety's always first at the airport," Torti said.

Torti said it's been done before.

Reba McEntire drew thousands to the airport when she held a concert there years back.

"We're gonna work as hard as we can to make it work," Torti said.

"Its truly gonna take the community coming together and rallying behind this," Couch said.

There will be a meeting in a couple of weeks to sort out some logistics to move forward with the music festival.