Dierks Bentley with Brothers Osborne, Florida Georgia Line with Bebe Rexha, Kacey Musgraves, Pistol Annies, and Thomas Rhett have been added to the lineup of performers for “The 52nd Annual CMA Awards,” hosted for the 11th consecutive year by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood. Country Music's Biggest Night will air live from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 8:00 PM/ET / 7:00 PM/CT on the ABC Television Network.
Stagecoach music festival started selling tickets on Friday for this April, announcing a lineup led Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt and Jason Aldean, according to Variety.
Country supertrio PISTOL ANNIES have released “Stop Drop and Roll One” off their anxiously-awaited third album INTERSTATE GOSPEL, releasing Nov. 2 on RCA Records Nashville.
Seven-time CMA Female Vocalist of the Year MIRANDA LAMBERT has added six multi-Platinum certifications to her repertoire, as albums REVOLUTION and CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND have been certified double-Platinum by the RIAA, along with singles “The House That Built Me” (3X Platinum), “Mama's Broken Heart” (3X Platinum), “Over You” (2X Platinum), and “Automatic” (2X Platinum).
The fourth annual Maui Songwriters Festival presented by BMI, happening November 29th- December 1st, combines the lush landscapes and local flavor of Maui with the international acclaim of music's best songwriters. Hosted by Grand Wailea, A Waldorf Astoria Resort, this one-of-a-kind festival puts a spotlight on the art of songwriting with intimate sets from an all-star line-up. Country music superstar Miranda Lambert will be headlining the festival along with a special performance with her supergroup, the Pistol Annies. CMA Best New Artist nominee Luke Combs will also be performing. Tickets go on sale October 6th for all shows and can be purchased by visiting www.mauisongwritersfestival.com.
Ovens Auditorium will host Vince Gill, on Wednesday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 22 at 10 a.m. and can be purchased online at Ticketmaster.com, by phone at 800-745-3000, at all Ticketmaster outlets or at the Bojangles' Coliseum Box Office located at 2700 E. Independence Blvd. Tickets cost between $57 and $125 (plus applicable service charges).
"Vince Gill is quite simply a living prism refracting all that is good in country music. He uses the crystal planes of his songwriting, his playing and his singing to give us a musical rainbow that embraces all and spans all seasons." - Kyle Young/Country Music Foundation on Vince's induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Ashley Monroe is set to make the national TV debut of “Hands On You,” from her brand new album Sparrow, on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers May 14. Sparrow, called 'her most ambitious, startling and first-to-last engrossing album yet' by the Wall Street Journal, was produced by Dave Cobb and recorded in Nashville's historic RCA Studio A. Arriving #1 on iTunes Singer / Songwriter charts, NPR Music notes that on Sparrow 'Monroe sounds more sensitive, sensual and comfortable in her skin than she ever has' with Paste proclaiming it to be '…one of the strongest and most grown up country albums to be released this decade.'
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum will mark the opening of its new major exhibition, Outlaws & Armadillos: Country's Roaring '70s, with a lively concentration of programs highlighting the cultural and artistic explosion forged in the 1970s by two distinctly creative cities: Austin and Nashville.
Twenty-one time Grammy Award-winning country music superstar Vince Gill will be returning to headline Atlanta's Fox Theatre on Saturday, Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m. for the first time in 25 years. Gill's last headlining performance at the Fox was in 1992, making this a historical moment for the city and fans alike.
#CMASongwritersSeries presented by @USBank kicks off #CMAfest Wed, June 6 at @CMATheater featuring Mary Chapin Carpenter (@M_CCarpenter), Vince Gill (@VGcom), @MacMcAnally & Don Schlitz (@don4adollar)! Tix, starting at $20, go on sale Wed, Apr 11 at 11 AM|CT on CMAtheater.com.
ACM and CMA Award winning country music star Sara Evans spent the weekend performing in the southeast, wrapping up CMT's 4th annual Next Women of Country Tour. “CMT Next Women of Country presents Sara Evans All The Love Tour featuring RaeLynn and Kalie Shorr” launched in February in New York City with fifteen shows from coast to coast. Special guests RaeLynn (“Lonely Call,” “Love Triangle”) and Kalie Shorr(“Fight Like A Girl,” “Two Hands”), both part of CMT's “Next Women of Country's” impressive roster of artists, were surprised onstage at Saenger Theater (Mobile, AL) where Sara presented them with a custom plaque at the final show, commemorating the tour's success. Fans can relive Sara, RaeLynn, and Kalie's final performance of the fan favorite encore, 80s pop anthem “Girls Just Want To Have Fun,” via the Facebook Live stream.
This 4/20, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Ashley Monroe will make her highly anticipated return with Sparrow, her fourth studio album and first with producer Dave Cobb. The album was recorded in Nashville's historic RCA Studio A while Ashley was pregnant with her first child. Today, Monroe releases 'Wild Love,'the third single to be released from the forthcoming album.
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum will present a very special concert, under the musical direction of Dave Cobb and Shooter Jennings, to mark the opening of the museum's new major exhibition, Outlaws & Armadillos: Country's Roaring '70s. The concert, exhibit and additional programs will explore an era of intense cultural exchange between Nashville and Austin, Texas, in the 1970s, when country music's Outlaw movement was on the rise.
On April 20, Grammy-nominated singer songwriter Ashley Monroe will release Sparrow via Warner Music Nashville. The album, her fourth, was recorded with producer Dave Cobb in Nashville's legendary RCA Studio A. Monroe spoke about the forthcoming album with NPR Music who today also shared the music video for the first released song “Hands On You.” NPR's Jewly Hight said, 'On that song and the 11 others that round out the track list, many of which frame her voice with sumptuous strings, Monroe sounds more sensitive, sensual and comfortable in her skin than she ever has.'
ACM and CMA Award winning country music star Sara Evans reveals a more vulnerable side with her latest single, the powerful heartbreak anthem All The Love You Left Me. The epic track, written by Hillary Lindsey, Gordon Sampson, and Ben West, features searing lyrics of a love lost.
Country singer Sara Evans brings her All The Love Tour to the Kauffman Center on Thursday, March 15. Part of CMT's Next Women of Country program, the concert will also feature up-and-coming country stars RaeLynn and Kalie Shorr. This event is part of the 2017-2018 Kauffman Center Presents series.
Superstar recording artists Kelly Clarkson, Demi Lovato, N.E.R.D., Charlie Puth, Sia and season 12 winner Chris Blue are set to perform on the live two-hour Today, Dec. 19 season finale (9-11 p.m. ET/PT) of NBC's four-time Emmy Award-winning musical competition series THE VOICE.
