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Summerfest officials are excited to announce an additional 23 headliners that will take the stage at Summerfest 2014. Performance dates, times and stage locations for all of this year's headliners will be announced in approximately two weeks.

The 49th ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS, Country Music's Party of the Year, honoring country music's superstars and hottest emerging talent, will air tonight, April 6, 2014.

The Academy of Country Music and dick clark productions announced today that David Nail, George Strait, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood have been added as presenters on the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. The ceremony, which will be co-hosted by Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, will be broadcast from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 6, 2014 at 8:00 PM live ET/delayed PT on the CBS Television Network.

Dierks Bentley with Sheryl Crow, Lee Brice, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, Darius Rucker and Rascal Flatts will all perform on the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. I

As he has been doing throughout Season XIII, new AMERICAN IDOL Executive Producer Per Blankens has again thrown a curveball of a theme at the Top-8. Instead of the well-warn 'Motown' and 'Burt Bacharach' Weeks, for the first time in IDOL history, the finalists all performed their initial audition songs.

Summerfest officials are excited to announce over 75 headlining acts that will perform at the 2014 festival.

The Academy of Country Music announced today that chart-topping country music star and ACM Award nominee Darius Rucker will return to host the ACM Lifting Lives Celebrity Golf Classic at TPC Las Vegas for the third consecutive year on Saturday, April 5, 2014. The ACM Lifting Lives Celebrity Golf Classic-the eighth held since 2004-brings together country music artists Frankie Ballard, Charles Kelley, Scotty McCreery, Jake Owen, and Cole Swindell as well as other members of the music community in a star-studded scramble tournament to raise funds and awareness for ACM Lifting Lives' Diane Holcomb Emergency Relief Fund.

Country artists will have their chance to recognize the music that shaped their lives each week, beginning Today, March 15, with CMT ALL-TIME TOP 40: ARTIST'S CHOICE.

Ravinia's 2014 season, dubbed 'Summer of Love/Season of Stars,' was announced today by Ravinia President and CEO Welz Kauffman. Brimming with talent and romance, the festival's 2014 schedule brings some the biggest names in the world of music as well as repertoire that explores the theme of great love in its various manifestations. No fewer than three musical incarnations of the most famous love story of all time, Romeo and Juliet, will be featured, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performing Tchaikovsky's Overture-Fantasy (July 27), a suite from Prokofiev's ballet setting of the story (July 16) and the score of West Side Story as the classic film is shown (July 17-18). In other examples of love, soprano Deborah Voigt describes it as 'Something Wonderful' on a Broadway evening (July 13), the legendary Broadway team of Lerner and Loewe will be celebrated (July 20), and Chanticleer even jabs at the battle of the sexes in an evening titled 'She Said/He Said' (July 6). In fact, love lurks, longs and lingers across genres in most of the more than 130 events that Ravinia will present in 2014, its 110th year and its 78th as the summer residence of the CSO.

On last night's AMERICAN IDOL performance night, dubbed 'This Is Me,' the Top 13 stormed the stage to perform the songs they most identified with. Take a look back at the highlights!

There have been a number of noticeable improvements to Season XIII of AMERICAN IDOL, including the inclusion of the best judge in the show's history, Harry Connick Jr., and the Boot Camp featuring Idol-made stars Adam Lambert and Chris Daughtry. On the other hand, the new Rush Week was all kinds of disappointment; from Randy Jackson's not-so-triumphant return as the show's new mentor to the contestants having to sprint from their holding chamber to the stage to perform (mostly poorly) just moments after having their fates announced. Unfortunately, that unevenness reared its ugly head again in this week's Top-13 show.

Country superstar Darius Rucker had to reschedule his February 13 show at Giant Center, due to severe weather conditions. The concert will now take place on Monday, March 3 at 7:00 p.m. New supporting acts for the evening will be Parmalee and Jon Pardi, as previously scheduled guests Eli Young Band and David Nail both have conflicts on the new date. All tickets from the February 13 date are valid for the March 3 show.

Country artists will have their chance to recognize the music that shaped their lives each week, beginning Saturday, March 15, with CMT ALL-TIME TOP 40: ARTIST'S CHOICE.

Country superstar Darius Rucker was forced to cancel his show tonight at Giant Center in Hershey Park, Hershey, Pennsylvania due to severe weather conditions associated with the winter storm impacting the area. The concert will be rescheduled for Monday, March 3. Unfortunately True Believers Tour special guests Eli Young Band and David Nail both have conflicts on the new date, but additional acts to accompany Rucker will be announced soon.

Darius Rucker will bring his 2014 True Believers Tour featuring Eli Young Band with special guest David Nail to Giant Center tonight, February 13 at 7:00 PM.

Nominations were announced today for the 49th ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS, Country Music's Party of the Year®, honoring country music's superstars and hottest emerging talent.

The winners of the 56th ANNUAL Grammy Awards were announced last night, Sunday, Jan. 26th live at Los Angeles' STAPLES Center on the CBS Television Network.

MotorCity Casino Hotel has announced Brandy Clark opening for Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland, That Girl Tour 2014, at Sound Board Tuesday, March 11 at 8:00 p.m. presented by WYCD.

Great American Country announced today the addition of Nashville-based entertainment journalist Stacy McCloud to the hosting and reporting team for Headline Country, the network's weekly news magazine now in its sixth season.

Tonight is the VOICE finale night, full of performances from the contestants, past and the three finalists, and performers including OneRepublic, Paramore, Lady Gaga, and more.