June Carter Cash News

The special will feature performances from Mary J. Blige, Toni Braxton, Mariah Carey, Kelly Clarkson, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, Goo Goo Dolls, Ariana Grande, Jewel, Leona Lewis, Audra McDonald and The Rockettes.

NBC will celebrate the lighting of the world's most famous Christmas tree with a live broadcast from Rockefeller Center in New York City on Wednesday, Dec. 4

Julien's Auctions, the world's premiere music and entertainment memorabilia auction house, has announced a very rare opportunity to own Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia's Custom Travis Bean TB500 Electric Guitar at a two-day auction event featuring the best of rock royalty.

Popular demand and critical acclaim have prompted the Award-winning Downtown Cabaret Theatre to present the return engagement of The Man In Black, a live stage and media celebration of the music of the great Johnny Cash starring Scott Keeton.

'It's an amazing world we live in today,' says Bob Everhart, President of the National Traditional Country Music Assn. 'It's thrilling to see some prehistoric creatures return to planet earth,' Everhart said in a recent radio interview, 'but more importantly to me is the struggle to keep our old-time rural music alive. Nebraska is one of the last states in America that makes an attempt at keeping their cultural heritage a part of the present. Early 'country' music was directly from the soil, from the real 'country' if you will. Country music we hear today is not really 'country' music, it's just a pale imitation of the real thing. Originally from 'rural' America, so-called country music today has fallen into the hands of whoever has the most money. Still, the roots from whence it came is very important, especially to Nebraskans. The 'rural' music of the Great Plains tells the tales of early life on the prairie, it tells stories of homesteading and pioneering. So, where are the stories about the groundbreaking activities of our ancestors? What happened to the songs of our early rural music makers?'

Lifetime received a total of 12 Emmy Award nominations this morning, the most ever in the network's history, including five nods for its hit unscripted series Project Runway, which was nominated for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program

Four-time Grammy Award nominee Jewel is joining “The Sing-Off” as a new judge, along with Shawn Stockman and Ben Folds, with host Nick Lachey (“The Winner Is”) also set to come back.

1976 was a big year for the National Traditional Country Music Association,' says Bob Everhart, current president of the organization. 'That was the year of its founding, and it has been running continuously ever since. It conducts the upper Midwest's most successful festival of early American country, bluegrass, folk, mountain, hillbilly, and western music. There's lots of labels and genres to describe 'country' music, but we are pretty much in the time-frame before it became what it is today. Thirty-eight years is a long time to keep any kind of event going, and to see Mickey Gilley one of the best known country music piano players ever, to become one with America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame, is indeed a recognition of the importance of the roots of country music. Mickey Gilley's most prestigious year was that same year the NTCMA was founded, 1976, when the Academy of Country Music awarded him with Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year, Single of the Year, Song of the Year, Top Male Vocalist of the Year, and Music City News proclaimed him the Most Promising Male Artist of the Year. 1976, bicentennial year celebration of the birth of America. Amazing isn't it, that in 2013, 38 years later, this same man, Mickey Gilley, will be inducted into this kind of Hall of Fame, that emanates from rural America.'

Three-time Grammy nominee Jewel brings her world renowned vocal talents to THE SHOW at The Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa tonight, June 7 at 9:00 pm for a unique 'impromptu' style concert featuring both her greatest hits and songs she has never recorded. Songwriting became a means of survival for Jewel - she experienced homelessness living out of her car as a teenager in San Diego. Three years later her first single 'Who Will Save Your Soul' launched her stardom. She has sold over 27 million albums in her career, so far. I had the opportunity to chat with the singer about her upcoming concert in Rancho Mirage and 'all things Jewel'. Here are a few highlights from that conversation:

Three-time Grammy nominee Jewel brings her world renowned vocal talents to THE SHOW at The Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa on June 7 at 9:00 pm for a unique "impromptu" style concert featuring both her greatest hits and songs she has never recorded. Songwriting became a means of survival for Jewel - she experienced homelessness living out of her car as a teenager in San Diego. Three years later her first single "Who Will Save Your Soul" launched her stardom. She has sold over 27 million albums in her career, so far. I had the opportunity to chat with the singer about her upcoming concert in Rancho Mirage and "all things Jewel". Here are a few highlights from that conversation:

Clear Channel Media and Entertainment and Dualtone Music Group, a leading boutique independent music label, today announced an agreement that enables Dualtone and its artists to share revenue from Clear Channel's broadcast and digital radio.

Boston-based quintet Della Mae performs two special CD Release shows at Club Passim on Monday, June 3 at 7:00PM and 9:30PM. Their debut album for Rounder, This World Oft Can Be will be released Tuesday, May 28. The album, which was produced by Bryan Sutton and mixed by Paul Q. Kolderie (Radiohead, Hole, Dinosaur Jr.) shows that like the Avett Brothers, Lumineers, and Punch Brothers, these five multitalented young women are respectful of American musical tradition, but not restricted by it, combining centuries' worth of musical influences with an emotionally tough, undeniably modern songwriting sensibility.

Lifetime will premiere its Original Movie RING OF FIRE, starring four-time Grammy(R) Award-nominee Jewel as legendary country artist June Carter Cash, tonight, May 27, 2013, at 8 pm ET/PT.

AT&T*, CBS Interactive and Stageside Productions' live webcast concert series, STAGESIDE LIVE, will feature four-time GRAMMY Award nominee and world-renowned singer-songwriter Jewel in a live webcast performance from the world-famous Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater in Austin, TX, tonight, May 1 (8:00 PM CT/9:00 PM ET), on CBS.com.

AT&T*, CBS Interactive and Stageside Productions' live webcast concert series, STAGESIDE LIVE, will feature four-time GRAMMY Award nominee and world-renowned singer-songwriter Jewel in a live webcast performance from the world-famous Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater in Austin, TX, Wednesday, May 1 (8:00 PM CT/9:00 PM ET), on CBS.com.

An iconic trio of music, news and sports broadcasting legends will be honored on Thursday, May 9, at WFUV Radio's Annual Gala 2013.

Last night, April 5, to a packed audience at The Orleans Showroom in The Orleans Hotel and Casino, Jewel entertained the crowd with an acoustic set and a Q&A that included a sneak peek of scenes from the Lifetime Original Movie 'Ring of Fire,' in which she stars as June Carter Cash. Scroll below for photos from the event!

Jewel will partner with ACM Lifting Lives to perform a live mash-up of her chart-topping hit “Hands” combined with “Fill a Heart,” an original song written by singer-songwriter Tori Kelly, in a special musical moment presented by ConAgra Foods' Child Hunger Ends Here program. This performance will take place during the 48th ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS, broadcast LIVE from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Sunday, April 7 (8:00-11:00PM, live ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network.

The Academy of Country Music announced today the line-up of free music performances and special events held during the open-to-the-public ACM EXPERIENCE, a family-friendly country music lifestyle event held April 5-7, 2013 at The Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Artists including Jewel, Katie Armiger, Easton Corbin, Jerrod Niemann, Danielle Peck, Tate Stevens, Charlie Worsham, Blackberry Smoke, Love and Theft and more will be featured.