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ALABAMA, DIERKS BENTLEY, RONNIE DUNN, SARA EVANS, MARTINA McBRIDE, REBA, BLAKE SHELTON, CARRIE UNDERWOOD AND
ZAC BROWN BAND WITH JAMES TAYLOR, TO PERFORM AT THE “46th ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC® AWARDS,”
TO BE BROADCAST LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS, SUNDAY, APRIL 3 ON THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK
Nancy O’Dell and Ryan Seacrest Scheduled to Present
Alabama, Dierks Bentley, Ronnie Dunn, Sara Evans, Martina McBride, Reba, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood and Zac Brown Band with James Taylor are scheduled to perform on the 46th ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS, to be broadcast live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Sunday, April 3 (8:00-11:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network. The ceremony, which honors country music’s top talent as well as the industry’s hottest emerging artists, is produced for television by dick clark productions.
The aforementioned artists join previously announced performers Jason Aldean, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban—all of whom are Entertainer of the Year nominees.
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(RTTNews) – Carrie Underwood is set to co-host the upcoming “America’s Opry Weekend New Faces of Country” special this weekend.
The “Cowboy Casanova” singer will share her personal success story with new Opry members during the show. She was inducted just three years ago by country legend Randy Travis.
Underwood and her co-host Mike Terry will be playing the music of some new voices on the Opry stage and Country music charts. It will also include interviews, special performances and behind the scenes pieces.
When asked by interviewers what she wants to have accomplished by the time she’s a tem-year Opry member, Underwood said: “I really don’t set too many goals for myself. I just go with the flow and enjoy opportunities to do new things as they come around. I just hope I continue to be happy and healthy.”
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Oklahoma’s country superstars Reba McEntire and Carrie Underwood, Oklahoma-related Miranda Lambert plus Martina McBride and Jennifer Nettles are among the performers scheduled for “Girls’ Night Out: Superstar Women of Country.”
The new concert special, taped at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, will be broadcast at 8 p.m. April 22 on CBS, instead of the previously announced May date. The event is a tribute concert paying respect to today’s most talented country music female artists, all of whom will be honored by the Academy of Country Music for career achievement.
Lambert, who is planning her wedding to country music star Blake Shelton and makes her home near Tishomingo, took home her first Grammy last month for Best Female Country Performance. Lambert will be recognized for being the first female in the Academy’s history to win Album of the Year twice for both 2007 and 2009.
McEntire, who was selected for induction into the Country Hall of Fame on Tuesday, will receive recognition for winning Top Female Vocalist seven times, more than any other artist in Academy history.
Underwood will receive accolades for being the only female in the Academy’s history to win Entertainer of the Year twice – in 2008 and 2009.
McBride is being honored by ACM Lifting Lives for her dedication to “raising social consciousness” through her songs including “Independence Day” and “Concrete Angel” And, Nettles will be recognized as one of only two female artists to solo write and perform Song of the Year “Stay.”
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NEW YORK, March 2, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Empire Sports and Entertainment Holdings Co. (OTCBB:EXCX), “The Empire,” a promoter of entertainment and sports events, today proudly announced the outstanding talent lineup for the 2 nd Annual CAPITAL HOEDOWN, making it the largest country music festival in North America.
Riding on the heels of the successful CAPITAL HOEDOWN festival debut produced last summer by Concert International Inc. (The Empire’s partner for this year’s event), the newly minted partnership expects to present the best and biggest country music event with an incredible star-studded lineup.
The A-list of artists who will be performing at beautiful LeBreton Flats Park, August 11, 12, and 13, include Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood, recent Grammy-award winner Miranda Lambert, Rascal Flatts, Doc Walker, Sara Evans, Billy Currington, Tara Oram, Easton Corbin, Justin Moore and The Keats. Additional artists will be added to this historic and exciting program as the festival approaches.
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A Grand Ole Opry “Opry All-Star Weekend” is set for March 4th and 5th and among those scheduled to perform include 2011 Academy of Country Music nominees The Band Perry, Blake Shelton, and Carrie Underwood, plus Rodney Atkins, Hall of Famer Jimmy Dickens, and more. A second show has been added to the weekend line-up on March 4th, and artist performance dates are available at here.
“All-Star Weekend” shows will include free Opry trading cards for fans at the shows and in-show giveaways in addition to all-star performances on stage and pre-show tailgate fun outside the Opry House. Fans can also enjoy backstage tours of the newly refurbished Grand Ole Opry House throughout the weekend. The “Opry All-Star Weekend” will also include the debut of Opry check-in features on Facebook and Foursquare, giving fans the opportunity to save on weekend Opry activities, Opry star music and other merchandise.
Are you going to enjoy the “Opry All-Star Weekend” next month?
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Amy Winehouse, Josh Groban and Carrie Underwood are among the artists Tony Bennett is recording with for “Duets 2,” a follow-up to his tremendously successful 2006 effort, “Duets.”
That first project celebrated the legendary Bennett’s 80th birthday. Similarly, “Duets 2” will honor the star for his 85th birthday and will come out in September on Columbia. Bennett turns 85 on Aug. 3.
Over the weekend, The New York Post broke the news that Winehouse and Bennett were recording together, but we have the exclusive details about “Duets 2” from Bennett’s manager/son Danny Bennett, whom we saw at the MusiCares tribute to Barbra Streisand on Feb. 11.
The set will also include new songs recorded with k.d. lang and Michael Buble, both of whom appeared on “Duets,” as well as, Danny hopes, Aretha Franklin.
Winehouse attended Bennett’s two London shows this past summer and Danny tells Hitfix that Winehouse took advantage of the meeting to seek Bennett’s counsel. Bennett advised her to take care of herself and her voice.
The album, like “Duets,” will be composed mainly of jazz standards, including “Body & Soul,” written in the ‘30s and recorded by the likes of Coleman Hawkins and Billie Holiday, as well as “Stranger in Paradise,” which Bennett first recorded in 1955.
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ARISTA/NASHVILLE star CARRIE UNDERWOOD will co-host WESTWOOD ONE’s AMERICA’S OPRY WEEKEND NEW FACES OF COUNTRY SPECIAL the weekend of MARCH 5th, along with host MIKE TERRY.
OPRY member CARRIE will share her success story as well as playing the music of some of the new voices on the OPRY stage and on the Country music charts throughout the special.
Among the artists and songs listeners will hear are “Undo It,” UNDERWOOD; “If I Die Young,” THE BAND PERRY; “I’m A Little More Country Than That,” EASTON CORBIN; “Smoke A Little Smoke,” ERIC CHURCH; “Boots On,” RANDY HOUSER and “Someone Else Calling You Baby,” LUKE BRYAN.
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Carrie Underwood takes the top spot on this week’s American Idol airplay chart with Mama’s Song. Mama’s Song, currently at No. 6 on USA TODAY’s Country radio chart, overtakes Daughtry’s September, which drops to No. on the Idol airplay chart.
Three holiday tracks from into this week’s Idol Top 10: Kelly Clarkson’s My Grown Up Christmas List, Carrie’s Do You Hear What I Hear and Clay Aiken’s O Holy Night.
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Checotah native Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, Lady Antebellum, Jason Aldean and Zac Brown Band will be honored as “Artists of the Year 2010 CMT” in his first musical special at 7 Friday on Country Music Television. The first “CMT year of the artist “event, recorded Tuesday night, hosted by actor / country singer Kevin Costner and musicians assembled from different genres, movie stars and a group of famous chefs designing a gourmet meal for party.
According to the Associated Press, the event was appropriate for a show dedicated to the five acts kind of folding. Tuesday Smokey Robinson and Kid Rock were hugging in the crowd, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry up the volume on a version of Jason Aldean’s “My Kinda Party”.
Which was Swift, his band and his girlfriend Hayley Williams of Paramore dancing around their table, and Maroon 5 for setting a reggae backbeat inspired by the latest hit from Swift,”I want to thank the Maroon 5 is coming in here and take this one word,” Girl, “says Swift.
It also shows the team of Adele and Darius Rucker Lady Antebellum smash “Need You Now” and Amos Lee approving the Zac Brown band to invite them to join the “cold”. AP says that sales of albums and CMT viewers tickets and other traditional signs of success in the selection of the artists’ year. But Costner said: “This is not about numbers, has some impact.”
The winners have changed the rules, leading the charge to bring a new diversity of country music sound that allowed him to break his stroke on the traditional boundaries in the worlds of pop, jam bands and classic rock. “American Idol” winner Underwood has created an amazing connection with their fans to new heights in a five-year career that has already accumulated a lot of lights.
Swift, who was also named Artist of the Year Entertainment Weekly magazine, has set records, rising prices and opened the doors to the success of acts like Lady Antebellum, Law Bestsellers field to date 2010. The Zac Brown Band has demonstrated its capacity class and the pitch playing Bonnaroo CMA Music Festival on the same weekend.
Finally seems to give a little tribute rocker Aldean Georgia for its peaceful rise to the top country music heap. In recent years, has sent several singles topped the charts, but has snubbed repeated many of the awards show. According to AP, he spent Tuesday night show is only his second speech, accepting the honor of his parents and thanks his producer Michael Knox. But he does not stop there.
“I don’t get to do this much, so I will be back,” Aldean said. “Hey, bear with me.” It seems that the show is definitely worth watching, when the first “CMT Artists of the Year” special night next Friday. Check out a preview of the show after the break.
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It has been a pretty good year for Carrie Underwood. New album. New singles. New husband. She’s not being burdened as much with new awards this year (even though she certainly is being nominated for enough of
them), but she still seems to be doing just fine when it comes to selling albums — which will no doubt lead to new gold and platinum certifications soon. And even though she doesn’t have a Christmas album out (yet), her music must be on someone’s Christmas list, because all three of her albums combined this week to sell over 30,000 copies, according to Nielsen Soundscan and “Idol Chatter.” And that puts her over the 12 million threshold, lifting her above the mark by 22,000.
Three albums. Twelve million copies sold. And that is just in the United States.
Of all the American Idol alumni, Underwood, possibly due to her appearances at several awards shows in the past couple weeks, saw a bump in her album sales. According to Nielsen Soundscan, her latest release, “Play On,” sold 18,000 copies this past week. It placed at #66 on the Billboard 200.
Underwood’s first album, “Some Hearts,” re-entered the Billboard 200 at #192, selling 7,000 copies. To date, “Some Hearts” is the biggest selling album by an American Idol alum.
Her sophomore offering, “Carnival Ride,” sold an additional 5,000 copies but didn’t place.
And since Underwood continues to appear on television and get nominated for awards, there is every reason to believe that her album sales will continue to move at a steady pace. The day after she received one of the five 2010 Artist Of The Year awards presented by CMT (Country Music Television), the Season 4 winner of American Idolwas nominated for a Grammy. Her song, “Temporary Home,” garnered her a nomination for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. If she wins, it will be her fourth straight Grammy win in the same category (and her fifth Grammy win altogether).
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