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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