More artists have been announced as performers for the upcoming 2023 CMT Music Awards. Jelly Roll, Tyler Hubbard, The Black Crowes with Darius Rucker, and Wynonna Judd and Ashley McBryde will now also perform during the live televised broadcast. The new artists announced join a previously-announced list that includes Blake Shelton, Keith Urban, Carly Pearce, Cody Johnson, Kelsea Ballerini, Lainey Wilson and…
Blake Shelton is currently on his final season as a coach on The Voice, a farewell that is bittersweet for him. The Oklahoma native is grateful not only for his time on the reality TV talent show, but the way The Voice has opened up avenues for other aspiring singers, avenues that weren’t available to him at the beginning of his…
The city of Nashville is getting another award show. NBC announces the debut of the People’s Choice Country Awards, taking place in September, live from the Grand Ole Opry. “We’re excited to partner with the Grand Ole Opry to bring the year’s biggest celebration in country music to Nashville,” says Cassandra Tryon, Senior Vice President of Live Events at…
The CMT Music Awards nominees have been announced, with Lainey Wilson leading with a total of four nominations. Cody Johnson, Jelly Roll and Kane Brown follow with three each. Wilson is nominated for Female Video of the Year, for “Heart Like A Truck,” as well as Collaborative Video of the Year, CMT Performance of the Year and the night’s…
The initial lineup for the 2023 CMA Fest has just been announced, featuring plenty of country music’s biggest stars. The event, taking place June 8 to 11 in downtown Nashville, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a jam-packed schedule of nonstop music. The nightly concerts at Nissan Stadium will include Luke Bryan, Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Eric…
Ashley McBryde has a new song she is ready to share with the world. The Grand Ole Opry member just dropped “Light On In The Kitchen,” a song she wrote with Connie Harrington and Jessi Alexander. The song, which celebrates the beauty of coming home, is from a forthcoming new album. “When I tell someone there’s a ‘Light On…
Luke Combs has, so far, written all of his own hits, but he has also written songs for other artists as well, including Gabby Barrett. It was Barrett who first revealed she had a song Combs wrote for her on her forthcoming new record, which Combs now says is one of the best songs he has ever penned, even though…
Chapel Hart just released their current single, “Glory Days,” ahead of their headlining Glory Days Tour, which begins on January 26 in Wichita, Kansas. The trio, made up of sisters Danica and Devynn Hart and cousin Trea Swindle, spent a lot of years trying to get their music heard, before their appearance on America’s Got Talent, where they landed…
January 16, 1999, is a day that Trisha Yearwood will never forget. It was on that day that Yearwood was invited to join the Grand Ole Opry, by Ricky Skaggs. Yearwood shared the video on social media, recalling how important that day was to her, personally and professionally. “We would like to ask you a question, and make you…
2022 was quite the year for music. This year’s Top 10 stories include two appearances by both Walker Hayes and Carly Pearce, along with a couple of recurring stories from 2021, and the first appearance by newcomer, Alexandra Kay, whose fanbase rivals any major artist. The stories cover everything from new music to the Grand Ole Opry, sobriety — twice…
