CMA Fest, the three-hour primetime concert special set to be filmed during CMA Fest’s milestone 50th anniversary in Nashville later this week, will air on July 19 on ABC.

Hosted by Dierks Bentley, Elle King and Lainey Wilson and airing at 7 p.m. CT, the special will feature never-before-seen performances and surprise collaborations from some of country’s hottest acts.

” I could not be more excited to welcome Dierks, Elle and Lainey as our CMA Fest hosts this year,” says Sarah Trahern, CMA Chief Executive Officer. “As fans experienced last year, the energy Dierks and Elle bring to the stage is palpable and will only be amplified with the addition of Lainey this year. Each of these artists have a deep passion for CMA Fest and the country music fans from around the globe who travel to Nashville for the event. We are thrilled to have all three of them together to help us celebrate 50 years!”

Robert Deaton is the Executive Producer and Writer for CMA Fest, and Alan Carter is the Director. 2023 marks the 20th consecutive year CMA has produced a summer concert TV special.

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Luke Combs has added second nights to his upcoming ” World Tour” stadium shows in Tampa, Charlotte, Foxborough and Philadelphia due to overwhelming demand.

Tickets for the new dates at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium (July 7), Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium (July 14), Foxborough’s Gillette Stadium (July 21) and Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field (July 28) will be available for pre-sale starting June 8 at 12 p.m. local time through Ticketmaster Verified Fan. General sales will follow June 9, and Combs’ official fan club, The Bootleggers, will have early access to tickets through Ticketmaster Verified Fan pre-sale starting June 8.

” After we got to play two shows in Nashville, I decided I wanted to play more shows for the fans, so I got with my team and the stadiums and luckily all of the July dates lined up for us, so we decide to just do it,” says Combs. “I’m really excited to be able to bring more music to more fans.”

The newly confirmed dates add to the huge success of Combs’ “World Tour,” which has sold over 570,500 tickets across just 11 stadium shows so far, with the majority of the tour still to come. With 44 shows across three continents and 16 countries, the tour is the largest ever for a country artist, earning Combs the No. 1 spot on Pollstar‘s Live75 chart, where he has more than doubled all other charting artists.

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Nashville’s leading songs market magazine MusicRow Magazine has actually launched its 2022 Artist Roster Issue, with BBR’s Lainey Wilson enhancing its cover

Inside the problem, MusicRow has a look at the junction of sporting activities as well as songs in Nashville with aid from Nashville Superspeedway’s President Erik Moses, Bridgestone Arena’s Executive VP of Entertainment as well as Venues David Kells, Nashville SC CEO Ian Ayre, as well as Tennessee Titans VP/Chief Marketing & & Revenue Officer Gil Beverly With the opening of Music City’s brand-new football arena GEODIS Park, the return of motorsports, as well as conversations of a brand-new as well as better Nissan Stadium, the city is preparing to turn into one of the leading sporting activities cities in the nation.

“[Nashville] is blowing up. It’s swiftly coming to be– one can state it currently is– a rate one sporting activities community,” Moses show to MusicRow‘s sibling magazine The Sports Credential

The Artist Roster problem additionally highlights Nashville’s current financial investments right into rock-and-roll, as tags such as Big Machine as well as Big Loud develop rock imprints as well as start authorizing musicians to their lineups. Huge Machine’s Scott Borchetta as well as Big Loud’s Greg Thompson as well as Lloyd Norman provide their competence on this sensation.

Girlilla Marketing’s CEO Jennie Smythe as well as Chief Marketing Officer Ashley Alexander share their upgraded social media sites ideal techniques as the social media sites landscape remains to move. Both talk on whatever from TikTok dancings to obtaining terminated online in an informing Q&A.

WHY&HOW’s CEO as well as Founder, Bruce Kalmick, reflects on his job in addition to anticipates the future of his most recent monitoring venture, which currently flaunts a lineup of effective musicians such as Breland, Whiskey Myers, Brian Kelley, Chase Rice, Seaforth, as well as a lot more.

” Family was top priority one for me with WHY&HOW. WHY&HOW is my youngsters– Wyatt as well as Hazel– so it’s a twin significance,” Kalmick discusses. “It’s household, belief as well as philanthropy, and after that whatever else that we’re fortunate adequate to be a component of in this service.”

Finally, this problem additionally offers a sneak peek of MusicRow‘s most recent once a week column ” My Music Row Story,” which includes noteworthy participants of the Nashville songs market. From well-regarded supervisors, leaders in songs posting, tag execs as well as whatever in between, those included in “My Music Row Story” maintain the wheels rolling as well as the songs having fun.

Additionally, Artist Roster includes 5 business directory sites total with customer lineups: Label, Management, Talent Agents, Publicity, as well as Artist Services (Business Management/Financial/Insurance, Digital Music, Legal, Marketing, Radio Promotion, as well as Organizations). This version additionally supplies a summing up Artist Grid, which has actually come to be a vital device linking musicians to their employee in each group.

Single duplicates of MusicRow‘s 2022 Artist Roster print problem are offered for acquisition at musicrow.com for $45, as well as are consisted of with annual MusicRow registrations

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