CMA Establishes Touring Musician Award
The inaugural CMA Touring Musician Award will be presented during the 2011 CMA Music Festival, running Thursday through Sunday, June 9-12, in downtown Nashville.
Established by the CMA Board of Directors and its Awards and Recognition Committee chaired by GAC Pres. Ed Hardy, the honor will be presented annually at CMA Music Festival. This Award will be given in recognition of a touring musician who is known primarily as an instrumentalist or background vocalist in a non-headlining capacity. In order to qualify, a musician must have toured with an artist in the Country Music industry.
Beginning tomorrow (5/10), CMA members in the Affiliated, Artist, Musician, Personal Manager, Talent Agent/Promoter, and Talent Buyer categories will be able to nominate and vote for the award recipient. Final ballots must be submitted by 5:00 PM on Tuesday, May 24.
In more CMA Music Festival news, Kroger is now selling single-night tickets to the Nightly Concerts at LP Field. They are available at Kroger stores in Middle Tennessee and Bowling Green and Hopkinsville, Ky. at the stores’ Ticketmaster outlet at the Customer Service desk. Shoppers with a Kroger Plus Card receive a $10 discount, making the tickets $25 each, plus applicable fees.
Artists currently scheduled to appear at LP Field include (in alphabetical order):
Thursday, June 9: Jason Aldean (with special guest Kelly Clarkson), Easton Corbin, Sara Evans, Brad Paisley, and Zac Brown Band (with special guest Alan Jackson)
Friday, June 10: Dierks Bentley, Lady Antebellum, Reba, Ashton Shepherd, Sugarland, and Keith Urban
Saturday, June 11: Trace Adkins, Little Big Town, Martina McBride, Rascal Flatts, Josh Turner, and Chris Young
Sunday, June 12: The Band Perry, the JaneDear girls, Miranda Lambert, Darius Rucker, Blake Shelton, and Taylor Swift
