[Updated]: Artist Updates (6/6/14)

Hunter Hayes will make a surprise performance at CMA Music Festival on Friday, June 6 beginning at 4:30 p.m.
The free, open to the public concert will be across from the stairs at the Nashville Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

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Chris Young‘s Friday (June 6) autograph signing session at CMA Music Festival has been canceled. After celebrating with more than 500 fans at his annual fan club party aboard the General Jackson showboat on Thursday evening (June 5), Young returned home, and cut his left hand while cooking a late dinner. He was taken to a Nashville-area hospital where doctors assessed the injury.
He is expected to make a full recovery and will appear tomorrow night for his planned appearance at LP Field.

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Gary Allan was forced to cancel his fan club party in Nashville last night (June 5) due to a viral infection resulting in vocal issues. Allan spent two days this week at the Vanderbilt Voice Clinic, under the care of Dr. Gaelyn Garrett.
Fan can receive refunds through the fan club beginning Monday, June 9. Allan hopes to resume touring as soon as possible.

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Lorrie Morgan will celebrate her 30th anniversary as a member of the Grand Ole Opry this weekend. She was inducted on June 9, 1984.
“You can’t imagine how it felt the night I became a member of the Opry,” says Lorrie Morgan. “The first time I could really call this place home. I couldn’t stop shaking or trembling or crying.” Morgan, of course, grew up around the Opry stage, as the daughter of Country Music Hall of Fame member George Morgan.

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Sony Music Nashville held a listening event earlier in the week at their Music City offices for their upcoming Doobie Brothers collaboration project, which features numerous Country artists performing with the Doobie Brothers and Michael McDonald. The album’s title and street date have yet to be announced.