Toby Keith, Rascal Flatts, Reba, Blake Shelton and Josh Turner are set to perform at the first-ever American Country Awards, airing live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on FOX Dec. 6. The inaugural two-hour event will also feature appearances by country recording artists Laura Bell Bundy, Rodney Carrington, Jewel, Lady Antebellum […]
Songwriters Will Robinson, Mike Reid and Don Pfrimmer have just released Merry Ex-Mas: Holiday Songs For the Divorced and Soon To Be, a tongue in cheek collection of eight Christmas parodies and two original new holiday songs. The ten tracks are performed by a group called the Irreconcilables, which includes Joanna Cotten, Perry Danos, Fred […]
Rascal Flatts will continue their Nothing Like This Tour into 2011 with a re-launch Jan. 14 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. This second leg of the tour includes 21 shows and features opening acts Luke Bryan and Chris Young. As previously announced, the group will release their first album on Big Machine Records, Nothing Like […]
Rascal Flatts will be making various media appearances to promote the Nov. 16 release of Nothing Like This, their first album for Big Machine Records. The group will kick off their album launch week with an appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman and the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday, Nov. 15. On Tuesday, […]
George Strait, Reba McEntire and Lee Ann Womack have announced 18 tour dates kicking off Jan. 14 in Austin, TX and wrapping April 9 in Louisville, KY. This follows Strait and McEntire’s co-headlining arena tour in 2010. Strait and McEntire are both nominated for awards at the 44th Annual CMA Awards, taking place this Wednesday […]
Reba will be promoting the November 9th release of her 34th album, All The Women I Am, with a week of media appearances such as Good Morning America, CMA Awards and the Late Show with David Letterman. Reba will appear on ABC’s Good Morning America on November 9th at 7:00 am; following this, she will […]
Marshall Chapman performed at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Oct. 30 to celebrate the official release of her new book, They Came To Nashville. The book features Chapman’s conversations with fifteen artist-songwriters, including Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson and Miranda Lambert, about their first forays to Music City. ••• The Country Music […]
The Judds and Shania Twain will each star in new original series for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, a multi-platform media company that will debut Jan 1, 2011 on what is currently the Discovery Health Channel. The Judds follows the lives of duo Naomi and Wynonna Judd as they prepare for their first tour in ten […]
Reporter Robin Roberts will host an hour-long special Wed., Nov. 3 on ABC, giving viewers a pass into the homes and private lives of country music stars. In The Spotlight With Robin Roberts: All Access Nashville will feature Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, LeAnn Rimes and others. See photos from the special below.
Gregory Riggle has been promoted to Vice President, Industry Relations & Business Communication at SESAC. Riggle, who was formerly Associate Vice President, Broadcast Licensing, started his career with SESAC in 1986 in the Broadcast Licensing Department before serving as Vice President in the Writer/Publisher Relations Department. Riggle holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications […]