Pictured (Back row, L-R): Rusty Harmon, Copperline Music Group; Craig Wayne Boyd; Bob Kinkead, Kinkead Entertainment; Greg Scott, Kinkead Entertainment. Front row: Julie Devereux, Kinkead Entertainment; Alyssa Logan, Copperline Music Group

Craig Wayne Boyd has signed with The Kinkead Entertainment Agency for exclusive live performance bookings.

“I am very excited to be working with Bob Kinkead and his team,” Boyd says. “Bob’s hands-on approach and enthusiastic attitude complements the team that I have surrounded myself with, and I am excited for the future.”

Bob Kinkead added, “We here at The Kinkead Entertainment Agency are excited to be in the Craig Wayne Boyd business and look forward to a great future with him and his team at Copperline Music.”

photo credit: Jeff Johnson

Chris Young will play his first-ever headlining appearance at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Sept. 22 when he brings his Losing Sleep 2018 World Tour to Music City. The date is one of nine shows he has added following the successful initial Winter run of the tour, which included five consecutive sold-out weekends of arena shows. Special guests Kane Brown and Morgan Evans will join him for the added dates.

Added markets for the tour include Las Cruces, New Mexico; Lubbock, Texas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Biloxi, Mississippi; Tupelo, Mississippi; Nashville; Charleston, South Carolina; Greensboro, North Carolina; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tickets and VIP packages for the Nashville show at Bridgestone Arena go on sale Feb. 23, and can be purchased at ChrisYoungCountry.com.

Lindsay Ell

Lindsay Ell has been added to the upcoming Canadian run of Keith Urban‘s Graffiti U World Tour 2018. Ell, a multiple CCMA nominee, will open Urban’s September performances in Canada, as well as for his upcoming show in Rogers, Arkansas. After playing there, Ell will head north of the border for seven Canadian shows, the first of which will be on Sept. 14 at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa.

“It’s not very often you get to share the stage with an artist you’ve looked up to since the beginning of your career,” said Ell,  who recently released her Stoney Creek Records album The Project. “I am so excited to be touring with Keith Urban and can’t wait to play for fans in the venues I grew up in!”

The 58-city Graffiti U World tour 2018 launches June 15 in St. Louis, with Kelsea Ballerini added as a supporting act for all other dates.

The Graffiti U 2018 World Tour Canadian Dates:

Aug. 15: Rogers, Ark.; Walmart AMP
Sept. 14: Ottawa, Ontario; Canadian Tire Centre
Sept. 15: London, Ontario; Budweiser Gardens
Sept. 19: Winnipeg, Manitoba Bell MTS Place
Sept. 21: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; SaskTel Centre
Sept. 22: Edmonton, Alberta; Rogers Place
Sept. 23: Calgary, Alberta; ScotiaBank Saddledome
Sept. 25: Vancouver, British Columbia; Rogers Arena

Jamey Johnson will kick off a 30-date tour for 2018 at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida on Feb. 11. Several dates on the tour have already sold out, with more dates being added.

Johnson doesn’t create a set list for his shows, so no two shows are the same.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do until I am standing there doing it,” he says.  “That is a freedom I have enjoyed ever since I began doing this, the ability to try something new.”

In 2014, Johnson created his own label, Big Gassed Records, to release his own songs and albums as well as the music of other artists. He released the Grammy-nominated Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran in 2012.

Feb. 11 Seminole Hard Rock Casino, Hollywood, FL
Feb. 22 Florida Theatre, Jacksonville, FL
Feb. 23 The Ranch, Ft. Myers, FL
Feb. 24 Abacoa Town Center, Jupiter, FL
Feb. 25 Cocoa Riverfront Park, Cocoa, FL
March 10 Oil Palace, Tyler, TX
March 22 Dusty Armadillo, Rootstown, OH
March 23 Boondocks, Springfield, IL
March 24 8 Seconds Saloon, Indianapolis, IN
April 12 Jefferson Theatre, Beaumont, TX
April 13 Gruene Hall, New Braunfels, TX
April 14 Galveston Co. Fairgrounds, Hitchcock, TX
April 18 Macon City Auditorium, Macon, GA
April 19 Georgia Theatre, Athens, GA
April 20 Georgia Theatre, Athens, GA
April 21 Crawfish Music Festival, Biloxi, MS
April 26 The Tarheel, Jacksonville, NC
April 27 MerleFest, Wilkesboro, NC
April 28 Fredericks Outdoor, Decatur, AL
May 5 ` Farm Bach 2018, Gaston, SC
May 19 JD Legends, Franklin, OH
June 23 Renfro Valley, Mt. Vernon, KY
June 29 The Shed, Maryville, TN
July 7 A.B.A.T.E. of IA Freedom Rally, Algona, IA
July 20 McGrath Amphitheatre, Cedar Rapids, IA
July 21 Rollie’s Sauk, Rapids, MN
July 22 Mayo Civic Center, Rochester, MN
July 27 Sumtur Amphitheatre, Papillion, NE
July 28 Dam Music Festival, El Dorado, KS
July 29 Hoyt Herman Place, Des Moines, IA

Pictured (L-R): Lance Roberts Agent, Co-Head of UTA Nashville Office; Lance Carpenter,, Curt Motley, Agent, Co-Head of UTA Nashville Office; Nick Meinema, Agent, Co-Head UTA Nashville Office; Mandi Dixon (Lance Carpenter’s Manager of Mandolin Entertainment).

Nashville recording artist and songwriter Lance Carpenter has signed with United Talent Agency in all areas. Carpenter recently earned a No. 1 single for co-writing the hit track “Love Me Like You Mean It,” by Kelsea Ballerini. Following his self-titled debut album, Carpenter released a five-track EP titled, Mustang, in 2017.

He has performed alongside major musicians including Toby Keith, Luke Bryan, Justin Moore, Randy Rogers Band, among others. He recently signed to Toby Keith’s Show Dog Records, in addition to releasing a debut duet and music video with Krystal Keith titled, “Anyone Else.”

Carpenter will continue to be represented by Mandi Dixon of Mandolin Entertainment and Austen Adams of Dickinson Wright.