The Super Bowl and Nashville Music Just Naturally Go Together
December 22nd, 2011
Super Bowl fans attending the SB in February can get a good dose of Nashville’s Country Music, AND a generous dash of Nashville Pop/Rock.
According to MusicRow.com, Music City will be well-represented at festivities surrounding the Feb. 5 Super Bowl in Indianapolis.
Numerous free concerts will take place at the Super Bowl Village from Jan. 27-Feb. 4. The line-up features Darius Rucker and Dierks Bentley from the country set, and Will Hoge, Six Pence None The Richer and Here Come The Mummies from Nashville’s pop/rock scene.
CMA Country Christmas Coming Dec. 1 on ABC
November 17th, 2011
Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles will host the two-hour holiday extravaganza CMA Country Christmas, airing Thurs., Dec. 1 9:00-11:00 PM/ET on ABC. Sugarland will perform “Silent Night” plus there will be performances from American Idol runner up Lauren Alaina, Amy Grant, Faith Hill, Little Big Town, Martina McBride, Idol winner Scotty McCreery, Kellie Pickler, Rascal Flatts, Darius Rucker, Brian Setzer with special guest Brad Paisley, Keith Urban, and Vince Gill in a special duet with Miss Piggy
Country Stars To Help Out At Music Camp For Disabled
June 27th, 2011
Country Stars are noted for their charity activities, and the following is no exception.
The 2nd Annual ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp – a week-long residential program open to campers nationwide with developmental disabilities, talented in music – will start start on Monday, June 27, with a number of stars lining up to help.
Superstars volunteering time to participate include Gary Allan, Little Big Town, Darius Rucker, Carrie Underwood and Wynonna, along with hit songwriters Odie Blackmon and Brett James, and renowned producer Mark Bright.
more via Country Stars To Help Out At Music Camp.
Country’s Night To Rock TV: The CMA Music Fest Is Coming Again!
June 23rd, 2011
Did you make it to the CMA Music Festival in Nashville earlier this month? Whether you did or not, you’ll want to catch the television version on ABC in August.
The ABC-TV special CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock will air Sun., Aug. 7. The concert special was taped June 9-12 at the 40th annual festival.
Among the artists who will perform on the program are Lauren Alaina, Jason Aldean, Sara Evans, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride, Scotty McCreery, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Reba, Darius Rucker, Blake Shelton, Sugarland, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, and Zac Brown Band.
More via Country’s Night To Rock TV : MusicRow.
The Rock To Sing Country Music As Charley Pride-The Movie
April 30th, 2011
Blog CinemaBlend.com does a piece about an upcoming movie on Charley Pride as if most people wouldn’t know about the historical importance of the legendary country singer. But they do explain it. Then they launch into Hootie of Hootie and the Blowfish doing country without explanation that Hootie is actually Darius Rucker, now one of Country Music’s top stars. Is that a duh moment or what? But here’s their piece, so you can read it for yourself… and just hope they get the movie right.
…The Rock is set to follow in the recent footsteps of such acting luminaries as Jeff Bridges and Gwyneth Paltrow by playing a country singer. In particular, he’s set to play famed black artist Charley Pride. It was either that or Hootie from Hootie and the Blowfish– yes he’s doing country music now.
So why would anyone want to make a movie out of Charley Pride? Here’s a good reason: He sang country music back in the 60s and 70s, in the days when it wasn’t easy for a black man to do anything in this country, let alone sell music in a genre mostly loved by good old boys and rednecks. He also played professional baseball earlier in his life. There’s plenty to mine in there, somewhere.
more via The Rock Will Sing Country Music As Charley Pride – CinemaBlend.com.