CMA Fest Announces Cracker Barrel Country Roads Stage at Ascend Amphitheater
CMA Fest is only 50 days away and with it approaching another stage has been announced! Cracker Barrel is returning as title sponsor for the country roads stage at Ascend Amphitheater.
Thursday June 7th, 2018
7:00pm-7:30pm Everette
7:30pm-8:00pm Runaway June
8:00pm-8:30pm Lindsay Ell
8:30pm-9:00pm Chase Bryant
9:00pm-9:30pm Craig Campbell
9:30pm-10:00pm Granger Smith
10:00pm-10:30pm Chase Rice Friday June 8th, 2018
7:00pm-7:30pm Clare Dunn
7:30pm-8:00pm Drake White
8:00pm-8:30pm Maddie & Tae
8:30pm-9:00pm Tyler Farr
9:00pm-9:30pm Lee Brice Saturday June 9th, 2018
7:00pm-7:30pm Tegan Marie
7:30pm-8:00pm Cale Dodds
8:00pm-8:30pm Morgan Evans
8:30pm-9:00pm Michael Ray
WHAT: The 52nd ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS™, co-hosted by Luke Bryan and Dierks Bentley, is dedicated to honoring and showcasing the biggest names and emerging talent in the country music industry. It is produced for television by dick clark productions and will be broadcast LIVE from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, NV on Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 8:00 PM live ET/delayed PT on the CBS Television Network.
WHO: PERFORMERS INCLUDE:Jason Aldean, Backstreet Boys, Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Brothers Osborne, Luke Bryan, Lauren Daigle, Brett Eldredge, Florida Georgia Line, Faith Hill, Sam Hunt, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Reba McEntire, Tim McGraw, Maren Morris, Old Dominion, Jon Pardi, Rascal Flatts, Thomas Rhett, Chris Stapleton, Cole Swindell, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban.
PRESENTERS INCLUDE: Lauren Alaina, Ty Bentli, Bobby Bones, Kane Brown, Derek Carr, Savannah Chrisley, Todd Chrisley, David Copperfield, Ronnie Dunn, Julian Edelman, Kacey Musgraves, Nancy O’Dell, Jake Owen, Kellie Pickler, Darius Rucker, Elliott Sadler, Miss America Savvy Shields, Rob Stone, Bubba Wallace and Storme Warren.
ADDITIONAL ATTENDEES INCLUDE:Cast of ABSINTHE, American Young, Kayla Adams, Trace Adkins, DJ Bad Ash, Drew Baldridge, Frankie Ballard, Tucker Beathard, Big & Rich, Lee Brice, Bailey Bryan, Cam, Chase Bryant, Brandy Clark, Luke Combs, Ross Copperman, Easton Corbin, Adam Craig, Billy Currington, Luke Dick, Russell Dickerson, Dean Dillon, DJ Du, Clare Dunn, Eli Young Band, Lindsay Ell, Seth Ennis, Charles Esten, Ryan Follese, Kenny Foster, AJ Gibson, Cory Gierman, Ashley Gorley, Robby Hayes, Walker Hayes, HISH, Lucas Hoge, Ryan Hurd, Tony Jackson, Jessie James Decker, Chris Janson, Matt Jenkins, Ryan Kinder, Luke Laird, Chris Lane, Olivia Lane, Tracy Lawrence, Jackie Lee, Hillary Lindsey, LOCASH, Love and Theft, Dustin Lynch, Maddie & Tae, Shane McAnally, Scotty McCreery, Lori McKenna, Alyssa Micaela, William Michael Morgan, Jackson Michelson, Midland, Justin Moore, Kip Moore, Erica Nicole, Jerrod Niemann, Josh Osborne, Shawn Parr, Eric Paslay, Trick Pony, Cassadee Pope, Stephanie Quayle, RaeLynn, Michael Ray, Runaway June, Dylan Scott, Aubrie Sellers, Dee Jay Silver, Granger Smith, The Swon Brothers, A Thousand Horses, Josh Turner, Michael Tyler, Clay Walker, Morgan Wallen, Aaron Watson, Hailey Whitters, Brett Young, Chris Young and more.
WHEN: Sunday, April 2, 2017
8:00 PM – 11:00 PM ET/Delayed PT – 52nd ACM Awards® Live Telecast on CBS
WHERE:T-Mobile Arena, 3780 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV 89119
MORE: The official red carpet pre-show for the 52nd Academy of Country Music Awards will live stream exclusively on Twitter on April 2, starting at 3pm PT/6pm ET. The pre-show will be available to logged-in and logged-out audiences on Twitter and connected devices, and can be found at ACMawards.twitter.com, in Twitter Moments or via @ACMawards
Sponsors and partners for the 52nd Academy of Country Music Awards include T-Mobile and Xfinity from Comcast.
Encino, CA (March 22, 2017) – The Academy of Country Music announced today additional performers to join this year’s stellar lineup for the 52ND ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS™, Country Music’s Party of the Year®. The newly added performers include Lauren Daigle, Faith Hill, Sam Hunt, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts,Reba McEntire, Thomas Rhett, Chris Stapleton, Cole Swindell, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban. The ACM Awards, co-hosted by Luke Bryan and Dierks Bentley, will broadcast LIVE from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Sunday, April 2 (live 8:00-11:00 PM, ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Previously announced performers include Jason Aldean, Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Brothers Osborne, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line with the Backstreet Boys, Lady Antebellum, KelseaBallerini,Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Maren Morris, and Jon Pardi.
Additional performers announced for the 52nd #ACMs! Tune in Sunday, April 2nd at 8/7c on @CBS and CBS All Access. pic.twitter.com/Nnsw9E4HE8
The official red carpet pre-show for the 52nd Academy of Country Music Awards will live stream exclusively on Twitter on April 2, starting at 3pm PT/6pm ET. The pre-show will be available to logged-in and logged-out audiences on Twitter and connected devices.
Sponsors and partners for the 52nd Academy of Country Music Awards include T-Mobile and Xfinity from Comcast.
About the Academy of Country Music Awards
The 52ND ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS is dedicated to honoring and showcasing the biggest names and emerging talent in the country music industry. The show is produced for television by dick clark productions. Allen Shapiro, Mike Mahan, R.A. Clark, Barry Adelman and Mark Bracco are executive producers. Pete Fisher and Tiffany Moon are executive producers for the Academy of Country Music.
Stagecoach 2017 is right around the corner, April 28th-30th in Indio, CA and day 1 is loaded with talent. This next artist we will spotlight is Cole Swindell. This will be his first year performing at the festival. With hits such as “Middle Of A Memory,” “You Should Be Here” and “Chillin’ It” taking over the charts during their respective releases, it’s no wonder Swindell was asked to perform during this blockbuster 3 day event. Swindell is currently on his nationwide Down Home tour and promoting his current EP Down Home Sessions III.
Swindell got his start by doing anything he could to break into the music scene, that included selling merch for Luke Bryan before he was invited to be a guest on his tour! Talk about humble beginnings!
Cole Swindell was recently honored with the songwriter/artist of the year award from the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI). He moved to Nashville with the dream of somehow becoming part of the music industry, no matter what form that may be. Swindell accepted the award via video message saying:
“It’s the biggest honor of my career by far because I moved to this town to be a songwriter…All I ever wanted to do was to write songs.”
He went from selling merchandise at Luke Bryan concerts, to opening for him, to headling his own tour!
Swindell has written #1 songs for himself as well as other huge acts. Just las year alone he earned 4 BMI awards for #1 songs he wrote for Thomas Rhett (“Get Me Some of That”), Luke Bryan (“Roller Coaster”), Florida Georgia Line (“This Is How We Roll”) as well as his own No. 1 “Hope You Get Lonely Tonight.”
LIVE FROM COLE SWINDELL’S #1 PARTY “You Should Be Here.”
Since signing his record deal just over three years ago (July 13, 2013), Swindell has been the writer on eight No. 1 songs including five as a solo artist. His latest No. 1 included his career-defining Platinum-certified “You Should Be Here,” co-written with the NSAI Songwriter of the Year winner Ashley Gorley. The song joins Swindell’s first four No. 1 consecutive singles as a solo artist (including Gold-certified “Let Me See Ya Girl,” along with Platinum-certified hits “Hope You Get Lonely Tonight,” “Ain’t Worth The Whiskey” and “Chillin’ It”) from his Platinum selling self-titled debut album which tops his own record of being the only solo artist in the history of Country Aircheck/Mediabase to top the chart with his first FIVE singles. His current self-penned single “Middle of a Memory,” off of his second album You Should Be Here, is sitting at No. 5 on both the Billboard and Country Aircheck/Mediabase charts and still climbing.
Swindell took the time to pen a letter to Nashville, thanking the beautiful city for being there for him, his family, his friends and his fans.
I signed my record deal with Warner on July 13th 2013, and had my first single picked, “Chillin’ It”. It was the best year of my life and I was in the middle of my radio tour when I got the call that we had lost my dad in a freak accident. How could that possibly be in the master plan? He was the best guy in the world, my biggest fan and was the first person I ever heard play the guitar and sing. I was in shock and lost. Who did I turn to?
Nashville. This town. My family. Country radio … It was like everyone had my back no matter what media partner, label, publishing company or PRO they worked for and I’ll never forget it. I realized that some of my heroes, like Dierks Bentley, had also lost their dads and were there for me. Things like that make me proud to live in THIS town and proud to be a part of this format.
“Country” means a lot more to me than the sound coming out of your speakers. To me it’s a big family. It’s how you treat others, how you were raised. It’s lyrics that can change your life. All that. We are all getting to do what we love and that’s because somebody took a chance on us.
Swindell just celebrated his latest #1 “You Should Be Here” which was inspired by the death of his father. Although the song is deeply personal to him, it has taken on a personal meaning for millions of others.
“You Should Be Here” will always be a special song for me. The first day it was played on country radio the messages I got on social media from fans everywhere broke my heart. I wanted to release a song that would help other people but hearing their stories made me know I wasn’t alone… it wasn’t about me anymore, it wasn’t about only my dad. It was for everyone that had been there and knew that pain. Your stories have and will continue to change me for the better. People asked, “How did you film the video and release a song that personal?” I never looked at it that way. The fans give me all they have and I will always do the same. Although I don’t like the circumstances of why I had to write the song. I know for a fact if my dad knew leaving this world a little early would inspire a song that would help so many, he would’ve had no problem with it. That’s the kind of guy he was. That’s the kind of guy I want to be. Every night I sing that song I know he’s there, best seat in the house no doubt.
