Carrie Underwood, a two-time GRAMMY winner, reigning CMA Female Vocalist of the Year, and newly crowned ACM Top Female Vocalist, reaches still greater heights as her 19 Recordings/Arista Records/Arista Nashville debut album, Some Hearts, is now RIAA-certified Sextuple Platinum for sales of six million copies. One of only two female country debuts ever to reach this milestone, Some Hearts now ranks alongside Leann Rimes' Blue as the best-selling debut by a country female in RIAA history.Underwood, American Idol's Season Four champion, returns to the Idol stage for a performance on the show's May 23 season finale.
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The International Fan Club Organization has announced that the 40th Annual IFCO Fun Fest Show will air on XM Satellite Radio. Loudilla Johnson, co-president of IFCO said, "This is the first time the show will have been broadcast, and for it to be broadcast by XM Radio across the world on the show's 40th anniversary is very special indeed."Jon Anthony, XM's Senior Program Director/Country, commented, "XM is committed to bringing our listeners live entertainment they can't hear anywhere else. We congratulate IFCO on their 40th Anniversary Show, and we're thrilled to bring this exciting concert to country fans everywhere!" The show will be broadcast LIVE XM Highway 16 (XM-16). Monday, June 4th (7:30 p.m.) from the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. XM will also re-air the show several times throughout June and early July. Additional air dates will be posted at ifco.org and xmradio.com. XM reaches over 8 million subscribers each week, plus millions more who listen via America Online, DirecTV, United Airlines, JetBlue Airways, AirTran Airlines, and XM's many rental car partners. Headlining the show is Joe Diffie with Special Guest Trick Pony, Aaron Tippin, Chris Young, Ty Herndon, Billy Yates, Lady Antebellum, Carly Goodwin, John Stone, Todd Fritsch, Gary Mule Deer, and Two Foot Fred. The evening will also include presentation of the prestigious IFCO Tex Ritter Award. Journalist Robert K. Oermann will be the night's host. Joe Bob Barnhill is band leader. The IFCO Fun Fest benefits Nashville's Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt -
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Ride For A Cure, hosted by Little Big Town, is scheduled for June 6, to help kick off the CMA Music Festival. The Ride will originate from one of the largest Harley Davidson dealerships in Middle Tennessee, Harley-Davidson of Cool Springs. The Party starts at 10 AM and the Ride will leave for the Hall of Fame Park in downtown Nashville at 1:00 PM. As the Ride For A Cure festivities wind down, the CMA Music Festival fires up with a Celebrity Parade on Broadway that will pass directly in front of the Hall of Fame Park and a rockin' concert on the steps of the Nashville Arena Plaza that is free to the public. Rider tickets are $50 each and Barbeque tickets only are $25 each. The event will benefit the T. J. Martell Foundation. For more information contact (615) 256-2002.
Mel Tillis will become the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry. After taking the Opry stage (May 12) to perform two songs, Tillis was approached by Bill Anderson who asked "how would you like to become the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry. We'd love to have you.â€‌ A very moved Tillis replied, "this is another part of a dream yet to be fulfilled. The Opry's always been on my mind. God bless the Grand Ole Opry.â€‌ On stage for the invitation, Tillis' son Mel Jr. and daughter Pam, an Opry member since 2000. Pam will formally induct her father into the Opry on June 9.
Miranda Lambert's accomplishments continue to build and there doesn't seem to be an end to her talent! The singer/songwriter snagged the "Best New Female Vocalist" Award at the 42nd Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas on May 15. After an electrifying performance of her latest single, "Famous in a Small Town," Lambert graciously accepted the honor from last year's winner, Carrie Underwood. This marked her first award as a recording artist. Miranda also establishes herself and a powerhouse country artist, appearing on the May/June cover of highly respected music magazine No Depression. Her sophomore album Crazy Ex-Girlfriend debuted at #1 on the Nielsen SoundScan Country Chart and #6 on the Top 200 Albums Chart with nearly 53,000 copies sold in the first week. The album also entered the country digital albums chart at #1. The number one debut is the second for Lambert, with her critically-acclaimed and platinum-selling debut album Kerosene also hitting number one the first week on the charts in 2005. Look for Miranda on tour with Toby Keith beginning in June.
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fashion model Jessica Craig in New Orleans on Sept. 28. +++ CMT.com has launched a 90-day listening party for Todd Fritsch's latest album release, SAWDUST (Diamond Music Group/Spinville Records) on Hear Music Now. "This is an amazing thing," says the newly-married Fritsch. "For me, an 'Indie' artist, to fall into something this big really means a lot." +++ Texans Rick Trevino and Johnny Rodriguez will perform June 6 in Nashville at a special concert billed as Streets of Laredo.Riders in the Sky will also appear during the event at the Nashville Symphony Hall. Intended to explore country's connection to Hispanic music, the show will include a tribute to the late Freddy Fender, who worked with Trevino in the group, Los Super 7.
Jerry Lee Lewis: Greatest Live Performances DVD features 17 live performances and two bonus pieces from the '50s through the '90s. The new DVD includes The Killer's first television appearance, his momentous 1957 performance of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" for the Steve Allen Show and his memorable rendition of "Breathless" on the Dick Clark Show - the only live performance ever in the history of that show. The collection also features Jerry Lee in Memphis premiering "Great Balls of Fire" on the Dewey Phillips Show. Perhaps most notable is his own television special that aired to an ecstatic audience in England in 1964 and can be seen in its entirety for the first time since the day it aired. Two performances from the 1970s taken from Ralph Emery's Pop Goes the Country close out the DVD. On the first, Lewis sings the poignant "Who's Gonna Play This Old Piano," and on the second he joins his cousin Mickey Gilley at the piano for a boogie woogie medley. Additionally, the DVD contains one of the most comprehensive and revealing interviews Lewis has ever done as a bonus feature. Shot at Sam Phillips' legendary Sun Records in Memphis, Lewis talks in depth about his first historic recordings and his relationship with Elvis Presley and other greats from the era.
Twenty years after she left West Virginia University without her degree, Kathy Mattea returned May 15 to accept an honorary doctorate of the arts. The award-winning entertainer had started college thinking a degree in engineering would be her career path. Her heart and voice had other plans. By her sophomore year, Mattea realized there was another place where she belonged...in front of a crowd. "I got so caught up in singing and playing music that I didn't have time for much else." Not long after realizing her potential as an artist, she left WVU headed to Nashville, taking with her lessons learned. Fast forward 20 years and two Grammy's later to the same mountain girl and the same mountain town, and find Mattea still learning, while having a little fun. This time, lessons are light-hearted and filled with a little teasing. After being schooled in the meaning behind the different colors on commencement robes, someone introduced Mattea to the Dean of the Engineering Department. "They introduced me as his "most successful dropout" Kathy said. "I just hung my head as he got closer and closer to me. It was pretty funny."
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Michael McCall and Stephanie Ledgin will be awarded Charlie Lamb Excellence in Country Music Journalism Awards on May 25th at a special awards luncheon held during the International Country Music Conference at Belmont University May 24-26, 2007.
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The 2007 Opry Plaza Parties are set to launch on Memorial Day Weekend, Sat., May 26. Plaza Parties are free and will run every Saturday night through July 28 beginning at 5:30 p.m. on the Opry Plaza concert stage located in front of the Opry House, Acuff Theatre, and the Opry Museum. The wide range of alt-country, bluegrass, and current Top 40 country artists scheduled to perform throughout the summer includes Mandy Barnett, Elizabeth Cook, Carolina Rain, John England & the Western Swingers, Jim Lauderdale, Chris Young, Gail Davies, The Derailers and more.
The 28th Annual Sunday Mornin' Country celebration will be held June 10 at the Ryman Auditorium. Hosted by Connie Smith the event will also feature Jean Shepard, Linda Davis, Chris Young, Hank Locklin, Lu Lu Roman, comedian/celebrity impressionist Johnny Counterfit, Margo Smith, Holly Watson, Keni Thomas, The Fox Brothers, and many more. Tickets are $13/$18, available through Ticketmaster or the Ryman Box Office.
The fifth annual Nashville SongWriters Festival will be held June 13-17 on Music Row. The event will include a Writers Retreat June 13-15 at Scarritt-Bennett Center and an Open House On Music Row, June 16-17, which will provide access to music publishers, song pluggers, radio, recording studios, and independent record labels. For more details check out www.SongWritersFestival.com.
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- June 4 - 40th Annual IFCO FUN FEST Show, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville
- June 7 - 7th Annual City Of Hope Softball Challenge, Nashville
- June 7 - R.O.P.E. Summer Spectacular, Nashville NiteLife
- June 7-10 - 36th AnnualCMA Music Festival /Fan Fair, Nashville
- June 9 - 5th Annual Music Row Yard Sale, Nashville
- June 9-16 - Bill Monroe Bluegrass Music Festival, Bean Blossom, IN
- June 10 - 28th AnnualSunday Mornin' Country, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville
- June 13-17 - 5th Nashville SongWriters Festival, Curb Parking Lot, Nashville
- June 14-16 - Legends of Western Swing Music Festival, Wichita Falls, TX
- June 14-17 - Bonaroo Music Festival, Manchester, TN
- June 21-24 - Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Telluride, CO
- Aug. 9-11 - International Rock-A-Billy Festival, Jackson, TN
- Sept. 21-22 - 19th Annual Gstaad Festival, Nashville
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