Academy of Country Music Awards Come Up With a Pandemic Plan for 2021: Repeat What Worked for 2020

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Chris Willman Music WriterTo the surprise of few, the CMA Festival planned for downtown Nashville in June has been canceled for a second consecutive year — likely the first of many likely summer festival cancellations to come in the U.S.The news first came via a lengthy note sent by Country Music Festival CEO Sarah Trahern to CMA members.While other festivals are still looking at vaccine rates and mulling their prospects for being able to pull off a large-scale, multi-day gathering before the

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ACM Awards are headed back to Nashville! The nominations for the 56th annual ACM Awards were revealed on Friday morning by country music superstars Kelsea Ballerini and Brothers Osborne as well as by ET's Rachel Smith.Maren Morris and Chris Stapleton cleaned up in nominations, leading the pack with six nods each.

Miranda Lambert gushed over her husband Brendan Mcloughlin and getting to spend more time with him during the pandemic in a new interview with SiriusXM’s “The Storme Warren Show”.

Country artists Chris Stapleton and Maren Morris topped the Country Music Awards nominations today, with each getting six nominations from the Academy of Country Music.

Chris Willman Music WriterMaren Morris and Chris Stapleton lead the nominations for the 2021 Academy of Country Music Awards with six each, closely trailed by Miranda Lambert with five nods, and Ashley McBryde, Thomas Rhett and producer Jay Joyce with four apiece.Among those picking up three nominations: Luke Combs, Eric Church, Ingrid Andress, Carly Pearce, Hardy, producer Dann Huff and last year’s telecast host, Keith Urban.

ACM Awards are headed back to Nashville! The nominations for the 56th annual ACM Awards will be revealed on Friday morning by country music superstars Kelsea Ballerini and Brothers Osborne live on, immediately followed by additional nominees being announced exclusively right here at ETonline.com by ET's Rachel Smith.Last year was a historic year for the awards show, which saw it's first ever tie for the highly coveted Entertainer of the Year honor, which was shared by Carrie Underwood and Thomas

ACM Awards are headed back to Nashville! The nominations for the 56th annual ACM Awards will be revealed on Friday morning by country music superstars Kelsea Ballerini and Brothers Osbourne live on, immediately followed by additional nominees being announced exclusively right here at ETonline.com by ET's Rachel Smith.Last year was a historic year for the awards show, which saw it's first ever tie for the highly coveted Entertainer of the Year honor, For everything you need to know on how and

Jade Bird has shared her first new track of 2021, ‘Open Up The Heavens’ – listen to it below.Taken from the singer-songwriter’s forthcoming second album, which is due to arrive this year, the singer-songwriter’s new track was produced by Dave Cobb and follows on from recent singles ‘Houdini’ and ‘Headstart’.“‘Open Up The Heavens’ was written and recorded two days before I had to fly home from recording in Nashville,” Bird explained in a statement.

Chase Bryant is opening up about his struggles in the past.

EXCLUSIVE: Spoken Giants, a royalty administration company for creators of spoken word copyrights, said Friday that the Don Rickles estate and comedian Mike Birbiglia are the latest to sign with the Nashville firm. CEO Jim King also applauded a large payout by digital services to music creators this week, but wondered when authors of spoken word content would also receive “appropriate compensation.”

On Friday, Netflix dropped its first trailer for “Country Comfort”, a new sitcom with a rom-com twist, set in the world of country music.

Chris Willman Music WriterCountry stars Luke Combs and Maren Morris took on the elephant in the room in a joint interview for the annual Country Radio Seminar conference Wednesday, address perceptions of racism and a lack of diversity in the genre that have gone from behind-the-scenes Nashville discussions to the talk of the nation in the wake of the Morgan Wallen N-word scandal two weeks ago.Although Morris has been the most outspoken of the two on these issues prior to their Q&A, it may be

The Academy of Country Music is sticking with its successful formula for a mid-pandemic awards show.

Vivienne Chow “Mother Tongue,” a suspense thriller directed by two-time Academy Award nominee Mike Figgis (“Leaving Las Vegas,” “Internal Affairs”) starts shooting in Hong Kong this week. It stars and is produced by actor-singer-producer Josie Ho (“Contagion,” “Lucky Day”).Figgis and Ho will hold a start-of production ceremony Wednesday at Hong Kong’s Shaw Studios.

The old guard versus the young blood is the spark for HBO Max’s upcoming untitled Jean Smart comedy series which debuts this spring.