Bluedot Festival to take fallow year in 2024 to recover after rain-soaked edition

As if she needed any reason to be any hotter right now, Nashville sensation Lainey Wilson — who leads the nominees for the Nov. 8 Country Music Awards with nine nods — is getting ready to take her show on the road.The 31-year-old singer announced on Friday that she will launch her “Country’s Cool Again” Tour in 2024, beginning with a date at Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater on May 31.The highly anticipated trek for the “Yellowstone” star will include a June 26 date at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.“Nothing gets me buzzin’ like putting on a show and singing along with the crowd,” Wilson told the Post.“I want to give a big thank you to all of the fans who have continuously showed up and showed out this year.

Strictly Come Dancing star Nadiya Bychkova has shared a brand new career move after being 'snubbed' from the latest series. The professional dancer wasn't chosen to have a celebrity partner during the latest run of the BBC One dance contest.

Rock legend Noddy Holder has been battling throat cancer for the past five years - after initially being told he had only "six months to live", his wife Suzan has movingly revealed. Slade icon Noddy, 77, has been receiving pioneering treatment at Manchester's Christie Hospital after the shock diagnosis.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor How does one create a film festival during an actors strike? Middleburg Film Festival executive director Susan Koch explains she’s approached programming the Virginia fest in the same manner as she has always done. “We looked for the strongest films and a wide range of films that represent diverse voices and ones we feel will expand our view of the world,” she tells Variety. Now in its 11th year, the festival continues to be a carefully curated weekend of films and conversations, including many of the year’s buzziest titles.

Between the Rains and The Echo are among the big winners at the prestigious Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas.

Jaden Thompson The ATX TV Festival has opened submissions for its annual “The Pitch Competition Presented by Canva,” offering undiscovered TV writers the chance to have their original concepts and scripts considered by acclaimed writers, producers and executives in television. The early bird submission deadline is Dec. 1, the regular submission deadline is Jan.

Steph McGovern was half an hour late for work today (Thursday) - and, like most of us, she blamed public transport. The daytime TV presenter ended up racing against the clock to get to the studio in Leeds from London in time for Steph’s Packed Lunch.

A couple who accidentally bought a 120-year-old derelict mansion in Dunoon then transformed the building into holiday apartments have shared a series of stunning before and after pictures.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer The South by Southwest Music Festival has announced its initial lineup for its 38th annual event, descending on Austin, Texas from March 11-16. Organizers have revealed the first slate of 149 musicians set to perform during the festival, including Lo Moon (from Los Angeles), Cumgirl8 (New York), Omar S (Detroit), Rawayana (Caracas), Dry Cleaning (London), Hinds (Madrid) and Red Axes (Tel Aviv).

The co-heads of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival, which was rescheduled at the eleventh hour this week due to the Israel-Gaza crisis, have vowed that the event will go ahead in some shape or form.

An SNP minister has insisted the party does not take its support for granted after it suffered a heavy defeat to Labour at the Rutherglen by-election.

Laura Anderson has taken her baby daughter on her first flight just four weeks safter giving birth. The Love Island star, 34, flew from her homeland of Scotland to London, taking her fans along for the journey. Sharing a snap of her preparing to board the plane, the star, who now resides in Glasgow, wrote: "B’s first flight.

Marta Balaga Warsaw Film Festival sets out to spotlight a slew of new local releases, from “Anxiety” by Sławomir Fabicki – Oscar-nominated for his short “A Man Thing” – to this year’s opener “Song of Goats” by Andrzej Jakimowski. The latter, featuring “EO” star Mateusz Kościukiewicz and set in Greece, will show characters living close to an active volcano, exploring the question of how “each of us is responsible for maintaining our fragile heritage,” says the director.

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is beginning to fill out its lineup leading up to IDFA’s 36th edition next month. The largest all-documentary festival in the world today announced selections for the Competition for Short Documentary and the IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary, along with the films selected for the Best of Fests section and the “Signed” section, a new addition to the IDFA program. 

Global Citizen Festival that the beloved greenspace had to close for the season earlier than anticipated so months-long repairs could get underway.The immediate closure prompted New York City Councilwoman Gale Brewer to call for the annual festival’s relocation after heavy rain, foot traffic and machinery used for staging “destroyed one-third” of the park’s 55-acre Great Lawn.The Central Park Conservancy determined that the damage required the “immediate closure of the lawn” so the grass could be re-seeded, she wrote in a letter to Mayor Eric Adams on Monday. “As a result, 12 acres of public greenspace will be unavailable to New Yorkers until April 2024 or later, all to accommodate a one-day event,” Brewer wrote.

Married at First Sight star Brad Skelly has broken his silence on social media after the second dinner party aired on the smash hit E4 dating show. During the brutal episode, which hit our screens on Tuesday night (3 October), viewers saw the cracks beginning to form in Brad’s relationship with wife Shona after their romance came under scrutiny from the other couples. In one particularly tough moment, fellow groom Luke was asked to say which couple he thought was the leats genuine, to which he explained he felt Shona and Brad seemed to have formed their relationship on the basis of sexual attraction alone with little substance beyond that.

A man has been charged after a 76-year-old man died following a crash in Stockport. Police have been investigating the collision that occurred on Ashton Road, in Bredbury, on August 5 this year.

Leonardo DiCaprio and his alleged new girlfriend Vittoria Ceretti are taking their romance to the next level.

Six people are dead — including parents and three of their kids — after an SUV was struck by a train at a railroad crossing in Florida. The incident occurred at about 7:00 p.m. local

Global Citizen Festival — which traditionally has served as a golden sunset on summer as it gives way to fall — was a rain-soaked slog that turned New York’s Central Park into one giant mud puddle.Indeed, the Great Lawn that had been populated with sun worshippers for the past few months was now a sea of ponchos and rain slickers.“It’s a beautiful day!” joked “Science Guy” Bill Nye early in the spirit-dampening festivities.In fact, it was almost an hour into the main show before the first act, Brazilian sensation Anitta, even took the stage — no doubt to ensure a safe, slip-free performance.The elements didn’t stop the Grammy-nominated singer — wearing a bedazzled bodysuit with the colors of the Brazilian flag emblazoned across its halter top — from twerking, writhing and otherwise booty-popping on the wet stage.One could’ve only hoped that all that grinding and gyrating by Anitta and her hip-shaking squad was some sort of anti-rain dance.But the rain gods were not to be defeated. And neither was the Global Citizen Festival.Indie-pop star Conan Gray brought some glam to the gloom in his red, black and silver sequined jacket — with fringe sleeves for extra flair — while K-pop group Stray Kids demonstrated the global impact of hip-hop in the city that gave birth to it 50 years ago.And the BTS Army showed up in full force for Jung Kook, who got a catsuited-assist from rapper Latto on their No.