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The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, scheduled to take place this fall at the Fair Grounds Race Course over two weekends from October 8-17, is set to feature performances from over 180 musical acts. The organizers of the festival, who made the announcement about the festival and released a trailer on their website and…

Trisha Yearwood has announced that on August 13 she will release a Deluxe Edition version of her 2019 album, Every Girl. The 17-track Every Girl Deluxe album, marking the country music superstar’s 30 years in the industry, will include some unreleased songs. The album will also feature an acoustic re-recording of Yearwood’s smash hit from…

ViacomCBS has announced that the CMT Music Awards, which have aired on CMT since 2002, will now premiere exclusively on CBS starting in 2022. The show will be moved up from its usual June spot by several weeks and will broadcast live from Nashville in the spring, Billboard reports. The Academy of Country Music Awards’…

Kelly Clarkson won two awards at the 48th annual Daytime Emmy Awards, which aired on Friday, June 25, on CBS. Clarkson took home Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host award for her talk show “The Kelly Clarkson Show.” She also won the award for Outstanding Talk Show, as she is the executive producer for the show…

Zac Brown Band, Darius Rucker and Old Dominion have been announced as headliners for Live in the Vineyard Goes Country. Live In The Vineyard Goes Country is scheduled to take place on November 2-4 in Napa, California. It is an invite-only event and will be attended mostly by music supervisors, radio programmers, label executives and…

Toby Keith shared a new song, “Old School,” which is set to be part of his upcoming studio album, scheduled to arrive this fall. Maren Morris, Ryan Hurd and Bret Tyler co-wrote “Old School” several years ago. Toby and Kenny Greenberg co-produced the song. “We’re old school, small town stickin’ around/ Just like folks used…

Country star Jimmie Allen has revealed the sex of his baby on the way– a girl. Appearing on The Sam Alex Show this week, the singer said, “We’ve got a new girl, a baby girl on the way. We didn’t do the whole baby reveal thing because we did it for the first one, we’re…

Country star Sam Hunt has shared an acoustic demo of a brand new song called “Came The Closest.” Sam shared one minute and twenty seconds of the song on social media and wrote, “This is a rough acoustic demo of a new song called ‘Came the Closest.'” “Cause I always gotta know what’s behind the…

Morgan Wallen teamed up with fellow country stars Eric Church and Hardy for an acoustic jam session of his song “Sand in My Boots.” Wallen posted a video on his IGTV on Wednesday, June 23, in which the trio of country superstars perform Wallen’s “Sand In My Boots” from an unknown location. Darius Rucker also…

Scooter Braun says he’s “sad” about how Taylor Swift reacted to his acquisition of her master recordings. In an interview with Variety, Braun discussed his acquisition of Swift’s master recordings, which led to the pop superstar re-recording her first six albums. Braun claims he offered Swift opportunity to buy back her masters. In June 2019,…