Oklahoma country stars to be featured in CMA Music Festival TV special
Brooks & Dunn (The Oklahoman Archives photo)
Miranda Lambert (Associated Press photo)
Reba McEntire (AP photo)
ABC will air performances from the 2009 CMA Music Festival, along with ”revealing” segments with country music stars, Aug. 31.
The TV special “CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock” will broadcast from 7 to 10 p.m. Monday, Aug. 31 on ABC. The annual music special, expanding to three hours for the first time, will air in HD with 5.1-channel surround sound.
The show will include performances by Oklahomans Reba McEntire, Brooks & Dunn and Miranda Lambert, along with Trace Adkins, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Kenny Chesney, Julianne Hough, Jamey Johnson, Kid Rock, Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride, Jake Owen, Brad Paisley, Kellie Pickler, John Rich, Darius Rucker, Sugarland, Taylor Swif, and Zac Brown Band.
In addition, Kid Rock will perform his smash hit “Picture” with McBride, while Wynonna and Naomi Judd reunite as The Judds to perform together for the first time at the CMA Music Festival in six years.
The special will show highlights from the CMA Music Festival, which was June 11-14 in Nashville, Tenn. On- and off-stage segments and day-in-the-life vignettes showcasing the personalities and lifestyles of fan favorites will be presented, including:
- Aldean declares it “Ladies Night at the CMA Music Festival” during a nightclub concert. He treats everyone to a performance of his hit, “She’s Country” that segues to his performance at LP field.
- Viewers encounter Paisley during a quiet moment alone on his tour bus speaking about his fans then encountering hundreds of them as they greet him outside his bus. His personal recollections then segue to Paisley and his band electrifying a standing-room-only crowd at Fuel club with his hit song, “Then” to LP Field where he sings “American Saturday Night.”
- Pickler’s off-stage persona is captured as she spends the day with fans, charming them with her quick wit and sweet disposition. Pickler’s admirers join her for some shopping at famous Nashville stores such as Ernest Tubb’s Record Shop, where she autographs and gives some lucky fans her own CD’s and stops by Mike’s Soda Shop to taste “Kellie Pickler” ice cream. Later that night Pickler performs “Best Days of Your Life” at Fuel.
- The special takes a candid look at the hectic and fun day-in-the-life of Hough from getting ready at home to the convention center to a slew of press interviews such as “Good Morning America” with “All My Children’s” Cameron Mathison. She then heads to sound check and wardrobe changes all the while meeting fans all along the way.
Throughout the special, Pickler introduces interviews with some of the Festival’s biggest performers in this multi-star segment. Brooks & Dunn (which includes former Tulsan Ronnie Dunn), Chesney, McBride, McEntire, Rucker, and Sugarland offer celebrity insight and share their personal stories from the road, home and tours with viewers. Then Swift answers submitted questions from her six biggest fans and later she surprises them in a meet and greet.
The annual CMA Music Festival runs for four days filled with more than 100 hours of live music, 30 hours of autograph signings, hundreds of artists and celebrities, and a party list of thousands of avid fans. This is the fifth time ABC will broadcast a post-fest special, which invites the whole country to America’s biggest country music bash. This year an average of 56,000 fans attended each day of CMA Music Festival, its biggest turnout yet.
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I’d like to know why Chuck Wicks is not performing/speaking in this special. After all, he was one of the hosts at the fashion show, sang the Ala Mater, was an Interviewer for Extra n sang at one of the stands. I hope its not like the same Show we had not too long ago. All we had was Swift (who belongs w/disney) who can’t dance n every time she sings live is off key in her songs and fake boobs Pickler who is not quick wit, but dumb blond wit. It really put Country down that even my friends were laughing at what they saw n shaking their heads n thinking, we’re just hicks who don’t know any better.