CMA Music Festival TV special airing tonight
Taylor Swift performs at the 2011 CMA Music Festival in Nashville, Tenn. (AP file photo)
The three-hour, primetime concert special “CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock” will air at 7 tonight on the ABC Television Network.
The concert lineup includes individual performances from Oklahoma-connected acts Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, Reba McEntire and Rascal Flatts, along with Trace Adkins, The Band Perry, Dierks Bentley, Sara Evans, Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town, Darius Rucker, Sugarland, Taylor Swift, and Keith Urban.
The special also features one-of-a-kind collaborations including Alabama performing with Brad Paisley; Jason Aldean collaborating with Kelly Clarkson; a late-night jam with Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow; Josh Turner singing with “American Idol” winner Scotty McCreery; “Idol” runner up Lauren Alaina joining Martina McBride; Gretchen Wilson partying with Big & Rich; and Alan Jackson performing with Zac Brown Band.
Behind-the-ropes access is part of the special including interviews with The Band Perry, Aldean and Clarkson, Lady Antebellum, Swift, and Shania Twain; a late-night jam at a downtown club with Luke Bryan; and a day in the life of McCreery and Alaina as they experience their first CMA Music Festival. Several artists step up to introduce their peers including Bentley, McBride, Rascal Flatts, John Rich, Rucker, Shelton, and Twain.
The annual event, which originally started as Fan Fair in 1972, runs four days and includes 30 hours of autograph signings, 100 hours of live music, hundreds of artists and celebrities, and a party list of thousands of avid, singing and dancing-’til-dawn fans. This is the seventh time ABC will broadcast this special, which invites the country to America’s biggest country music bash.
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Hi , your right the Rascals sang a Boston song called ” Little Big Town !Does know the name of the stadium in Nashville? Thanks & enjoy the festival , wish I was there! 
Who said this is country music?????? A bunch of millionairs running around screaming and wearing the most god auful clothes I have ever seen. What ever happened to real country? Is this what drugs do for you. I had to turn this show off and will never watch another show advertised as cuntry music!!!!!
Love the show just wish could have had Scotty a little longer.Also Lauren. They are both so good and cute.
Who were those 2 kids with the really deep voices? I loved them! I’ve had a hard time with new country music for a few years – just not what country should be, but those 2 guys were spectacular!
rascal flats and teh group little big down performed the song free ride and its at lp stadium in nashville
HI EVERYONE,MY FAVORITES WERE SCOTTY McCREERY AND JOSH TURNER,THEY WERE GREAT.MOST OF ALL THEY SOUND ALMOST THE SAME LOVED IT!! SECOND WHEN MARTINA MCBRIDE AND LAUREN ALAINA SANG,THEY TWO SOUNDED ALMOST ALIKE AND WERE JUST GREAT!!! THE FESTIVAL HAD ALL GREAT STARS THAT I LIKE VERY MUCH.I AM A MUSIC NUT AND HAVE OVER 5000 CD’S JUST LOVE MY MUSIC. BUT I HAVE TO SAY I DO HAVE MY FAVORITE MUSIC SINGER OF ALL TIME(DON’T LAUGH) BARRY MANILOW.I HAVE LOVED HIM SINCE I WAS 8 YRS OLD AND THAT IS A LONG TIME AGO LOL ANYONE LIKE HIM LIKE I DO? I AM GLAD EVEYONE HAD A GREAT TIME.I ENJOYED WATCHING IT ON T.V. I COULD’NT IMAGINE HOW IT MUST HAVE FELT BEING THERE!!!
I am new to Country, but I loved the Martina McBride/Lauren Alaina and Josh Turner/Scotty McCreery duets.
I loved it all.
So many concerts are being aired online recently! What do you think about it? Check out this article I read about the controversy http://www.ourstage.com/blog/2011/8/23/live-wired-controversy-of-airing-festivals-online
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