Keith Urban has added five new shows to his residency at The Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. They’ll take place March 25th – April 2nd.

VEGAS !!!!! We’re coming BACK to the @ColosseumatCP ! See you SO soon 🔥 March 25 – April 2

Phoenix Club presale begins Wed. January 26 @ 10am PT
General on sale begins Mon. January 31 @ 10am PT

Tickets & info at https://t.co/azMXucdjv0 ! pic.twitter.com/vC3MXmPX8y

— Keith Urban (@KeithUrban) January 25, 2022

Brothers Osborne appeared on ABC’s Nightline Tuesday night (January 25th). Check out the comprehensive interview here.

Go behind-the-scenes of Luke Bryan‘s seventh annual Crash My Playa event with CMT this weekend. Check out all the action on CMT Hot 20 with Cody Alan Saturday (January 29th) beginning at 9am ET/8am CT.

We’re back, beaches! This weekend #cmtHot20 is taking you to a place where the sun is hotter & drinks are stronger at country music superstar @lukebryan’s ultimate party Crash My Playa! Plus, an incredible lineup including @dustinlynch AND @JordanCWDavis all at 9a/8c on @CMT! pic.twitter.com/y3Ic6hUYwG

— CMT Hot 20 Countdown (@cmtHot20) January 27, 2022

Keith Urban’s “Wild Hearts” is closing in on Top 20 on the country charts, and it tells the story of his own wild heart, which started beating furiously at age five when his dad took him and the rest of his family to a Johnny Cash concert. He said once he was sent the song by the writers – Brad Tursi of Old Dominion, Jennifer Wayne of Runaway June and Eric Paslay – and he asked to rewrite some of the lyrics to reflect his story, it came together really quickly from start to a finished record.

“I got sent the song in early May, and I rewrote the lyrics within a couple of weeks of getting the track without the vocals on it, so I could work on that. And once I got those where I wanted them, I went down into my studio and put down a vocal on the song and then I added guitars and I sort of built out the demo that I got sent,” says Keith. “Everything was done so quick, and then I sent it to my manager to say, ‘Hey, we just did this last week. What do you think about this song?’ And he said, ‘I think we should put that song out.’ I went, ‘When?’ He was like, ‘Now!’ (laughs) He’s like, ‘This just sounds great.’ And we played it for a bunch of different people, and everybody just loved it.”

During this crazy time we’ve all been living for the past nearly two years, Keith feels people have responded to the message of the song. “I think people were responding to the message. It’s a universal want, I think, to have a song motivate us at the times when we need it in our lives. This song was just magical, I think, how quick it was done, how quick it made its way into a finished record to how soon we were releasing it – all very, very fast through for anything I’ve ever done, so I think there’s other powers at work with this song.”

Keith is set to kick off the North American leg of his first world tour in four years, THE SPEED OF NOW WORLD TOUR, June 17th in Tampa, Florida. Prior to the summer/fall run in North America, he’ll be across the pond in the spring with dates in the U-K before heading to his Las Vegas residency in May.

Keith Urban made a few phone calls to some fans to see what songs they wanted to make sure made his setlist on his upcoming THE SPEED OF NOW WORLD TOUR 2022.

He posted on socials, “working on the setlist for tour and decided to call a few friends for suggestions. there’s no one better out there to help than all of YOU ! drop a song (or ten) that you want to hear.”

working on the setlist for tour and decided to call a few friends for suggestions. there's no one better out there to help than all of YOU ! drop a song (or ten) that you want to hear👇 pic.twitter.com/2XfG4TTOW5

— Keith Urban (@KeithUrban) January 4, 2022

Keith is currently making his way up the country charts with “Wild Hearts.”

Keith Urban heard a lot of negative comments when he was trying to get his break into the music community. All he ever wanted to do is play music for a living, probably since his dad gave him his first guitar at the age of six. Like the message in his latest song, “Wild Hearts,” “sometimes you just gotta prove ’em wrong” when you’re following your dream.

“That second verse in the song talks about ‘has anyone ever told you you’ll never amount to anything and you’re just wasting your time chasing that tail of a dragon kind of dream.’  I had plenty of those people in my life that didn’t believe in me, thought I was wasting my time,” says Keith. “And I probably found that fuel for my fire even more than the people who believed in me. It was sort of the motivation for proving them wrong was great motivation.”

He recalls one older country artist in Australia making a condescending comment to him after he returned from writing songs in Nashville who ended up adding more fuel to the fire.

“One of my first trips to America when I was about 21, 22, I came to Nashville and wrote some songs, went back to Australia. And I was playing at a country music festival. I’ll never forget it,” he says. “And this older country artist said to me backstage,‘So, where you been?’ I said ‘Oh, I’ve been in Nashville writing songs.’ And I was like so excited and he looked at me and he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, you’ve got to get it out of your system, don’t ya?’ And I could have punched this guy square in the face. I was so angry at this comment, this kind of condescending, jaded thing that this guy said to me, and I’ve burned on that fuel for so many years. I think about that guy a lot and I’m grateful now that he gave me that fuel to burn on because it was a 180 degree turn from how I felt about my life and what I wanted to do in my life. So, that verse is kind of somewhat of a thank you to the people who say you can’t do it because they give me, people like me a lot of fuel.”

Keith is set to kick off the North American leg of his first world tour in four years, THE SPEED OF NOW WORLD TOUR, June 17th in Tampa, Florida. Prior to the summer/fall run in North America, he’ll be across the pond in the spring with dates in the U-K before heading to his Las Vegas residency in May.

Keith Urban and his family, including wife Nicole Kidman and daughters Sunday and Faith, usually head Down Under for the holiday, visiting family and hitting the beach, which is what he did on Christmas Day when he was a kid.

“We had great Christmases growing up. I really, really enjoyed them,” says Keith. “Mostly, we’d go to the beach, you know, ’cause there it’s summertime. Load up the station wagon and head off to the beach.”

He and his family still love to do that when they’re in Australia since it’s summer there. “We still love going to the beach at Christmas time, as long as we’re in Australia, because it’s like the Fourth of July. It’s huge. Everybody’s out. It feels very celebratory. It’s in the ‘90s. It’s crazy, but having grown up with that, it feels very natural to me. Albeit it, we still had all of the same Christmas songs, so we’re in like 90-degree heat with shorts and tank tops singing ‘Walking in a Winter Wonderland,’ and I remember getting Christmas cards of like Santa on a surfboard, so that probably explains a lot.”

Keith also enjoys a holiday movie or two. “I love A Christmas Story, that’s a good one, and It’s a Wonderful Life, of course. I have one of my main guitars is called Clarence, and it’s named after the angel (in It’s a Wonderful Life), and then for some reason, I swear, no matter what you’re doing flicking around the TV, but you’re gonna land on Charlie Brown (Christmas). I don’t know how that happens, but it happens every year.”

One of his favorite Christmas gifts as a child was a toy that was not easy to tear up. “I got a yellow Tonka truck when I was about 6, I think, and it’s probably still (one of) my favorite Christmas gift ever. Those things last forever, too.”

Keith released his first Christmas song, “I’ll Be Your Santa Tonight,” a couple of years ago.

After the holidays, Keith, who is making his way up the country charts with “Wild Hearts,” will be getting ready to head out on The Speed of Now World Tour 2022. He’ll kick off the world trek in the U-K beginning April 28th and is back in the States in late May.

Keith Urban
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.

Carrie Underwood
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.

And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a long winter’s nap

Kimberly from Little Big Town
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.

TJ Osborne
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

John Osborne
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.

Tae from Maddie & Tae
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer.

Jimi from Little Big Town
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St Nick.

Lauren Alaina
More rapid than eagles his reindeer they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!

“Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! On, Cupid! On Donner and Blitzen!

Caylee Hammack
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!”

Dierks Bentley
So up to the house-top the reindeer they flew,
With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too

Darius Rucker
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.

Jordan Davis
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.

Maddie from Maddie & Tae
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.

Karen from Little Big Town
His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

Jon Pardi
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.

Brandon Lay
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!

Phillip from Little Big Town
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

Josh Turner
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.

Luke Bryan
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.

Alan Jackson
But I heard him exclaim, as he drove out of sight,
“Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!”

Keith Urban can be heard in the new Netflix animated movie, Back To The Outback, as Doug, the singing toad. He posted a clip on his socials and wrote, “when I was a kid, I wrote my bucket list and at the very top was ‘ONE DAY, I WANNA BE A SINGING TOAD.’ I mean, what are the odds?!!!”

when I was a kid, I wrote my bucket list and at the very top was “ONE DAY, I WANNA BE A SINGING TOAD.” I mean, what are the odds?!!! Meet Doug in #BackToTheOutback, streaming on @netflix pic.twitter.com/runvMKQxOH

— Keith Urban (@KeithUrban) December 10, 2021

The film also features characters voiced by Isla Fisher (“Wedding Crashers,” “Tag”), Eric Bana (“Hulk,” “Black Hawk Down,” “Troy”), Guy Pearce (“L.A. Confidential,” “Memento,” “Iron Man 3”), Kylie Minogue and others.

Synopsis of the film — Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they’re monsters, a group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot a daring escape from their zoo to the Outback.

Keith is currently making his way up the country charts with “Wild Hearts.”

As valued leaders in music education, the CMA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Country Music Association, arranged for 12-time CMA Award winner Keith Urban to meet with students from Hillwood High School in Nashville yesterday, Nov. 30. The unannounced visit with the school’s Rock Band, Orchestra, Choir and Band programs saw Urban hosting a Q&A session that discussed, amongst other things, songwriting, performing and the music industry. In addition to offering students tips and words of encouragement to further their music education, Urban was treated to two student performances in preparation for their winter concerts, one from the school’s Rock Band and the other from its String Orchestra, which performed Urban’s hit “Wasted Time.”

Keith Urban and the CMA Foundation visit Hillwood High School in Nashville, TN on Tuesday, November 30, 2021. Photo Credit: Acacia Evans/CMA 

“There is nothing more fulfilling than experiencing the incredible impact music has on a student’s life,” says Tiffany Kerns, Executive Director, CMA Foundation. “Whether they are performing music or talking about the transformative power of music, yesterday’s school visit reiterated that our priority in education is always our students’ ability to be successful, heard, and seen. Keith provided insight on his musical journey but more importantly, he shared a commonality with the students – music making is life changing and critical to our next generation.”

Since its inception in 2011, the CMA Foundation has been committed to improving and sustaining music programs throughout the U.S. so all students have equitable opportunities to participate in a high-quality music education. The CMA Foundation believes music and the arts are part of a well-rounded education, investing $27 million to support these efforts over the last 10 years. During this time, the CMA Foundation has observed why music programs are not thriving, seeing first-hand the challenges educators are facing and, most importantly, the systemic issues that must be addressed in order for every child to have access to music. Committed to its vision, the CMA Foundation is working directly with school districts to identify needs, understand their challenges, build community support and develop local and national resources from partners as part of the non-profit’s systems change model.

To make a donation in support of the CMA Foundation’s efforts, click HERE.

Four-time GRAMMY© Award winner Keith Urban has set Summer ’22 for the North American debut of his first world tour in four years, THE SPEED OF NOW WORLD TOUR.  The tour’s newly announced North American leg, with 3x GRAMMY© nominee Ingrid Andress, will add fifty shows to the previously announced concerts in Australia, Germany, Netherlands and the U.K.  For information on where to get tickets go to www.keithurban.com.

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“Every night is the first time we’ve played these songs for that audience, in that moment,” says Urban.  “It’s why every show is different – spontaneous and unpredictable – even for us!”  He adds, “After two years we’re finally gonna get the chance to play some of the new songs we haven’t done live before.  We’ll throw in a bunch of the songs that everyone comes to hear, a couple of which we’ll rework a bit, and it’s really gonna be tough to get us off the stage.”

“I’ve always considered myself a live performer first,” says Urban. “It’s what I’ve always done and it’s what my music needs to live and breathe.  Our shows are all about living in the moment.  They’re a totally interactive and immersive experience where everyone can participate in whatever way they want – sing, dance, do whatever.”

Critics from around the globe have hailed Urban’s concerts as ones “not to be missed,” as unpredictable as they are explosive.  Combine his infectious showmanship, virtuoso guitar playing, effortless spontaneity with a fist-pumping, arena-ready arsenal of hits and THE SPEED OF NOW WORLD TOUR  promises to be one of the concert event of the Summer.

But what lies at the heart of every great show are the songs. Blue Ain’t Your Color, The Fighter, Somewhere In My Car, Wasted Time, Somebody Like You, Long Hot Summer, his latest single Wild Hearts, and his global smash One Too Many with P!NK, will anchor a night of music from one of the touring world’s best.

The tour includes Urban’s first concerts in Ft. Worth and Savannah, his first appearances at venues in Los Angeles and Jacksonville, as well as shows in Knoxville, Charleston and Madison where he hasn’t played in nearly a decade.

Tickets for shows on May 27^th, 28^th and 29^th, part of Urban’s run of dates at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, go on sale on December 10^th at 10:00AM PT.

More About Keith Urban:
Keith Urban has spent the better part of his life harnessing a passion for music.  This helps to understand why he is one of the most successful and well-respected artists in the world.  He’s won four GRAMMY© Awards, thirteen CMAs, fifteen ACMs, three AMAs, two People’s Choice Awards and celebrated nine consecutive gold, platinum or multi-platinum albums. His musical virtuosity and fluidity has made him the musician’s musician.  He’s collaborated with a diverse group of artists that include, among others; Billy Gibbons, Buddy Guy, H.E.R., Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, Eric Church, John Mayer, Julia Michaels, Justin Timberlake, Dzeko, Miranda Lambert, Nile Rodgers, Post Malone, Taylor Swift, The Rolling Stones and Vince Gill.

May 27-29 Las Vegas at Caesars Palace Colosseum

June 17                 Tampa                   MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre

June 18                 West Palm Beach    iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre

July 8                    Toronto                  Budweiser Stage

July 9                    Toronto                  Budweiser Stage

July 10                  Canandaigua          CMAC

July 15                  Cleveland              Blossom Music Center

July 16                  Cincinnati             Riverbend Music Center

July 22                  Mansfield              Xfinity Center

July 23                  Bangor                  Maine Savings Amphitheater

July 24                  Gilford                   Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion

July 29                  Holmdel                 PNC Bank Arts Center

July 30                  Bristow                 Jiffy Lube Live

July 31                  Camden                 BB&T Pavilion

August 4                Jacksonville           Daily’s Place

August 5                Jacksonville           Daily’s Place

August 6                Orange Beach        The Wharf Amphitheater

August 12              Charlotte               PNC Music Pavilion

August 13              Raleigh                  Coastal Credit Union Music Park

August 14              Virginia Beach       Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater

August 18              Rogers                   Walmart AMP

August 19              St. Louis                Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

August 20              Des Moines            Iowa State Fair

August 26              Detroit                  DTE Energy Music Theatre

August 27              Indianapolis          Ruoff Music Center

August 28              Milwaukee             American Family Insurance Amphitheater

September 1           Lake Tahoe            Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys

September 3           Mountain View       Shoreline Amphitheatre

September 8           Phoenix                 Footprint Center

September 9           San Diego              North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre

September 10         Los Angeles            The Forum

September 15         Salt Lake City        USANA Amphitheatre

September 16         Denver                   Ball Arena

September 17         Wichita                 INTRUST Bank Arena

September 22         Grand Rapids         Van Andel Arena

September 23         Columbus              Nationwide Arena

September 24         Chicago                 Hollywood Casino Amphitheater

September 29         Kansas City           T-Mobile Center

September 30         Oklahoma City       Paycom Center

October 1               Ft. Worth               Dickies Arena

October 6               Lexington               Rupp Arena

October 7               Nashville               Bridgestone Arena

October 8               Atlanta                  State Farm Arena

October 13             Savannah              Enmarket Arena

October 14             Knoxville               Thompson Boling Arena

October 15             Charleston            Charleston Coliseum

October 21             Uncasville              Mohegan Sun Arena

October 22             Long Island            UBS Arena at Belmont Park

November 3            Madison                 Alliant Energy Center

November 4            Peoria                    Peoria Civic Center

November 5            St. Paul                 Xcel Center

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