If you just happened to miss being in Nashville for this year’s CMA Music Fest or you want to relive the amazing time you had, you can catch all the action as ABC airs the television special, CMA Fest, Sunday, August 4th. The show will feature more than 30 performers, including many collaborations such as Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus and Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood with rock legend Joan Jett, Brothers Osborne with Brooks and Dunn and Ashley McBryde, Kelsea Ballerini and The Chainsmokers, plus many others. Additional performers include Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Little Big Town, Maren Morris, Tim McGraw, Luke Combs, Dan + Shay, Kane Brown, Florida Georgia Line, Chris Janson, Miranda Lambert, Old Dominion, Rascal Flatts, Blake Shelton, Thomas Rhett and Brett Young.
This year’s CMA Fest premieres August 4th at 8pm ET on ABC.
Kelsea Ballerini — “Miss Me More”
Kelsea Ballerini and The Chainsmokers — “This Feeling”
Dierks Bentley — “Living”
Brothers Osborne — “I Don’t Remember Me (Before You)”
Brothers Osborne and Brooks & Dunn– “Hard Workin’ Man”
Brothers Osborne with Brooks & Dunn and Ashley McBryde — “You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone”
Kane Brown — “Good as You”
Luke Bryan — “Knockin’ Boots”
Luke Combs — “Beer Never Broke My Heart”
Dan + Shay — “All To Myself”
Florida Georgia Line — “Talk You Out Of It”
Brantley Gilbert and Lindsay Ell — “What Happens In A Small Town”
Chris Janson — “Good Vibes”
Miranda Lambert — “Locomotive”
Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus and Keith Urban — “Old Town Road”
Little Big Town — “The Daughters”
Tim McGraw and Luke Combs — “Real Good Man”
Midland — “Mr. Lonely”
Maren Morris — “Girl”
Maren Morris and Brandi Carlile — “Common”
Old Dominion — “Make It Sweet”
Pistol Annies — “Sugar Daddy”
Rascal Flatts — “Back to Life”
Blake Shelton — “God’s Country”
Thomas Rhett — “Look What God Gave Her” and “T-Shirt”
Carrie Underwood — “Southbound”
Carrie Underwood and Joan Jett — Medley of “I Hate Myself for Loving You,” “Bad Reputation,” “Crimson and Clover,” “Fresh Start” and “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll”
Keith Urban — “We Were”
Brett Young — “Here Tonight”
Audio / LUKE BRYAN TALKS ABOUT THE CMA FEST TELEVISION SPECIAL AND HOW MUCH HE ENJOYS PERFORMING ON IT.
DownloadLuke Bryan (CMA Music Festival TV) OC: …for the fans. 1:00
“I’ve always been the type of artist when I can perform my music for a television audience, it’s the best of both worlds. You get to be in people’s households and they get to always put the face with the song. I mean, that used to be a big deal in my career, in my early career, we had to make sure that the people watching at home put it together that this crazy guy was singing in the song. I mean, this is like a big, awards-show-type crowd in August and yeah, it’s very important. You don’t want to go out there and lay an egg. You want to go put a great show on, because the fans that are in the room, they’re gonna go watch it again in August. And another thing — it’s gonna make people that may not have been to this festival, they’re gonna want to come be a part of that. So it’s been fun watching CMA Music Fest grow to where it’s sold out every night, and that’s because we put a cool thing to watch on TV together for the fans.”
Audio / CARRIE UNDERWOOD TALKS ABOUT CMA MUSIC FEST.
DownloadCarrie Underwood (CMA Music Festival) OC: …when they’re here. 1:05
“CMA Music Festival is so much fun, and every year they do a TV special, which is really cool. We kind of get to give the rest of the world that didn’t get to come to the Music Fest a little taste of what it’s like and hopefully they’ll see it and want to come next year. But CMA Music Fest is so much fun. No other genre of music does what country music does for their fans like this, which is so cool. There are literally like hundreds of thousands of people that like descend on Nashville, and there’s not a hotel to be found. Everywhere you go there’s people looking for music and looking to see artists and fan club parties and charity events and the CMT Music Awards are that week. It’s a lot of fun, and it’s kind of a way to get to interact and give back and meet the people that have been coming to see you on tour and get to say thank you. It’s just a blast. I came as a kid growing up a couple of times, and it’s cool to be on that side of things and now to be on this side of things, but I think everybody just has a lot of fun when they’re here.”
Audio / Keith Urban, who is making his way up the country charts with “We Were,” talks about CMA Music Fest.
DownloadKeith Urban(CMA Music Fest) OC: …love it. :25
“I love it! It’s like summer camp. I mean, it is! It’s a chance to obviously see a lot of people I don’t normally see. I don’t know. It’s just palpable. Since Fan Fair, it’s just been that sort of week-plus of energy; the town just explodes, and what it is we love about this genre and the community aspect of it. I always love it.”
