Little Big Town and Dierks Bentley have been added to the list of performers at next week’s CMA Awards. They’re joined on the bill by Florida Georgia Line and Zac Brown Band.
Three-time CMA Vocal Group of the Year Little Big Town (Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook) have been nominated in the category every year since 2006 and received a nomination again in 2015. Adding to their list of 21 total nominations are industry nods this year for Single of the Year for “Girl Crush,” which was produced by Jay Joyce; Album of the Year for Pain Killer, which was produced by Joyce; Musical Event of the Year with Miranda Lambert for “Smokin’ and Drinkin’”; and Music Video of the Year for “Girl Crush” which was directed by Karla Welch and Matthew Welch. Little Big Town and Eric Church are tied for the most nominations for 2015.
Dierks will be joined by electronic violinist Lindsey Stirling during his performance n the show. The Phoenix native, a 15-time nominee and two-time winner including the Horizon Award in 2005 (now New Artist of the Year) and Music Video of the Year in 2014 for “Drunk on a Plane,” collects his fourth Male Vocalist nomination in 2015. His performance will include a special appearance by Stirling, an electronic violinist whose YouTube channel has exceeded 7 million subscribers with over 1 billion total views and whose most recent album Shatter Me, reached No. 2 on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart. She has been named in Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30 In Music: The Class of 2015.
Previously announced performers include Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt, Kacey Musgraves, Keith Urban with John Mellencamp, , Eric Church with Hank Williams, Jr., Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, Kelsea Ballerini, Maddie & Tae and Thomas Rhett with Fall Out Boy.
The 49th Annual CMA Awards will air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena Wednesday, November 4th at 8pm ET on ABC.
