Dierks Bentley will be getting up really early on Wednesday (November 2nd) to perform a free concert the morning of this year’s CMA Awards. The show is set to take place on the plaza leading into Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena from 6a – 8a CT and will air on ABC’s Good Morning America.
“I’m coming from a little thing I’m doing down in Orlando the night before, but I wouldn’t miss the opportunity to be part of this Good Morning America performance,” says Dierks. “That’s where I got my start playing those bars down there. You dream of playing the CMAs and getting on that show and now to have a chance to kick off the whole night with a show that morning on that stage they build out there and just seeing the people packed in amongst all the buildings down on Lower Broadway…Lower Broadway is just so important to me and the CMAs are so important to me, so to have those two worlds collide and to start the day off with that performance is a huge honor. It sounds like a lot of fun. I don’t care if it’s two o’clock in the morning. I don’t care. [laughs] I haven’t slept in a long, long time anyway, so it doesn’t matter what time the shows are. I love it and the guys in the band are already excited about it, so we’ll be really fired up to be out there.
Dierks is nominated for four CMA Awards, including Male Vocalist, Album of the Year (Black), Vocal Event of the Year for “Different for Girls” with Elle King and Video of the Year for “Somewhere on a Beach.”
The 50th annual CMA Awards will broadcast live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena Wednesday (November 2nd) at 8pm ET on ABC.
Audio / Dierks Bentley is excited to perform a free show on Nashville's Lower Broadway on the morning of the 50th Annual CMA Awards.
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“I’m coming from a little thing I’m doing down in Orlando the night before, but I wouldn’t miss the opportunity to be part of this Good Morning America performance. I think Keith Urban did it last year. I remember seeing all those people down there on Lower Broadway. That’s where I got my start playing those bars down there. You dream of playing the CMAs and getting on that show and now to have a chance to kick off the whole night with a show that morning on that stage they build out there and just seeing the people packed in amongst all the buildings down on Lower Broadway. I own a building down there now. I’m starting a bar down there, and I’ll probably be able to see it from the stage. Lower Broadway is just so important to me and the CMAs are so important to me, so to have those two worlds collide and to start the day off with that performance is a huge honor. It sounds like a lot of fun. I don’t care if it’s two o’clock in the morning. I don’t care. [laughs] I haven’t slept in a long, long time anyway, so it doesn’t matter what time the shows are. I love it and the guys in the band are already excited about it, so we’ll be really fired up to be out there. And all these country fans that come in from all over the country, from all over the world they come in for the CMA Awards, so it’s gonna be a really fun party atmosphere right there on Lower Broadway in the morning there.”
