Terri Clark released her holiday album, It’s Christmas…Cheers, through her old record label, Mercury Nashville, in 2020, and the collection features many special guests including Vince Gill, Dierks Bentley, Suzy Bogguss, Pam Tillis, Ricky Skaggs and the Oak Ridge Boys.

Terri has a few Christmas traditions, including taking her guitar and some friends and going caroling.

“I’ve been able to go caroling door-to-door a couple times, even after my first hit came out,” says Terri. “It’s always been fun to show up at somebody’s door with a guitar and a group of people around me singing Christmas carols and then they go, ‘Oh, is that who I think it is?’ (laughs) That’s always fun.”

Terri also loves Christmas Eve, and recalls some of her favorite traditions growing up in Canada. “Christmas Eve was always my favorite, because it felt like once Christmas morning gets there, it’s kind of a wind-down to the end of the holiday,” she says. “So, Christmas Eve is still sort of that night before and leading up to when Santa comes, and we would always make traditional dishes. And my mom and my mom’s mom, my grandmother, would make Pierogis and cabbage rolls and tourtière, which is a French sort of meat pie that we would have when we lived up in Montreal up in Quebec. And so, food was always a big part of Christmas Eve for me, and on Christmas Eve we were allowed to open one gift, one gift only, and the rest were next morning. So, the next morning was always so much fun, especially when you’re a kid because Christmas really is for kids.”

Dierks Bentley performs “Beers On Me” with BRELAND on the CBS Special New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash. Stream now on Paramount+.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbXpfDvDwc8

Award-winning country duo Maddie & Tae announced today a brand-new collection of songs, Through The Madness Vol. 1, out everywhere January 28 with signed copies available for pre-order now. Maintaining their fierce independence and vulnerability, Maddie & Tae’s Through The Madness Vol. 1 follows last year’s critically acclaimed No. 1 debuting The Way It Feels album.

With their unbreakable bond, honest songwriting and signature harmonies woven through eight tracks, Through The Madness Vol. 1 includes their recent single “Woman You Got” and latest release “Madness.” Maddie & Tae co-penned each song, leading with their hearts wide-open on standout collaborations with Morgane Stapleton (“Don’t Make Her Look Dumb”) and Lori McKenna (“The Other Side”), and exuding familiarity and truth on four more brand-new tracks.

“These eight songs are the start of a new chapter for us,” shared Maddie & Tae. “We couldn’t be more excited for them to be out in the world!”

In celebration of Through The Madness Vol. 1, Maddie & Tae are launching their fan club today, with a select number of signed CDs and digital downloads available. Join Maddie & Tae’s fan club here to pre-order Through The Madness Vol. 1, and receive limited offers exclusive to members.

Maddie & Tae will crisscross the country in 2022, headlining the CMT Next Women of Country Tour Presents: All Song No Static Tour. Kicking off January 6, the pair will bring their hit songs and new music to 16 major markets including New York, Los Angeles, Nashville and more. Tickets are on sale now at https://www.maddieandtae.com/tour.

Through The Madness Vol. 1 Track List:

1. What It’s Like Loving You (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Josh Kerr, Jordan Minton)
   2.  Woman You Got (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Mark Holman, Laura Veltz)
   3.  Don’t Make Her Look Dumb (Feat. Morgane Stapleton) (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Barry Dean, Luke Laird)
   4.  Grown Man Cry (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Eric Arjes, Jordan Minton)
   5.  Madness (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Jessie Jo Dillon, Zach Kale)
   6.  The Other Side (Feat. Lori McKenna) (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Josh Kerr, Lori McKenna)
   7.  Wish You The Best (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Matt Dragstrem, Josh Thompson)*
   8.  Strangers (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Adam Hambrick, Jimmy Robbins)

Produced by Jimmy Robbins & Derek Wells
* = “Wish You The Best” produced by Josh Kerr & Derek Wells

 2022 CMT Next Women of Country Tour Presents: All Song No Static Tour Dates

• Jan 6 – Tower Theatre – Oklahoma City, OK
• Jan 7 – House of Blues – Houston, TX
• Jan 12 – Brighton Music Hall- Boston, MA
• Jan 13 – Gramercy Theatre – New York, NY
• Jan 14 – Baltimore Soundstage – Baltimore, MD
• Jan 15 – Jergel’s Rhythm Grille – Warrendale, PA
• Jan 19 – Moonshine Beach- San Diego, CA
• Jan 20 – The Roxy – West Hollywood, CA
• Jan 21 – Club Rodeo – San Jose, CA
• Jan 22 – Goldfield Trading Post – Roseville, CA
• Feb 3 – Elevation at The Intersection – Grand Rapids, MI
• Feb 4 – The Castle Theatre – Bloomington, IL
• Feb 5 – The Bluestone – Columbus, OH
• Feb 10 – Brooklyn Bowl – Nashville, TN
• Feb 11 – Von Braun Center – Mars Music Hall – Huntsville, AL
• Feb 12 – Buckhead Theatre – Atlanta, GA

With hosts such as Josh Turner, Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Maddie & Tae, Lauren Alaina, Jon Pardi and Gary Allan, you will have 24 hours of a star-studded holiday playlist with A Country Christmas, as well as a two-hour Josh Turner special and a one-hour revamped Carrie Underwood My Gift Special.

Click here to download all of the specials, show clocks, promos and bonus segments/songs to give your staff a day, possibly two, off for the holidays.

For several country stars, they’ll be ringing in the new year with Dierks Bentley in Nashville on New Year’s Eve as CBS presents NEW YEAR’S EVE LIVE: NASHVILLE’S BIG BASH on Friday (December 31st) at 8-11pm ET/PT and 11:30pm-1:30am ET/PT. The special programming will air on CBS and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.

Originating from downtown Nashville across multiple locations, the star-studded special will be packed with high-energy performances celebrating the excitement and anticipation of a new year. In addition to Dierks, Luke Bryan, Darius Rucker, Jon Pardi, BRELAND, Jason Aldean, Jimmie Allen, Kelsea Ballerini, Gabby Barrett, Brooks & Dunn, Dan + Shay, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, Lady A and Cole Swindell , among others will perform.

Dierks says the show will be the one to watch this New Year’s Eve. “Nashville’s just, people just can’t get enough of it. I mean they’re just crazy about this city. They’re crazy about the music. You can feel it from the, well, you can feel it from the real estate housing market to Lower Broadway, and it’s just unbelievable,” says Dierks. “So, I think, I just know people across the country if they had a choice to watch – nothing against New York – but that or actually see their favorite city on TV with all of their favorite artists performing from the big, Bicentennial Mall stage to Miranda’s bar, my bar, Luke’s bar, Aldean’s bar, I mean it’s unbelievable. I can’t imagine it won’t be the most exciting thing to see on TV for all of the country fans out there. It’s long overdue to have, for our city to have a New Year’s Eve show. And again, nothing against the other cities or whatnot, but  it’s just they’re not Nashville. And Nashville, it’s hot. It’s hot right now, and it has been for a long time. So, this is gonna be a lot of fun to be a part of, and I think people across the country are gonna love watching it.”

Music City has built an outstanding reputation for hosting the most musical New Year’s celebration and country’s biggest party. The five-hour celebration will feature nearly 50 performances from locations across the city, including the main stage in Nashville’s Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, Luke Bryan’s bar, Miranda Lambert’s bar and Jason Aldean’s bar, among others. The broadcast will cross multiple time zones, with the traditional countdown at midnight ET, culminating with the renowned Nashville music note drop and fireworks at midnight CT.

Reba McEntire has graced us with a couple of Christmas collections, including 1995’s Merry Christmas to You and 2006’s Secret of Giving: A Christmas Collection.

She recalls one of her favorite Christmas memories when she was a young girl in Oklahoma. “The funniest thing I can always remember about Christmastime is my older brother Pake, when we were kids at home, he’d always be the first one to jump out of bed and run down the hall, and he’d just run down the hall with his underwear on,” she says. “And he’d say, ‘If y’all don’t hurry up and get up and get in here, I’m opening all the presents by myself.’ But he knew it was a standing rule we all had to be in there before anybody could open up a present, but I can still see Pake running down the hall.”

When her son Shelby was just a little boy, she recalls one Christmas morning when he was so excited about what “Santy Claus” brought him. “I’ll never forget one (Christmas) morning I woke up and I was laying on my left side and I felt something, and I opened up my eyes, and Shelby was three inches away from my face. He said, ‘Mom, you’re not gonna beweive what Santy Claus weft for me.’ And so, he said you’ve got to come here. I got up out of bed and went in there and there was this little tractor trailer set that he had just fallen in love with at the store. He’s seen it, and he said, ‘I can’t beweive he bought this for me.’ He was so cute.”

Reba starred in the Lifetime holiday movie, Christmas In Tune, this year, and released the song, “I Needed Christmas,” from the film. If you missed the premiere, you can catch the movie on December 21st at 10pm ET.

What are some of your favorite stars doing to welcome in the New Year? A few of them are working to help fans celebrate. Several artists have taken the time off around the holidays and will hit it hard when they return to the road in 2022. Some artists have resolutions, some artists look ahead to 2022 and some are very helpful with their own hangover cures for those who imbibe too much on New Year’s Eve.

For several country stars, they’ll be ringing in the new year with Dierks Bentley in Nashville on New Year’s Eve as CBS presents NEW YEAR’S EVE LIVE: NASHVILLE’S BIG BASH on Friday (December 31st) at 8-11pm ET/PT and 11:30pm-1:30am ET/PT. The special programming will air on CBS and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+. Originating from downtown Nashville across multiple locations, the star-studded special will be packed with high-energy performances celebrating the excitement and anticipation of a new year. In addition to Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Darius Rucker, Sam Hunt, Jon Pardi, BRELAND, Jason Aldean, Jimmie Allen, Kelsea Ballerini, Gabby Barrett, Brooks & Dunn, Dan + Shay, Elle King, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, Cole Swindell and Zac Brown Band, among others will perform.

Music City has built an outstanding reputation for hosting the most musical New Year’s celebration and country’s biggest party. The five-hour celebration will feature nearly 50 performances from locations across the city, including the main stage in Nashville’s Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park anchored by headliners Dierks Bentley, Zac Brown Band and Dan + Shay. The broadcast will cross multiple time zones, with the traditional countdown at midnight ET, culminating with the renowned Nashville music note drop and fireworks at midnight CT.

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!”

Jon Pardi is throwing a New Year’s “Pardi,” and you’re invited. Click here to download the Jon Pardi Tequila Little Time New Year’s Special. It’s two hours of fun and music.

Shania Twain has announced the final 16 dates for her residency show, Shania Twain “Let’s Go!” The Las Vegas Residency at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. The shows will be held June 3rd – 18th and August 26th – September 10th, 2022.

Since opening in December of 2019, Shania, who serves as creative director of the show, has made several updates to the production, including seasonal surprises for the holidays as well as for her upcoming Valentine’s Day weekend performances.

Designed exclusively for Zappos Theater and promoted by Live Nation and Caesars Entertainment, the high-energy production is a nonstop party, taking fans on a spectacular journey through Shania’s monumental catalogue of hits, including “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!,” “You’re Still The One,” and “That Don’t Impress Me Much.”

Tickets go on sale to the public starting Friday (December 17th) at 10am PT. Fan club members will have access to a presale starting Tuesday (December 14th) at 10am PT.