Multi-PLATINUM entertainer Dierks Bentley will perform on the TODAY Citi Concert Series tomorrow (8/01 at 8:00A local time on NBC) with a multi-song performance. As he takes over Rockefeller Plaza, Bentley’s latest single “Living” will be front and center along with some of his biggest hits. Additionally, one lucky fan and a guest now have the chance to experience first-hand the SEVEN PEAKS MUSIC AND CAMPING FESTIVAL this Labor Day weekend, featuring two VIP passes, round-trip airfare and lodging via Facebook, with more info here.

As “an artist made for the outdoor summer concert season” (Sun-Sentinel), Bentley continues to relish in the energy of his 2019 BURNING MAN TOUR as capacity crowds have become a common occurrence throughout arenas and amphitheaters across the country. Fans are on their feet for more than four hours with special guests Jon Pardi, Tenille Townes and the Hot Country Knights and the run continues tonight (8/01) in Darien Center, NY, followed by stops in Wantangh, NY, (8/02) and Scranton, PA (8/03). Additionally, Bentley will show how his new single is “more than just a song for him…it’s his new road map,” (CMT) as he performs the “ultra-personal material” (Rolling Stone) during ABC’s CMA Festspecial this Sunday (8/4 at 7:00P CT on ABC).

That momentum will roll over into Labor Day weekend (Aug. 31 – Sept. 2) as SEVEN PEAKS MUSIC AND CAMPING FESTIVAL returns for a second year to Buena Vista, CO. Esquire‘s “Can’t-Miss” all-genre festival will feature acts hand-picked by Bentley including Luke Bryan, Maren Morris, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and more. Established in 2018, fans traveled from 49 states and as far as Australia for the inaugural event as the three-day, two-stage adventure instantly captured the fans attention for its ethereal setting. Fans can expect multiple fringe activities across the weekend including the return of the Somewhere On A Beach Party and Late Night At Whiskey Row, along with ATV Tours, inflatable kayaking and whitewater rafting.

Pegged as “one of Country music’s most enviable brands, equal parts affability and authenticity” (Forbes), Bentley continues to be a dominant voice for the genre with over 6.4 billion overall digital streams. Reaching a new creative high while “making music designed to challenge” (New York Times), Bentley co-wrote 10 of 13 tracks on THE MOUNTAIN, which earned him the highest debut sales of his career and became his seventh chart-topping album. Bentley has amassed countless nominations from the ACMs, CMAs, Billboard Music Awards and more while also earning 14 GRAMMY  nominations. He has created professional endeavors outside of the music with his Flag & Anthem partnership creating the exclusive lifestyle collection, Desert Son, along with his “Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row” franchise hosting four locations. For more information visit www.dierks.com.

Jordan Davis released the second installment of his “Home State Stories,” which has him driving around and reminiscing about his home town.

Jordan is currently making his way up the country charts with his latest song, “Slow Dance in a Parking Lot.”

Maddie & Tae were so excited to be a part of the lineup for Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty Tour 360, the duo prepped for months to get ready to go on the road. When they saw the massive, intricate stage set up before the first leg of the tour, they were determined to put on a great show.

“I will never forget walking into see the stage for the first time – massive! It’s so much bigger than I thought, ‘cause when we were in the rehearsal space, we had kind of taped off where we thought the stage would be and how big it would be, and people had said, ‘This is the room, but it’s gonna be bigger!’ And my mind couldn’t even comprehend how big it was gonna be and how tall,” recalls Maddie & Tae’s Tae Dye. “So, seeing it for the first time lit up and see Carrie do her thing, it was really awesome. I think that moment just really kind of made it real for us. ‘Oh, we’re direct support. We have to step it up. We have to make sure that we put on a great show and get the crowd ready for Carrie.’”

The pair, who are making their way up the country charts with their song, “Die From a Broken Heart,” have a few dates on the books before starting the next leg of The Cry Pretty Tour 360 September 10th in San Diego. You can also catch the two at this year’s ACM Honors, taking place August 21st at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium..

Carrie Underwood surprised Nashville’s Andrew Jackson Elementary School’s Eagle Honor Choir before their performance at Nissan Stadium at this year’s CMA Fest. The children caught Carrie’s attention with a video of them performing her song, “The Champion,” and as a recipient of the CMA Foundation’s grant to ensure music education for every child, the choir was offered the opportunity to perform during the festival.

Directed by three-time CMA Foundation Music Teacher of Excellence winner Franklin Willis, the choir performed in front of more than 50,000 people at Nissan Stadium in Nashville.

Carrie told them, “I can’t wait for you guys to crush it on Sunday. You guys are gonna be so amazing. That crowd is not gonna know what hit them.

CMA Fest will air Sunday (August 4th) at 8pm ET on ABC.

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”

Dierks Bentley will take a break from his Burning Man Tour to perform during NBC’s Today Show’s 2019 Citi Concert Series on Thursday (August 1st).

Keith Urban, Maddie & Tae, Barbara Mandrell, Chris Janson, Ashley McBryde, Tenille Townes and Trisha Yearwood are among the initial list of artists announced for the 13th annual ACM Honors ceremony. The event will take place August 21st at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and will honor Brooks & Dunn, Martina McBride, Miranda Lambert, Shane McAnally, Kacey Musgraves, Rodney Crowell, Kye Fleming, Billy Joe Shaver, Gayle Holcomb and the film, A Star is Born.

George Strait and Loretta Lynn will be honored at the 2019 Nashville Songwriter Awards. King George will receive the President’s Keystone Award while the legendary Loretta will receive the Kris Kristofferson Lifetime Achievement Award. The 2019 Nashville Songwriter Awards will take place at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium September 17th.

Kassi Ashton will be among the singer-songwriters to perform at BMI’s fifth annual Maui Songwriters Festival December 5th – 7th. The event will also feature performances by Miranda Lambert, Maren Morris, Randy Houser, Dustin Lynch, Natalie Hemby and Bob DiPiero.

A few weeks ago at The Gorge, Eric Church joined some fans at the campground for some drinks, cornhole, and to hand out some pit tickets! The Double Down Tour starts back up in September in Green Bay, and you just never know where the superstar is going to pop up.

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The North Carolina native is currently enjoying being at the top of the country charts with his No. 1 smash, “Some of It,” from his current album, Desperate Man.

Jordan Davis is a “Home State” boy when it comes to his native Louisiana. He recently returned home to perform with his Uncle Stan Paul Davis (a hit songwriter in his own right having written two top five songs — “Today’s Lonely Fool” and “Better Man, Better Off” for Tracy Lawrence) to raise funds for the local Shreveport Elks Lodge (122) to assist in renovating the lodge’s pool, where Jordan and his family grew up swimming. Jordan was even on the lodge’s swim team. All of the action and reminiscing was captured for the first installment of Jordan’s “Home State Stories.”

Jordan is making his way up the country charts with “Slow Dance in a Parking Lot,” the latest from his Home State album.

Billy Currington released his new single “Details” today. Written by Nicolle Galyon, Mark Trussell, and Stephen Lee Olsen, the lyrics paint a vivid picture about a man who is so enamored by his girlfriend, that everything else in his life seems to fade into the background when she is around. The laidback new song will hit country radio on August 5th. Billy is currently on the road for his headlining Stay Up ‘Til The Sun Tour which runs through the Fall.

The talented Georgia native has spent more than a decade in the spotlight proving he’s truly a man for all seasons. Currington has earned 12 No.1 singles to his name, including the double-platinum hits “People Are Crazy,” “Must Be Doin’ Somethin’ Right,” and most recent multi-week No. 1 hits, “It Don’t Hurt Like It Used To” and “Do I Make You Wanna.” Possessing one of the smoothest and most distinct voices in any genre of music, Currington is equally skilled at delivering upbeat summertime anthems as well as exploring the complexities of life and love with a poignant ballad. His latest album Summer Forever debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart.

Continuing a dominant year characterized by unrivaled success on the road, Eric Church now pairs that feat with chart-topping success at Country radio as current single “Some Of It” tops both the Billboard and Mediabase charts.

“Some Of It” was written by Church together with Jeff Hyde, Clint Daniels and Bobby Pinson and is the second single off Church’s sixth studio album, Desperate Man, praised as one of 2018’s top albums by American Songwriter, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, Stereogum, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, USA Today and Vulture, among others.

Vulture adds, “‘Some Of It’ coyly opens with a list of simple truths — ‘Beer don’t keep, love’s not cheap, and trucks don’t wreck themselves’ — and builds to a chorus about life being a game of patience and learning. You think he’s singing about the value of wisdom, and then the bridge deals a haymaker: ‘What really makes you a man / Is being true to her till your glass runs out of sand’,” before noting he “weaves excellence out of ordinary threads.”

However, the reflective track almost didn’t make the album. Church notes, “I was playing the album for a dear friend of ours and my wife was with me. This person loved the album, but my wife said, ‘but let me play you what did not make it,’ and the first thing she played was ‘Some Of It.’ It was always a favorite song of mine, and I listened to it that night and it is just… I am going to regret if I do not record this song. I called my manager that night and said, ‘hey we have got to talk.’ The recording was done, the record was essentially done, but I said, ‘I have got to do this, I have to add this song.’  Initially, all the stuff that I thought was going to be the pillars for this album just bombed. But I think it’s really interesting that the album took on an identity that allowed ‘Some Of It’ to make it from where it started to where it is now, and it just fit in the dialogue. To me, it made the album. I loved the album before it was on there – but it might be my favorite album now that it’s on there, so that’s the way I look at it.”

Additionally, Entertainment Weekly praised Church’s mastery of such “meditative mid-tempo numbers reflecting on simple truths – none better than the hard-won wisdom of ‘Some Of It’” at his recent Nissan Stadium show in Nashville, where he broke the venue’s concert attendance record with more than 56,000 fans just two weeks before awing the same stadium’s audience with a 30-minute, solo acoustic CMA Fest set that featured a medley of 17 hits.

Church also used his solo stadium show to debut the chart-topping song’s music video directed by Reid Long, which continues the jailbird storyline of his “Desperate Man” video.

The critically-acclaimed Double Down Tour continues this fall, resuming on Sept. 13 in Green Bay, Wisc. Complete list of remaining 2019 Double Down Tour dates are as follows:

Sept. 13 & 14              Green Bay, Wis. || Resch Center
Sept. 20 & 21              Calgary, Alberta || Scotiabank Saddledome
Sept. 28                       San Francisco, Calif. || Chase Center
Oct. 4 & 5                   Grand Rapids, Mich. || Van Andel Arena
Oct. 11 & 12               Philadelphia, Pa. || Wells Fargo Center
Oct. 25                        Little Rock, Ark. || Verizon Arena
Oct. 26                        Birmingham, Ala. || BJCC Arena
Nov. 1                         Manchester, N.H. || SNHU Arena
Nov. 2                         Hartford, Conn. || XL Center
Nov. 15 & 16              Washington, D.C. || The Anthem
Nov. 22 & 23              Sacramento, Calif. || Golden 1 Center

For more information, visit www.ericchurch.com and follow on Facebook and Twitter @ericchurch and on Instagram @ericchurchmusic.

About Eric Church
The three-time Country Music Association and six-time Academy of Country Music Award winner released his highly-anticipated album Desperate Man atop the Billboard Country Albums chart in October 2018. The album also debuted at No. 5 on the all-genre Billboard 200. Rolling Stone describes the album in their July 2018 cover story as “classic Church: expertly crafted and country-radio-friendly, while also pushing boundaries in a way that sounds natural and unforced” and American Songwriter notes that it “sublimates the pain of a tumultuous year into his most adventuresome album yet.” Church has returned to the road for his 2019 Double Down Tour, visiting nearly 30 markets for back-to-back nights of two unique shows sans-opening act to give fans 6+ hours of his iconic music in each city. The tour also included a massive stop at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, where Church broke the venue’s concert attendance record with 56,521 fans and nearly tripled the attendance record he set at Bridgestone Arena in 2017.