Four-time Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan announced today while co-hosting NBC’s TODAY that his first-ever Farm Tour EP, Farm Tour…Here’s To The Farmer, will be released on September 23rd in advance of his eighth annual “Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2016,” set to run October 5th to October 15th.  Bryan also revealed the EP cover for the first-time this morning on TODAY. Farm Tour…Here’s To The Farmer will include all new music.

Fans purchasing tickets to the “Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2016” will receive a code to redeem a digital copy of Farm Tour…Here’s To The Farmer EP. Redemption details are included during ticket checkout process.

During last year’s tour, Luke performed for over 110,000 fans during the eight-city run. A portion of the ticket proceeds are granted for local college scholarships (“Luke Bryan Farm Tour Scholarship”) to students from a farming family or a student that is an agriculture major within the communities the tour plays. Additionally, Luke Bryan and Bayer make a presentation to a local farmer onstage in each city of the Farm Tour.

“Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2016” will begin tomorrow at 10 AM local time for Luke Bryan’s Fan Club, the Nut House. Citi® cardholders will also be able to purchase presale tickets during this time exclusively.  The public on sale will begin on Friday, June 24.

For information on the “Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2016” go to www.LukeBryan.com/FarmTour.

To listen to “Huntin’, Fishin’ And Lovin’ Every Day” and more songs inspired by The Farm Tour, click HERE
or use the playlist embed code found HERE.

The “Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2016” is sponsored by Bayer, Chevrolet, Citi®, Miller Lite, Cabela’s and Polaris.

“Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2016”

October 5        Gaston, South Carolina          Culler Farms
October 6        Greenback, Tennessee          Maple Lane Farms
October 7        Elizabethtown, Kentucky         Highland Farms
October 8        Monroeville, Indiana                Spangler Farms
October 12       Batesville, Mississippi             FT Farms
October 13       Prairie Grove, Arkansas          Ogden Ranch
October 14       Centralia, Missouri                  Stowers Farm
October 15       Effingham, Illinois                    Mid America Motorworks

Citi® is the official credit card of the “Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2016.” Citi® cardmembers will have access to presale tickets through Citi’s Private Pass Program beginning June 21.  For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com.

Luke Bryan has once again teamed up with CID Entertainment to offer Harvest Time VIP Experiences throughout the 2016 Farm Tour. Experiences include early concert admission, access to a private viewing area, limited edition merchandise, and a digital download of the Farm Tour 5 Song EP, in addition to premium amenities including parking, air conditioned restrooms, and a private cash bar. More details available here: http://www.cidentertainment.com/events/luke-bryan-farm-tour-2016/

For additional “Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2016” information, including where to get tickets, stay tuned to www.lukebryan.com/farmtour

About Luke Bryan
Since the debut of his first album in 2007, Luke has placed 15 singles at No. 1 and sold nearly eight million albums with 30 million digital tracks from his five studio albums. He has twice been named Entertainer of the Year by both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association. His fifth studio album, Kill The Lights, debuted at No. 1 on both the Billboard Top 200 (his third to do so) and Top Country Albums charts and closed 2015 with the best-selling country album of the year and the 10^th biggest selling album on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Year-End list. In Luke’s stellar 2015 year, he performed for 1.5 million fans in concert, had three albums on the Top 15 Year-End Country Albums list- Kill the Lights (#1), Spring Break…Checkin’ Out (#10) and Crash My Party (#15), was the most streamed artist of 2015, placed six songs in the Year-End Top Country Streaming Tracks list, had his own exhibit at The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (“Luke Bryan: Dirt Road Diary”), performed live during halftime at the Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving and wrapped up the year with a live Times Square performance on ABC’s “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.” Luke recently co-hosted the ACM Awards for a fourth consecutive year and is performing in venues and stadiums across the U.S. on his “Kill The Lights Tour” through this fall.

Kip Moore revealed dates for his headlining ME AND MY KIND TOUR today, kicking off on 9/30 in Oklahoma City, OK. A constant road warrior that continues to be “met with more deafening applause” (CMT), the tour will see Moore visit cities across the US and Canada through early December and includes red-hot newcomer Jon Pardi. Fans can watch Moore and Pardi gearing up for the tour with some role-reversal antics here. With no signs of slowing down on the road, it was also announced last week that Moore will headline Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater for The Big 98’s annual Guitar-B-Que on Aug. 10,  a live concert and guitar auction to raise fundsfor St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. For a full list of tour dates and more information visit kipmoore.net.

“Being out on the road is where me and the band feel most at home,” said Moore. “Even though we’ve been nonstop already this year with the headlining shows in The UK and the Miranda tour, it just doesn’t feel natural to slow down, our live show is when we are in our element.  I’m really looking forward to having the opportunity to test some new material that we’ve been working on out on the road and having Jon out with us too, I’m sure we’re going to get into some trouble out there.”

ME AND MY KIND TOUR Dates: 

9/30      Oklahoma City, OK

10/1      Fort Worth, TX

10/6      Kalamazoo, MI

10/8      Toledo, MI

10/13    Kingston, ON

10/20    Boston, MA

10/21    Pittsburgh, PA

10/27    Bemidji, MN

10/28    St. Paul, MN

11/10    Atlanta, GA

11/11    Birmingham, AL

11/12    Myrtle Beach, SC

11/17    Cedar Rapids, IA

11/18    Peoria, IL

11/19    Kansas City, MO

12/1      New York, NY

12/3      Philadelphia, PA

12/8      Detroit, MI

Moore recently returned from a sold-out string of headlining shows in The UK and Ireland and the singer/songwriter is currently on the road for Miranda Lambert’s Keeper Of The Flame Tour which will stop in Darien, NY (6/23) and Saratoga Springs, NY (6/24) this weekend. Hailed as a “career song” by Billboard, Moore’s current single “Running For You” continues to climb the charts and is taken from Moore’s critically acclaimed sophomore album WILD ONES, that Taste of Country deems is “tailored for his live show and the thousands of die-hard fans that pack theaters several times each week to see him,” and Huffington Post declares as “one heck of an album… set to produce hit after hit after hit.” WILD ONES follows Moore’s debut album UP ALL NIGHT which was certified GOLD by the RIAA and spawned three No. One hit singles including GOLD certified “Beer Money,” PLATINUM certified “Hey Pretty Girl,” and the DOUBLE PLATINUM breakout hit “Somethin’ ‘Bout A Truck.”

About Jon Pardi:
California native Jon Pardi is undeniably country. His laid back, fun-loving approach towards life comes through in his music and his raucous live show, while his charisma and authenticity strike a chord with country audiences and fellow artists. Pardi recently released his sophomore album California Sunrise with its Top 10, Gold-selling lead single, “Head Over Boots.” California Sunrise is the follow-up to his highly-praised debut, Write You A Song, which features hits including the Top 10 RIAA Gold-certified single “Up All Night,” “When I’ve Been Drinkin’” “What I Can’t Put Down,” and Top 25 hit “Missin’ You Crazy.”

As part of this morning’s exclusive sit-down interview with ABC’s Good Morning America,  Lady Antebellum‘s Hillary Scott announced July 29th as the release date of LOVE REMAINS (EMI Nashville) by Hillary Scott & The Scott Family.

“The process of making this album has been not only creatively inspiring but I’ve also really been able to grow as a person,” shared Hillary Scott. “We’ve had this intense concentrated amount of time as a family together, which has been so special. With all that we’ve gone through together, the highs, the lows – to be able to process all of that together, to heal together, to grieve together, to laugh, to cry, all of those things…it’s just been such a continuation of solidifying the strong foundation that we have in our family.”

After the passing of her grandfather in 2011, Hillary alongside mother Linda Davis, father Lang Scott and younger sister Rylee, leaned on their faith and music as a source of hope through the difficult time. The Scott family yearned to thank loved ones for their support and set out to record demos of family-favorite hymns. As the summer of 2015 wound down and Lady Antebellum soaked-in time off the road, the family’s plans for a five song CD as a gift to family and friends, blossomed into what is now LOVE REMAINS.

The 13-track collection of faith-based songs is a combination of hymns Hillary grew up singing in church, newly-written originals and songs made popular by other artists. With the help of producer Ricky Skaggs, the forthcoming album blurs the lines between gospel, bluegrass, country and pop. At the center of the mix are the rich, entwined voices of the Scotts, who take turns harmonizing and singing lead.

“We didn’t want to make a sad record,” noted Lang Scott. “You’re always sad when you lose a loved one, but if you have that faith, it gives you hope. It gives you the courage to press on.”

While the upcoming album’s lead single “Thy Will” offers that universal message of hope, today on Good Morning America, Hillary also shared her own personal struggle that led to “baring her soul like never before” (People). She revealed that the song was written about a more recent dark chapter in her life, a sudden miscarriage of her second pregnancy during the fall of 2015. To watch her moving interview, click HERE.

Today, fans can simultaneously watch the vibrant music video premiere for “Thy Will” on VEVO here: http://bit.ly/1UnQjal

LOVE REMAINS offers plenty to believe in. These are songs that find the redemption in struggle, the peace in death, the joy in bonding with family members whenever times are tough. The stories behind the songs are personal, it’s music with a message and Hillary Scott has rarely sounded more at home.

LOVE REMAINS TRACK LIST:

1. “Beautiful Messes”

Connie Harrington, Ben Glover

2. “Still”

Justin Ebach, Molly Reed

3. “Sheltered In The Arms Of God”

Dottie Rambo, Jimmie Davis

4 “Safe Haven”

Hillary Scott, Bill Whyte, Sydni Perry, Jimmy Fortune

5. “Faithful Love” 

Barry Dean, Don Poythress, Karyn Rochelle

6. “The River”

Jeff Pardo, Jordan Feliz

7. “Thy Will”

Hillary Scott, Emily Weisband, Bernie Herms

8. “Come To Jesus”

Chris Rice

9. “Love Remains”

Jim Daddario, Tom Douglas

10. “We March On”

Don Poythress, Kenna Turner West, Lang Scott, Linda Davis

11. “Your Unfailing Love”

Worley Max McKinney, Glenn Warren

12. “Come Thou Fount”

Public Domain

13. “Ain’t No Grave”

David Crowder, Seth Philpott, Hank Bentley

The faith-based country collection follows more than 11 million album sales worldwide for Hillary Scott as one-third of the one of the world’s most popular groups, Lady Antebellum.  The trio has earned six PLATINUM singles and dubbed ACM and CMA “Vocal Group of the Year” three years in a row. In addition to co-writing six chart-topping Lady A hits including the 6x PLATINUM hit “Need You Now,” Scott has also written for artists such as Blake Shelton and Sara Evan’s No. one hit, “A Little Bit Stronger.” As a former MTSU student, the university recently started a scholarship in her honor for young women seeking a career in the music industry.

Mickey Guyton went through a bad breakup with her ex-boyfriend several years ago, which led to her previous hit single, “Better Than You Left Me.” She recently found out he was going around boasting that she wrote a song about him, which didn’t sit well with the singer. However, it did lead to her new single, “Heartbreak Song.”

“‘Better Than You Left Me.’ That song was kind of like getting over this breakup and becoming better off and realizing it. Then I come to find out that my ex-boyfriend was going around bragging to people that I wrote a song about him, a heartbreak song about him,” says Mickey. “So, I was like, ‘Hmmm, okay. Let me see how I can spin that.’ So, I went into this awesome songwriting session with these really great writers and I’m telling them this story, and I said, ‘I have ‘Heartbreak Song.’ I really want to write something about that.’ And I told them the [story] about my ex-boyfriend bragging to people. And this writer goes, ‘Ooooh. What if we said, ‘I ain’t gonna hit you with a Hearbreak Song?’ And I was like, ‘YES! Ahhhhhhhh! Oprah-style.’ And that’s where we came up with the song.”

“Heartbreak Song” will begin to hit the airwaves on Monday (June 20th). It’s also available for download on iTunes.

Keith Urban returned to the road, and his ripCORD WORLD TOUR 2016 this weekend, with a capacity crowd at Tampa’s MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre – a performance that the  Tampa Bay Times called “dazzling.”  In fact, the paper went as far as to say, “you can thank the almighty for the mighty set Keith Urban laid down in Tampa last night.”

But towards the end of his two-hour plus performance Urban stopped to pay tribute to the victims of last weekend’s shooting in Orlando, by performing U2’s “One.”

“Although I didn’t know anybody in that horrific incident, I did, because they’re just guys and girls, brothers and sisters,” he said.  “They had dreams, hopes, plans, just like every one of us.”

Chris Stapleton has just been tapped to open for the reunited Guns N’ Roses at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium. The show is scheduled for July 9th.

Speaking of Chris, his song “Tennessee Whiskey” has been certified platinum and gold by the R.I.A.A. Gold certifications were also handed out to Dierks Bentley for “Somewhere on a Beach” and Jon Pardi’s “Head Over Boots.”

Luke Bryan and Sam Hunt are among the nominees at this year’s Teen Choice Awards. Sam is up for two awards, including Choice Country Artist, alongside Luke, Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Kelsea Ballerini and Hunter Hayes. He’s also up for Choice Country Song for “Make You Miss Me.” The show will air July 31st at 8pm ET on Fox.

Several country stars are turning out for K92.3’s Country Strong – Orlando’s Night of Healing & Country Music benefit concert on Tuesday (June 21st). The event, which will feature performances by Billy Currington, Easton Corbin, Canaan Smith, as well as Cole Swindell, Michael Ray, Tyler Farr, Jerrod Niemann, Maddie & Tae and Parmalee. The event’s proceeds will go to the families of the victims of the tragic shootings in Orlando last weekend.

Luke Bryan is poised to take over the top of the country charts with his latest hit single, “Huntin’, Fishin’ and Lovin’ Every Day,’ but he says he never takes a No. 1 or his fans for granted.

“I never take that fun feeling of a big hit [for granted]. I always relish in that, because it’s never easy,” says Luke. “I get crazy excited. We throw parties. We toast each other and we celebrate, because it’s a big deal for us.”

In the case of “Huntin’, Fishin’ and Lovin’ Every Day” from his Kill the Lights album, it’s a song that tells fans the kind of person he is, as well as giving them a message for their own lives. “I love it, because at the end of the day, it’s still got a special pretty little message too,” he says. “It is about huntin’ and fishin’, but then it is about getting out there and making the most out of life with the people you love or even just having a day by yourself.”

You can catch him performing “Huntin’, Fishin’ and Lovin’ Every Day” on the road with his Kill the Lights Tour, which makes a two-night stand in Toronto June 24th and 25th.

Five years ago this month, Drew Baldridge made the bold move from his small hometown of Patoka, Ill., to Nashville, TN.  He did so after an 18th birthday surprise trip to Nashville to see Josh Turner play at the Wildhorse Saloon.  Since that evening, Baldrige credit’s Turner for inspiring him to pursue his dream of music. Last night (6/15,) Baldridge stood on the circle for his Grand Ole Opry debut and during his third and last song, the country newcomer got the surprise of his life.

The evening was hosted by Opry announcer/host Bill Cody. Baldridge took to the stage following Opry member John Conlee, and performed the title track to his album debut that was just released Friday, June 10, called “Dirt On Us,” a song he wrote about his hometown and his best friends.  For the second song of the night, Baldridge performed “Tractors Don”t Roll,” also found on his debut album, and for the third and final song of his Opry debut, he performed “Your Man,” a homage to his idol Josh Turner.

Baldridge took a little time to explain his third song choice to the Opry audience stating, “The very first time I came to Nashville, my mom bought me tickets for my 18th birthday to see Josh Turner in concert at the Wildhorse S aloon. I’ll never forget the first time I came here, I went downtown and bought a cowboy hat just so I can have Josh Turner sign it and I don’t even wear cowboy hats!  But I went down there and got a hat, Josh Turner signed it and I watched his show in the front row.  That was the night I decided I was going to move to Nashville and I was gonna do this and try to pursue my dream. It was because of Josh Turner. And I know Josh is a Opry member, and what better way than to sing one of Josh Turner’s songs.”

During the musical break of “Your Man,” Josh Turner came out on stage to sing the bridge and surprise Baldridge. It was a memorable moment on the hallowed stage and Baldridge, along with the Opry audience, were all taken back.  Surprised and humbled, Baldridge was so overwhelmed by Turner he had difficulty singing alongside his idol.  After the end of the song, both singers received a standing ovation form the Opry audience.

View the surprise on the Grand Ole Opry’s YouTube channel here.

Backstage, with family, friends and his record label in support, Baldridge spent some time with Turner and was able to thank him for the first time before heading to the Opry shop to sign copies of his new album, Dirt On Us, to a long line of fans eager to congratulate him.

Josh has hit the airwaves with his latest single, “Hometown Girl.”

Jon Pardi releases his new album, California Sunrise, Friday (June 17^th), which features his Top 10 gold-certified single, “Head Over Boots.” The collection of 12 songs was co-produced by Jon and Bart Butler, who was also at the helm of Up All Night, Pardi’s 2014 debut album.

Jon says he feels like he picked the right songs for the project, half of which he wrote and half of which some of Nashville’s top tunesmith contributed. “California Sunrise is definitely where we meet in the middle where it’s going to show me a more mature, experienced artist instead of the young guy that’s just like gunning for it, you know. So, it’s a little bit more thought out, this record, and there’s a lot more outside cuts that Nashville songwriters stepped in,” says Jon. “A lot of people that have heard the record, they don’t know what song I didn’t write and I think as an artist that’s what you want. You want somebody to be like ‘you write all those songs because it sounds like you wrote them all.’ I say, ‘No, we just really went to work and we picked the right songs.’”

In the studio, Pardi and Butler captured a palpable live energy on California Sunrise by recording each song with a full band.

CALIFORNIA SUNRISE Track List:
1.    Out Of Style
2.    Cowboy Hat
3.    Head Over Boots
4.    Night Shift
5.    Can’t Turn You Down
6.    Dirt On My Boots
7.    She Ain’t In It
8.    All Time High
9.    Heartache on the Dance Floor
10.  Paycheck
11.   Lucky Tonight
12.  California Sunrise