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Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, Dierks Bentley, Darius Rucker and Little Big Town will take part in NBC’s Elvis All-Star Tribute airing February 17th at 9pm ET on NBC. The two-hour program, hosted by Blake Shelton, will tribute to Elvis Presley’s “’68 Comeback Special,” recreating the iconic night with musical performances, a showcase of rare footage and interviews with Priscilla Presley and Steve Binder, the director of the original special, plus a special appearance from Lisa Marie Presley.

The special will also include performances by Post Malone, Jennifer Lopez, Kelsea Ballerini, John Legend, Ed Sheeran, Shawn Mendes and many others. In addition to performing “Burning Love,” Keith also teams up with Post Malone for “Baby, What You Want Me to Do.”  Dierks performs “Little Sister,” while Little Big Town turns in “Are You Lonesome Tonight” and Darius sings “One Night.” Check out the full list of musical performances below.

.@PostMalone – had THE best time jamming with u Posty- let’s hit that again somewhere! – KU #ElvisAllStarTribute • 2.17.19 • @nbc pic.twitter.com/Pc2BELtTLa

— Keith Urban (@KeithUrban) January 8, 2019

#ElvisAllStarTribute. February 17. @NBC pic.twitter.com/AWQZEdShau

— Dierks Bentley (@DierksBentley) January 8, 2019

We’ve always been inspired by @ElvisPresley. It's such an honor to perform at the #ElvisAllStarTribute next month. FEB 17 • @nbc pic.twitter.com/OjTOHolf1a

— Little Big Town (@littlebigtown) January 8, 2019

So excited to help honor the one and only King of Rock N’ Roll! Tune in to @NBC’s “Elvis All-Star Tribute” on Sunday, Feb. 17 at 9PM ET. Read more, here: https://t.co/ESBqJh1Fbs pic.twitter.com/VwA6825va7

— Darius Rucker (@dariusrucker) January 8, 2019

• “Trouble”/”Guitar Man” – Blake Shelton
• “Hound Dog” – Shawn Mendes
• “Burning Love” – Keith Urban
• “Baby, What You Want Me to Do” – Keith Urban & Post Malone
• “Jailhouse Rock” – John Fogerty
• “Can’t Help Falling in Love” – Ed Sheeran
• “Always on My Mind” – Kelsea Ballerini
• “Heartbreak Hotel” – Jennifer Lopez
• “One Night” – Darius Rucker
• “Suspicious Minds” – Blake Shelton
• “Love Me Tender” – Alessia Cara
• “Memories” – Mac Davis
• “A Little Less Conversation” – John Legend
• “Are You Lonesome Tonight” – Little Big Town
• “Blue Suede Shoes” – Adam Lambert
• “Love Me” – Pistol Annies
• Hits Medley (“That’s All Right,” “Don’t Be Cruel,” “Blue Suede Shoes”) – Mac Davis, Post Malone, Little Big Town, Darius Rucker & Blake Shelton
• Gospel Medley (“How Great Thou Art,” “He Touched Me,” “You’ll Never Walk Alone” – Carrie Underwood & Yolanda Adams
• “Little Sister” – Dierks Bentley
• “It’s Now or Never” – Josh Groban
• “If I Can Dream” – Elvis Presley, Carrie Underwood, Shawn Mendes, Post Malone, Darius Rucker, Blake Shelton

For more information, click here.

Dierks Bentley and Jon Pardi are among the country artists celebrating the late Troy Gentry (Montgomery Gentry) at the Grand Ole Opry House on Wednesday night (January 9th). The event, C’Ya on the Flipside, will also feature performances from Blake Shelton, Rascal Flatts, Dustin Lynch, Justin Moore, Tracy Lawrence, Lee Brice, Craig Morgan, Darryl Worley, Chris Janson, Ray Scott and many others, including Troy’s bandmate Eddie Montgomery. The sold-out show will benefit the Troy Gentry Foundation, as well as the Opry Trust Fund, Make-A-Wish Foundation, and a handful of other charities. Troy was killed in a helicopter crash in 2017.

Travis Denning performs at Ole Red in downtown Nashville on Tuesday (January 8th) as part of the Opry Next Stage Launch Concert. Tenille Townes, Riley Green and Teagan Marie will also perform.

Kacey Musgraves is set to play this year’s Bonnaroo Festival on Saturday, June 15th. The four-day event kicks off Thursday, June 13th and runs through Sunday, June 16th in Manchester, Tennessee. Some of the other acts performing over the weekend include Maren Morris, Kacey’s husband, singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly, Post Malone, Childish Gambino, Hozier, The Lumineers and Cardi B, among others. Tickets go on sale Thursday (January 10th).

Brandon Lay has hit the Top 40 on the country charts with his song, “Yada Yada Yada.” The tune, which he co-wrote with friends Mikey Reaves and Heather Morgan, actually started out as just “filler” material.

“I actually just used that as a filler lyric in my voice memos in my phone because the melody came first. Sometimes the lyrics come first and sometimes the melody comes first,” says Brandon. “But I had a co-write the following week Mikey Reaves and Heather Morgan who are two of my favorite people to write with in town, and I kinda threw that out there and played them the very rudimentary work tape, and we kinda just came up with an angle for that title so we ended up calling it ‘Yada Yada Yada.’ And you know it’s not really a song lyrically that’s supposed to shake the earth, but I think it does show a different side than the debut single and that’s why we went with it.”

EMI Records Nashville’s Brandon Lay was named as one of Vevo’s 2019 DSCVR Artists to Watch.

Lauren Alaina rang in the New Year on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on ABC. She performed her latest song, “Ladies in the ’90s,” plus came out with good friend Kane Brown to duet on their No. 1 hit, “What Ifs.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeo9PSIk_0Q

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo has announced the line-up for this year’s event running February 25th – March 17th.  Kacey Musgraves is scheduled to open the season, followed by shows with Luke Bryan, Chris Stapleton, Luke Combs, Tim McGraw, Brooks & Dunn, Cardi B, Panic! At the Disco, Old Dominion, Kane Brown, Kings of Leon, Zac Brown Band, Brad Paisley and many others. George Strait with special guests Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen will close out RodeoHouston.

Tickets go on sale Thursday (January 10TH) at 10am at rodeohouston.com.

Luke Bryan’s Crash My Playa – 5th Year Fiesta has announced the final performers for the destination event happening January 23-26, 2019 in Riviera Maya, Mexico. Joining the concert schedule are DJ Rock, Jon Langston, Kendell Marvel, Mitchell Tenpenny and Travis Denning. Only a few event packages remain for the Caribbean beach vacation getaway and are available now at www.crashmyplaya.com.

Luke  will headline two of the weekend’s four headline shows along with previously announced headliners Thomas Rhett and Luke Combs. Additional performers rounding out the 2019 event line-up are Chris Janson, Dustin Lynch, Jake Owen and Lauren Alaina.

The event’s host resort, the Barceló Maya, is sold-out with limited packages remaining at one of three other carefully selected tropical resorts. At all locations fans will enjoy royal treatment all weekend long including all-inclusive food and drink, 24-hour concierge service, convenient nightly shuttle transportation to the main stage performances,  daily onsite activities, offsite adventures like visiting Chichen Itza, zip-lining, and ATV tours, excursions including day trips to Tulum, official Crash My Playa – 5^th Year Fiesta merchandise packages, and more.

To see highlights from last year’s event go HERE.

For the past few years following the holidays, Kip Moore has taken time off to go surf and basically recharge his batteries. His job, like so many other folks who does what he does for a living, is pretty demanding both mentally and physically, and so he can be better and feel refreshed to do it all over again, he “disappears” for a bit and goes where the waves are calling to him.

“I’m definitely going to disappear again. It’s something that I’ll probably do for the rest of my career is disappear during the winter. I’ve got to get that surfing in and I’ve got to hit that recharge button,” says Kip. “As cliché as that sounds, it truly wipes you out all of your mind, body, spirit, everything. I wouldn’t trade it for the world and I love doing it, but it takes a toll in so many ways mentally on you. So, when I get to get out and surf, it definitely brings me back to center and gets me ready to go again.”

When Kip returns, he’ll hit the road on the 2019 leg of his Room to Breathe Acoustic Tour, which launches March 7th in Chicago. The Georgia native is sitting inside the Top 5 with his current hit, “Last Shot.”

Carrie Underwood’s induction into the Hollywood Walk of Fame last year will be featured during a television special on Friday (January 4th). The special, The Hollywood Walk of Fame Honors, will air on The CW Network beginning at 9pm ET. Ceremonies honoring Jennifer Garner, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, N’Sync, Zoe Saldana, Gillian Anderson, Mary J. Blige, Jack Black and Simon Cowell will also be included.

Keith Urban will headline the Allstate Championship Tailgate party prior to the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship between Clemson and Alabama on Monday (January 7th) at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The game will kick off at 8pm ET.

Kacey Musgraves will perform at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival April 12th and 19th. She’ll join headliner Childish Gambino, plus Diplo, Janelle Monae, Jaden Smith and many more. The festival runs over two weekends — April 12th – 14th and April 19th – 21st. For more information on the event, lineup and accommodations, click here.

Jordan Davis takes a look back at 2018 and counts down his Top 5 moments of the past year, which includes getting a bus, his first headlining tour, his first country radio No. 1 hit (“Singles You Up”), watching his current single, “Take It From Me,” which he co-wrote with his brother Jacob Davis, climb the charts and the release of his debut album, Home State. He’s also looking forward to heading out with Old Dominion on the Make It Sweet Tour kicking off January 18th in Chicago, Illinois. Check out his Home State story below:

Keith Urban loves to connect to people via song, concert or through regular conversation. That connectedness shows up especially when he’s performing on stage and special moments occur with his fans.

“I love people! I love people, and every single person’s got a story. We have so much more in common than different. We have fears and hopes and dreams and insecurities and egos and sicknesses and dysfunctional families. We have everything. We have so much more in common,” says Keith. “So, for me, I feel that. I feel it in my life way more than I’ve ever felt it and playing live shows is no different. [It’s] exactly the same.”

Keith is currently making his way up the country charts with his latest song, “Never Coming Down.”

The reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year launches his tour Down Under January 23rd in Newcastle, Australia, followed by shows in Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane and wrapping in Melbourne with a two-night stand on February 5th and 6th. Julia Michaels will open all shows.

Eric Church has released his new song, “Some of It,” and it goes for adds at radio January 14th. The song, which Eric co-wrote with Jeff Hyde, Clint Daniels and Bobby Pinson, almost didn’t make his Desperate Man album.

“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 didn’t make it.’ The first thing she played was ‘Some of It.’ And I hadn’t listened to it in a while, and it was always a favorite song of mine. It’s why it was the first one we took in, and I listened to it that night and I’m like…I’m gonna regret if I don’t record this song,” says Eric.  “And it just fit in the dialogue, it fit into what the entire album’s talking about and, it really 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.”

Eric is set to kick off his Double Down Tour January 18th and 19th in Omaha, Nebraska. Before he launches the trek, you can catch him performing during the Willie Nelson tribute concert at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena January 12^th. The all-star concert event featuring Willie, Eric, George Strait, Chris Stapleton, John Mellencamp, Kris Kristofferson, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett and many others will be taped and broadcast as a television special on A&E at a later date.