{"id":31713,"date":"2022-04-11T16:22:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T21:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressroom.umgnashville.com\/?post_type=news&p=31713"},"modified":"2022-04-11T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T21:22:05","slug":"news-and-notes-kacey-musgraves-carrie-underwood","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/pressroom.umgnashville.com\/news\/news-and-notes-kacey-musgraves-carrie-underwood\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS AND NOTES: Kacey Musgraves, Chris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Darius Rucker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kacey Musgraves<\/strong> is among the many artists who joined together on Friday (April 8th) to Stand Up For Ukraine, a social media movement powered by Global Citizen. The Weeknd, Jon Batiste, Jonas Brothers, Katy Perry, Billy Porter, Ellie Goulding, Jon Bon Jovi, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and many others also joined the movement. The online event took place just a day before a \u201cpledging summit\u201d to aid displaced Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ve joined <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlblCtzn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GlblCtzn<\/a> in standing up for Ukraine alongside activists + advocates working to support refugees and all the angels taking immediate action to help displaced people all over the world + Ukraine. \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc\ud83e\udd0d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nZrPtyXQ39\">https:\/\/t.co\/nZrPtyXQ39<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WqtIY9PDK0\">pic.twitter.com\/WqtIY9PDK0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>— K A C E Y (@KaceyMusgraves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KaceyMusgraves\/status\/1512569821208141826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Stapleton<\/strong> picked up four nominations for this year’s Billboard Music Awards, including Top Country Artist, Top Country Male Artist, Top Country Tour and Top Country Song (“You Should Probably Leave”).\u00a0<strong>Carrie Underwood<\/strong> also has four nominations, including Top Country Female Artist, Top Christian Artist, Top Christian Album (<em>My Savior<\/em>) and Top Country Song (“If I Didn’t Love You”). <strong>Luke Bryan<\/strong> has two with Top Country Tour and Top Country Song for “Buy Dirt,” which is also a nomination for <strong>Jordan Davis<\/strong>. <strong>Eric Church<\/strong> picked up a nomination for Top Country Tour.\u00a0The BBMAs will broadcast live coast-to-coast from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, May 15th at 8pm ET\/5 pm PT on NBC and will stream live on Peacock.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Priscilla Block<\/strong>, who is performing at tonight’s (April 11th) CMT Music Awards, is set to open the 2022 Downtown @ Sundown Concert Series in Clarksville, Tennessee on May 6th. The Concert Series is free to the public and will take place on the first and third Fridays of the month May through October.<\/p>\n<p>University of South Carolina alum D<strong>arius Rucker<\/strong> will perform a free concert for students to celebrate the women’s basketball team’s national championship. Darius suggested the concert in a tweet April 1st after South Carolina beat Louisville for a spot in the championship game. The Gamecocks went on to defeat UConn 64-49 to take their second national title in five years.\u00a0Students can sign up for a lottery <a href=\"https:\/\/universityofsouthcarolina-yrckc.formstack.com\/forms\/dariusruckerstudent\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to win a ticket to the concert, which will be held April 24th at Colonial Life Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24581,"template":"","categories":[27,14,20,16,8,9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NEWS AND NOTES: Kacey Musgraves, Chris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Darius Rucker - Pressroom | UMG Nashville<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NEWS AND NOTES: Kacey Musgraves, Chris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Darius Rucker - Pressroom | UMG Nashville\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kacey Musgraves is among the many artists who joined together on Friday (April 8th) to Stand Up For Ukraine, a... 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