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SUPERSTAR COLLABORATIONS ANNOUNCED
FOR “THE 47TH ANNUAL CMA AWARDS” AIRING WEDNESDAY, NOV.
6 ON THE ABC TELEVISION NETWORK
NASHVILLE – “Country Music’s Biggest Night™”
will get an added dose of star power as some of music’s biggest names join forces
to perform together on “The 47th Annual CMA Awards” airing
Wednesday, Nov. 6 (8:00-11:00 PM/ET) on the ABC Television Network.
Two-time
CMA Entertainer of the Year Taylor Swift will take the stage with Vince Gill and Alison Krauss. Other exciting
collaborations on tap for the evening include CMA Awards nominees Zac Brown Band performing with
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, and reigning CMA New Artist of the
Year Hunter Hayes performing with Jason Mraz.
“The
CMA Awards are renowned for presenting those one-of-a-kind collaborations that
everyone is talking about the next day,” said Ed Hardy, President of
the CMA Board of Directors. “This year is no exception and these unique collaborations
are not to be missed.”
Hosted for the sixth consecutive year by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, “The 47th Annual CMA Awards” will air live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.
Swift is
tied as one of the year’s top nominees, earning six nominations including Entertainer
and Female Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year for RED, and Single, Musical
Event, and Music Video of the Year for “Highway Don’t Care” with Tim McGraw and Keith Urban. She has 21 career
CMA Awards nominations and seven trophies.
Gill is nominated this
year for Musical Event of the Year for “Don’t Rush” with Kelly Clarkson. The Country Music
Hall of Fame member is an 18-time CMA Award winner, including two wins for Entertainer
of the Year and five for Male Vocalist of the Year. He is the fourth-most nominated
artist in CMA history, with 52 career nominations.
Krauss is an eight-time
CMA Award winner with 24 career CMA Awards nominations. She was awarded her first
trophies in 1995 when she was named Female Vocalist of the Year and also won the
Horizon Award (now known as New Artist of the Year), Single of the Year for “When
You Say Nothing At All,” and Vocal Event of the Year for “Somewhere In The
Vicinity of the Heart” with Shenandoah.
Zac Brown Band are 13-time CMA Awards
nominees who took home the New Artist of the Year trophy in 2010. The group is
nominated this year for Vocal Group of the Year, a category they have been nominated
in every year since 2009.
Grohl is the 13-time GRAMMY Award-winning founder and
frontman of Foo Fighters. He recently made his debut as a feature documentary
director/producer with “Sound City,” named for the legendary Van Nuys, Calif.
studio where he recorded his first full album as drummer for Nirvana, the generation-defining
Nevermind.
Hayes earned his first CMA Awards nomination and win
last year for New Artist of the Year. He recently celebrated his third consecutive
No. 1 single, his fourth single off his Platinum-selling debut album, Hunter Hayes, and is currently
on his sold-out "Let's Be Crazy Tour."
Mraz has amassed a youthful, diverse,
and vibrant fan-base throughout the world. His critically acclaimed live performances
have propelled him from the San Diego coffee house circuit to amphitheaters, arenas,
festivals and stadiums everywhere. Mraz is Platinum or multi-Platinum in
more than 20 countries and has multiple GRAMMY Awards and nominations. He also
has strong ties to Country Music as a co-writer on CMA Awards nominees Zac Brown
Band's "Jump Right In" and also performing with Hayes at the 2013 CMA Music Festival.
Tickets
for “The 47th Annual CMA Awards” are officially sold-out, marking
the fifth year in a row the ceremony has sold out in advance.
Winners
of “The 47th Annual CMA Awards” will be determined in a final
round of voting by eligible voting members of the Country Music Association. CMA
Awards balloting is officiated by the international accounting firm of Deloitte
& Touche LLP. Voting for the CMA Awards final ballot ends Monday, Oct. 28 (5:00 PM/CT).
The CMA
Awards nominees and winners are determined by more than 7,000 industry professional
members of CMA, which was formed in 1958 as the first trade organization to promote
an individual genre of music. The first “CMA Awards Banquet and Show” was
held in 1967. The following year, the CMA Awards was broadcast for the first time
– making it the longest-running, annual music awards program on network television.
The CMA Awards moved to ABC in 2006, where it will remain through 2021.
“The
47th Annual CMA Awards” is a production of the Country Music Association.
Robert Deaton is the Executive Producer, Paul Miller is the Director,
and David Wild is the writer. The special will be shot in high definition
and broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC’s selected HDTV format, with 5.1
channel surround sound.
For more information, visit CMAawards.com.
Chevrolet™ is the Official Ride of Country Music. American Airlines is the Official Airline of the CMA Awards.
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
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