Country to Country 2014
Line Up Revealed
#C2C2014 COUNTRY TO
COUNTRY 2014 LINE UP REVEALED!
Where: Millennium Dome/ North
Greenwich Arena, more known in this modern branding world as the London O2 Arena
The
O2, Peninsula Square, London SE10 0DX - How you travel to The O2
When: Saturday
15th and Sunday 16th March 2014
LINE UP!: Brad Paisley, Zac Brown
Band, Dixie Chicks, Martina McBride, Rascal Flatts, Dierks Bentley & Chris Young confirmed to appear across
the weekend with another artist to be announced!
Tickets:
On sale at 9am Friday 11th October 2013:
Cost:
Day Tickets for Saturday 15 March or Sunday 16th 2014
£56.00 (Ticket + £6.00 Fee), £67.00 (Ticket + £7.00 Fee) or £78.00 (Ticket + £8.00 Fee)
Weekend Ticket
£128.50 (£115.00 Ticket + £13.50 Fees) or £150.50 (£135.00 Ticket + £15.50 Fees)
* Limit of eight tickets per person and per card.
BUY from - www.axs.com Ticketmaster UK
www.c2c-countrytocountry.com www.theo2.co.uk and www.gigsandtours.com
Cost:
Day Tickets for Saturday 15 March or Sunday 16th 2014
£56.00 (Ticket + £6.00 Fee), £67.00 (Ticket + £7.00 Fee) or £78.00 (Ticket + £8.00 Fee)
Weekend Ticket
£128.50 (£115.00 Ticket + £13.50 Fees) or £150.50 (£135.00 Ticket + £15.50 Fees)
* Limit of eight tickets per person and per card.
BUY from - www.axs.com Ticketmaster UK
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Following the “acclaimed
success” of Country to Country 2013, an “outstanding line up” of music stars
are again heading across the Atlantic for a huge two-day music festival
extravaganza at The O2 on Saturday 15
and Sunday 16 March 2014.
On October 4th C2C Country to Country announced the day splits schedule across the weekend - Event Line Up
Saturday March 15, 2014:
Zac Brown Band (Headliners), Dixie Chicks, Martina McBride and Dierks Bentley
Sunday March 16, 2014:
Brad Paisley (headline), Rascal
Flatts, Chris Young + special guest
to be announced
C2C2014
announced for Ireland!
When: Friday 14 and Saturday 15
March 2014
Where: At The O2, Dublin (situated
in the heart of Dublin’s docklands: North Wall Quay, Dublin 1
Ticket information: Tickets for
each day are priced from €49.50 including booking fee go on sale Friday, 11th
October at 9am from Ticketmaster outlets and online at www.ticketmaster.ie
Friday
Line Up:
Dixie Chicks, Zac Brown Band, Dierks
Bentley
Saturday
Line Up
Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Chris Young
The huge two-day music festival
extravaganza will also take
place in Ireland for the first time at The O2, Dublin
Brad Paisley returns to Dublin following a
hugely successful arena show last year as part of the Virtual Reality World
Tour. Rascal Flatts join the lineup after their “phenomenal” Olympia Theatre
show in Dublin this summer.
- Brad
Paisley will be headlining Country to Country 2014. The Grammy
award winning and multimillion selling critically acclaimed singer,
songwriter, guitarist and entertainer who has with 22 #1 singles in the US
returns to The O2 Arena after a
triumphant show there on Aug 17, 2011. (Watch him perform 'This is Country Music') Brad appeared on BBC Breakfast on 22nd
June 2010 >> Video
- Zac
Brown Band, the three time GRAMMY award-winners, who played Glastonbury 2013,
return to the UK to also headline the event, having toured
extensively in the US the band look forward to their first headline UK
Arena show.
- The
Dixie Chicks, will be performing in the UK for the first time in eight years.
- Rascal
Flatts
will also make a return to the UK to join the C2C 2014 lineup after their
two sold out shows at London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire in July.
- Dierks
Bentley a platinum selling is also confirmed to perform.
- Chris
Young
who has just released his latest album ‘A.M’. is confirmed.
- A further two special guests are soon to be announced to complete “the
prolific” line up.
- “Legendary” broadcaster Bob Harris will again be compering
the festival - "It is a very exciting time for Country music in the
UK. C2C 2013 was a fantastic experience and next years festival promises
to be another massive milestone. I
am thrilled to be compering again and providing huge coverage on 'Bob
Harris Country' on BBC Radio 2 when Nashville comes to London. See you at the O2!"
- BBC Radio 2 will broadcast highlights of the festival on Bob Harris Country at 7pm on Thursday
20th and Thursday 27th March
- The inaugural C2C 2013 event set the
standard very high, welcoming over 17,000 fans from around the UK, Ireland
and Europe to The O2 for the weekend. CMA Board President Ed Hardy said: “CMA is proud
of our support and involvement in C2C. The reaction of the fans after the
first year and the outstanding support from our artist’s community gives
us the opportunity to broaden our music in the UK and Europe”
Tweet: Dixie Chicks Anyone out there in London? We'll see you at C2C Country
to Country next year.
About the C2C 2014 Artists
CountryRoutesBlog takes a
look at the stars appearing at C2C 2014 and their 2013 updates
About: Brad Paisley
- Brad Paisley was born October 28, 1972,
in Glen Dale, West Virginia.
- Signed to Arista, he issued his debut
solo album, WHO NEEDS PICTURES, in 1999. The record produced two
chart-topping singles in "He Didn't Have to Be," an ode to
loving stepfathers, and "We Danced," and also earned generally
positive reviews for its diversity of country styles.
- The sequel to Paisley's debut, Part II,
was released in 2001 and promptly returned him to the Top Five with
"Two People Fell in Love." "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin'
Song)" gave Paisley his third chart-topper.
- His sixth album THIS IS COUNTRY MUSIC released May 23, 2011, opened with
152,598 sales. As of November 2012 the
Gold album had sold over 702,000 units. "Old Alabama," the second
single pulled from the album became Paisley's 19th number one single,
followed quickly by his 20th number one, the Carrie Underwood duet
"Remind Me."
Country Music Association Awards Wins:
2000 - Horizon Award, 2001
- Vocal Event of the Year ("Too Country"), 2002 - Music Video of the
Year ("I'm Gonna Miss Her")
2004 - Musical Event of
the Year ("Whiskey Lullaby") & Music Video of the Year
("Whiskey Lullaby")
2006 - Album of the Year
(Time Well Wasted) & Musical Event
of the Year ("When I Get Where I'm Going")
2007 - Music Video of the
Year ("Online") & Male Vocalist of the Year
2008 - Music Video of the
Year ("Waitin' on a Woman") & Male Vocalist of the Year
2009 - Male Vocalist of
the Year & Musical Event of the Year ("Start A Band" with Keith
Urban)
2010 - Entertainer of the
Year
2013 Updates:
- Paisley’s ambitious, genre-hopping
album WHEELHOUSE was released April 9th. It launched with sales
of 100,441 to top the Billboard Country Album chart
making it his lucky seventh No. 1 on the tally. Paisley who has yet to
tally a No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 grabbed his fourth No. 2 album (All four of
Paisley's No. 2 sets have debuted in the runner-up slot.) He's now tied
with Sheryl Crow for the most No. 2 albums without a No. 1. For Brad
“Wheelhouse” is the smallest opening-week sum with a non-instrumental
studio set since "Mud on the Tire"s debuted atop the country
chart with 86,000 10 years ago. Paisley scored his biggest weekly sales
figure when "5th Gear" blew in with 197,000 in 2007. By the end
of August “Wheelhouse” had fallen off the Top 25 albums having sold 254,000
copies. For the chart week of Oct 5, 2013 it stood at #38 on Billboard Top
Country albums.
- "Southern Comfort Zone" was released in September 2012 as the first single from Wheelhouse and
reached #2 on Billboard Country Airplay Chart. “Beat This Summer"
was released on March 4, 2013 as the second
single reaching #2 on Billboard Country Airplay Chart and #1 on the Country
Aircheck Mediabase Country Singles chart (his 22nd No.1 single). "I Can't Change the
World" was released on
August 9, 2013 as the third single
and after 7 weeks has reached #26 on Billboard Country Airplay (Chart week
Oct 5, 2013).
- Brad appeared on CNN's Piers Morgan Live Tuesday (7/30) to discuss "the
touchiest subject there is" [Ref:"Accidential Racist"] then
stopped by to perform the BP protest song "Balls In Your
Mouth" on Late Night With
Jimmy Fallon
- In the UK "WHEELHOUSE" debut at No.69 on the Official UK Album
chart (1,582 sales; chart week
April 20, 2013) then fell off the Top 100. Maverick Magazine editor Alan Cackett awarded Brad Paisley’s
WHEELHOUSE album 5 STARS saying “This
is the kind of album people will pull out and listen to 50 years from
now..No matter what comes out the rest of the year, WHEELHOUSE is my album
of the year. No contest!
- Paisley and Carrie Underwood will return to host the CMA Awards for the sixth time in
2013! “The 47th Annual CMA Awards” airs live from the Bridgestone Arena in
Nashville on Wednesday, November
6th live on ABC.
- Brad is in
talks with Sony Pictures to
make a big screen movie based on his song, ‘I Can’t Change the World.’
Music Brad Paisley
- Original Album Classics (Sony Music Entertainment)
(8 April 2013) Brad Paisley - Wheelhouse (Deluxe
Edition)
Brad Paisley pulls out all
the stops on his adventurous new album, WHEELHOUSE, which includes appearances
by rapper LL Cool J and comedian Eric Idle. “The point of this record was to stretch as an artist, to bend genres as
much as I could where it still felt comfortable in country music,” he says.
About: The Zac Brown Band
- Zac Brown was born July 31, 1978 in
Cumming, Georgia
- Zac Brown Band is an American
country/folk band based in Atlanta, Georgia.
- In 2002, the Zac Brown Band was formed
and they began traveling with a heavy tour schedule of approximately 200
dates a year.
- The lineup consists of Zac Brown (lead
vocals, guitar), Jimmy De Martini (fiddle, vocals), John Driskell Hopkins
(bass guitar, vocals), Coy Bowles (guitar, keyboards), Chris Fryar
(drums), Clay Cook (guitar, keyboards, mandolin, steel guitar, vocals),
and Daniel de los Reyes (percussion).
- They have recorded five studio albums (2 #1 Country Albums), and charted nine Number No.1 singles on the
Billboard country charts: "Chicken Fried", "Toes",
"Highway 20 Ride", "Free", "As She's Walking
Away", "Colder Weather", "Knee Deep", "Keep
Me In Mind", and "Goodbye in Her Eyes" in addition to the
singles "Whatever It Is", "No Hurry", and "Jump
Right In", which peaked at # 2 on the same chart.
- On the Billboard chart week
July 28, 2012 the Zac Brown Band landed their second No.1 album on the Billboard
Top 200 as UNCAGED debuted with a
larger-than-expected 234,289 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
It earned the act its best sales week, trumping the 153,000 that YOU GET
WHAT YOU GIVE sold in its debut frame in 2010. By August 2013
the album had sold over 900,000 copies in America.
- They have received 14 Country Music Association Awards Nominations and in 2010 won
the “New
Artist of the Year”
- They have won 2 Grammy Awards. In 2011 they picked up Best Country Collaboration with Vocals
— "As She's Walking Away" (feat. Alan Jackson) and in 2013 won Best
Country Album for UNCAGED
2013 Updates
- In February The Zac Brown
Band announced they will release a
new album and an acoustic album too "a little later on in the
year," so said the country
band's frontman speaking with Billboard on the Grammys red carpet. The
"Goodbye In Your Eyes" singer also revealed a possible
collaboration with T Bone Burnett, who they played with during the Levon
Helm tribute at the tail-end of the Grammy telecast. Zac Brown Band’s
"Jump Right In" was
added to the BBC Radio 2 "B" playlist for week Commencing 22 June
2013. In June 2013 ZBB were in the UK on Sunday (June 30th) playing London's Hard
Rock Calling with Bruce Springsteen (Check out the Setlist and Photo Gallery). They played the
Acoustic Stage at the Glastonbury Festival on June 29 - Setlist - Watch “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”. They
played London O2 Shepherds Bush (July 1, 2013) - Photoset (2Country.net). In July UNCAGED was
BBC Radio 2's Album of the Week.
They joined Bob Harris in session - www.bbc.co.uk
with a bonus performance of “Natural
Disaster” . They entered
the UK
Official Top 100 at No.92. In
September Zac Brown expressed his distaste
for Contemporary Country Music. CountryMusicNation.com:
About: The Rascal Flatts
- The group Rascal
Flatts are composed of Gary LeVox (lead vocals), Jay DeMarcus (bass
guitar, keyboard, piano, vocals) and Joe Don Rooney (lead guitar, vocals).
LeVox and DeMarcus are second cousins.
- The Name: Once an
audience crowd who loved the three of them together asked their name. They
said they didn’t have one and a man in the crowd said he had a garage band
named “Rascal Flatts” and it stuck!
- Since their musical
debut in 2000, Rascal Flatts has sold over 21 million albums, 25 million digital downloads and delivered 14 #1 singles to the top of the
charts. Rascal Flatts is the most awarded Country group of the past
decade, earning over 40 trophies
from the ACAs, ACMs, AMAs, CMAs, People's Choice Awards and more.
- As one of the
hottest-selling acts on tour in any genre, they’ve sold over 7 million
concert tickets, and counting.
- Discography: Rascal
Flatts (2000) 2x Platinum 2,303,000 sales (Chart 01/05/2009) / Melt
(2002) 3x Platinum 3,073,000 sales (chart 01/05/2009) #1 Country Album / Feels Like
Today (2004) 5x Platinum 5,140,000 sales (Chart 22/07/2009) #1
Billboard 200, #1 Country Album / Me And My Gang (2006) 4x Platinum
4,758,000 sales (Chart 01/05/2009) #1 Billboard 200, #1 Country Album/ Still Feels
Good (2007) 2x Platinum 2,192,000 sales (Chart 01/05/2009) #1
Billboard 200, #1 Country Album/ Greatest Hits Volume 1 (2008) 620,000
sales (Chart 01/05/2009) #2 Country Album/ Unstoppable (2009) 526,000
sales (Chart 01/05/2009) #1 Billboard 200, #1 Country Album/ Nothing
Like This (2010) Platinum 1,00,1337 sales (Chart Nov 13, 2011) #1
Country Album/ Changed (2012) Gold 534,000 sales #1
Country Album / Rascal Flatts - Career Album Sales 19,083,000 (chart 22/07/2009)
- Rascal Flatts' latest
album CHANGED
debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 (Chart week April 11, 2012) selling
129,664 copies. It marked the band's eighth Top 10 album. CHANGED is the
eighth studio album by the country music group. It is their second studio
album release after signing with Big Machine Records, and was released on
April 3, 2012. Lead vocalist Gary LeVox explains the title, "Actually
there's a song on the album called 'Changed' and it's a really, really
special song. And we thought that title of that song really captures what
this new season of our career is cause everything in our professional
career has changed...(we) thought the title was appropriate”. After 68
weeks on Billboard Country chart the GOLD album resided at #68 selling
less than 1,000 copies with a total of 534,018.
2013 Updates:
- Journey and Rascal Flatts joined
forces at Super Bowl 47 for an
episode of CMT Crossroads.
- Rascal Flatts and the Band Perry presented their
first Australian shows in
Brisbane on March 13. Both acts were slated to perform during the weekend
at CMC Rocks the Hunter, a festival that would also mark the Aussie debuts
of Chris Young and Love and Theft.
- They presented their Live &
Loud tour beginning May 31 in Wantagh, NY. The 34-city run
included support from The Band Perry and The Voice season three winner
Cassadee Pope.
- On Friday (Sept 20) they joined Taylor Swift to
perform a "What Hurts The Most" duet at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. Swift said from the stage before
introducing Flatts, with whom she toured in 2008. "Remembering the people who helped you
out in the very beginning and took you on their arena tour, their sold out
tour … when nobody knew your name."
- For their upcoming album and they have a new
producer, rocker Howard Benson who has done albums for Bon Jovi and
Daughtry.
- In the UK Rascal Flatts played 2 nights (July 10th & 11th) at the O2 Shepherd's
Bush Empire watch them perform 'Life
Is A Highway' on Thursday 11th July 2013 (Laura Bell
Bundy, Jill Johnson (Sweden) and the UK’s every own Tim McKay band
supported). Latest album CHANGED
got an official
UK album release on July 8th. The album included their first UK
single "Sunrise"
(Promo single artwork) watch them talk about
the single >> YouTube
. They made an appearance on BBC Breakfast and the album made a debut at No.87 on the Official UK Album
Chart. It made a No.1 bow on
the UK
Country Album Chart and also charted two other albums: self titled album at No.6 after
131 chart weeks along with ME &
MY GANG (Angel) at No.19.
- Rascal Flatts are nominees for the British Country Music Awards 2013 (Nov) for International Act of the Year.
Album Sampler >> YouTube
BBC Radio
Norfolk’s Keith Greentree spoke to Rascal Flatts prior to their London July show.
Listen to his excellent quick-fire interview which was
broadcast on July 13, 2013. You can tune in live to “Rodeo Norfolk”, every
Saturday between 9am – 12.
About: The Dixie Chicks
- The band is composed of founding members (and
sisters) Martie Erwin Maguire
and Emily Erwin Robison, and
lead singer Natalie Maines.
- The band formed in 1989 in Dallas, Texas, and
was originally composed of four women performing bluegrass and country
music, busking and touring the bluegrass festival circuits and small
venues for six years without attracting a major label.
- After the departure of Laura Lynch she was replaced
by Natalie Maines as lead singer, and after a slight change in their
repertoire, the Dixie Chicks soon achieved commercial success, beginning
in 1998 with hit songs "There's Your Trouble" and "Wide
Open Spaces".
- The Dixie Chicks are the highest selling female group in any genre. They hold the
distinction of being the only country group in history and the only female
group of any genre to earn back-to-back Diamond Awards signifying 10 million in record sales.
- Discography: Wide Open Spaces ( Jan. 23, 1998) / Fly (Aug. 31, 1999) / Home (Aug. 27, 2002) / Top of the World (Live) (Nov. 25, 2003) /
Top of the World (DVD) (Nov. 25, 2003)/ An Evening With The Dixie Chicks
(DVD) (Feb. 11, 2003) / Taking The Long Way ( May 23, 2006; 2.5+ million copies
sold to date) / VH1 Storytellers (DVD) – Nov. 11, 2011
/ The Essential Dixie
Chicks (Aug. 24, 2010) /
- In 2013 ranked at #32 the Dixie Chicks album Wide Open Spaces had sold 8,826,993
copies (8x Platinum+) in America.
- Country
Music Association Awards: 1998:
They won Horizon Award and Vocal Group of the Year. 1999: They won Single
of the Year ("Wide Open Spaces"), Vocal Group of the Year and Music
Video of the Year ("Wide Open Spaces") 2000: Wins for Album of
the Year “Fly”, Entertainer of the Year, Vocal Group of the Year and Music
Video of the Year ( "Goodbye Earl") . Finally in 2002 they won
Vocal Group of the Year.
- During a London concert at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, ten days before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, lead vocalist Maines
said, "we don't want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that
the President of the United States [George W. Bush] is from Texas". The
positive reaction to this statement from the British audience contrasted
with the boycotts that ensued in the U.S., their albums were discarded in
public protest.
- As of 2012, the Dixie Chicks had won 13 Grammy Awards, including five
in 2007 for “Taking the Long Way”, which received the Grammy Award for
Album of the Year—and "Not Ready to Make Nice", a single from
that album.
2013 Updates:
- By May 2013, 30.5 million certified albums sold, and sales of 27.2 million albums in the U.S.
alone.
- The Dixie Chicks' singer Natalie Maines joked that going back
to a career in country music would be "like
going back to your abusive husband." When she spoke
with CMT host Katie Cook on the red carpet
at a Bruce Springsteen tribute concert sponsored by the Grammys and
MusiCares Foundation on Friday night (Feb. 8) in Los Angeles
- Their Arena concert at the Calgary Stampede was cancelled as the Canadian city recovered
from floods in June.
- The Dixie Chicks were
replacements for Lady Antebellum
after band member Hillary Scott announced her pregnancy and joined Tim McGraw, and Kenny Chesney as the headliners
scheduled for the Craven Country Jamboree July 11-14 in
Craven, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- Live Nation were thrilled to announce the triumphant return of the multi-platinum selling Dixie Chicks with their Long Time Gone Tour 2013 through select markets in Canada. This follows the incredibly warm reception from Canadian fans at this summer’s Craven Country Jamboree, Cavendish Beach Music Festival, and RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest, and marks the first full tour for the Dixie Chicks through Canada in 7 years. Dates start Oct 26, 2013 (Vancouver) to Nov. 10, 2013 (London, ON – Budweiser Gardens). Craven review (July 13, 2013): The Dixie Chicks still rule the roost (with photos + setlist)
- Natalie Maines’ first solo album, MOTHER (a rock album, not a country album) entered The Billboard 200 at #17 with sales of 22,824, the highest-charting set from a solo woman since Lana Del Rey's "Paradise" EP also debuted at No. 4 on Dec. 1, 2012. The title track first appeared on Pink Floyd’s 1979 album The Wall. That was far below the level of success that Maines enjoyed as a member of Dixie Chicks. All four of that trio’s studio albums reached the top five; the last three debuted at #1.
- Two thirds of the
Dixie Chicks (Emily Robison and Martie Maguire), aka Court Yard Hounds, released their new album, AMELITA
(tagged country/rock & rock) on July 16th via Columbia Records. On its
debut week it sold 5,426 copies to land on the Billboard 200 at No.70. Their
self-titled debut on Columbia Records in 2010 made a No. 7 debut and peak;
with 61,000 sales. Court Yard
Hounds new single "Sunshine" was added to the BBC Radio 2 "C"
playlist for the week commencing June 15, 2013.
- Peter Cooper on Music: The curious case of the Dixie
Chicks (The implosion that happened a decade ago) .Ten years and one day ago was a good time to be a Dixie Chick.
Nine years and 364 days ago, not so much. The trio of Natalie Maines,
Emily Robison and Martie McGuire had sold 22 million albums and notched
six No. 1 country hits, including then-current chart-topper “Travelin’
Soldier.”......
About: Dierks Bentley
- Dierks Bentley (born
November 20, 1975) signed to Capitol Records Nashville since 2003.
- He released his self-titled
debut album in 2003. Both it and its follow-up, 2005's Modern Day
Drifter, are certified platinum in the United States. A third
album, 2006's Long Trip Alone, is certified Gold. It was
followed in mid-2008 by a Greatest Hits package (Chart Nov 19, 2009;
269,507 total sales). His fourth album, Feel That
Fire was released in February 2009 (Chart Nov 19, 2009, 249,561 total sales). A bluegrass studio album, Up on the
Ridge, was released on June 8, 2010 (which debuted and
peaked at No. 9 Country with 39,000 sales on the chart dated June 26,
2010; total sales 161,182 chart Oct
10, 2010). Sixth album, Home, followed in February 2012, it made
its debut with sales of 54,708 to make Billboard entrance at #7 on the Billboard
Top 200 and #1 on Top Billboard
Country Albums. It was
Bentley’s sixth release for Capitol Records featuring #1 single “Am I The Only One”.
- In August
2012 Bentley
debuted at #54 on the Billboard Top 200 (#12 Country) with his Country & Cold Cans EP . This four-song EP, was an iTunes only digital
release - UK iTunes
It has charted at #8 on the US
iTunes Country album chart.
- Bentley's studio
albums have accounted for 18 singles
on the country singles charts, of which ten have reached No. 1: his debut single "What Was I
Thinkin'", as well as "Come a Little Closer", "Settle
for a Slowdown", "Every Mile a Memory", "Free and Easy
(Down the Road I Go)", "Feel That Fire",
"Sideways", "Am I the Only One", "Home", and
"5-1-5-0". Four more of his singles have reached Top Five on the
country charts as well.
- He celebrated his 10th career No.1 song as an artist and songwriter when his
foot-stomping hit “5-1-5-0” tops both the Billboard Hot Country Songs and
Mediabase charts.
- Awards: 2004 CMT Music Awards “Breakthrough
Video of the Year” – Won / Academy of Country Music “Top New Artist” / 2005
Country Music Association Awards “Horizon
Award” - Won
- 10 Grammy Nominations , the last
nomination was at the 2013 the 55th Grammy Awards for ”Best Country Solo
Performance” (song "Home")
2013 Updates:
- Dierks
Bentley and Miranda Lambert kicked off their
"Locked
And Reloaded" tour on Thursday Jan 17 in Columbia, South
Carolina.
- Dierks and
wife Cassidy Black are expecting
their third child this Autumn
- He posted a career-high bow at No. 35 with “I Hold On” (Capitol Nashville), the second track from RISER,
his upcoming seventh studio album. Lead single “Bourbon in Kentucky”
peaked at No. 40 in July. His previous best was a No.38 start (and
eventual No. 1 peak) with “Sideways” four years ago.
- RISER,
a project
due this Autumn
that stands as his most personal to date. Written and recorded in the year
following his father’s death, the album draws its title from “I’m A
Riser,” a song about resilience and determination. “I’m A Riser” works as a commentary on spiritual, personal and
societal recommitment, but it also applies to the competitive battlefield
of the music industry. It’s particularly appropriate for an album about
rejuvenation delivered by Dierks. >> Video
- Dierks
Bentley is to kick off CMA Awards Week with Music &
Miles For Kids on Nov. 3
About:
Chris Young
- Born on 12 June 1985
- 2006: Chris Young
album released (#3 Country Album) , signed record deal with Sony BMG
Nashville's RCA Records and he Won “Nashville Star Season 4”
- 2009: Single "Gettin'
You Home" went to #1 on Billboard Hot Country Songs and The Man I
Want To Be his second album was released (#6 Country Album).
- 2010: Chris won CMT
Nationwide “On Your Side” Award and the single "The Man I Want To
Be" went to #1
- 2011: Won 2 American Country Awards (Breakthrough
Artist of the Year and Single of the Year), singles “Tomorrow" and “Voices"
re-released on July 19, 2010 went to #1
on Hot Country Songs. The Neon album was released (72,830 copies sold
in it’s first week, 428,466 total copies sold over first 95 chart weeks
(chart week Oct 5, 2013)). He was named People's Sexy Man of the Week.
- 2012: Single "You" went to #1 on Billboard Hot Country Songs. He racked up four ACA nominations.
2013 Updates:
- He picked
up a major honor from the Country Music Association to receive the coveted Triple Play Award for his hit
songs “Voices,” “Tomorrow” and “You” on January 29, 2013. The award
recognizes songwriters who have written three No. 1 songs within a
12-month period. The CMA has also selected Chris as a featured artist to
help further the popularity of country music overseas.
- Chris travelled to the U.K. and Ireland in
February to take part in CMA’s Songwriter Series with stops in
Dublin, Belfast and London. The series was recorded and broadcast at a
later date on BBC Radio 2 - Monarch Publicity Press Release
- He made a cameo
appearance playing themselves alongside fictional characters Rayna
James (Connie Britton) and Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere) in an
episode (Jan. 23) of ABC's
Nashville.
- Continued as
headliner of his Liquid Neon Tour
stateside, but also taking his music to an international level with
performances slated in Ireland, the U.K., and Australia (Rocks The Hunter
Festival). The Grammy nominated
vocalist continued to accumulate more career milestones with last year's
highlights including TV performances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The
Talk, and the 47th Annual ACM Awards on CBS, appearances on the Grammy
Nominations Concert Live on CBS, and CMT Artist of the Year special, a sold-out tour with Miranda Lambert,
received Male Vocalist and Single of the Year ACM nominations and gained his fifth consecutive chart-topping
single.
- He also added
PLATINUM and four GOLD RIAA certified singles plus a GOLD album for his
sophomore release, “The Man I Want To Be” to his accolades.
- In August Chris
Young was released from Hospital and returned home to Nashville after being
admitted to Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver for a
dangerous bacterial infection as a result of a small cut on his leg.
- For the Billboard chart week of
March 23, 2013 he claimed his sixth top 10 on Billboard’s Country Airplay
tally, as “I Can Take It From There”
(RCA Nashville), moved 12-9 in
its 21st chart week.
- He claimed his sixth top 10 on Billboard’s Country Airplay tally, as “I Can Take It From There” (RCA
Nashville), his 4th single from NEON moved 12-9 in its 21st chart week on Hot Country Songs
- On the chart week Oct 5, 2013 Young made a No.2
Billboard Album Country bow with A.M. selling 52,742
copies to become his highest-charting album (though not his best sales
week). His lead single, “Aw Naw,”
, from his new album A.M jumped 12-9,
his sixth top 10 on Hot Country Songs and first in 19 months. He returned
to the Billboard Country Airplay top 10 for a seventh time, with the
single whichmoved 11-10 in its
20th chart week
3 STAR Review from Alan
Cackett in the Maverick Magazine November/December Issue 2013
About: Martina McBride
- Born Martina Mariea Schiff on July 29, 1966 - in Medicine Lodge, Kansas
- Rose to stardom in the late
'90s, starting out with a more traditionalist approach and later moving
into pop-friendlier territory. She was born, in 1966 and discovered
country music through her father, who led a local band called the
Schifters. By her teen years, she was singing and playing keyboards with
the Schifters, and after high school she gigged around Kansas with several
different bands.
- Married soundman John McBride, and in 1990 the
couple moved to Nashville, where John worked for artists like Charlie
Daniels and Ricky Van Shelton; Martina, meanwhile, worked as a demo singer, and her husband
produced her demo tape.
- Signed to RCA in 1991.
- Hubby John was hired as Garth
Brooks' production manager, which helped land Martina an opening slot on tour with Brooks.
- Her debut album THE TIME HAS COME was released in 1992, offering a
set of songs indebted to traditional honky tonk and progressive-minded
country-folk.
- THE WAY THAT I AM, a
pop-inflected 1993 follow-up, was her commercial breakthrough, with the
lead single "My Baby Loves Me" (written by Gretchen
Peters) charting at No.2
- Martina has recorded a total of
eleven studio albums, one
greatest hits compilation, one "live" album, a Christmas
compilation, as well as two additional compilation albums. Seven of her
studio albums and two of her compilations have received an RIAA Gold
certification, or higher. In the U.S. she has sold over 14 million albums.
- McBride has won the Country Music Association's
"Female Vocalist of the Year" award four times (1999, 2002,
2003, 2004/ tied with Reba McEntire for the most wins) and the Academy of Country Music's
"Top Female Vocalist" award three times.
- Discography: (Albums) The
Time Has Come
(1992, #49 Billboard Country Album), The
Way That I Am
(1993, #14 Billboard Country Album, Platinum), Wild
Angels
(1995,#17 Billboard Country Album, Platinum), Evolution
(1997, #4
Billboard Country Album, 3X Platinum),White
Christmas
(1998, #9 Billboard Country Album, Platinum), Emotion (1999, #3 Billboard Country
Album, Platinum), Greatest Hits (2001, #1 Billboard Country
Album, 3X Platinum) Martina (2003, #1 Billboard Country Album, 2X Platinum),
Timeless (2005, #1 Billboard Country Album, Platinum), Waking Up Laughing (2007, #2 Billboard Country
Album, Gold), Shine (2009, #1 Billboard Country Album), Eleven (2011, #4 Billboard Country Album), Hits and More (2012, #11 Billboard Country
Album), The Essential
Martina McBride (2012, Did not chart)
- Top 10 Singles: "My Baby Loves Me" (1993, #2), "Life
#9" (1994, #6), "Safe in the Arms of Love" (1995, #4),
"Wild Angels" (1995, #1), "A
Broken Wing"
(1997, #1), "Valentine" (1998, #9), "Happy Girl" (1998, #2), "Wrong Again" (1998, #1), "Whatever You Say" (1999, #2), "I Love You" (1999, #1), "Love's the Only House" (1999, #3), "There You Are" (2000, #10), "When God-Fearin' Women Get the Blues" (2001, #8), "Blessed" (2001, #1), "Where Would You Be" (2002, #3),"Concrete Angel" (2002, #5), "This One's for the Girls" (2003, #3), "In My Daughter's Eyes" (2003, #4), "Anyway" (2006, #5), "I'm Gonna Love You Through It" (2011, #4)
- In Nov 2010 McBride switched labels and signed with Republic Nashville leaving RCA her
home for 18 years. The new deal was
announced by the singer along with Big Machine Label President Scott
Borchetta and Republic Nashville President Jimmy Harnen.
- Back in July 2009 Martina played the Indigo2, Greenwich, London (80min set) Setlist: When God Fearing Women Get
The Blues, Wild Angels, My Baby Loves Me, I Just Call You Mine, Blessed,
Happy Girl, Safe In The Arms Of Love, Help Me Make It Through The Night,
Rose Garden, Concrete Angel, How Far, Wrong baby Wrong Baby Wrong, Ride,
You're Not Leavin' Me, Somewhere Over THe Rainbow, Anyway, Where Would You
Be, This One's For The Girls, Broken Wing, Independence Day, Summer Of '69
- Encore, Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Encore.
- Martina had to postpone her
June/ July 2010 European dates.
- Her only 2 UK charting albums are Evolution (#178 UK Official Album Chart) and Shine (#182 UK Official Album Chart).
2013 Updates:
- She was the special guest opening for George
Strait on the first 21 tour stops on his 2013 The
Cowboy Rides Away Tour.
- The Pandora
jewlery brand presented
the Martina McBride Tour with
nine dates starting in Ralston, NE on July 19th. Her “The Joy of Christmas” Tour 12-city tour
will kick off in Huntington, WV on Friday, November 29 and wrap up in
Chicago on Saturday, December 21.
- In September Martina was holed
up in the studio working on a new album, expected out in early 2014,
but at this point, the project is essentially top secret. McBride told
CBSNews.com, "It's gonna be
awesome," adding, "We're feverishly working on it and getting it
done. I'm really really excited to be back in the studio making new music”
- Down Came A Blackbird: Martina McBride and her husband launched sound-engineering school The Blackbird Academy with its
inaugural six-month Studio Engineering program. It utilizes the couple's
Blackbird Studio in Nashville and offers programs for studio and
live-sound engineering.
- She told Spokesman.com ....”I’ve had an amazing career, but I do think it’s harder for women to break
through. And when they do, it’s really powerful”
- Setlist from a October show in Oklahoma.
- Martina is on the bill at selective shows once more for the final leg of George Strait’s
2014 The Cowboy Rides Away Tour.
- On October 10th BBC Radio’s Bob
Harris announced on Facebook that Martina will be on the Saturday line up
for the C2C 2014 Country to
Country Festival
– She writes IMAGE
- Fun Facts: Her favorite
comfort foods include peanut butter on a spoon right out of the jar,
mac and cheese, tomato soup with grilled cheese and chili with cinnamon
rolls. Martina McBride is made up of 5% big beautiful blue eyes and 95%
lungs!
C2C 2014 Spotify
Take a listen to
the stars on the line up for C2C 2014
C2C 2014 Parody
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C2C
exclusion of 23-year old RED singer-songwriter Miss Taylor Swift
Reacts:
C2C 2013 Flashback
Review:
On
the Billboard
Boxscore Chart for the week 06/04/2013 the C2C event was
ranked at No.10
Rank - #10
Artist/Event - C2C Country To Country:
Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood, Vince Gill, Darius Rucker, Little Big Town, LeAnn
Rimes, Kristian Bush, Brantley Gilbert
Venue City/State Event - O2 Arena London, U.K. Dates - March 16-17, 2013
Gross Sales - $1,447,650 Attend/Capacity
- 17,152 / 26,840 Shows/ Sellouts - 2 / 0
Prices - $98.22, $52.89 Promoters
- SJM Concerts
Alan Perkins from UKCountry Radio.com reviewed the
C2C 2013 Country to Country Festival, and spoke to Vince Gill, Darius Rucker, Carrie Underwood
and Tim McGraw >> Audio Link
Alan Perkins superlatives
hit count LOL:
amazing (4), brilliant (8),
buzzing (1), fabulous (7), fantastic (6), great (3), masterly (1),
mammoth (1), massive (10),
outstanding (2), superstar (6), stunning (8),
superb (2) wonderful (5)
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