“The 53rd Annual CMA Awards” Adds Not-To-Be-Missed
Performances And Collaborations By Kelsea Ballerini, Brooks & Dunn with
Brothers Osborne, Garth Brooks with Blake Shelton, Dan + Shay, Kacey Musgraves
with Willie Nelson, Lady Antebellum and Halsey, Old Dominion, Blake Shelton,
and Thomas Rhett
Country Legend Willie Nelson Returns to the CMA Awards Stage for the First Time Since 2012 for a Special Performance with Kacey Musgraves
Country Music’s Biggest Night™ to Air
Live from Bridgestone Arena Wednesday, Nov. 13 on the ABC Television
Network
“The 53rd Annual CMA
Awards” has announced additional performances and
collaborations by Kelsea Ballerini,
Brooks & Dunn with Brothers
Osborne, Garth Brooks with Blake
Shelton, Dan + Shay, Kacey Musgraves with Willie
Nelson, Lady Antebellum and Halsey,
Old Dominion, Blake Shelton, and Thomas
Rhett. Country Music’s Biggest Night™, hosted by Carrie
Underwood with special guest hosts Reba
McEntire and Dolly
Parton, airs live from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville Wednesday,
Nov. 13 at 8/7c on the ABC Television Network.
Brooks & Dunn, an
18-time CMA Awards winner and two-time nominee this year, will perform their
hit song “Hard Workin’ Man” with Brothers Osborne, the reigning CMA Vocal Duo
of the Year and four-time nominee this year. Brooks & Dunn are also recent
inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Brooks, an Entertainer of the
Year nominee this year, and Shelton, a three-time nominee this year, will
perform their CMA Musical Event of the Year nominated hit, “Dive Bar.”
Three-time nominee this year, Kacey
Musgraves welcomes long-time friend and 10-time CMA Awards winner Nelson
to the CMA stage to perform a heartwarming collaboration that fans will soon
see has been decades in the making. Nelson last performed on the CMA Awards
stage in 2012 in honor of receiving the inaugural CMA Lifetime Achievement
Award. In a never-before-seen collaboration, Halsey makes her first-ever CMA
Awards appearance, joining six-time CMA Awards winner Lady Antebellum to
perform a genre-defying mashup.
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| Kelsea Ballerini Photo
Credit: Piper Ferguson |
Old Dominion,
reigning CMA Vocal Group of the Year and nominee again this year in the
category, will bring their hit “One Man Band” to the CMA Awards
stage, while Thomas Rhett, a two-time nominee this year, will perform “Remember
You Young” from his CMA Album of the Year nominated album Center
Point Road.
In addition to his performance
with Brooks, Blake Shelton will also hit the stage to perform his
three-time nominated single “God’s Country.”
Previously announced
performers include Eric
Church, Luke
Combs, Miranda
Lambert, Reba
McEntire, Maren
Morris, Dolly
Parton with for
KING & COUNTRY and Zach Williams, P!NK and Chris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood, and Keith Urban.
Additional performers and presenters will be revealed in the coming weeks.
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| “The 53rd Annual CMA Awards,” hosted by Carrie
Underwood with special guest hosts Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton, broadcasts
live from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville Wednesday, Nov. 13 at 8/7c on the ABC
Television Network. Photo credit: Mark Seliger/ABC |
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GREAT NEWS BBC 4 will
be televising the CMA Awards!!
BBC Four will be broadcasting
highlights (1 HOUR on BBC 4 on November 22 cmaawards.com/international/)
from the CMA Awards which take place in November which will hosted by Carrie
Underwood, Dolly Parton and Reba McEntire. CMA Awards Highlights 2019 is
commissioned for BBC Four by James Stirling, Head of BBC Music and BBC Music
Introducing.
OTHER COUNTRIES
Canada: LIVE simulcast on CTV2
on November 13 at 8PM ET
Australia: LIVE Simulcast on 9GEM on
14 November at 13:00; 2-Hour Airing on Nine on 23 November at 14:30
Germany, Switzerland and Austria:
2-Hour Airing on VOX on 26 November
Norway: 2-Hour Airing on NRK on
TBD
Latin America (Excluding
Brazil and Mexico): 2-Hour Airing on DirecTV on TBD
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