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It’s country’s biggest night! The 2021 CMT Artists of the Year awards are taking over Music City on Wednesday, October 13.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAbby Quinn will star in an upcoming Blumhouse and Epix movie set in Nashville opposite Shiloh Fernandez and Joshua Leonard. They join the previously announced Alexxis Lemire and Katey Sagal in the film, which has the working title of “Tattered Hearts.” The movie centers on a promising up-and-coming country duo who seek out the secluded mansion of their idol (Sagal), a former country music star and “Music City” royalty turned recluse.

Hitting the town! Kane Brown and his wife, Katelyn Jae, were among the few country music couples who attended the 2021 CMT Music Awards on Wednesday, June 9.

Yee-haw! Country stars traded in their cowboy boots for couture, making the 2021 CMT Music Awards a seriously glamorous event. 

Just think of a new show, something like the Real Housewives of Nashville…

Jason Aldean, both teased a project on social media but remained somewhat tightlipped about what exactly it could be. TMZ says there are whispers in Music City about the development of a "Real Housewives of Nashville" series, or at least something like it. Others believed to be involved in the project include Sabina Gadecki (Tyler Rich's wife) and Jenna Perdue (wife of Dee Jay Silver).

Brad Paisley is the reason one Nashville man is beginning 2021 on a positive note. The singer was one of several country stars who sent condolences and messages of hope to Music City residents whose homes were ravaged by the Christmas Day bombing.

I feel the need to express my shock and disbelief at the Christmas Day explosion in our beloved Music City. I love…Posted by Petula Clark on Tuesday, December 29, 2020Clark added that “millions of people all over the world have been uplifted by this joyful song.”The singer cited the opening line of the 1964 hit tunebefore adding: “Perhaps you can read something else into these words – depending on your state of mind.

Chris Willman Music WriterSinger Petula Clark has issued a statement conveying her dismay at her 1960s classic “Downtown” being blared from an explosives-laden recreational vehicle before it blew up in downtown Nashville Friday morning.“I feel the need to express my shock and disbelief at the Christmas Day explosion in our beloved Music City. I love Nashville and its people,” wrote Clark on Facebook.

Petula Clark is thinking of Nashville following the Christmas Day bombing.

The Tennessee man who officials say detonated a bomb in downtown Nashville in the early morning hours of Christmas Day allegedly used to spout anti-police rhetoric to a person he worked with, according to a recent report.

Taylor Swift fans are in an uproar after the singer was removed from a famous Nashville mural celebrating country music legends and replaced with Brad Paisley. The famous exhibition, which exists in Music City's Legend's Corner at Fifth and Broadway, is getting an overhaul by artist Tim Davis, according to Fox 17.The removal of Swift is one of the first changes, and it has Swifties up in arms.

The death of country music legend Charley Pride is being questioned by several of the genre’s stars, who are wondering whether his performance at the County Music Association’s indoor awards show a month before he acquired Covid-19 may be connected.

CMA Awards are set to be broadcast live from Music City in Nashville on Wednesday 11 November – and we can't wait!MORE: Keith Urban reveals struggles during lockdownBecause of the coronavirus pandemic, a lot of virtual performances will take place throughout the night, all around the world.

Jade Bird has accidentally done just that. “We were trying to keep up with it last night but it’s so hard,” she says the morning after arriving in Nashville, when votes are still being counted across the States.This is the British singer-songwriter’s second trip to Music City this year.

Sarah Hyland dazzled at the 2020 CMT Music Awards in not one, but three standout looks! And we’re taking note.On Wednesday, October 21, the 29-year-old hosted the biggest night in country at an outside location “in and around Music City.” To kick off the evening, she walked the red carpet in a stunning Georges Hobeika number that had a beautifully beaded pink crop top with a purple skirt featuring sexy cutout details and black bow around the waist.

On May 15, Jason Isbell celebrated the release of his latest album, Reunions, with his band the 400 Unit by christening the stage at the newly-built Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville alongside his wife musician Amanda Shires. The music venue and bowling alley was scheduled to make its grand opening in March, but remained shuttered after a tornado hit Music City and the spread of COVID-19 halted live shows around the globe.

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The 2020 ACM Awards are moving from Las Vegas to Nashville.

The ACM Awards are heading to Music City! On Monday, the Academy of Country Music and dick clark productions announced that the 55th annual show will be broadcast from Nashville, Tennessee, for the first time in its history. The ceremony has previously been held in Las Vegas.

Joe & Martina are looking to do a little time travel in their video for “Give Me Back the ‘90s,” and they’ve got company.Joe and Martina Costa, who have opened for such acts as Blake Shelton, Jake Owen and Jon Pardi, as well as wrote “Don’t Tempt Me” for Luke Combs’ This One’s for You album, are joined by '90s sensation John Berry in the clip, which was shot outside longtime Music City landmark Nashville Palace.The song and video references other memorable artists who first hit in the ‘90s

It's fair to say that Ana Cristina Cash's Shine is the first full statement of a new career path for the singer.

NASHVILLE — When the COVID-19 coronavirus forced the shutdown of the concert industry, independent Nashville artist Stevie Woodward got a double whammy.Not only did she lose the steady, six-nights-a-week bookings in the Music City club scene that kept her afloat, she also faced the stark reality that one of her roommates, a nurse at Vanderbilt Medical Center, might well bring the bug home from work.Woodward decided to make lemonade out of lemons and drove to Myrtle Beach, S.C., for an unexpected

During its peak season, Detroit's Motown Museum welcomes up to 450 fans per day touring the original Hitsville USA facility. Right now, however, it's not the same old song.

Since Kacey Musgraves won all those Grammys, some of the younger or previously less explorative fans who adopted her as their first favorite country star have looked to Nashville and asked: “Got any more where this one came from?” After some hemming and hawing, since that cupboard isn’t exactly jam-packed, the answer might emerge: “Actually, yes.” Because Brandy Clark is the necessary next stop for anyone joining this program already in progress and finding that Music City is the richest source

Loretta Lynn is lending a helping hand to Music City.

Loretta Lynn is doing all she can to help the Nashville tornado victims who lost their homes after the deadly vortex ripped through parts of Tennessee this week. The country music legend told Fox News that her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tenn.

Nashville is already known as Music City, but a new wave of music being recorded there for video games, TV shows and movies could earn it a new title as Soundtrack City.The city has a reputation for high quality studio musicians that can play just about any genre, including country, pop, rock, gospel and more. Nashville musicians have also been behind the soundtracks for some of the biggest video

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Nashville is already known as Music City, but a new wave of music being recorded there for video games, TV shows and movies could earn it a new title as Soundtrack City.