Collin Raye To Perform At Commemorative Route 91 Memorial Event

Country music star Collin Raye will perform at a commemorative butterfly release memorial to honor those lost and affected by the 2017 Route 91 Festival tragedy. The ceremony will take place on Sunday, April 8 at 2 p.m. PST at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden. 

Presented by Nathan Adelson Hospice, southern Nevada’s largest non-profit hospice organization, the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, the City of Las Vegas and Get Outdoors Nevada, and the Academy of Country Music‘s philanthropic arm ACM Lifting Lives and Music City Cares Fund, the event is free and open to the public. 

The tribute will include the release of 900 butterflies to symbolize those lost and injured in the October 1 tragedy, a short nondenominational message, and remarks by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman. 

At 2:30 p.m., Raye will perform “Amazing Grace” as the guests release the butterflies. 

“I am very honored and humbled to have been asked to be a part of the Route 91 Memorial,” says Raye. “It’s important that the victims of the attack and their family members have this moment of remembrance to celebrate the lives of those so senselessly lost, and to proudly proclaim to the world that one act of pure evil shall not change us, break our spirit, nor shake our faith.”

The Las Vegas Community Healing Garden, established shortly after the event, is located at 1015 S. Casino Center Boulevard. Free parking is available.

Ashley McBryde Makes Significant Impression with Debut Album ‘Girl Going Nowhere’

“The record is a proper introduction to a true-blue talent, one who is capable of injecting personality into all types of country songs,” proclaims The Fader on Atlantic/Warner Nashville’s newcomer Ashley McBryde’s major label debut, Girl Going Nowhere. Friday’s 11-song Jay Joyce-produced album has received rave reviews from Rolling Stone and Variety, a “Next-Gen Nashville” Billboard feature, inclusion in NPR’s All Songs Considered and half-page features in both The New York Times and Sunday’s issue of The Washington Post.

Rolling Stone observes, “… she wrote or co-wrote everything here…with a sharp eye for piercing detail. She has a serious gift,” while The New York Times adds, “Ms. McBryde focuses on crisp songwriting and a wide-tent approach to influences, taking in blues and Southern rock” in this week’s Popcast; Billboard notes, “[Girl Going Nowhere] juxtaposes her bluesy delivery — reminiscent of Susan Tedeschi’s and Patty Griffin’s,” and The Washington Post proclaims Girl Going Nowhere showcases McBryde’s “gritty, rock-tinged country music and vivid, cutting lyrics.”

Prior to recording Nowhere and signing a deal with a major label, McBryde spent the better part of her adult life driving between Nashville, Memphis and her hometown of Mammoth Spring, Arkansas playing any biker bar or dive she could book. There were nights when she didn’t know if she had enough gas in the tank of her teal 1971 pick-up to make it home, yet she would listen to the radio to distract herself from the then-grim reality.

Now, when she turns the dial she hears everything from her single, “A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega,” on Country radio, to album cut “American Scandal” on SiriusXM’s The Highway, to NPR discussing none other than “Radioland,” as featured in this week’s broadcast/podcast of All Songs Considered, which deems Girl Going Nowhere a “fantastic album, that is just what country needs. The cheap comparison would be female Chris Stapleton, but Ashley is her own woman. She really does however, combine the energy of rock, the earnestness and simple beauties of prime-era Springsteen or John Mellencamp; her songs are about family, working people, about living your best life when your best life is maybe on the outskirts of town on a ranch house with a manual lawnmower.”

McBryde took to ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! stage (on 4/2) to perform her “resilient” (Rolling Stone) single, “A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega,” and Tuesday evening (4/3) she plays an album release show at Los Angeles’ The Roxy before rejoining Luke Combs on tour.

Cassadee Pope Returns With Brand New Single “Take You Home”

GRAMMY® award-nominated, platinum-certified country hit maker Cassadee Pope released her first new single in nearly two years. “Take You Home,” co-written by Paul Digiovanni, Ben Hayslip and Emily Weisband and produced by Corey Crowder, marks a new phase in Pope’s musical journey, one with swagger, style and substance. Punctuated by confessional lyrics, “Take You Home” as Pope puts it, “is in-your-face musically, really intimate, and a little seductive.”

Check out her new single “Take You Home” and the story behind the song HERE

Of the song Pope says, “When you meet someone, there’s a moment where you want to show this other person where you’re from and exactly why you are the way you are,” she explains. “‘Take You Home’ speaks to that. You’re showing this guy that there are lots of layers to you. It’s not about just a one-night stand; it’s about really understanding. I’m in love with it!”

The singer’s powerhouse voice, inimitable presence, and endless charm transformed her into a force of nature beloved by millions worldwide. Following her victory on Season 3 of NBC’s The Voice, her 2013 full-length debut, Frame By Frame, bowed at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums Chart and Top 10 on the Billboard 200 all-genre chart. Its lead single “Wasting All These Tears” not only notched an RIAA platinum certification, but it also achieved “Breakthrough Video of the Year” at the CMT Music Awards in 2014.

During 2016, she also teamed with Chris Young for the No. 1 hit “Think Of You” and garnered a 2017 GRAMMY® nod in the category of Best Country Duo/Group Performance. Along the way, she toured with everybody from Tim McGraw and Dierks Bentley to Young and Rascal Flatts

“This is a new chapter,” she continues. “Lyrically, it’s really self-assured and reflective of where I am. The music is sweet and vulnerable, but it’s also confident and sexy. There are no boundaries in terms of the music and I’m not afraid to cross the line and go a little rock ‘n’ roll either.  It’s definitely new territory for me all around.”

Jason Aldean Teams Up with SiriusXM To Perform Exclusive Album Release Show in NYC

SiriusXM announced that two-time and reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year Jason Aldean will perform an exclusive show for SiriusXM subscribers at Opry City Stage in New York City on Wednesday, April 18.

Featuring new music off Aldean’s hard-charging and ferociously confident eighth studio album REARVIEW TOWN, out April 13, the special event will also feature a handful of fan favorites along with a Q&A with SiriusXM host, Buzz Brainard.

Aldean’s exclusive performance for SiriusXM will air live on Wednesday, April 18 at 6:00 pm ET on The Highway, channel 56 and through the SiriusXM app on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as online at siriusxm.com.

Joining forces with longtime producer Michael Knox, the 15 new tracks found on two-time, reigning and current ACM “Entertainer of the Year” Jason Aldean’s eighth studio album REARVIEW TOWN leads off with the Top 10 and climbing lead single, “You Make It Easy.”

The new music, out April 13, follows Aldean’s last three albums that each bowed at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart and all seven of his previous LPs have achieved PLATINUM certification or better, along with 19 No. 1 hits, more than 15 million total album sales and dozens of sold-out stadium shows. His HIGH NOON NEON TOUR will launch on May 10th. For more information and for a full list of upcoming tour dates visit www.jasonaldean.com.

 

Russell Dickerson To Perform New Single “Blue Tacoma” on Good Morning America

Tomorrow morning, 4/5, country music’s most-promising new artist, Russell Dickerson, will be performing his new single “Blue Tacoma” on Good Morning America. Tune-in to watch him at 8:50 a.m. EST on ABC.

“Good Morning America was always on in our house growing up so now getting to debut my brand new single Blue Tacoma live on GMA is definitely a dream come true” says Dickerson.

2018 has undeniably proven to be a landmark year for Dickerson. His debut single “Yours” celebrated two consecutive weeks at no.1 on Billboard Country and Mediabase Country Radio charts, and made his late-night TV debut on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in February.

The Platinum singer/ songwriter nabbed his first-ever ACM nomination for “New Male Vocalist of the Year” (Sunday, April 15th from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on CBS), and is set to support Lady Antebellum and Darius Rucker on their long-awaited North American “Summer Plays On” Tour, kicking off this July in Toronto, and Thomas Rhett’s “Life Changes” Tour on select dates.