CMT Award Winners And List Of Winners Taylor Swift

CMT Award Winners And List Of Winners
NASHVILLE, TN (AP) — Taylor Swift opened Tuesday’s Country Music Television awards with a skit about living out her dreams. The 19-year-old country and pop sensation went a long way toward doing just that by winning video of the year and female video of the year for “Love Story” [...]

Brad Paisley Grabs Three Wins at CMT Music Awards

With three wins, Brad Paisley emerged on top at the 2009 CMT Music Awards, although it’s likely that Taylor Swift’s three performances are what country music fans will be talking about in the days to come. She also won two awards — including video of the year for “Love Story” — during Tuesday night’s (June [...]

Country Artists Try To Build Their Base Abroad

Country Artists Try To Build Their Base Abroad
NASHVILLE, TN (AP) — Dierks Bentley and his band recently jetted to Australia to open six shows for Brooks & Dunn, playing to more than 10,000 people a night in the country’s largest cities.
And yet Bentley, a headlining act in the U.S. with a half dozen No. 1 [...]

Delfest

The Spirit Of Delfest Shines Through In Spite Of Storm
NASHVILLE, TN (CelebrityAccess MediaWire) — Sam Bush was tearing up the main stage with some blazing bluegrass on a sunny Saturday afternoon, when a few raindrops at the Allegany County Fairgrounds in Cumberland, Maryland, site of Delfest, suddenly turned into a storm that no one there [...]

Montgomery Gentry Invited To Join Grand Ole Opry

Montgomery Gentry (AP)

Montgomery Gentry Invited To Join Grand Ole Opry
NASHVILLE, TN (AP) — Montgomery Gentry is set to become the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry.
Opry member Charlie Daniels surprised the duo on stage Tuesday by asking them to join.
They will be formally inducted on June 23.
Since their 1999 debut, Eddie Montgomery and Troy [...]

2009 CMT Award Nominations

Sugarland

Sugarland Leads With 5 CMT Award Nominations
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Sugarland leads all the nominees announced Tuesday for Country Music Television’s awards show next month with five nominations.
Brad Paisley and Taylor Swift are next with four each, followed by Rascal Flatts and newcomers Lady Antebellum with three fan-voted nominations apiece.
Kelly Pickler and CMT personality Lance [...]

Roy Clark, Barbara Mandrell and Charlie McCoy in the Hall of Fame

Country music stars, from left, Charlie McCoy, Barbara Mandrell and Roy Clark, pose before being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Roy Clark, Barbara Mandrell Join Hall Of Fame
NASHVILLE, TN (AP) — Roy Clark, Barbara Mandrell and Charlie McCoy were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday in [...]

Keith, Paisley, Swift To Perform At CMT Awards

Keith, Paisley, Swift To Perform At CMT Awards
Posted: Fri., Apr. 24, 2009 05:57:55 PM MST
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts and Taylor Swift will perform during the Country Music Television awards show June 17.
The cable channel announced the first round of performers this week. More will be added later.
The show will [...]