Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, Taylor Swift Live at 2011 CMA Music Festival

Country superstars Keith Urban, Reba and Taylor Swift will be joined at this year’s CMA Music Festival by a diverse line up of country artists performing on a variety of stages throughout the event.

Celebrating its 40th birthday this year, CMA Music Festival takes place Thursday-Sunday, June 9-12 in downtown Nashville.

The Nightly Concerts at LP Field are the highlights of CMA Music Festival.
Thursday, June 9:  Jason Aldean (with a special guest performance from Kelly Clarkson), Easton Corbin, Sara Evans, Brad Paisley and Zac Brown Band (with special guest performances from Alan Jackson, Amos Lee, Sonia Leigh and Randy Travis).
Friday, June 10:  Dierks Bentley, Lady Antebellum, Reba, Ashton Shepherd, Sugarland, and Keith Urban.
Saturday, June 11: Trace Adkins, Little Big Town, Martina McBride, Rascal Flatts, Josh Turner and Chris Young.
Sunday, June 12:  The Band Perry, the JaneDear girls, Miranda Lambert, Darius Rucker, Blake Shelton and Taylor Swift.

Aside from the Nightly Concerts there will be plenty of music for country fans, much of it free. Free Daily Concerts will be held on the Chevrolet Riverfront Stage in Riverfront Park Thursday through Saturday, June 9-11.

The Lay's Stage at Bridgestone Arena Plaza will also offer free performances on all four days, beginning at 11:00 AM and ending at 5:30 PM and the Durango® Acoustic Corner will present daily acoustic concerts from acts such as Rhonda Vincent and Riders in the Sky at the Nashville Convention Center in Room 209.

Four-day tickets to CMA Music Festival, which include all four Nightly Concerts at LP Field and daily access to the Fan Fair® Exhibit Hall, can be purchased through Ticketmaster at Ticketmaster.com or 1-(800) 745-3000. They can also purchase them through CMAfest.com or 1-(800)-CMA-FEST (262-3378).

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Lady Antebellum Singer Talks Third Album

Following the success of the blockbuster 2010 album, Need You Now, is no small task for Nashville hit-makers Lady Antebellum. Powered by the single “I Run to You” and the hit title track, Need You Now topped charts all over the world and garnered a boatload of awards. Nevertheless, the trio of Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood and Hillary Scott are hard at work on a follow-up.

Kelley told Undercover.fm, “We’re a little over halfway done right now and we’re excited to get some new music out there. Again, we’re just trying to keep our heads down and not over-think this thing. With the success of Need You Now, everyone keeps asking us, ‘How are you going to follow that up?’ – and I don’t know how to answer that. You just go in there and do what you do and hopefully it’ll be received well.”

According to Kelley, the important thing is to make music the band can take pride in.

“It’ll be hard to match the same success as that,” he said. “I think we just try and keep that in perspective and just keep making music that we’re proud of and it’ll take whatever course it’s going to take.”

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