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Performers for the 2020 ACM Awards have been announced. Tim McGraw, Luke Combs and Miranda Lambert top the list, along with some of country music’s biggest stars and most up-and-coming female artists.
2020 ACM Awards are set to take place on Sept. 16 at 8PM ET on CBS. This year’s ACMs will be broadcast from three venues in Nashville, not Las Vegas like most years. Performances will come from the historic Ryman Auditorium, the iconic Bluebird Cafe and the Grand Ole Opry House, where host Keith Urban will be centered.
Just two of the five ACM Entertainer of the Year nominees (Luke Combs and Thomas Rhett) have been announced as performers for the 2020 show thus far. Rhett and Maren Morris lead all nominees with five nominations apiece but Old Dominion, Blake Shelton and Dan + Shay have four. Of that group just Old Dominion has been announced as performers.
Carrie Underwood will once again open NBC’s Sunday Night Football broadcasts during the 2020-2021 NFL season. This year, however, much of the new opening video was put together virtually,.
Players will appear through virtual cameos, while football fans will be highlighted via user-generated content.
Carrie recorded a new version of Sunday Night Football‘s long-used theme song, “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night,” at a studio in Nashville. This will be her 8th season with Sunday Night Football. Fans will first get to see the new opening theme on Sept. 13, when the Dallas Cowboys play the Los Angeles Rams in California.
Yesterday National Dog Day, thanks to all the Q106.5 Dogs who posted on the Q106.5 Facebook page. Nice. Check it out. Luke Bryan posted a photo of himself playing with his two dogs yesterday, Choc and Boss and Luke look happy.