August 13, 2011 CNN reported Saturday night a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair, killing 4 and injuring at least two dozen fans. Sugarland was scheduled to appear and tweeted that they're ok and that they're praying for the injured fans.
This past Saturday we held our Taste Of Country BBQ nationals at the Eastern Hills Mall in Clarence. It was an awesome day of amazing bbq, beer and music. Our headliner came to us all the way from Nashville
People magazine has recently released its list of "Country Biggest Stars"....see if you agree!
Tim McGraw's 'Emotional Traffic' Tour rolled into Western New York this past Saturday evening to kick off the summer's country concert series at Darien Lake. McGraw, along with Luke Bryan and The Band Perry put on a great show to a crowd of nearly 15,000 fa
Country singer Ronnie Dunn – one half of superduo Brooks & Dunn – talked with Taste of Country a bit last week about musicians that influenced him. Among Dunn’s more interesting recent influences: “I love Harrison’s slide guitar on ‘Something,’” the singer told Taste of Country.
Dunn has of course been impactful in his own wide-ranging way, and the wild diversity of Brooks & Dunn covers on YouTube are a pretty-great sample of his influence. Among the YouTube treasures we unearthed: a rocker girl singing a heartfelt cover of B&D’s ‘If You See Her, If You See Him’; a ukelele-toting troubadour singing his dog to sleep with ‘Neon Moon’; and a near-perfect bedroom rendition of ‘My Maria.’ Check ‘em out and more below, and don’t forget to sign up to see and meet Ronnie Dunn in Yakima, WA on July 21!
April 27, 2011 The CMT Music Award nominations were announced this morning on the Today show and Jason Aldean leads the list of nominees with four. Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Rascal Flatts, Taylor Swift and the Zac Brown Band follow with 3 nominations apiece.
April 26, 2011 Lordy lordy..looks who's 40! It's Jay Demarcus of Rascal Flatts! He is the newest member of the group to be a daddy and is celebrating the big 4-0!
We have a TV Alert Reminder: tune in tomorrow night at 9 PM, ET on CBS to watch.....
Sugarland is a really talented duo......I almost like their "cover tunes" better than their own songs...LOL...oops can I say that?? Anyway....here is a live performance of Sugarland
April 4, 2011 The fans voted Taylor Swift Entertainer of the Year, but Miranda Lambert came away a big winner at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards, winning for Female Vocalist as well as Single, Song and Video of the Year for "The House That Built Me"
The biggest stars in Hollywood and Nashville made the trip to the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas for the 2011 Academy of Country Music Awards.
Among the many A-listers attending were Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland, 'Dancing With the Stars' beauty Julianne Hough and, of course, Entertainer of the Year winner Taylor Swift.
March 25, 2011 I'm a guy who really truly does have a great respect for all genres of music. I like at least something from just about every type of music you can imagine. But whatever happened to awards shows showcasing the type of music that the awards represent?
