Tag: Country Music

Keith Urban Gets Closer in 2011

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Keith Urban

Three-time Grammy Award winner, Keith Urban, has announced his tour dates for 2011.

The Get Closer 2011 World Tour will kick off in Mobile, AL on June 16th. Urban will play over forty U.S. cities, before closing out the U.S. leg of the tour in Minneapolis, MN on October 15th.

Urban will be touring in support of his sixth album, Get Closer, which was just released this month. He seems excited about hitting the road again. From his official website, Urban says, “I’m bringing the big boom box and an arsenal of Read More

Kenny Chesney Goin’ Coastal

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Kenny Chesney

Four time winner of ACM and CMA’s “Entertainer of the Year” award, Kenny Chesney announced the first round of dates for his 2011 Goin’ Coastal tour last week.

Rumored to be Chesney’s biggest ever, the Goin’ Coastal tour will kick off in Tampa on March 19. Chesney will share the stage with the Zac Brown Band, Billy Currington, and Uncle Kracker for shows in nine NFL stadiums.

Chesney took a break from touring in 2010, producing a documentary called “Boys of Fall,” a film about high school football, and releasing a new album, Hemingway’s Whiskey, in late September. Read More

Lady Antebellum: Need You Now

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Lady Antebellum

Last month, country music’s Lady Antebellum kicked off the Need You Now Tour, the first headlining tour for the Nashville trio.

The group has skyrocketed to the top of the charts since their debut in 2008. Their newest album, Need You Now debuted at number one, and has remained on the Billboard Top 200 for thirty-six weeks.

They were recently named ‘Top Vocal Group” by the ACM, and are Read More

Carrie Underwood Continues Play On

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Carrie Underwood

Country music’s 2009 and 2010 Entertainer of the Year, Carrie Underwood, has established herself as the hottest ticket on the country music circuit. Underwood hit the road in March of this year, taking her Play On Tour to nearly fifty five sold-out venues across North America.

After taking a break, Underwood is back on the road with tour dates that extend into December. The forty-seven city winter leg of Play On began on September 25 in Portland, OR and will close out in Read More

Brad Paisley on H20 World Tour

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Brad Paisley

Country music star, Brad Paisley, is currently touring North America. His eighth studio album, American Saturday Night, has produced three number one singles, “Then,” “Welcome to the Future,” and “American Saturday Night.”

The H20 World Tour will open with Darius Rucker of Hootie and the Blowfish, and Justin Moore, singer of the hit song “Small Town USA.”

The tour has over fifteen stops remaining, including four Canadian Read More

Trace Adkins Tours Through Summer

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Trace Adkins

One of country music’s hottest performers, Trace Adkins, is on tour now, and playing in a city near you. Adkins will make two stops in Canada, and perform over forty cities in all.

Growing up in a small southern town, Adkins got the music bug singing in a gospel group in high school. He claims his true musical education came later while playing guitar and singing in the local honky-tonk circuit. Adkins eventually moved to Nashville where his professional career was set in motion when he signed on with Capital Records. Read More