ABC’s CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock looks to be the television concert of the summer. Highlighting the best of the CMA Music Festival – which ran from June 9-12 in Nashville – the three-hour event will include solo performances by such artists as Dierks Bentley, Miranda, Lambert, Blake Shelton and Carrie Underwood.
What makes the CMA Festival unique though, is that many of its acts perform in unexpected pairings – something that the ABC concert special will also highlight, with collaborations between Dierks and Elle King, Little Big Town and Pharrell Williams, and Steven Tyler with Martina McBride (to name a few).
CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock – hosted by Brett Eldredge and Thomas Rhett – will air on Wednesday, August 3rd (8/7C). Follow the jump for a complete list of performers.
PERFORMERS ANNOUNCED FOR TELEVISION’S BIGGEST SUMMER CONCERT EVENT, ‘CMA MUSIC FESTIVAL: COUNTRY’S NIGHT TO ROCK,’ AIRING WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, ON ABC
Country music’s hottest stars will take over primetime with the biggest concert event on television this summer when the ABC Television Network airs “CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock” on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3 (8:00-11:00 p.m. EDT). Brett Eldredge and Thomas Rhett host the three-hour special that brings country music’s most storied festival to a national television audience. “CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock” will be executive-produced by Robert Deaton.
Taking the stage for solo performances are superstars Jason Aldean, Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Brett Eldredge, Florida Georgia Line, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Rascal Flatts, Thomas Rhett, Blake Shelton, Chris Stapleton, Cole Swindell, Steven Tyler, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban.
The fans who attend CMA Music Festival know that one of the highlights of the nightly concerts is the monumental pairings of musical icons that happen each year. The ABC special will highlight many of those collaborations including Dierks Bentley performing with Elle King, Luke Bryan with Keith Urban, Brett Eldredge and Thomas Rhett, Lady Antebellum with Cam, Little Big Town with Pharrell Williams, Rascal Flatts with Maren Morris, Steven Tyler with Martina McBride, Hank Williams, Jr. with Chris Janson and Justin Moore, and Chris Young duetting with Cassadee Pope.
Filmed during CMA Music Festival June 9-12, the special features many of today’s most exciting country music stars as they hit the stage during the four-day celebration of America’s music. The annual event is unlike any other, with meet-and-greets in Fan Fair X, live music on 11 stages, more than 600 artists and celebrities, and a guest list of 88,500 avid singing-and-dancing-till-dawn fans.
The special first aired in 2004. This is the twelfth time ABC will broadcast the special – which invites the whole country to America’s largest Country Music celebration. The special will air on ABC through 2021.
For more information, visit CMAfest.com.