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Garth Brooks extends his Las Vegas residency through 2024

Terry Wyatt/Getty Images For Garth Brooks, one year in Las Vegas just isn’t enough. The singer announced this week that he’s extending his Garth Brooks/Plus ONE Vegas residency due to massive fan demand for the 27-date 2023 residency that he initially put on the books. Garth previously shared that his 2023 shows sold out in …

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Miranda Lambert adds 16 new dates to her Velvet Rodeo Las Vegas residency for 2023

ABC Miranda Lambert’s Velvet Rodeo Las Vegas residency will roll on in 2023. The singer announced 16 new dates this week, with blocks of time concentrated in the summer and winter months of 2023. Her show will return to Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood, the same place where the Velvet Rodeo show launched back in …

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One Night at a Time: Morgan Wallen plans a 2023 world tour and readies a three-pack of new songs

ABC Morgan Wallen is gearing up for a massive 2023. This week, the singer announced his upcoming One Night at a Time World Tour, which will bring him to a wide array of U.S. cities as well as stops in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. News of the new trek comes just weeks after Morgan …

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For Dolly Parton, it’s family that makes a ‘Mountain Magic Christmas’

Katherine Bomboy/NBC Dolly Parton kicks the holiday season into high gear Thursday as her Mountain Magic Christmas movie premieres on NBC.  The two-hour film takes you behind the scenes during the making of a fictional TV special at her real-life East Tennessee theme park, Dollywood. The TV event features many of the songs — and guests — from her most …

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Nashville notes: Tim McGraw covers Merle Haggard, Tanya Tucker stars in ‘A Nashville Country Christmas’ + more

Tim McGraw recently shared a live cover of Merle Haggard’s holiday classic, “If We Make it Through December,” on his social media. Tanya Tucker stars in the upcoming Paramount Network holiday film A Nashville Country Christmas. The trailer is available to watch now. Scotty McCreery returns to the road Wednesday after several weeks of paternity leave; …

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Jason Aldean gets his own “Behind the Music” mini documentary: “Really proud of this”

ABC/Connie Chornuk Jason Aldean is among the artists getting their own episodes in a revitalized run of the classic Behind the Music documentary series. The franchise got a reboot on Paramount+ in 2021 and this week a number of new episodes dropped. Jennifer Lopez, Boy George and Remy Ma are the spotlight artists in other …

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Dolly Parton is “praying and thinking about” which causes should benefit from her $100 million Jeff Bezos grant

Theo Wargo/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Philanthropy has long been important to Dolly Parton, and now, she’ll be able to do a whole lot more of it. The country legend was awarded $100 million from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos this month to allocate to charities of her choosing. But Dolly’s …

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ABC’s ‘CMA Country Christmas’ shares the song list for this year’s special

ABC Before the 2023 CMA Country Christmas special airs next week, the show has revealed its festive song list. Rising vocal duo The War and Treaty will perform “O Holy Night,” Scotty McCreery will perform “Holly Jolly Christmas” and show host Carly Pearce will deliver a two-pack of holiday favorites: “Man With the Bag” and …

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“She”: Jelly Roll shares a new song to raise awareness + support for the addiction crisis

ABC Fast-rising hitmaker Jelly Roll returns today, November 30, with “she,” a new song that puts a spotlight on the addiction crisis and the people impacted by it. “‘she’ is about the struggle of addiction. ‘she’ is talking about the elephant in the room and addressing head on the heroin and fentanyl epidemic that is …

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For Luke Combs, life’s “completely different” since his son Tex arrived

ABC/Connie Chornuk Just three weeks ago, Luke Combs picked up his second consecutive Entertainer of the Year trophy from the Country Music Association.  But even that pales in comparison to the new title he took on June 19 when his son Tex arrived: father. Luke admits it’s been quite a life change. “Oh, man, it’s — I would say …

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