With days remaining until the 56th Academy of Country Music Awards, CBS provided a new wave of details about the night’s performances and collaborations.<\/p>\n
The network, specifically, confirmed a handful of song choices for the broadcast:<\/p>\n
– Elle King & Miranda Lambert to open the show with “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)”
\n– Dierks Bentley and The War and Treaty to cover U2’s “Pride (In The Name Of Love)”
\n– Brothers Osborne to perform “I’m Not For Everyone”
\n– Kenny Chesney to perform “Knowing You”
\n– Eric Church to play “Bunch Of Nothing”
\n– Luke Combs to play “Forever After All”
\n– Dan + Shay to perform “Glad You Exist”
\n– Co-host Mickey Guyton to sing “Hold On”
\n– Alan Jackson to deliver “You’ll Always Be My Baby” and “Drive (For Daddy Gene)”
\n– Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, and Jon Randall to collaborate on “In His Arms”
\n– Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd to collaborate on “Chasing After You”
\n– Thomas Rhett to perform “What’s Your Country Song” and “Country Again”
\n– Blake Shelton to celebrate the 20th anniversary of “Austin” on-stage, while also performing “Minimum Wage”
\n– Chris Stapleton to deliver “Maggie’s Song”
\n– Kane Brown and Chris Young to perform “Famous Friends”
\n– Carly Pearce and Lee Brice to duet on “I Hope You’re Happy Now”
\n– Carrie Underwood to perform a medley of hymns from “My Savior,” including one alongside Cece Winans
\n– Kelsea Ballerini and Kenny Chesney to collaborate on “half of my hometown”
\n– Lady A, Gabby Barrett, Jimmie Allen, Little Big Town, Ashley McBryde, and co-host Keith Urban will also perform at this year’s show<\/p>\n
Co-hosted by Guyton and Urban, the show will officially emanate from three iconic Nashville locations: The Grand Ole Opry House, The Ryman, and The Bluebird. The show will also feature other Nashville-based performances from locations like The Station Inn and The Bridge Building.<\/p>\n
The show will air from 8-11PM ET\/PT this Sunday, April 18, on CBS and Paramount+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mickey Guyton and Keith Urban are co-hosting the broadcast.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[1336],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n