TTLD - FRIDAY FEB. 5TH

DIERKS BENTLEY: EVERY MILE A MEMORY

 

The newest exhibit coming to the Country Music Hall of Fame will highlight the life and career on Dierks Bentley. The exhibit, Dierks Bentley: Every Mile a Memory, will run from March 4, 2016, to September 6, 2016, and will feature stage wear, guitars, song manuscripts, photos and more from Bentley's personal collection. For Dierks, having an exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame is beyond anything he's ever dreamed of, and he says it's also given him a different perspective on his career. Bentley shares, "You never really look back, you really look forward, so when they ask you about making an exhibit, you have to kinda go back and examine stuff that's happened along the way, and start diggin' through old set lists and boots and pictures. It kinda makes you really think about the story and how much has transpired and how you got to be where you are."

To celebrate the opening of the exhibit, the Country Music Hall of Fame will hold a program featuring a special conversation and performance with Dierks at the CMA Theater on March 12.  The special program is included with museum admission and free to museum members. The program will be streamed live at countrymusichalloffame.org/streaming at 2 PM local time. Museum members can reserve tickets via TicketFly.com beginning on February 10. Bentley is also offering pre-sale tickets to his fan club members, February 10-16.

HER BIGGEST TOUR YET – CARRIE UNDERWOOD

 

Carrie Underwood launched her "Storyteller Tour - Stories in the Round" over the weekend with back-to-back sold-out shows in Jacksonville, Florida, and Atlanta, Georgia. But long before the impressive sold-out crowds packed into the arenas, Carrie spent much of 2015 working with her team to create her biggest and most spectacular concert tour to date. The tour required several weeks of technical planning and rehearsing to program lighting cues, automation, and special effects, followed by Underwood and her band giving numerous full-on performance rehearsals.

As the name "Stories in the Round" suggests, the stage is set in the middle of the arena floor to give the audience a full 360-degree view of Carrie and her band. The massive stage has seven elevator lifts and spans over 150 feet across the arena floor, with a main center stage expanse of 48 feet in diameter that rotates 360-degrees. There are also four satellite stages and three concentric LED rings that hover in the air and move throughout the show for visual moments and effects. Not to mention the four large oval screens that provide video for fans on all sides of the arena. But what would Carrie's tour be without her signature wardrobe changes. For this component, Underwood teamed up with Emmy-winning costume designer Marina Toybina to create several costume options for each of the five acts so fans will see a variety of outfits each night. A video showing highlights from the tour can be seen here.  The next stop on the "Storyteller Tour" will be at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky, tonight (2/5).

B.B. KING GRAMMY TRIBUTE – CHRIS STAPLETON

 

Chris Stapleton has been added to the list of performers at the upcoming 58th Grammy Awards. Stapleton will join Gary Clark Jr. and Bonnie Raitt to pay special tribute to legendary blues artist B.B. King during the ceremony. King, a 15-time Grammy winner and Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, passed away in May of 2015 at the age 89. The Grammys will also feature a performance by Little Big Town and a special collaboration with Carrie Underwood and Sam Hunt. There will also be performances by Kendrick Lamar, Adele, The Weeknd, Justin Bieber and Pitbull and more. The 58th Grammy Awards will be broadcast live from Los Angeles on February 15 at 8 PM ET on CBS. LL Cool J will host for the ceremony for the fifth consecutive year.

Stapleton is also set to perform during the 2016 MusiCares Person of the Year tribute concert honoring Lionel Richie on February 13 in Los Angeles. The event's star-studded lineup will include performances by Luke Bryan, Lady Antebellum, Usher, Stevie Wonder, Pharrell Williams, Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Dave Grohl, Rihanna, Ellie Goulding and more. Proceeds from the event will provide support for MusiCares.