{"id":37841,"date":"2014-10-22T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=37841"},"modified":"2014-10-22T12:00:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T17:00:22","slug":"cma-books-pop-act-to-do-country-and-snubs-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/22\/cma-books-pop-act-to-do-country-and-snubs-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Act’s are Booked as CMA Snubs Country Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ArianaAndMeghan\"Country’s Not Good Enough For CMA as Pop Act are Booked to do Country<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ariana Grande and Meghan Trainor to Cross Dress Genres at the CMA Awards<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cThe 48th<\/sup> Annual CMA Awards\u201d will present genre-crossing duet performances by Ariana Grande and Meghan Trainor who will perform with Little Big Town and Miranda Lambert respectively. \u201cPretty Little Liars\u201d actress and DMG Nashville recording artist Lucy Hale will be joining the evening as a presenter live, Wednesday, Nov. 5 (8:00-11:00 PM\/ET) from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on the ABC Television Network.<\/p>\n

\"BannersOneHosted for the seventh consecutive year by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, Country Music\u2019s Biggest Night\u2122 will also feature superstar performances by Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Florida Georgia Line, Lady Antebellum, Tim McGraw, Kacey Musgraves, Paisley, Blake Shelton, The Band Perry, Underwood, and Keith Urban.<\/p>\n

Grande will be joining two-time CMA Vocal Group of the Year Little Big Town for an on-air collaboration. Within less than a year, Grande captured No. 1 on the Billboard<\/em> Top 200 twice\u2014first with her Republic Records debut Yours Truly<\/em> and also with its 2014 follow-up My Everything<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Trainor will team up with nine-time nominee and reigning CMA Female Vocalist of the Year Lambert. This dynamic duo\u2019s performance of Trainor\u2019s \u201cAll About That Bass\u201d is sure to be a must see moment. Singer\/songwriter Trainor has written songs for such stars as Rascal Flatts before skyrocketing to success with her international hit \u201cAll About That Bass,\u201d which has topped theBillboard<\/em> Hot 100 for the past six weeks.<\/p>\n

While Hale made her mark early on as an actress, best known for her role on the hit ABC Family drama \u201cPretty Little Liars,\u201d music was always her first love. The Memphis born and bred singer\u2019s debut album, Road Between<\/em>, was released by DMG Nashville on June 3 and features her brand new single, \u201cLie A Little Better.\u201d Hale will also be performing on \u201cCMA Country Christmas,\u201d a two-hour special airing Monday, Dec. 1 (8:00-10:00 PM\/ET) on the ABC Television Network.<\/p>\n

Winners of \u201cThe 48th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual CMA Awards\u201d will be determined in a final round of voting by eligible voting members of the Country Music Association. CMA Awards balloting is officiated by the international accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche LLP. Voting for the CMA Awards final ballot ends Monday, Oct. 27 (5:00 PM\/CT).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 48th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual CMA Awards\u201d is a production of the Country Music Association.\u00a0Robert Deaton\u00a0is the Executive Producer, Paul Miller\u00a0is the Director, and David Wild is the writer. The special will be shot in high definition and broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC\u2019s selected HDTV format, with 5.1 channel surround sound.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Posted by Country Girl cmtt<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Country’s Not Good Enough For CMA as Pop Act are Booked to do Country Ariana Grande and Meghan Trainor to Cross Dress Genres at the CMA Awards \u201cThe 48th Annual CMA Awards\u201d will present genre-crossing duet performances by Ariana Grande and Meghan Trainor who will perform with Little Big Town and Miranda Lambert respectively. \u201cPretty Little Liars\u201d actress and DMG Nashville recording artist Lucy Hale will be joining the evening as a presenter live, Wednesday, Nov. 5 (8:00-11:00 PM\/ET) from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on the ABC Television Network.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}