{"id":72925,"date":"2020-03-13T10:57:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T08:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=72925"},"modified":"2020-08-03T22:51:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T22:51:40","slug":"country-music-association-fest-to-continue-as-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/13\/country-music-association-fest-to-continue-as-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"CMA says 2020 Music Fest to Continue As Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"ab-article__heading--h1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-72929\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/03\/2020-cma-musicfest.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-cma-musicfest.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-cma-musicfest-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-cma-musicfest-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-cma-musicfest-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>Country Music Association Says Fest To Continue As Planned<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"ab-article__excerpt\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The June 4-7 2020 CMA Fest Is Still On The Books Despite Coronavirus Concerns<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-72930\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/03\/cma.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cma.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cma-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cma-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cma-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>With the World Health Organization declaring the spread of coronavirus a global pandemic and events canceling left and right, at least one highlight of the country music calendar is still happening \u2014 Nashville\u2019s 2020 CMA Fest.<\/p>\n<p>Making a statement via social media Wednesday (March 11), the Country Music Association first expressed concern for fans and artists but announced their show must go on \u2014 at least for the time being. Noting that no restrictions are currently in place for travel within the U.S., the CMA says this year\u2019s festival will proceed as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of today, CMA Fest will proceed as scheduled June 4 \u2013 7 in Nashville,\u201d the post reads. \u201cWe are taking appropriate steps to ensure festival grounds will be safe and comfortable for all attendees, including enhanced sanitation protocols and hygiene standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lineups for the annual city-wide festival have yet to be released, but the news is a welcome change of pace from the onslaught of cancellations and postponements rippling through the country music industry.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Wednesday, organizers decided to\u00a0end the massive RodeoHouston early, while earlier announcements\u00a0postponed Stagecoach\u00a0until October and Nashville\u2019s\u00a0Tin Pan South Songwriter\u2019s Festival\u00a0until sometime this summer. In related news, the Academy of Country Music says they ACM Awards are still taking place in Las Vegas on April 5, but they too are monitoring the situation closely.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-67230\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/10\/soundslikenashville.png?w=750\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/soundslikenashville.png 3243w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/soundslikenashville-300x33.png 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/soundslikenashville-1024x112.png 1024w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/soundslikenashville-768x84.png 768w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/soundslikenashville-1536x169.png 1536w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/soundslikenashville-2048x225.png 2048w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/soundslikenashville-1568x172.png 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country Music Association Says Fest To Continue As Planned The June 4-7 2020 CMA Fest Is Still On The Books Despite Coronavirus Concerns With the World Health Organization declaring the spread of coronavirus a global pandemic and events canceling left and right, at least one highlight of the country music calendar is still happening \u2014 Nashville\u2019s 2020 CMA Fest. Making a statement via social media Wednesday (March 11), the Country Music Association first expressed concern for fans and artists but announced their show must go on \u2014 at least for<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/13\/country-music-association-fest-to-continue-as-planned\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72925"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73815,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72925\/revisions\/73815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}