‘CMA Fest’ TV Special to Feature 28 Performances
The ABC one-night special, hosted by Kelsea Ballerini and Thomas Rhett, will feature a whopping 28 performances from some of country music’s hottest names.
CMA Fest may have finished back in June, but the memories will last a little bit longer when the biggest performances from the festival hit television screens this week.
The ABC one-night special, hosted by Kelsea Ballerini and Thomas Rhett, will feature a whopping 28 performances from some of country music’s hottest names. All of the fan favorites will get the chance to show their singles on stage, including Ballerini, Rhett, Dierks Bentley, Garth Brooks, Brothers Osborne, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Dan + Shay, Brett Eldredge, Florida Georgia Line, Sam Hunt, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Dustin Lynch, Maren Morris, Old Dominion, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Darius Rucker, Blake Shelton, Cole Swindell, Keith Urban, Brett Young and Chris Young.
Every performance featured was filmed during the nightly shows at Nissan Stadium during 2017 CMA Music Festival. The four-day festival included shows from a plethora of artists spread out around downtown Nashville throughout the day time, with country music’s biggest stars rocking out night after night on the big stage across the river.
Although co-host Rhett may have gotten his experience in with hosting last year, he showed Ballerini the ropes this time around and thought the whole weekend was a blast to share it with a fellow colleague and friend.
“It’s very crazy, but it’s a lot of fun! We’ve done pretty much everything live this time, which is really cool. And Kelsea…I’ve gotten to know her over the past couple years and we’ve gotten to become really good buddies. She’s just easy to deal and I hope I’m easy to deal with. She’s a great cohost. We’ve had a blast doing it,” Rhett said of his hosting duties for ‘The Music Event of the Summer.’
CMA Fest is set to air on Wednesday, August 16, at 8 p.m. EST on ABC.
