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Luke Bryan, Maren Morris And More To Perform At CMT Music Awards

CMT revealed that Dan + Shay, Kane Brown, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan, Ashley McBryde and Maren Morris will perform at this year’s 2020 CMT Music Awards, airing Wednesday, October…

Luke Bryan, Maren Morris And More To Perform At CMT Awards
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CMT revealed that Dan + Shay, Kane Brown, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan, Ashley McBryde and Maren Morris will perform at this year’s 2020 CMT Music Awards, airing Wednesday, October 21st at 8:00PM ET/7:00PM CT on CMT.

The fan-voted awards show returns to celebrate country music fans across the globe through outdoor performances in and around Music City.

Each winner is selected by the fans, with voting open now at vote.cmt.com

Each of these six performers also received CMT Music Award nominations in the following categories:

Ashley McBryde: “Female Video of the Year,” “CMT Performance of the Year,” “Video of the Year”
Dan + Shay: “Duo Video of the Year,” “Collaborative Video of the Year,” “Video of the Year”
Kane Brown: “Collaborative Video of the Year” (two nominations)
Little Big Town: “Group Video of the Year,” “Video of the Year”
Luke Bryan: “Male Video of the Year”
Maren Morris: “Female Video of the Year,” “Group Video of the Year” (with The Highwomen)

Ashley McBryde and Dan + Shay join fellow country hitmakers Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Combs, Sam Hunt and Thomas Rhett to compete for the most accolades of the evening with three nominations each.

Blanco Brown, Caylee Hammack, Gabby Barrett, Gwen Stefani, Halsey, Ingrid Andress, Marshmello, Riley Green, Tanya Tucker, The Highwomen and Travis Denning all received their first-ever nominations.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.