Sugarland, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Carrie Underwood, and Rascal Flatts will perform as part of the 41st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. The ceremony, which honors country music’s top talent as well as the industry’s hottest emerging talent, will be broadcast live from MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 8:00 PM ET/PT on the CBS Television Network.
Sugarland is nominated for five awards including Top Vocal Group, Top New Duo or Vocal Group, Album of the Year (“Twice the Speed of Life”), Single Record of the Year and Song of the Year (both for “Baby Girl”). Reigning Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year Kenny Chesney returns with another nomination in the same category, as well as being nominated for Top Male Vocalist, an award he took home in 2003. The 25-million-selling singer/songwriter from Luttrell, Tennessee is the Academy’s newest Triple Crown winner, an honor given to recognize those elite artists — there are six total — who have taken home Top New, Top Vocal Designation and Entertainer, over the Academy’s 41 year history. Toby Keith has won Entertainer of the Year honors twice, and is nominated for that same award again this year. He is also nominated for Video of the Year for “As Good As I Once Was.”
First-time nominee Carrie Underwood is nominated in four categories including Top Female Vocalist, Top New Female Vocalist, Single Record of the Year and Song of the Year (both for “Jesus Take the Wheel”). Rascal Flatts is nominated in four categories including Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year (“Feels Like Today”), Song of the Year (“Skin (Sarabeth)”) and Top Vocal Group, which they have won the past three years.
Presenting awards at the 41st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards are Dr Phil & Robin McGraw, best known for the nationally syndicated one-hour series Dr. Phil and the forthcoming book Inside My Heart: Choosing to Live with Passion and Purpose, respectively. Also presenting is Kathryn Morris who stars as homicide detective Lilly Rush in the hit CBS show Cold Case.
The 41st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards will be broadcast live from MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 at 8:00 PM ET/PT on the CBS Television Network.
source: Academy of Country Music
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