Little Big Town, Dierks Bentley, Montgomery Gentry, Keith Urban and Gretchen Wilson have been added to the list of performers at 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.
Dierks Bentley is nominated for Top Male Vocalist and has been previously been recognized with the Academy’s Top New Artist of the Year award. First-time nominees, Little Big Town, are nominated for both Top New Vocal Group and Top Vocal Group. Sara Evans is nominated for Top Female Vocalist, she has received a total of nine nominations to date. Montgomery Gentry is nominated for Top Vocal Duo and has been previously been recognized with the Academy’s Top New Vocal Duo award. Keith Urban is nominated for Entertainer of the Year and Top Male Vocalist, and last year took home awards in the Top Male Vocalist and Album of the Year categories. Gretchen Wilson is nominated for Top Female Vocalist, an award she took home last year in addition to the Top New Artist honors.
Presenting awards at the 41st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards are are Billy Currington nominated for Top New Male Vocalist, Billy Ray & Miley Cyrus, who star together on Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana”; Lonestar, nominated for Top Vocal Group; Jo Dee Messina is a previous Top New Female Vocalist winner, Julie Roberts nominated for Top New Female Vocalist, Michelle Stafford of the “Young and the Restless” and The Warren Brothers, nominated for Top Vocal Duo. Jason Aldean, nominated for Top New Male Vocalist and Craig Morgan, nominated for Top New Male Vocalist, are also pariticipating.
These artists and participants listed above join previously announced 41st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards performers Sugarland, Trace Adkins, Big & Rich, Brooks & Dunn, Kelly Clarkson, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, and Carrie Underwood and previously announced presenters Craig Ferguson, Dr. Phil & Robin McGraw, Kathryn Morris, Emily Procter, Blake Shelton, Tony Stewart, Hannah Storm and Cowboy Troy.
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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