CMA NOMINATIONS

(photo from www.cmaworld.com)

The Country Music Association Awards will be hosted by Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley.  Watch them on ABC November 1st.

Entertainer of the Year
Jason Aldean
Kenny Chesney
Brad Paisley
Blake Shelton
Taylor Swift

Album of the Year 
Chief - Eric Church
Four the Record - Miranda Lambert
Home - Dierks Bentley
Own the Night - Lady Antebellum
Tailgates and Tanlines - Luke Bryan

Male Vocalist of the Year 
Jason Aldean
Luke Bryan
Eric Church
Blake Shelton
Keith Urban

Female Vocalist of the Year 
Kelly Clarkson
Miranda Lambert
Martina McBride
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood

Vocal Group of the Year 
Eli Young Band
Lady Antebellum
Little Big Town
The Band Perry
Zac Brown Band

  

Vocal Duo of the Year
Love and Theft
Sugarland
The Civil Wars
Thompson Square

New Artist of the Year
Lee Brice
Brantley Gilbert
Hunter Hayes
Love and Theft
Thompson Square

Music Video of the Year
"Come Over" - Kenny Chesney
"Over You" - Miranda Lambert
"Pontoon" - Little Big Town
"Red Solo Cup" - Toby Keith
"Springsteen" - Eric Church

Single of the Year
"Dirt Road Anthem" - Jason Aldean
"God Gave Me You" - Blake Shelton
"Home" - Dierks Bentley
"Pontoon" - Little Big Town
"Springsteen" - Eric Church

Song of the Year (songwriters award, artist in parentheses)
"Even If It Breaks Your Heart" - Will Hoge, Eric Paslay (Eli Young Band)
"God Gave Me You" - Dave Barnes (Blake Shelton)
"Home" - Dan Wilson, Brett Beavers, Dierks Bentley (Dierks Bentley)
"Over You" - Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton (Miranda Lambert)
"Springsteen" - Eric Church, Ryan Tindell, Jeff Hyde (Eric Church)

Musical Event of the Year
"Dixie Highway" - Alan Jackson featuring Zac Brown
"Feel Like a Rock Star" - Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw
"Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die" - Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg, Kris Kristofferson, Jamey Johnson
"Safe and Sound" - Taylor Swift featuring The Civil Wars
"Stuck on You" - Lionel Richie with Darius Rucker

Musician of the Year
Sam Bush
Paul Franklin
Dan Huff
Brent Mason
Mac McAnally

KELLIE PICKLER HELPS FIGHT HUNGER

She's partnered with the Hunger-Free Summer Campaign and ConAgra Foods Foundation.  As part of the campaign you can download a free activity booklet, "The Hunger Avengers," that gives you an opportunity to donate a meal to Feeding America, and it teaches kids about hunger. 

You can downlaod the booklet from the ConAgra Foods, Inc. Facebook Page.  For every booklet downloaded from now until September 3rd, the ConAgra Foods Foundation will donate the monetary equivalent of one meal to Feeding America, up to 500,000 meals.  If you share the link to your own Facebook news feed the foundation matches that with an additional meal for a child.

SCOTT NICOL IS BACK IN THE USA!!

You can catch him on my show Monday at 4pm.

Scott is here in America to debut his new album Burning Days.  The Burning Days Tour will be all over the area.  Make sure you stop down and see Scott.  Some of his shows are acoustic and some include his band Luminous Storm.

(photo from webcom-online.com)

Scott Nicol Concerts 2012

July 6- Playground Park, Green Lake 3:00-7:00pm

*July 7- Riverside Park, Fox Lake 5:30-9:30pm

*July 8-Ripon Community Church, 155 State St., Ripon

8:30am, 9:45am &11:00am

*July 8-Mugs Coffee Shop, 307 Watson St.,Ripon 1:30 pm

July 8-New Hope Family Life Center 109 Watson St., Ripon

7:00-9:00pm

July 9- live on WXRO 95.3fm 4:00 pm

July 9- Sieppel Center Beaver Dam 6-8pm

July 9- Stooges Bar-Beaver Dam 8:30pm

July 10-Schaumburg Dinner Club, N11935 Co Rd A, Randolph

5:30-9:00pm

Music on the patio rain or shine (no cover charge)

July 12-Botanicals Floral Studio, 1081 E Johnson St.Fond du Lac

Meet the artist 6:00pm concert 7:00pm

*July 12 Trinity Bar and Restaurant, Fond du Lac 9:30pm

*July 13- Free concert in the Park (Cambria) 7:00-10:00pm

Live with Josie Passantino www.josieshow.com

in case of rain the concert will be held at the

Cambria Fire Dept. Community Center

*July 14- Free concert in the Park(Hein Park, Markesan)

in case of rain the concert will be held at the Markesan fire station

7:00pm-10:00pm

July 15-Marsh Haven Nature Center, W10145 Hwy 49,Waupun 1:00-3:00pm

July 15-The Corner Pocket, 301 Dewitt St., Portage 5:30-?

July 16-Hydro Street Brewing Co. & Eatery,

152 W. James St.Columbus 7:00-9:00pm

July 18 America Restaurant, 329 Watson St., Ripon 6:30pm-?

*These concerts are with the band Luminous Storm (Bring a chair to the concerts in the park)

Other concerts are solo acoustic

PLEASE HELP

The Dodge County Humane Society is in financial dire straits and NEEDS your help.  Right now, the financial reports show that the shelter ONLY has enough money to keep it operational for a FEW WEEKS!!!!  The DC Humane Society houses 20 dogs, 75 cats, and an animated bird named Taylor right now.

Our shelter is awesome because they do everything they can to keep from euthanizing the animals, but that means they need to be taken care of.  Plus, the mortgage needs to be paid on their wonderful building.

If you can help financially that is terrific.  Please drop off your donation at the shelter, or send it to:
DCHS
N6839 State Hwy 26
Juneau, WI 53039

The animals THANK YOU for the help!

HANK WILLIAMS MOVIE

(photo from blog.gactv.com)

The little kid from E.T.:The Extra Terrestrial (who isn't exactly a kid anymore - he's 40!) is going to play Hank Sr. in what is being called a "quirky" biopic about the late Hank Williams life.  It's called The Last Ride and will chronicle the final days of Hank Sr.'s life.  He died of heart failure on New Year's Day 1953 at the young age of 29.  The Last Ride will debut June 29th in New York and Los Angeles and have a wide release after that.

 (photo from moviespad.com)

Here's Henry as Hank Sr.

(photo from cinema.theiapolis.com)

LIVE LADY A CHAT TODAY

Today at 1:30 the trio sits down to chat with us on their Facebook page.

Tune in and hear what they have to say.

Kenny Chesney will be in concert live tonight on the beach in Wildwood, NJ and you can watch.  Around 7:30 click here.

In case the link doesn't work here it is.  http://bit.ly/N3OsYK

Jonathan Demme (who directed Silence of the Lambs) is directing this "happening" (his word, not mine).