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Silver Dollar City has ramped up their fall celebration with their new Harvest Festival, presented by Humana®, during the day and Pumpkin Nights once the sun sets! The Harvest Festival features Craft Days with a vintage mercantile area called the Makers’ Market located in the Frisco Barn. The Makers’ Market showcases various artists and their work. New artisans with various skill sets are featured each week. In addition to Craft Days, the Harvest Festival also features a fall-themed menu with Pumpkin Fluff Churros, Glow-in-the-Dark beverages and cotton candy, pumpkin-shaped pretzels and more! The daily Harvest Festival is sure to keep you and your family entertained until the sun sets!

Country Music Icon Loretta Lynn Presented with Second Annual Cracker Barrel Country Legend Award

LEBANON, Tenn., Sept. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — To honor the legendary Loretta Lynn for blazing a trail for women in country music, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store named the icon its 2019 Cracker Barrel Country Legend Award recipient. The award was presented to Loretta by Cracker Barrel’s “Five Decades, One Voice” partner artist Trisha Yearwood at Lynn’s beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tenn.

LeAnn Rimes To Bring First Live Recording To All Streaming & Digital Formats On September 25

September 23, 2019 (Los Angeles, CA) – Earlier this year, Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter and powerhouse vocalist LeAnn Rimes unveiled Rimes: Live at Gruene Hall as an exclusive Record Store Day only, vinyl release. As a gift to her fans around the globe, Rimes announced at her sold-out show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville last night, that she is making the record available worldwide across all digital and streaming formats. This marks Rimes first live album in the history of her 25-year career.

Sturgill Simpson Announces Underplay Tour To Support The Special Forces Foundation

STURGILL SIMPSON ANNOUNCES SPECIAL UNDERPLAY TOUR TO BENEFIT THE SPECIAL FORCES FOUNDATION GRAMMY® AWARD-WINNING ARTIST’S LIMITED RUN OF CLUB SHOWS KICKS OFF AT THE LEGENDARY TROUBADOUR IN WEST HOLLYWOOD THIS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 TICKETS GO ON SALE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, AT 10AM LOCAL THEATRICAL SCREENINGS OF “SOUND & FURY” TO TAKE PLACE AT THE ARCLIGHT CINEMA IN HOLLYWOOD ON SEPTEMBER 26 + THE IFC THEATER IN NYC ON OCTOBER 3 THE NEW YORK TIMES PROFILES SIMPSON IN THEIR SUNDAY ARTS & LEISURE SECTION; “SOUND & FURY” NAMED ONE OF THE FALL’S MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS BY NEW YORK MAGAZINE, BILLBOARD, AND MORE “SOUND & FURY” – THE ALBUM + NETFLIX ANIME FILM BY STURGILL SIMPSON – SET FOR SIMULTANEOUS WIDE RELEASE ON SEPTEMBER 27

New Music Video by Kirsty Lee Akers Channels 1940s

Heart of Stone is the fourth single lifted from Kirsty Lee Aker’s self-produced album, Under My Skin, with the official music video premiering on the Country Music Channel last Friday. Created by Kirsty Lee Akers and produced and directed by Jesse Anderson (Klik Productions), the Heart of Stone video clip brings the story of the Goree Girls to life. The Goree Girls were a band of female prisoners of the Goree Unit in Huntsville Texas and were the first documented all-female country and western band, performing throughout the 1940’s. Serving time for everything from murder to cattle rustling, the girls spent their days at the Goree State Farm doing a variety of things.

Henriette Releases Soulful New Single

HENRIETTE conjures Indian Summer with her soulful warm Country Pop single “Dream Boy” in the lyric video “Dream Boy” is the title of the debut single of the vocalist, who just returned from America’s Country music capital, Nashville, and who likes to deal with the topic of ‘freedom’ in her songs. Especially in this song HENRIETTE sings about freedom in a romantic relationship, which is often not easy for us.

Miranda Lambert Announces 2020 Wildcard Tour

MIRANDA LAMBERT ANNOUNCES 2020 WILDCARD TOUR  27-Date Run Features Special Guests Cody Johnson & LANCO, with Randy Rogers Band & Parker McCollum on Select Dates  Tickets on Sale Starting Friday, Sept. 27 NASHVILLE, Tenn. – After thrilling fans with the opening weekend of her currently underway Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars Tour, which continues throughout the fall, CMA Female Vocalist of the Year nominee and seven-time winner in the category Miranda Lambert announces plans to continue touring into 2020 with tickets on sale starting Friday, Sept. 27 at 10 a.m. local time.

Troy Gentry Foundation Raises Over $300,000

Troy Gentry Foundation

Some of the music industry’s biggest stars and friends of Montgomery Gentry’s Troy Gentry gathered Wednesday night, January 9, 2019, at the Grand Ole Opry House for the inaugural Troy Gentry Foundation concert, “C’Ya On The Flipside.” Established by Troy Gentry’s wife, Angie Gentry, the star-studded sold-out event raised over $300,000 to benefit The Opry Trust Fund, T.J. Martell, Make-A-Wish, The Journey Home Project and music education in Kentucky schools. Continue reading Troy Gentry Foundation Raises Over $300,000