ACM Awards 2020 Live Free Stream: 2020 ACM Award winner for Best Female New Artist Tenille Townes dropped by Radio Row backstage as the 55th Annual Academy of Country Music celebrates the best of the genre virtually this year due to COVID-19 restrictions.
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This year’s show will be hosted by Keith Urban, live from Nashville on Wednesday, September 16 on CBS, but the good vibes have already begun. Singers Thomas Rhett and Miranda Lambert (along with a whole host of collaborators including Tenille) have taken home early trophies for Music Video of the Year and Music Event of the Year respectively — and Tenille has officially been named New Female Artist of the year.
Speaking and sending virtual hugs with RADIO.COM’s Kelly Ford over video chat, Tenille is super excited about the big win alongside Riley Green who took home the New Male Artist award. Kelly wonders though: Where’s the actual trophy? Shouldn’t she be bringing that thing everywhere?
Laughing, Tenille says she may take her friend Ashley McBryde’s advice about where to keep the award. “She told me she puts hers in the bathroom, because everyone will see it.”
Ashley was on hand at the Grand Ole Opry to officially give Tenille the award and she couldn’t think of a better person to perform those duties. “It was so surreal. Ashley’s a dear friend and someone I look up to a lot,” she says. “I just will never forget watching her last year perform on the show and celebrate that win. It’s an honor to follow in her footsteps and it was so cool to celebrate that at the Opry together.”
Kelly and Tenille happened to chat just before the Music Event of the Year award was announced. Miranda Lambert, along with Tenille, Maren Morris, Ashley McBryde, Caylee Hammack and Elle King, took home the trophy for their collaborative performance of “Fooled Around and Fell in Love.”
“It was so cool to get to sing that song together. I’ll never forget hearing their voices come through the headphones in the studio,” Townes admits. “It’s just like, ‘is this even real life? How do I get to sing on this and be a part of this?’ I’m so grateful to Miranda for having me and bringing us all on the road. It was really cool getting to sing that song at the end of the show every night.”
“It’s one thing to come together and record it, but then to get to do it live over and over was really special.”
Also special… getting to put on real clothes and make up for an actual event. Both Kelly and Tenille were happy to swap the sweatpants for the big night, while Tenille says she’s been staying productive during these days of quarantine.
“This really took a second to come together here,” she joked. “It’s been such a weird time. I know for everybody there’s like a thousand different emotions that exist in one day and sometimes that looks a lot like pajamas. But I’ve actually been writing a lot in this time and doing different Zoom writes with friends.”
“It’s definitely pointed out that there’s nothing that can replace that in-person energy of being able to sing with each other in a room,” she admits. “There’s nothing like that feeling of sitting beside somebody and witnessing that magic, but I will say I’m quite impressed with what can still happen through the distance. It just makes me happy that the music will prevail and figure out a way to still be created because it’s been really fun in this time. It’s been like a piece of my sanity to still be able to write and turn to music.”
However, there’s absolutely nothing like getting out to celebrate. “It feels kind of fun to maybe get dressed a little – or at least where we can see each other on Zoom and then I can wear my slippers at the same time.”
This year’s awards show will feature performances from three separate venues across Nashville: the Grand Ole Opry House, the Bluebird Cafe and the Ryman Auditorium. Watch on Wednesday night, September 16 as Keith Urban hosts on CBS at 8PM ET.
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Taylor Swift also returns to the stage for the first time in seven years to perform her country-leaning fan-favorite track “Betty” off her Billboard 200 No. 1 album Folklore. Urban and P!nk plan to make the world television premiere of their brand new collaboration “One Too Many,” which is from the country star’s forthcoming album, The Speed of Now, Part 1.
Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Dan + Shay, Florida Georgia Line, Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani and many others will perform at the Opry. Kelsea Ballerini, Gabby Barrett, Maren Morris, Thomas Rhett and more will appear on the Ryman Auditorium stage. Lastly, Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw and many others will sing at the Bluebird Cafe.
As for the nominees, scroll through the full list below. Early winners were announced on Monday, September 14. Winners will be bolded as they’re announced during the show on CBS on Wednesday, September 16, at 8 p.m. ET.
Country acts Cam, Lauren Alaina, Darius Rucker, Runaway June, and Clint Black and his wife, Lisa Hartman Black, will stand in as presenters. Some ACM Awards winners have already been crowned, including Rhett for video of the year with “Remember You Young” and Riley Green and Tenille Townes for new male and female artist of the year, respectively. Green and Townes will also perform.
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(CNN)Wednesday’s Academy of Country Music Awards will open with the nominees for Entertainer of the Year performing a medley of their songs together, Billboard reports.
The nominees include Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Luke Combs and Thomas Rhett.
Along with the big opening number, the show will also feature a live performance from Taylor Swift, making this her first time taking the show’s stage in seven years. She is set to sing “Betty” off her new album, “Folklore,” from the Grand Ole Opry House.
Also performing will be Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani, Kelsea Ballerini, Florida Georgia Line, Kane Brown and Tim McGraw.
Miranda Lambert’s “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” — which features Maren Morris, Ashley McBryde, Tenille Townes, Caylee Hammack and Elle King — has already been awarded music event of the year.
Rhett won for video of the year with “Remember You Young,” and Hillary Lindsey won songwriter of the year.
The 55th ACM Awards air Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 8 p.m.EST on CBS.
Although the Academy of Country Music Awards will look a bit different this year, that doesn’t mean the biggest names in country music won’t be recognized.
Keith Urban will take the stage as host of the 2020 ACM Awards, which are being held at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, this year instead of the usual location in Las Vegas. The show will not include a live audience but will feature a star-studded lineup of performers.
The 2020 Academy of Country Music Awards will air from three iconic Nashville locations on Sept. 16, 2020: the Grand Ole Opry House, the Ryman Auditorium and the Bluebird Cafe.
Get ready, country fans!
The 2020 Academy of Country Music Awards are around the corner. On Wednesday night, the annual show will honor the greatest in country music.
In March, the Academy announced that the show — originally scheduled for April 5 in Las Vegas — would be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now, the show will air from three iconic Nashville locations on Wednesday, Sept. 16: the Grand Ole Opry House, the Ryman Auditorium and the Bluebird Cafe.
Here’s everything you need to know!
In February, Keith Urban revealed that he’d be hosting the ACM Awards (originally planned for April) after winning the entertainer of the year award the year prior.
“As if having a new song out today wasn’t enough, I also get to host the ACMs,” Urban said in a statement. “I’ll tell you – this year already feels like the most creative and energized year of my life… and there’s so much more to come. Incredibly grateful – and ready to roll!”
This is the first time Urban hosts the ACM Awards and follows in the footsteps of Reba McEntire, who hosted the show for the 16th time last year.
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Teams that finished second in their divisions a year ago open their seasons on Monday Night Football when the Denver Broncos host the Tennessee Titans. The Titans (9-7 in 2019) finished one game behind the Houston Texans in the AFC South, while the Broncos (7-9) won their final two games of the season to tie for second with the Raiders in the AFC West. In the last meeting between the teams, Denver shut out Tennessee, 16-0, a year ago. The Broncos, who will be without standout linebacker Von Miller (ankle), have won two of the past three meetings.
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Kickoff from Empower Field at Mile High in Denver is set for 10:20 p.m. ET. Tennessee is a three-point favorite in the latest Titans vs. Broncos odds from William Hill, while the over-under is 41. Before locking in any Broncos vs. Titans picks, make sure you see the latest Monday Night Football predictions from SportsLine’s proven projection model.
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Tennessee will look for its fifth consecutive winning record and third playoff berth in five seasons. Quarterback Ryan Tannehill looks to build on a season in which he passed for 2,742 yards and 22 touchdowns, while throwing a career-low six interceptions in 10 starts in 2019.
In 12 games overall, Tannehill completed 201 of 286 passes, while rushing 43 times for 185 yards and four TDs. He led the league with a 117.5 rating last season, which was the fourth-highest single season rating among qualified passers in NFL history.
Also looking for another big year is running back Derrick Henry. In 15 games a year ago, Henry rushed 303 times for a career-high 1,540 yards and 16 touchdowns. Henry has 100-plus rushing yards and at
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“I don’t expect it at all to go smoothly throughout the whole season,” 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan says. “Whether there’s COVID or not COVID, so many things happen in an NFL season that it’s always a different team that you end with than that you started with just with the injuries and everything that happens. On top of that, putting in a pretty unprecedented thing that we are going through with the state of this pandemic and everything. I definitely expect things to happen.
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“You’ve got to be ready to adjust to all of that. Everyone’s going to do as good as they can, which I think we have as good of a situation as possible with that stuff. You’re expecting things to happen when it does. So, you just deal with it the best you can, you make sure people are healthy and you’re doing things the right way, And you hope you never have something where it makes it impossible to go out there and compete.”
That’s a possibility, of course. The league has contingency upon contingency, ranging from postponing or moving games to canceling some to, yes, playing the Super Bowl after Feb. 7. Perhaps well after.
But, keeping with the musical interludes – after all, the stands will be barren in most stadiums, so we need something – let’s examine, as Kenny Chesney suggests, the “Here And Now.”
September sloppiness
The first few weeks of the schedule in normal times tend to be marred by mediocre play caused by sloppiness. Starters and other key members of the roster would get little to no work in preseason games, making for a melange of mistakes that fade as the season progresses.
With no preseason games, no in-person offseason work except a modified training camp with few segments of hitting, and no chemistry developed, the product that millions upon millions of fans have awaited might be shabby this month. The Texans’ defense showed that on Thursday night – yes, we know they were playing the powerful Chiefs – with missed tackle upon missed tackle.
“I think when you watch NFL football in September, regardless of the year, you see a degree of bad football out there on the field,” says Joe Judge, the new coach of the Giants and, likely, a front-line witness to such problems at the outset. “Turnovers, penalties, some mental errors. You see some things within the flow and the operation of the game that isn’t the way it looks later in the season. That’s just the truth of the National Football League every year.
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“Obviously, we’re coaching to eliminate bad football. That’s my goal as a head coach. I don’t know if this year will be any different. I can’t turn around and say it’s going to be better or worse. But I think in September, you always see your share of bad football as it turns up on tape.”
The NFL at last is recognizing the issues Colin Kaepernick was attempting to bring light to when he kneeled for the national anthem in 2016. It is supporting the cause with words, money and deeds – though the players aren’t convinced those deeds are having the impact sought.
Still, the players’ (and coaches’ and team personnel and executives’) right to free speech and peaceful demonstrations will be on display for as long as games are played in 2020. Players will honor victims of racial and social injustice and police brutality by wearing their names on decals. There will be slogans in the end zones. There will be more kneeling or other methods for getting out the word – including remaining in the locker room during pregame playing of the anthems.
There will be steady and widespread initiatives to get people registered to vote – and then into the voting booths or able to submit absentee and mail-in ballots.
“We’re going to support any player and every player however they want to protest or whatever they want to do from that standpoint,” says Dolphins coach Brian Flores, who is Black. Flores’ players have demanded in a video that “owners with influence and pockets bigger than ours … call up officials and flex political power.”
“Those conversations are ongoing and again, I think the topics they’re talking about are very serious, and we respect each guy’s opinion and right to protest or not protest,” adds Flores, whose Dolphins plan to remain in the locker room during the songs on Sunday. “But I would also say that a lot of the guys, they just want to focus on the game and that’s in more of those conversations – how do we do whatever we’re going to do, but also just have our total focus on the New England Patriots.”
Flores brings up a significant point. The tunnel vision that once caused Don Shula to think actor Don Johnson of the TV show “Miami Vice” was actually from the police department will be rare. Perhaps impossible.
Players won’t be in a bubble like the highly successful dual sites the NHL has used. Their situation will be more that of Major League Baseball, with players – and all other team staff – being trusted to, as one general manager says, “act like responsible adults.”
“There’s a lot going on right now for head coaches in the National Football League, and it’s not just about trying to get the roster to 53,” Eagles coach Doug Pederson said before cutdown day. “It’s social issues. It’s pandemic issues. A lot of these teams are getting ready to travel for road games and things. We’re