It’s March 1st and all the nominees for the Arkansas Country Music Awards 2022 have been announced, which means voting is now OPEN!
There’s a lot of wonderful people nominated for the awards and everyone is definitely excited for the upcoming award show! The fifth annual Arkansas Country Music Awards will be happening at the Reynolds Performance Hall on the University Of Central Arkansas Campus in Conway, Arkansas on June 6th. Continue reading
It’s time for a big announcement! I am so excited to share that The CMBeat is nominated for the first time in the Publication/Blog/Podcast of the Year award category at the 2022 Arkansas Country Music Awards! Continue reading
It was a great night for live music as the country music band, Little Texas came to perform a show in Forrest City, Arkansas at the Eastern Arkansas Community College Fine Arts Center on January 22nd!
“Welcome to our first show of 2022!” said lead singer, Porter Howell for the band as they were welcomed on stage! For the first song of the show, they performed one of their very first songs entitled, Some Guys Have All The Love. Continue reading
A new year has just started which means the time has come for the nominations of the fifth annual Arkansas Country Music Awards and they are now OPEN!
Everyone can nominate their favorite Arkansan’s from now until January 21st. This year’s show will once again be held at the Reynolds Performance Hall on the UCA campus on June 6th, in Conway, Arkansas for the second year in a row. Continue reading
On December 12th, country superstar Morgan Wallen performed his last concert of 2021 with his friends, ERNEST and HARDY after having three back-to-back sold out shows at the Landers Center in Southaven, Mississippi!
The concert started out on a great note with ERNEST opening the show! ERNEST performed a few of his songs during his set including Cheers, Bottle’s Bout Dead, I Think I Love You, American Rust and Sugar. He also performed a couple big songs he wrote for other artists such as Chris Lane’s song, Big, Big Plans and two songs from Morgan Wallen entitled, If I Know Me and Me On Whiskey. Continue reading
One of the greatest nights for traditional country music recently happened on October 29th in Jonesboro, Arkansas as country music artist, Cody Johnson along with Ian Munsick and Easton Corbin performed a show at the First National Bank Arena!
The first opening act of the night was Wyoming native, Ian Munsick and it was his very first time performing in the natural state! “Nice to meet you, Arkansas! It’s an honor to be here.” Continue reading
It was a great night for country music as country music artist, Crystal Gayle came to perform a show in October in Forrest City, Arkansas at the Eastern Arkansas Community College Performing Arts Center.
The concert started with Crystal Gayle’s band opening the show with a beautiful instrumental version of one of Elvis Presley’s biggest hits, Can’t Help Falling In Love. Continue reading
In the month of July, the fans of George Strait who have a Sirius XM subscription were in for a special treat, as the music service temporarily created a streaming channel where you could listen to George Strait 24/7 for a limited time!
The Sirius XM channel called Prime Country which is channel 58, was transformed into the George Strait station entitled, Ace In The Hole Radio, playing all your favorite songs from the legendary country artist and sharing stories behind the songs! Continue reading
The Queen of Bluegrass, Rhonda Vincent has had a busy summer this year as she has started touring again, officially becoming a member of the Grand Ole Opry and she just released a new album entitled, Music Is What I See.
Recently, The CMBeat got to interview Rhonda Vincent about all the latest things she’s been doing before hosting the final Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree at the Texas Troubadour Theater, before the Midnight Jamboree moved back to its original location in Downtown Nashville on Broadway at the Ernest Tubb Record Shop. Continue reading
A few artists of all genres recently came out for a special Grand Ole Opry show entitled, Salute The Troops to support those serving our country featured on the Saturday Night Opry on Saturday, May 29th of Memorial Day Weekend!
This special event was the first sold out show at full capacity the Grand Ole Opry has had since 2020 and included several different artists including Jeannie Seely, Riders In The Sky, Matthew West, Rhonda Vincent, Chris Young, Lauren Alaina and Luke Combs! Continue reading
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