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ABC rocks out with ‘CMA Music Festival’

THE SHOW: “CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock”

WHEN | WHERE: Monday night at 8 on ABC/7

THE DEAL: Three hours of performances from the Country Music Association’s annual Nashville fan event, taped in June.

PERFORMERS: Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, Reba McEntire, Martina McBride, Taylor Swift, Brooks & Dunn, Sugarland, the Judds, Trace Adkins, Miranda Lambert, Kid Rock, Lady Antebellum, John Rich, Darius Rucker, Julianne Hough, Kellie Pickler, Jason Aldean, Jake Owen, Jamey Johnson and the Zac Brown Band.

QUOTE: Paisley says he appreciates that so many of today’s country stars are all doing their own things under the umbrella labeled “country music.”

“In the ’90s, you had a million similar artists out there,” Paisley says. “They were all really good, but they were so similar, country got stereotyped. Today, we have Kenny [Chesney], who’s known for what he does, and Keith [Urban] is Keith, and there’s Taylor [Swift] and Rascal Flatts . . . just all these different people with all these different sounds.”

CMA Music Festival To Rock ABC Tonight

August 31, 2009 | Sarah Skates | Comments 0  Print This Post

The ABC primetime special CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock airs tonight (8/31) (8:00-11:00 PM/ET) with top-notch performances, interviews, and fan interaction from a plethora of Nashville’s brightest stars. The annual music bash, expanding to three hours for the first time, will have performances by Trace Adkins, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Julianne Hough, Jamey Johnson, Kid Rock, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride, Reba McEntire, Jake Owen, Brad Paisley, Kellie Pickler, John Rich, Darius Rucker, Sugarland, Taylor Swift, and Zac Brown Band. In addition, Kid Rock performs his smash hit “Picture” with McBride, while Wynonna and Naomi Judd reunite as The Judds to perform together for the first time at the CMA Music Festival in six years.

The special will show highlights from the CMA Music Festival, held June 11-14 in Nashville, with an average of 56,000 attendees per day. On and off-stage segments will include Aldean playing a nightclub concert, Paisley on his tour bus and greeting fans, Pickler shopping and eating ice cream with fans, and a day-in-the-life of Hough. There will be interviews with Brooks & Dunn, Chesney, McBride, McEntire, Rucker, and Sugarland, and Swift will answer fan submitted questions before surprising them with a meet and greet.

The fifth annual ABC special is executive-produced by Robert Deaton and directed by Gary Halvorson.

TV tonight: ‘CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock’

Mike Hughes | TV America

ABC seems terribly afraid that viewers will remember this is country music.

So the concert starts (barring a re-edit) with Kid Rock. He does three songs during the night, while some of country’s best settle for one apiece; some fans will nod in agreement with the only song from Brooks & Dunn: “Play Something Country.”

If you want heartfelt ballads, you’ll need patience; in the first hour, every song is up-tempo.

Eventually, the ballads do come – strong moments from Brad Paisley, Jamey Johnson, Taylor Swift, Sugarland and – really – Kid Rock. When he and Martina McBride do a “Picture” duet, we’re reminded that country and rock (or Rock) can co-exist. (See story, Page 4C)

See the ‘Beauty’ of classical music

TONIGHT’S MUST-SEE II: “Great Performances: Karajan, or Beauty As I See It,” 10 p.m., PBS.

As the Depression began, Herbert von Karajan began his conducting career in the modest-sized German city of Ulm. He promptly demoted many musicians; word spread that the former concertmaster planned to shoot him at the rostrum. The man was frisked and a loaded gun was found.

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There would be other crises over the next 58 years, including ones involving his Nazi Party membership. What emerges, however, is a portrait of an apolitical man who became a music dictator, Karajan also had a great visual sense, extending to operas and to music films that became works of modern art. Despite the frequent subtitles, this is a visual and musical delight.

Other choices

• “House,” 8 p.m., Fox. Cameron delays a vacation with Chase so she can convince Dr. House to take the case of an environmental activist who fell ill. House agrees – but makes her take the lead.

• “How I Met Your Mother,” 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., CBS. In the first rerun, Ted’s big project has been canceled; friends plan an elaborate ruse so he won’t know he’s out of work. In the second, he starts his own firm and soon has trouble with his intern.

• “Greek” season-opener, 9 p.m., ABC Family. Last season ended with a party that changed everything for the Cartwright siblings. Casey (Spencer Grammer, Kelsey’s daughter) broke up with Max and tried to get back with Cappie – who, surprisingly, said no. Rusty (Jacob Zachar) partied and romanced … instead of finishing the work he needed to stay in the Honors Program. Tonight’s OK episode, appropriately called “The Day After,” sees many people groping with the party’s aftershocks.

• “Youth Knows No Pain,” 9 p.m., HBO. Each year, we’re told, people spend $60 billion fighting age via lotions, injections, surgery and more. Mike McCabe – a filmmaker whose late father was a plastic surgeon – looks at the phenomenon.

• “The Big Bang Theory,” 9:30 p.m., CBS. Last week’s rerun introduced Stephanie (Sara Rue), the doctor who met Wolowitz and soon lusted for Leonard. In tonight’s terrific rerun, we learn she actually meets Sheldon’s standards … a fact Leonard finds disturbing.

• “Weeds” season-finale, 10 p.m., Showtime. Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) has enough distractions with her kids and new marriage. Meanwhile, we learn whether Doug and Celia (Kevin Nealon and Elizabeth Perkins) remain the neighborhood drug lords, surviving a challenge from Silas and Shane.

At 8, ABC has the CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock.

Tonight ABC will showcase highlights from the CMA Music Festival I attended and covered in June in Nashville. You can watch the special, “CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock” from 8:00 – 11:00 PM/ET with performances, interviews and fan interaction.

Sets include artists like Kenny Chesney, John Rich (photo above) Kid Rock, Lady Antebellum (below), Martina McBride, Reba McEntire, Jake Owen (you can watch my interview with him here), Brad Paisley, Darius Rucker, Taylor Swift, Zac Brown Band and many more. Additionally, get behind-the-scenes access to bands on their tour bus, meeting fans and shopping.

If you haven’t watched my video interviews from the CMA Music Festival with Holly Williams and David Nail, check them out on YouTube.