Wed 19
Martina McBride
Details: GOLD &GOLD / LIVE NATION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:NOVEMBER 19TH
CISN, EDMONTON JOURNAL & CMT PRESENTS:
MARTINA McBRIDE
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
LITTLE BIG TOWN
PLUS
JOHNNY REID
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19TH, 2008
REXALL PLACE EDMONTON, AB
Doors 6:00pm Show 7:00pm
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(plus service charges & FMF charges)
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Finally, Martina McBride is making the Canadian tour that fans have been yearning for all these years. Martina has a reason to wake up laughing, Her 2007 record Waking Up Laughing yielded the smash hit Anyway , which garnered CMA nominations for Single of the Year, Song of the Year and Video of the Year. And once again Martina was nominated for Top Female Vocalist at the 2007 CMA Awards. (She currently shares with Reba McEntire for most wins in the category, claiming the title no fewer than four times.) Even more spectacularly, her accompanying Waking Up Laughing arena tour was a top-earner for 2007, ranking in Pollstar s top 10 list of tours in all genres. Martina played to 250,000 fans in 52 cities and received rave reviews. Martina has made numerous TV appearances, including the Tyra Banks show and the Grand Ol Opry, since the album s release. For These Times is the most recent single from the disc.
The Nashville power ballad queen has been a steady presence in the country top 10 since 1993, and has sold 16 million records. Her fiery, passionate vocals informed such memorable hits as Independence Day, Wild Angels, A Broken Wing, Blessed, and This One s for the Girls. She has garnered six number ones and 22 top-ten singles. On songs like Concrete Angel , Love s the Only House and God s Will she s demonstrated her commitment to social comment. The Chicago Sun-Times says Martina possesses one of the greatest voices of the current era, while USA Today raves, Martina McBride is the standard against which all other female country singers are measured these days. This October sees the rerelease of the singer s seasonal favourite White Christmas.
After touring with John Mellencamp, Alan Jackson, and Martina McBride on her 2007 Waking Up Laughing tour, not to mention making numerous TV appearances and earning CMA nominations, Little Big Town has hit the musical big time. The eight-year-old coed quartet s second CD, The Road to Here, was its break-through the 2005 album spawned back-to-back top 10 singles Boondocks , which racked up digital sales in excess of 100,000, and Bring it On Home , which rose to number five on the Billboard country-music chart. A Place to Land, the Nashville act s latest, features the hit I m With the Band .
If Johnny Reid s music defies easy definition it s because the stories he tells have more than their fair share of miles on them. From Scotland, to Canada, to Nashville, the ground he s covered lends a depth of soul to his songs that sets them apart.
Driven by his love of music and family, Kicking Stones showcases Reid s no nonsense country sensibilities, mining the same deep well of personality and charm that made his award winning debut, Born to Roll, a breakout success. It s a far more personal record, says the Scottish born, Canadian bred, singer/songwriter. I just want people to know I do this because I love to write and sing, and above everything, to take care of the people I love. |
