Month: January 2008

BEYONCE, THE FOO FIGHTERS AND CARRIE UNDERWOOD TO PERFORM ON 50TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS!!

Music’s Biggest Night® Airs Live on CBS Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Jan. 24, 2008) — Beyoncé; Foo Fighters; Carrie Underwood; 2008 MusiCares® Person of the Year Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige, the Clark Sisters, Israel And New Breed, and Trin-I-Tee 5:7 in a special gospel segment; and Rihanna with a reunited the Time in a special 50th anniversary segment are the first performers announced for the 50th Annual GRAMMY® Awards telecast, it was announced today by The Recording Academy®.

Two-time GRAMMY winner Carrie Underwood has nods for Best Female Country Vocal Performance (“Before He Cheats”) and Best Country Collaboration With Vocals (“Oh Love” with Brad Paisley).

The music industry’s premier event will take place live on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008, at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast in HDTV and 5.1 Surround Sound on the CBS Television Network from 8 – 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT). The show also will be supported on radio via Westwood One worldwide and XM Satellite Radio, and covered online at GRAMMY.com. Additional performers, presenters and special segments will be announced soon.

Carrie Underwood will be headlining more than 30 concerts beginning in February during a tour with opening act Josh Turner.

The shows are in addition to her co-headlining tour with Keith Urban that begins Jan. 31. Tickets to six of Underwood’s Carnival Ride tour dates go on sale Saturday (Jan. 12), including shows in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (Feb. 18), Albany, N.Y. (Feb. 19), Amherst, Mass. (Feb. 20), Pittsburgh (Feb. 22), Providence, R.I. (Feb. 24) and Bridgeport, Conn. (Feb. 25).

In making Monday’s announcement, Underwood said, “I’m so excited to be hitting the road and doing the full show of my music that I have always dreamt of doing. I have been so fortunate to learn from so many other great artists while touring with them, and they have inspired me in so many ways. They have helped me to get to this stage of my first real headline shows, and now I finally feel ready. I can’t wait to travel throughout the U.S. and Canada and see all my fans.”