49 Winchester has had a helluva year, and it’s not quite over yet.
From making their Grand Ole Opry debut, to appearing on late night TV for the first time, and even having their song “Last Call” recently featured on Yellowstone,it’s been one big thing after another for the southwest Virginia band.
And today, they made their network television debut on the Kelly Clarkson Show, performing the fan-favorite song “Annabel” from their Fortune Favors the Bold album they released in May.
Kelly introduced the band, noting their really neat blend of genres they refer to as “Appalachian Soul”:
“With a diverse sound that combines blues, rock Americana and folk, our next guests are among the biggest up and comers in in country music.
In the past year, they’ve toured the country and made their Grand Ole Opry debut and right now, they’re about to make their network television debut.
Now performing ‘Annabel’ off their new album Fortune Favors the Bold, give it up for 49 Winchester.”
Of course, the guys gave a great performance, and it’s awesome to see them on national TV winning over more fans all over the country.
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Mike Nesmith‘s work as a songwriter for The Monkees is legendary. He penned some of the most iconic songs featured on the group’s television show and vinyl. Along with some of the most talented songwriters and session players in the business, Nesmith recorded some beloved tunes. Several of these sessions included a soon-to-be legendary country music superstar who made a name for himself as one of the most talented musicians in the industry.
The Monkees’ first album featured The Wrecking Crew
The Monkees’ first album was recorded during different sessions in and around LA in the summer of 1966, shortly before their television series debuted. Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, and Jack Keller produced these recording sessions.
Subsequently, Mike Nesmith was allowed to produce two sessions for the album. A Facebook post honoring this milestone recording revealed eight of the original LP’s twelve tracks feature one lone Monkee singing lead vocal over instrumentation. The music was recorded entirely by session musicians.
However, Mike Nesmith produced two tracks that made it onto the band’s first album. For those, Peter Tork was allowed to play guitar. During the recording of these songs, a session player that became one of country music’s most famous entertainers appeared alongside other members of a session group called The Wrecking Crew.
This country music superstar played as a session musician on The Monkees’ first album and a beloved Mike Nesmith hit
Among the session players on The Monkees’ first album were Wayne Erwin, Gerry McGee, Louie Shelton, James Burton, Billy Lewis, Hal Blaine, Larry West, Bob West, Bill Pitman, Larry Knechtel, Michel Rubini, and Gene Estes.
Also among the musicians who appeared on the recording was Glen Campbell. Andrew Sandoval documented Campbell’s involvement in his book, The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the ’60s TV Pop Sensation.
He performed on tracks that included “I Won’t Be the Same Without Her,” “Sweet Young Thing,” and “Mary, Mary.” “I Won’t Be the Same Without Her” was passed over for inclusion on The Monkees and wouldn’t find a home on a Monkees LP until 1969’s Instant Replay.
Campbell was also a featured player on one of Nesmith’s most beloved Monkees’ songs, “Papa Gene’s Blues.”
Later, The Monkees returned the favor by guest-starring on the television variety series The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour in February 1969. Per The Monkees Live Almanac, the trio performed “Last Train to Clarksville,” “I’m a Believer,” and “Salesman” live and lip-synced “Tear Drop City.” They also performed in a series of comedy sketches.
Glen Campbell played with some of the biggest names in the industry while carving out his place in music history
Glen Campbell’s resume as a recording artist reads like a who’s who of the biggest names in the industry. He was a session player for Elvis Presley’s Viva Las Vegas soundtrack and played on the B-side of the 45 containing “What’d I Say” in 1963. Glen also played and sang demos for Elvis on the following three songs: “Slowly But Surely,” “Stay Away Joe,” and “All I Need Is the Rain.”
Campbell played guitar on the Beach Boys’ landmark Pet Sounds album. Following Brian Wilson’s breakdown and subsequent inability to tour, he joined the band on the road from December 1964 until March 1965, reported Taste of Country.
In 1967, Campbell played on two Frank Sinatra recordings. Fans heard his guitar work on “Something Stupid” and throughout Sinatra’s 1966 album, Strangers in the Night.
The Telegraph quoted Campbell’s take on the experience of playing with Ol’ Blue Eyes. “A guy like Frank, it’s like they don’t laugh much. I always thought he was bashful,” Campbell recalled. “He was kind of off-standing until you made him mad, and then he was a tyrant.”
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Ho Ho Ho! It’s that time of year again. Seasons and greetings and good tidings to all! Everyone has their own Christmas favourites when it comes to traditions and music is no exception. From Mariah to Wham to Bublè to the Pogues, we all like what we like at Christmas and it can be hard to find a new favourite song to add into your playlists.
Country music and Christmas music go together brilliantly. There’s something about the ‘three chords and the truth’ nature of Country music that suits this time of year. Artists from Nashville spend a good chunk of each June, July and August in the studios recording all sorts of Christmas songs, albums and EPs and it’s sometimes tricky to keep track of who has released what.
This is where we come in. We’ve collated a playlist for you to listen to all the best Christmas Country releases from 2022 to see which ones are crackers and which are turkeys. Below is a Spotify playlist of what we consider to be the best of this year’s new Christmas songs. Enjoy!
Country music legend Tanya Tucker has been enjoying a career resurgence of late, a phenomenon due not only to her talent but also to the efforts of a fellow country superstar, Brandi Carlile.
It was Carlile who helped convince Tucker to come out of semi-retirement and record While I’m Livin’, her first album in 17 years. The process of making that record, and what it meant for Tucker to re-enter the spotlight, is documented in The Return of Tanya Tucker – Featuring Brandi Carlile, directed by Kathlyn Horan.
The film explores why Tucker, who shot to fame as a teenager with the hit single “Delta Dawn,” kept to the sidelines for so long.
“She chose to step away. She had lost her parents. And a lot of what this film is, it’s an exploration of this grief process,” Horan explained during an appearance at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary event. “She says she lost her mojo, and she didn’t want to do it anymore because her father was her manager for so much of her career. And then she just kind of didn’t know what to do or how to approach it without that. And it took Shooter [Jennings] and Brandi to create the space for her to want to step back into it.”
With coaxing from Carlile and Jennings (son of country music great Waylon Jennings), Tucker got that mojo back, a process that unfolds in the film.
“Tanya is just a vibrant artist in every way and has so much more to give,” Horan said. “We get to see that through the journey as she goes from this extremely vulnerable, terrified place to gaining her confidence and seeing the possibilities of her future.”
One of the themes of the documentary is the double standard Tucker faced as a woman in country music. Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and George Jones, for instance, were celebrated for their hard living, but Tucker’s partying and romantic relationship with singer Glen Campbell earned her rebukes.
“One of the many great things about Tanya is that she doesn’t resent any of that. You know, she makes a joke about it,” Horan said. “She sort of dusts it off and moves forward. But the reality is, at a time when she was out having fun. … You know, I’m sure, the legendary story about George Jones, who drunk drove a tractor to the liquor store because his wife took the car keys away — he got a mural in Nashville and Tanya gets a wagging finger.”
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It is proof that dreams do come true as students from the tiny country town of Urbenville in northern NSW were given celebrity treatment after inviting Keith Urban to perform in their end-of-year concert.
Key points:
Urbenville Public School students have had a private audience with Keith Urban after being invited to his Brisbane concert
The country music superstar has invited the students back on his next tour to sing with him on stage
Urban gave each student a bag of all his merchandise that was personally named
Urbenville Public School caught the attention of the country music superstar with their lockdown videos in 2021, singing songs of hope for other students during the pandemic.
And while he could not visit the school in person, Urban went one better, inviting the 16 students, aged between five and 12, their teacher Mel Sifko and principal Chris Sifko for a private audience during his Brisbane concert on Saturday night.
“It’s the most amazing experience I think I’ve ever had,” Mrs Sifko said.
“The generosity of Keith and his team was just amazing.”
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Urbenville students meet Keith Urban.(Supplied: Urbenville public school)
The students, from a town of about 300 people, were ushered through the VIP entrance at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre into their own special room, where they spent more than half an hour chatting with their idol.
“The students had the opportunity to ask him questions and speak with him and chat with him, and he went around and gave them all a hug, and he knew them personally by name,” Mrs Sifko said.
“He gave each student a bag of all his merchandise that was personally named, with signed photos and tea towels.”
Keith Urban meeting the students.(Supplied)
This is your utopia
“Keith told them, whatever problems you feel outside, whatever might be getting you down, while you are in the concert, put it all behind you and dance and sing and just leave everything behind and just do whatever that makes you happy,” Mrs Sifko said.
One student asked if they could go on stage and sing with him during the concert.
Urbenville student Dolly Honan and principal Chris Sifko enjoying the Keith Urban concert.(Supplied)
“He said, unfortunately, no, but next time he does a tour, that we would come up in the afternoon and hang out with him and come up and play with him and go on stage with him then,” Mrs Sifko said.
“That gave them something more to look forward to.”
Students on their way to meet their idol Keith Urban.(Supplied)
And the surprises did not stop there.
When they sat down for the concert, they were seated next to Urban’s immediate family.
Keith Urban meeting Urbenville principal Chris Sifko.(Supplied)
“They were getting photos with Keith’s brother,” she said.
“It was just the most amazing experience ever.”
From little things big things grow
Urbenville’s school’s rise to fame came through a simple act of bringing hope to students around NSW during COVID lockdowns,
The school sang songs of hope and support to students around the state each Friday, sharing the videos on Facebook.
They were so proud of the impact they were having they wrote to their idol Keith Urban, inviting him to join them at their end-of-year concert.
Students watch Keith Urban in concert.(Supplied)
And he was considering it.
But COVID forced the singer to postpone his 2021 tour.
Instead, he surprised the students with a live video call, as well as donating a guitar to each and every student at the school.
During the call, Urban said he was “moved” by their performances and wanted to share his passion for music with the school.
He invited them to be his special guests during his Australian tour in December 2022.
“I’d love to properly meet you all, so that’s the best way to do it,” Urban said at the time.
“I can’t come to your concert, so maybe you can come to mine.”
Urbenville Public School has incorporated Keith Urban in its logo for the special occasion.(ABC North Coast: Miranda Saunders)
From cleaner to the Canadian Country Music Awards, musician Dax is set to perform in the Maritimes.
While attending college and playing basketball in Wichita, Kansas, Dax worked as a part-time janitor in the school’s art department.
Little did he know, the job would change his life.
One day, Dax found himself tearing down art displays after a poetry event at the school where he found himself thinking of writing his own poem.
“I wrote my first poem, showed it to a teammate,” Dax tells CTV Atlantic. “He was like, “Wow! I can’t believe you wrote this,’ so that made me keep writing poems, and those poems eventually turned into music.”
He later started posting inventive videos for his music online, quickly growing a huge following.
“I was, like, ‘If I can personally talk to one million people myself and I’m providing a good service, then there’s no reason it shouldn’t spread.’”
Dax released his breakthrough track in 2017, along with two successful Eps and a studio album since.
Earlier this year, he released a country crossover remix called “Dear Alcohol,” an instant viral sensation.
“The response has been amazing,” said Dax. “People are getting the lyrics tattooed all over their body and things like that.”
He was even invited to perform the song at this year’s Canadian Country Music Awards.
“It was just cool, and they were really open and showing me a lot of support and love,” said Dax. “I was nervous as hell.”
The Nigerian-Canadian rapper grew up in Ottawa and has lived all over the United States, but his roots stem from the East Coast.
He may have only lived in St. John’s, N.L., for under a year, but Dax considers himself a “true blood Newfie.”
And he’s excited to be back in Atlantic Canada for two shows this month. Dax is performing in Moncton on Dec. 10 and in Halifax on Dec. 11 in support of his latest album “Pain Paints Paintings.”
SUNDAY: They lived their lives and conducted their torrid, tormented relationship as if reenacting the country-music lyrics that made them famous. Michael Shannon and Oscar winner Jessica Chastain star, and provide their own vocals, as country legends George Jones and Tammy Wynette in a six-part limited series that often plays like a real-life version of A Star Is Born. (See the full review.)
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Fit for Christmas
SUNDAY: Network TV movies are almost as rare as a white Christmas in Miami, but CBS gets back in the game with a holiday film starring and executive produced by The Talk’s Amanda Kloots, who also co-wrote the film’s story. She plays Audrey, a Christmas-phile fitness instructor who gets cozy with a businessman (Paul Greene) who’s planning to turn the community center where she works into a lucrative resort.
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World Cup
SATURDAY & SUNDAY: It’s make-or-break time for team USA as the knockout round of 16 begins with U.S. facing the Netherlands (Saturday, 10 am/ET, Fox), followed by the Argentina–Australia match (2 pm/ET, Fox). Sunday’s matches pit France against Poland (10 am/ET, FS1) and Senegal against England (2 pm/ET, FS1).
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Saturday Night Live
SATURDAY: The irrepressible Keke Palmer (Nope, Password) makes her debut as guest host in the first of three new episodes in December. (The Only Murders in the Building duo of Steve Martin and Martin Short, both with long SNL histories, are next week’s hosts, and Elvis star Austin Butler is the first-time host Dec. 17.) SZA returns as musical guest for her second time.
College Football Conference Championships:
Marking the end of the college football season, teams battle it out for their conference titles through the day on Saturday. Undefeated TCU faces Kansas State in the Big 12 Championship (noon/ET, ABC), Toledo takes on Ohio in the MAC Championship (noon/ET, ESPN), Coastal Carolina goes to war with Troy in the Sun Belt Championship (3:30 pm/ET, ESPN), undefeated Georgia looks to whomp LSU in the SEC Championship (4 pm/ET, CBS), Fresno State faces Boise State in the Mountain West Championship (4 pm/ET, Fox), and in prime time, the Big Ten Championship (8 pm/ET, Fox) pits undefeated Michigan against Purdue, and Clemson takes on North Carolina in the ACC Championship (8 pm/ET, ABC).
TV Yule Log:
The Great Holiday Bake War (Saturday, 9/8c, OWN): A fictional baking competition is the background for a holiday romance involving pastry school rivals Julian (Finesse Mitchell) and Brianna (LeToya Luckett).
Homes for the Holidays (Saturday, 7/6c, AXS TV): Ashley McBryde hosts an event benefiting families of fallen first responders and Gold Star heroes. Making appearances and/or performances: Travis Tritt, Yellowstone’s Cole Hauser, Robert Randolph & the Family Band and country trio Runaway June.
Reno 911! It’s a Wonderful Heist (Saturday, 8/7c): The wacky Nevada cops are back with a twist on It’s a Wonderful Life, as a dejected Lt. Dangle (Thomas Lennon) learns from a roller-skating angel how the other deputies would have fared—better, it turns out—if he’d never been born.
On UpTV: Christmas on the Slopes (Saturday, 7/6c) stars Soma Chayya as a down-on-her-luck celebrity chef posing as a sous chef in a luxury resort, where she falls for the curmudgeonly head chef (Oliver Renaud). Christmas on the Rocks (Sunday, 7/6c) takes place during a snowstorm that disrupts a corporate Christmas party at a ski resort where the manager (Lyla Porter-Follows) soon realizes the CEO (Jon McLaren) is an old beau.
On Lifetime: R&B legend Patti LaBelle appears in A New Orleans Noel (Saturday, 8/7c) as a New Orleans praline mogul who hires rival architects (Keshia Knight Pulliam and Brad James) to renovate her home. In Merry Textmas (Sunday, 8/7c), app developer Gaby (Ariana Ron Pedrique) heads home to Mexico, unaware her matchmaking family has also invited graphic designer Alex (Rodrigo Massa).
On Hallmark: A Fabled Holiday (Saturday, 8/7c) brings disillusioned childhood pals (Brooke D’Orsay and Ryan Paevey) back together in a magical town. In Undercover Holiday (Sunday, 8/7c), pop star Jaylen Rodriguez (Noemi Gonzalez) heads home, letting her family think her bodyguard (Stephen Huszar) is her boyfriend. On Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, the Mahogany presentation The Holiday Stocking (Saturday, 10/9c) is touched by an angel, when RJ (B.J. Britt) returns to earth to help his estranged sisters (Nadine Ellis and Tamala Jones) reconcile.
On Great American Family: Christmas on Candy Cane Lane (Saturday, 8/7c) stars Andrea Barber as Ivy, who hopes to live up to the legacy of her late mother, the “Christmas Maven” of Icicle Falls. B&B Merry (Sunday, 8/7c) is the story of a travel blogger (Jen Lilley) checking out a small town’s B&B, whose owner’s son (Jesse Hutch) is worth a rave review.
The Search for Secret Santa (Sunday, 8/7c, ION): Skye Coyne is a young reporter tracking down the Secret Santas connected to a gift that was never delivered—a priceless nutcracker that turns out to have been stolen.
HouseBroken (Sunday, 8:30/7:30c and 9/8c, Fox): The animated comedy teeming with anthropomorphic house pets returns with back-to-back holiday episodes. In the first, poodle Honey (Lisa Kudrow) gets sent to a dream home after a vet’s mix-up. In the second, Honey and her dopey St. Bernard housemate Chief (Nat Faxon) are home alone when they protect the family home from an intruder.
America’s Funniest Home Videos (Sunday, 7/6c, ABC): No holiday season is complete without a new compilation of Christmas-themed videos, including a runaway inflatable Santa and a mom who surprises her son by jumping out of a giant gift box
Inside Weekend TV:
2022 NASCAR Awards (Saturday, 8 pm/ET, streaming on Peacock): Country star Erin Kinsey sings her hit “Just Drive” at the Nashville ceremony honoring the 2022 Series champs Joey Logano (Cup Series), Ty Gibbs (Xfinity Series) and Zane Smith (Truck Series).
60 Minutes (Sunday, 7:30/6:30c, 7 pm/PT, CBS): Bill Whitaker interviews French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, of the eve of his trip to Washington, D.C. for a state visit and White House dinner.
Yellowstone (Sunday, 8/7c, Paramount Network): John Dutton (Kevin Costner) would rather brand cattle on the ranch than attend to state business. He may need to wrangle daughter Beth (Kelly Reilly) as well, who’s none too happy that her dad has brought environmentalist Summer (Piper Perabo) back home.
Let the Right One In (Sunday, 10/9c, Showtime): Things are dicey for Mark (Demián Bichir) in the supernatural drama’s penultimate episode. He’s now a prisoner after being caught snooping around the Logan estate and Claire’s (Grace Gummer) experiments in finding a cure for vampirism. When his vampire daughter Eleanor (Madison Taylor Baez) learns her dad is in danger, watch out.
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Dec. 2—MOULTRIE, Ga. — Fifty-two individuals and groups were honored at the fourth annual induction ceremony for the Georgia Country Music Hall of Fame.
The ceremony recognized individuals in the Hall of Fame, Hall of Honor, Rising Country Music Star, Dedication and Band of Angels categories, while organizations had a separate category.
The event was held Oct. 29 at Maxine Daughtry’s The Barn, located near Meigs.
“A packed house for our HOF celebration was again great to see,” organizer Shirley Maule said in an email to The Observer. “A catered meal with some good ol’ Southern BBQ was served at noon as the event started. Music is played and sung between each five or six inductions and a photographer was hired to capture the honors happening this day.”
Organizations that were recognized included the Blue Holler Bluegrass Band, the Caliber Band, the Copperhead Express, Danny and The Jets, and Vine Ripe Music Publishing. Some band members had been honored individually in the past or separately in the individual categories during the same ceremony.
Individuals inducted into the Hall of Fame included Alan Jackson, Allan Day, Allen L. McCormick Jr., Bill Kennedy, Billy Wilson, Brandon Gandy, Brandon Taylor, Brenda Lasseter McCormick, Carol L. Nelms and Curtis Thornton.
Also, David. R Gibson, Dewey Howell, Donny Smith, Doug Roland, Eric Herndon, Gary DiBenedetto, Gary Page, Glenn Humphries, Jamie Hunter, Jay Roach, Jay T. Farlow, Joan Cox, Johnny Wade Ball and Joy Brinson.
Also, Les Lonsdale, Lewis Willey Farlow, Marshall Roberts, Michael Billingsley, Mike Groh, Paul Simpson, Rendi Jones, Rodney Brinson Sr., Rob Ferrell, Skylar Russell Gandy, Steve Cason, Steve Small, Tim Maxwell, Tommy Gordon Ladshaw, Trampus McCoy and Wayne Watson.
David Ray was named to the Hall of Honor.
Some of the Hall of Fame honorees were promoted from the Hall of Honor, where they had been recognized in previous years.
Jordan Poole, an Elvis impersonator, was inducted into the Hall of Fame in the Rising Country Music Star category.
Bernice Davis and Christine Reynolds were inducted in the Dedication category for their work in the Staggerwing and Pelham jamborees.
The Band of Angels category recognized musicians who’ve passed away. This year’s honorees were Gary Dean Maule, a vocalist and founder of the Quest, a seven-member band that included three Hall of Fame inductees; Jimmy Davis, bandleader of the Country Rockers that performed at the Staggerwing and Pelham jamborees for years; and Vicki Lynn Corbitt Hardeman, who performed with her sister in the Vicki Lee Band.
The Seaplane Opry House in Moultrie is the home of the Georgia Country Music Hall of Fame, Inc. Formerly the Staggerwing Jamboree, it’s open every Friday night with gospel music 6-7 p.m., open mic karaoke from 7 to 7:30 and live music 7:30 to 10 p.m. with Steve Cason’s Holy Smoke Band. Guest musicians sometimes attend.
For information about upcoming shows, search for “Seaplane Opry House — A great new beginning” on Facebook.
To nominate someone for the Georgia Country Music Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023, email a copy of the person’s musical or work history (typed in the Word format) to Maule at [email protected]. A typed page for each nominee with their photo is required for the HOF judge’s voting catalog and another typed copy is the nominee’s presentation page for Wes James to read during the induction event.
BRELAND revealed the full extent of his crazy Eagles fandom last January when he created an unofficial playoff anthem called “For the Birds.” The song went viral on TikTok and earned him an invitation to walk the field with his dad prior to the Eagles-Cowboys game in Week 18. That was an extra special moment considering his midnight green roots.
“I’ve been an Eagles fan my whole life. My childhood room was green,” BRELAND said. “I haven’t missed a game in over 20 years. Me and my dad text every Sunday if we’re not in the same city, and we go to one game together every year.”
The hype song he created for Eagles vs. Titans pays tribute to the heroes of previous eras on the first verse, then jumps forward to what has been an unbelievable 2022 campaign:
Going savage on my Brian Dawkins;
We fly high but they still gonna try and underdog us;
We always finish harder than the way we started;
They don’t talk about us now the way they did in August.
There are timely references to Jalen Hurts and Nick Sirianni, plus an ode to the Liberty Bell:
NFC East can’t compete these days, we the reason the league loses sleep these days;
In the midnight threads or the Kelly green, I be willing to bet we the better team;
Got the Liberty Bell, we gonna let it ring, we don’t need no one else, that’s on everything.
“Hopefully, it gets everybody fired up about a season nobody really anticipated,” BRELAND said. “In my lifetime, the only years I could say the Eagles were definitively the best team in the league were the two Super Bowl years (2004, 2017). Just trying to channel some good karma.”
Good karma for himself and for the Birds. You see, BRELAND has noticed an interesting parallel between his own successes and those of the hometown football team. His debut album “Cross Country” released back on September 9 to rave reviews while peaking at No. 15 on Billboard.
“If the Eagles are winning — maybe it’s placebo or maybe I’m crazy — but if the Eagles win on Sunday, I expect my week, in my personal life, to be a great one,” BRELAND said. “I feel like we’re aligned in that way, if that makes sense. This has been the best year of my life professionally, and the Eagles are off to their best start in franchise history.”
This summer, BRELAND will join legendary songstress Shania Twain for select tour dates all over the United States, including a stop in Camden, New Jersey on June 9. Look for the skinny local kid with the infectious voice tearing up the stage, possibly wearing a No. 20 Eagles jersey. One thing he won’t ever be is definable.
“Some of you may not know that BRELAND is actually my last name,” BRELAND wrote on Twitter. “It was a name we inherited from slavery and each generation in my family has largely struggled since. I wanted the BRELAND name to be associated with greatness.”
Country music star Amber Lawrence is thrilled to return to the stage after live streaming concerts during Covid
By Jimmy Briggs For Daily Mail Australia
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Australian country music star Amber Lawrence couldn’t perform on stage for two years due to Covid restrictions.
But she is now determined to make up for lost time, with the 44-year-old ARIA Award nominee recently scoring a regular gig performing on cruise ships.
‘Every weekend of this year I have done shows in closed environments. The protocols are more than you could hope,’ she told The Daily Telegraph.
Australian country music star Amber Lawrence (pictured) couldn’t perform on stage for two years due to Covid restrictions and is now determined to make up for lost time
‘We are always in crowds as musicians now, and we want the crowds back and that’s the risk we take,’ she added.
Amber said she loved performing on cruise ships because it had a unique vibe compared to other music concerts.
‘It’s magic. It’s seven days of music fans and pure music lovers … If you’ve been to Tamworth Music Festival that’s what is happening here but on a cruise ship.’
The 44-year-old ARIA Award nominee has scored a regular gig performing on cruise ships and is thrilled to be getting back to doing what she does best
While Amber may not have been able to perform to packed crowds during Covid that didn’t stop her from reaching out to fans.
The country music star broadcast a live concert straight from a picnic bench at Grant Reserve in Coogee, NSW in 2020.
She was set up with an acoustic guitar, computer and a microphone as she belted out tunes for fans watching at home.
‘Every weekend of this year I have done shows in closed environments. The protocols are more than you could hope,’ she said
The Sydney-born singer looked delighted with the outcome and appeared to be genuinely enjoying the performance on what was a sunny Sydney day.
Amber and her husband Martin Newman, whom she met on Tinder in 2016, wed in a stunning ceremony in Port Douglas, in tropical far north Queensland, in May 2018.
The couple are proud parents to four-year-old son Ike.
Amber said it was a ‘magic’ moment when her music touched fans
