Keith Urban, Gabby Barrett, Thomas Rhett Join Star-Studded CMA Awards Performance Line-Up

The Country Music Association has announced even more performers for The 55th Annual CMA Awards. Country Music’s Biggest Night will see Gabby Barrett, Dierks Bentley featuring BRELAND and HARDY, Luke Bryan, Jennifer Hudson, Thomas Rhett, Keith Urban, and Zac Brown Band front and centre on the CMA Awards stage. Hosted by country music superstar, Bryan, The 55th Annual CMA Awards will take place at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on November 10.

Four-time CMA Awards nominee this year, Barrett performs her chart-topping hit The Good Ones. Three-time CMA Awards winner and two-time nominee this year, Bentley welcomes collaborators; tour mate and Platinum artist-songwriter BRELAND and CMA ‘New Artist of the Year’ nominee this year HARDY for their laidback single, Beers On Me. Two-time CMA Entertainer of the Year winner and nominee this year in the CMA ‘Musical Event of the Year’ category, Bryan performs his new single, Up.  

Singer, actress and star of the acclaimed Aretha Franklin biographical musical drama Respect, Hudson will perform on the CMA Awards stage for the first time. Two-time CMA Awards winner and a nominee this year in the CMA Male Vocalist of the Year category, Rhett performs his chart-topping single Country Again. Twelve-time CMA Awards winner Urban performs his new single Wild Hearts, and CMA Award-winning group Zac Brown Band, nominated this year in the CMA Vocal Group of the Year category, takes the CMA Awards stage to perform their unifying song Same Boat.    

They join previously announced performers Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert, Old Dominion, Chris Young and Kane Brown, Jimmie Allen, Brothers Osborne, Eric Church, Dan + Shay, Mickey Guyton featuring Brittney Spencer and Madeline Edwards, Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde, and Blake Shelton for this year’s show.

See the full list of nominations here.

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