2011 ACM Award

• Jason Aldean
  
• Toby Keith
  
• Miranda Lambert
  
• Brad Paisley
  
• Taylor Swift
  
• Keith Urban
  

• Jason Aldean
  
• Brad Paisley
  
• Blake Shelton
  
• George Strait
  
• Keith Urban
  

• Miranda Lambert
  
• Reba McEntire
  
• Taylor Swift
  
• Carrie Underwood
  
• Lee Ann Womack
  

• Lady Antebellum
  
• Little Big Town
  
• Randy Rogers Band
  
• The Band Perry
  
• Zac Brown Band
  

• The JaneDear Girls
  
• Joey + Rory
  
• Montgomery Gentry
  
• Steel Magnolia
  
• Sugarland
  

• Eric Church
  
• Easton Corbin
  
• Randy Houser
  

• The Band Perry
  
• The JaneDear Girls
  
• Steel Magnolia
  

• Dierks Bentley, Up on the Ridge
  
• Kenny Chesney, Hemingway’s Whiskey
  
  
• Lady Antebellum, Need You Now
  
  
• Jamey Johnson, The Guitar Song
  
• Taylor Swift, Speak Now
  
• Zac Brown Band, You Get What You Give
  
  

• Easton Corbin, “A Little More Country Than That”
  
• Zac Brown Band featuring Alan Jackson, “As She’s Walking Away”
  
• Kenny Chesney, ‘The Boys of Fall”
  
• Lee Brice, “Love Like Crazy”
  
• Miranda Lambert, “The House That Built Me”
  

• “A Little More Country Than That” – written by Rory Lee Feek, Don Poythress, Wynn Varble; performed by Easton Corbin
  
• “As She’s Walking Away” – written by Zac Brown, Wyatt Durrettey; performed by Zac Brown Band featuring Alan Jackson
  
• “The House That Built Me” – written by Tom Douglas, Allen Shamblin; performed by Miranda Lambert
  
• “If I Die Young” – written by Kimberly Perry; performed by The Band Perry
  
• “Love Like Crazy” – written by Tim James, Doug Johnson; performed by Lee Brice
  

• “The Boys of Fall” – Kenny Chesney
  
• “Hillbilly Bone” – Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins
  
• “The House That Built Me” – Miranda Lambert
  
• “Only Prettier” – Miranda Lambert
  
• “Stuck Like Glue” – Sugarland
  

• “As She’s Walking Away” – Zac Brown Band featuring Alan Jackson
  
• “Blue Sky” – Emily West featuring Keith Urban
  
• “Coal Miner’s Daughter” – Loretta Lynn, Sheryl Crow, and Miranda Lambert
  
• “Cold Beer” – Colt Ford featuring Jamey Johnson
  
• “Good to Be Me” – Uncle Kracker featuring Kid Rock
  

ACM announces Performers

ENCINO,
CA (March 21, 2010) –The Academy of Country Music announced today that
Dierks Bentley, Ronnie Dunn, Sara Evans, Martina McBride, Reba, Blake
Shelton, Carrie Underwood, the Zac Brown Band with James Taylor, and
Brad Paisley with Alabama are scheduled to perform as part of the 46th
Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, co-hosted by Reba and Blake
Shelton. In addition, Nancy O’Dell and Ryan Seacrest have been
announced as presenters. The ceremony, which honors country music’s top
talent as well as the industry’s hottest emerging artists, is produced
for television by Dick Clark Productions and will be broadcast live
from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
at 8:00 PM live ET/delayed PT on the CBS Television Network.

These artists join previously announced performers and Entertainer of the Year nominees Jason Aldean, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban.

Performers:

Alabama
has won an astounding twenty ACM Awards including six times for Vocal
Group of the Year, five times for Entertainer of the Year and was named
Artist of the Decade in 1988. Alabama will perform with Entertainer of
the Year nominee Brad Paisley.

Dierks Bentley is nominated for Album of the Year for Up on the Ridge. Bentley won New Artist of the Year in 2003.

Ronnie Dunn
helped define the country landscape over the past twenty years as one
half of the most successful duo in country music history. He now builds
on his 30-million selling album history as part of Brooks & Dunn,
with his Arista Nashville solo debut album, slated for release later
this year. The album’s stirring first single, “Bleed Red,” is available
now.

Sara Evans debuted at #1 on Billboard’s
Top Country Albums chart this past week with the release of her sixth
studio album, Stronger, featuring her current smash, the RIAA-certified
Gold Digital Single, “A Little Bit Stronger.” A past ACM Award winner
as Top Female Vocalist, Evans’ chart-topping career includes more than
five million albums sold and such #1 hits as “Suds in the Bucket,” “A
Real Fine Place to Start,” “No Place That Far,” and “Born to Fly.”

Martina McBride
is a three-time Female Vocalist and was also awarded the Humanitarian
Award in 2003 for her charitable work. During the Girls’ Night Out:
Superstar Women of Country McBride will be honored once again by the
ACM Lifting Lives for her dedication to raising social consciousness of
domestic violence and encourage female empowerment through songs.

Reba
has won twelve ACM Awards including seven wins for Female Vocalist of
the Year and was awarded the first-ever annual Academy of Country
Music/The Home Depot Humanitarian Award for her outstanding
philanthropic work. This marks Reba’s thirteenth time hosting the show.

Blake Shelton
will make his debut, this year, as an ACM Award co-host with Reba.
Shelton has been nominated for three ACM Awards and won his first ACM
award last year for Vocal Event of the Year for his No. 1 hit single
"Hillbilly Bone," which features longtime friend Trace Adkins.

James Taylor
– Over the course of his career, Taylor has sold some forty million
albums and has earned forty gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards.
As a recording and touring artist inducted into both the Rock 'n' Roll
Hall of Fame and the prestigious Songwriter's Hall of Fame, Taylor has
set a precedent for singer/songwriters and blazed a path to which
countless numbers of earnest young musicians have since aspired.

Carrie Underwood
is nominated for Female Vocalist of the Year. Having won a total of ten
ACM Awards, Underwood is the two-time reigning Entertainer of the Year
and has won Female Vocalist three times.

Zac Brown Band
is nominated for five awards including Vocal Group of the Year and
Album of the Year. Zac Brown Band is also nominated for Song of the
Year, Single Record of the Year and Vocal Event of the Year for “As
She’s Walking Away” featuring Alan Jackson. Zac Brown Band will perform
“Colder Weather” at the ACM Awards with one of their idols, James
Taylor.

Presenters:

Nancy
O’Dell, “Entertainment Tonight's” Emmy Award-winning journalist, has
proven to be a force in all areas of her career as a host, author,
producer and entrepreneur. Currently Special Correspondent, O’Dell will
assume the role of co-anchor of “Entertainment Tonight” after Mary Hart
ends her final season in May 2011.

Ryan Seacrest is at the
forefront of the media and entertainment industry. Seacrest is
celebrated internationally as host of “American Idol,” and hosts and
produces E! News and its red carpet awards show coverage. He also
serves as an executive producer and co-hosts “Dick Clark’s New Year’s
Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.”

• Taylor Swift -- WINNER
  
• Jason Aldean
  
• Toby Keith
  
• Miranda Lambert
  
• Brad Paisley
  
• Taylor Swift
  
• Keith Urban
  

• Miranda Lambert -- WINNER
  
• Reba McEntire
  
• Taylor Swift
  
• Carrie Underwood
  
• Lee Ann Womack
  

• Jason Aldean
  
• Brad Paisley -- WINNER
  
• Blake Shelton
  
• George Strait
  
• Keith Urban
  

• Sugarland -- WINNER
  
• the JaneDear girls
  
• Joey & Rory
  
• Montgomery Gentry
  
• Steel Magnolia
  

• Lady Antebellum -- WINNER
  
• Little Big Town
  
• Randy Rogers Band
  
• The Band Perry
  
• Zac Brown Band
  

• Eric Church--WINNER
  
• Easton Corbin
  
• Randy Houser
  

• the JaneDear girls
  
• Steel Magnolia
  
• The Band Perry--WINNER