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Carrie Underwood Gets ‘Lost’ In Her Music On Stage

Carrie Underwood launched her new arena “Cry Pretty Tour” on Wednesday (May 1st), with a sold-out show at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. She tweeted after the show…

Carrie Underwood Gets 'Lost' In Her Music On Stage
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Carrie Underwood launched her new arena "Cry Pretty Tour" on Wednesday (May 1st), with a sold-out show at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina.

She tweeted after the show Wednesday night, "Thank you, Greensboro, for an AMAZING first show of the #CryPrettyTour360 ! We truly felt the love tonight!!!"

“I think my favorite thing about performing live is just getting kind of lost in the music and the show," she says."I have as much fun as hopefully everybody sitting out in the audience is having. I get to connect with the fans. I get to see people."

She continues, "The people that are streaming music and downloading music and buying albums, they’re finally in front of me. To get to have that moment with them is so much fun. The lights and the costumes and getting to have moments with my band members on stage, I mean it’s all a lot of fun.”

Tonight (5/3), Carrie plays a show in Birmingham, Alabama followed by shows in Little Rock, Arkansas (May 4th) and San Antonio, Texas (May 6th).

The new tour will play more than 55 arenas across the U.S. and Canada.

-Nancy Brooks

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.