Keith Urban On CMA Fest: ‘It’s Like The Country Olympics’
Keith Urban plays Nissan Stadium at CMA Fest 2019 on Sunday night (6/9) and, while he’s played the festival many times before, it’s still exciting to him. Keith explained to…
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Keith Urban plays Nissan Stadium at CMA Fest 2019 on Sunday night (6/9) and, while he's played the festival many times before, it's still exciting to him.
Keith explained to us, "The audience is just euphoric at that stadium and people have come in from out of town from all over the world really. So for me I always know that there's lots of people out there that have seen us play before and here's tons of people who have never seen us play, never been to CMA Fest and it's exciting for them and you can feel it in the crowd."
He added, "That's a spectacular site to see that place full. The whole thing is mind-blowing it's like the country Olympics."
Urban closes out the show Sunday night as the festival's final performer for 2019.
-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.
