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Carrie Underwood’s Sell-Out At Madison Square Garden

Carrie Underwood performed to yet another sold-out arena at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden on October 2, following recent sold-out shows at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena and L.A.’s STAPLES on…

Carrie Underwood's Sell-Out At Madison Square Garden
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Carrie Underwood performed to yet another sold-out arena at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden on October 2, following recent sold-out shows at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena and L.A.’s STAPLES on her "Cry Pretty Tour 360."

While in NYC, Underwood will also perform on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight (10/3) before resuming the tour with upcoming stops in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Boston, Toronto, Cleveland, Atlanta, Chicago, and others before concluding on October 31 in Detroit.

The tour features special guests Maddie & Tae and Runaway June.

Carrie posted to Instagram last night, "Madison. Square. Garden. I’m not sure we’ve ever felt more loved than we did tonight. I’m pretty sure I’m not going to be able to sleep! #giddy #Cloud9 #CryPrettyTour360 #NYC #CountryComesToTown #THANKYOU"

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.