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Post by Admin on Mar 9, 2020 19:56:45 GMT
Another headliner has been announced for Musikfest 2020. Country singer Kelsea Ballerini will play the Wind Creek Steel Stage on Thursday, August 6 at 7 p.m., ArtsQuest announced Friday. The Grammy-nominated star has released two full length albums since her chart-topping debut single "Love Me Like You Mean It" in 2015, and she has another on the way in March 2020. Tickets for $29-$89 go on sale to the public on Friday, March 6 at 10 a.m. Buy them online or by calling 610-332-3378. Musikfest 2020 runs July 31-August 9.
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Post by Admin on Mar 12, 2020 20:58:12 GMT
Nashville mainstay Kelsea Ballerini teamed up with pop star pal Halsey for the next episode of CMT Crossroads. During the show, which will air March 25 on CMT, the pair played the country singer’s new single "Homecoming Queen?" — and PEOPLE has a sneak peek at the performance! “If there is a song that I wish that I wrote, it is ‘Homecoming Queen’ by Kelsea Ballerini,” Halsey, 25, says of the contemplative track. During the duet, Ballerini takes the first verse, Halsey rocked the second, then they sang in sweet harmony on the chorus. Ballerini and Halsey (real name: Ashley Frangipane) have been friends for almost two years. They first bonded over beers and Dixie Chicks karaoke in July 2018, when the pop star was on a tour stop in Nashville. “I’m obviously a really big fan of her music, so I went to the show with my friends and afterwards said hi, and she didn’t have a show the next day, so she was like, ‘Let’s go hang!’ And I was like, ‘Yep!'” Ballerini previously told PEOPLE.
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Post by Admin on Mar 18, 2020 1:54:44 GMT
Kelsea Ballerini is really, really bad at keeping secrets and she knows it, so she doesn't try. Fans figured out how she hid the track listing for her new Kelsea album on Instagram, but so far no one has figured out where she put her 2020 tour plans ...
Talking to Taste of Country Nights, the singer reveals that the imagery surrounding the release of her third studio album (available March 20) is packed with clues and secrets. Fans figured out some of them, but there's a lot more they missed.
"Every single, you know how it's kind of like a yearbook photo almost, and the things on the side — the title," Ballerini says. "There's clues on all of it."
For example, the artwork for her single "Homecoming Queen?" revealed her favorite lyric on the song, "zipping up the mess."
"On 'Club' it said 'Kelsea' and then the release date ... which was not out yet. And then on 'Hole in the Bottle' there's stuff on there that people haven't found yet, which is valuable information."
When pressed, she reveals that her 2020 tour plans are out there for people to figure out. As of now, just a few festival and fair dates are listed at her official website.
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Post by Admin on Mar 21, 2020 7:17:17 GMT
Ballerini, a singer who’s collaborated with the Chainsmokers and been flooded with comparisons to country-to-pop pioneer Taylor Swift throughout her career, is one such artist. Her third full-length, Kelsea, is a catchy treatise on the push and pull dynamics of a pop-leaning Southern singer trying to negotiate genres, styles, and sounds.
Kelsea makes that tension — navigating between pop’s modern urbanity and country music’s rural signifying — its primary subject matter. The 26-year-old singer switches between the club and the cow pasture, between the feel-good Nineties country conservatism of “Hole in the Bottle” and the down-the-center Top 40 pop of “Love Me Like a Girl,” which bears more in common with Alessia Cara than Shania Twain. As Ballerini puts it: “I’ve got a love and hate relationship with L.A.”
The remarkable part is that Ballerini is a deft enough artist to pull off this tightrope walk. She’s the only singer in Nashville versatile enough to deliver a moody ballad with Halsey on one song and a heartwarming acoustic anthem with Kenny Chesney on the next. “Club” is a pious ode to refraining from debauched nightlife that nevertheless sounds like the perfect dance-friendly soundtrack to exactly that type of night. “Overshare” is a witty talk-singing tongue-twister that recalls the singer’s clever phrasing on her 2017 album cut “Get Over Yourself.”
There’s surprisingly little filler on these 13 songs, barring a few missteps like “Bragger,” which lands in an uninteresting netherworld between country and pop. More interesting is when Ballerini explores the social dynamics of that same netherworld. “L.A.” is a personal narrative about uncertain identity and shifting priorities for an artist trying to carve out the same type of crossover space that peers like Maren Morris and Kacey Musgraves have found more readily.
“I got some famous friends that I could call, but I don’t know if I’m cool enough,” Ballerini sings with a self-consciousness finally worthy of Swift. The song proceeds thusly, with Ballerini wondering if she’s gone too far, if she should still be the singer of songs about country songs.
“If I let down my hair in the ocean air,” she sings, “Will Tennessee be mad at me?” The answer, so long as Ballerini keeps making albums as cleverly crafted and deftly executed as Kelsea, is a resounding no.
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Post by Admin on Apr 6, 2020 5:42:27 GMT
Kelsea Ballerini is a force to be reckoned with. Over the past five years, the Tennessee native has made a name for herself in the country music scene, with her latest album, “Kelsea,” being her most notable work yet. Now, the 26-year-old is nominated for Female Artist of the Year at the American Country Music Awards. While she waits to attend the iconic award show in September, she’ll be joining fellow country music legends for the special ACM Presents: Our Country on April 5. And we’re sure her husband, Australian country music star Morgan Evans, will be cheering her on. The couple first met in Morgan’s native country, Australia, in March 2016. After co-hosting Australia’s Country Music Channel Awards, the two decided to celebrate with tequila shots at the after-party. And the rest is history. "He was like, 'Let’s take a shot,'"she told People in 2017. "I remember taking that shot and putting it down and looking at him like, 'Oh … he's super-hot.' Later that night he leaned over and asked if he could kiss me, like a proper gentleman, and I said yes." http://instagram.com/p/BOdg4oZgzA1 By the end of 2016, Morgan proposed to Kelsea on Christmas Day. "This morning, nine months and 13 days later, he got down on one knee in the kitchen while I was burning pancakes and asked me to marry him,” the singer-songwriter wrote on Instagram. “Loving him has been the greatest gift of my life. And now I get to do it for life."
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