Nicole Beals

Nicole’s Nashville News- October 22

The Grand Ole Opry is hosting it’s 12th Annual Opry Goes Pink, to support the fight of breast cancer on Saturday night. This year’s lineup will include Lauren Alaina and Little Big Town.

_________________________________________________________________________________________

Dan + Shay will perform on the CBS special, Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy. The special will air on October 29, encouraging viewers to get out and vote in the upcoming election.

_________________________________________________________________________________________

Carrie Underwood took home the big award of the night at the CMT Music Awards. Besides winning Video of the Year, she also won Female Video of the Year.  Other winners at last night’s show include, Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani (Collaborative Video of the Year), Gabby Barrett (Breakthrough Video of the Year), Luke Bryan (Male Video of the Year) and Old Dominion (Group Video of the Year).

Recent Headlines

16 hours ago in Entertainment

‘Dancing with the Stars’ pro Mark Ballas leaps back to Broadway in ‘Chicago’

Mark Ballas is returning to Broadway in "Chicago" and the "Dancing with the Stars" pro will be reuniting with an old friend. Ballas, playing slippery lawyer Billy Flynn starting April 6, will share the stage with his Roxie, Whitney Leavitt, the "Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" star who was his dancing partner on "Dancing with the Stars" last year.

1 day ago in Entertainment

Multiple gunshots fired near Rihanna’s LA home and a woman is taken into custody

Los Angeles police took a woman into custody after she fired gunshots outside Rihanna 's gated home, according to authorities and news reports on Monday.

2 days ago in Entertainment

Pixar’s ‘Hoppers’ bounds to No. 1 as Warner Bros.’ ‘The Bride!’ is on life support

Disney and Pixar's environmental adventure "Hoppers" topped the North American box office this weekend with $46 million in domestic ticket sales in its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

2 days ago in Entertainment, Music

‘Country’ Joe McDonald, ’60s rock star, proud protest counterculture icon, dies at 84

"Country" Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an anthem for protesters and a highlight of the Woodstock music festival, died Sunday. He was 84.

2 days ago in Trending, World

Iran names Khamenei’s son to succeed him, signaling no letup in war as oil prices surge

Iran named the hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as supreme leader on Monday, signaling no letup in the war launched by the United States and Israel. Oil prices surged as Iran attacked regional energy infrastructure and the U.S. and Israel bombed targets across Iran.