Cassadee Pope Reality Show in the Works; Country on the Beach Lineup Announced + More: Country Music News Roundup

The Boot rounds up today's country music news from around the web.

Cassadee Pope is getting her own reality show! The winner of "The Voice" Season 3 has teamed with CMT for "The Cassadee Pope Project," a show that will give fans an inside look at the powerhouse singer's life after Team Blake, trying to make it as a country-pop crossover artist in Nashville. Cassadee is already off to a great start. She is currently making an album on the Republic Nashville label (also home to The Band Perry and Eli Young Band), and she'll head on tour this summer with Rascal Flatts. [CMT]

Craig Morgan is preparing to make his tenth overseas tour to entertain U.S. troops serving abroad. The former soldier will travel with Armed Forces Entertainment and Stars for Stripes to perform a series of acoustic shows in Southwest Asia this spring.

Jana Kramer continues to juggle two successful careers. The singer-actress is featured in an upcoming independent film called "Heart of the Country," in which she plays a transplanted Southerner who returns to her home and family in North Carolina after her Wall Street executive husband is sent to jail. "Her relationship with her father was kind of strained, so it's kind of a father-daughter story," Jana tells Country Weekly. "It's a small movie but I was passionate about it." Written and directed by John Ward, the film also stars Gerald McRaney ("Major Dad") [Country Weekly]

Little Big Town and Hunter Hayes will headline the Blue Ridge Music Festival on June 1 in Salem, Va. Gloriana, "Nashville" star Charles Esten ("Deacon"), Colt Ford and Greg Bates are among the performers taking the stage at Salem Stadium for the day-long event. Tickets are currently on sale at the Salem Civic Center box office, all Ticketmaster locations and can be charged by phone at 1-800-745-3000.

Lee Brice, Jerrod Niemann and Randy Houser are set to triple-headline the final night of Country on the Beach, which will be held Oct. 5-8 at the Reach Resort in Key West, Fla. The fundraiser for the T.J. Martell Foundation will be hosted by Montgomery Gentry (who will also perform) and emceed by GAC's Storme Warren, with additional sets by Darryl Worley, Ray Scott and David Adam Byrnes. Proceeds from the weekend's corresponding auction and special excursions will help the non-profit organization fund cancer, leukemia and AIDS research. [www.countryonthebeach.com]

LeAnn Rimes isn't pregnant (yet), but she's already being asked if she'll urge her kids to follow in her Nashville-to-Hollywood footsteps. "I'd let my child develop his own talent, but it's important to let kids be kids," she says. "I wouldn't encourage them to enter the industry at a young age ... What goes on is not a fairytale." [AOL On]

MerleFest, slated for April 25-28, will once again take place on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, N.C. But for the first time in its 26 years, MerleFest will take place without beloved music icon Doc Watson, who passed away on May 29, 2012. "From the beginning, Doc Watson has been the artistic center of this festival," says Ted Hagaman, director of the festival. "So for MerleFest 2013, we will come together as a family to pay special tribute to the man and the musician who meant so much to us all." One such special event will be Saturday evening's Celebration Jam, hosted by Sam Bush and featuring many of Doc's closest musician friends as they tell stories and play some of the legendary guitarist's favorites tunes. [MerleFest]

Phil Vassar is returning to his native Lynchburg, Va., to host his fifth annual benefit for The Miller Home For Girls on April 10-11, with Charlie Daniels joining him on the second night. Proceeds from both shows will go to the local non-profit, which serves girls ages four to 21. Call 434-845-0241 for tickets.