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The 41st annual CMA Music Fest is in full swing and the crowd gathered Thursday night (June 7) at Nashville's LP Field, home of the Tennessee Titans, enjoyed a megastar lineup featuring Glen Campbell, Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Zac Brown Band and Brad Paisley as well as brief acoustic performances from "American Idol" alumni Kellie Pickler and Lauren Alaina... Read M

Josh Turner proved his voice was even deeper in the morning, and Lauren Alaina put a hole in the stage as more than 300 hungry country fans got a head-start to CMA Music Festival, in the form of eggs, bacon, coffee and, of course, some great music...

CMA Music Festival is only a few weeks away, and the star power continues to increase. Eight more artists have been added to the lineup, with two acoustic performances included in each of the nightly concerts at Nashville's LP Field. Lauren Alaina, Kip Moore, Bill Anderson, Love and Theft, Kellie Pickler, Randy Houser, Steel Magnolia and Gwen Sebastian will each perform "unplugged" sets

Little Big Town will return as hosts for the 2012 Ride for a Cure on Sunday, June 10. It's the group's sixth consecutive year hosting the event, with proceeds benefiting the T.J. Martell Foundation. Registration will begin at 8:00 AM at a newly-announced location, which will also be the site of the pre-ride Jam Session...

On Saturday night, while Lauren Alaina's classmates were enjoying their junior prom, the 17-year-old Georgia native was far away, performing with Sugarland in Louisville, Ky. It seemed she would miss out on a major teenage rite of passage, but fortunately, she had a plan...

If Lauren Alaina hadn't made it as a singer, she might have pursued a job working with a cause near and dear to her heart. "I like to help people and I love kids," the "American Idol" runner-up tells The Boot. "So I always said that if I never made it in the music business, I wanted to be a pediatrician or a special-needs teacher...

Before Lauren Alaina was gracing the small screen on 'American Idol' and opening for star-studded tours, she spent her after-school hours as a member of the CiCi's Pizza waitstaff. Now that her job involves traveling the country with Jason Aldean on his My Kinda Party tour, she finds herself on the opposite side of the service industry quite a bit...

As an 'American Idol' judge, Steven Tyler can only do so much. Early in season 10, the rocker-turned-judge deemed contestant Lauren Alaina "the one," but that endorsement that wasn't enough to give her a first-place finish. (She came in second...

Last year's 'American Idol' runner-up, Lauren Alaina, will return to the show that jump-started her career for its newest season. She'll appear on the March 8 episode, singing her current single, 'Georgia Peaches.' The singer joins additional 'Idol' alumni Adam Lambert, James Durbin and Chris Daughtry as season 11 guests...

Kelly Clarkson unintentionally pranked Jason Aldean at Friday night's sold-out show at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. The pop songstress was scheduled to come down the middle ramp to join Jason on their chart-topping duet, 'Don't You Wanna Stay,' but after taking a look at what she would have to walk down in heels, she decided to enter stage left...