{"id":6882,"date":"2019-06-11T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=6882"},"modified":"2019-06-11T09:53:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T13:53:36","slug":"thomas-rhett-kelsea-ballerini-to-host-cma-fest-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/06\/thomas-rhett-kelsea-ballerini-to-host-cma-fest-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett &amp; Kelsea Ballerini To Host CMA Fest Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j3SXjcwMxhM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Thomas Rhett and Kelsea Ballerini will return to co-host the three-hour special on ABC, CMA Fest, set to air on Sunday, Aug. 4th at 8 pm. Filmed during Nashville\u2019s annual four-day CMA Fest, the television special features more than 30 performances and surprise collaborations on stage at Nissan Stadium. 2019 marks the 16th consecutive year of the broadcast, a feat no other U.S. music festival has achieved.<\/p>\n<p>This is Kelsea&#8217;s third year to co-host CMA Fest &#8212; Thomas&#8217; fourth &#8212; and she said the experience has pretty much been a dream come true, getting to talk to and watch all her favourite entertainers hit the stage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s so fun! I mean, I feel like it gets you more involved in the whole CMA Fest, and for me, personally, just to be able to introduced someone and then watch them. I mean, it keeps us here all four nights and we get to watch our friends and watch our heroes and I&#8217;m a fangirl to the core, and just to be able to sit and watch and soak it up every night is super cool.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BySferSpNq9\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett and Kelsea Ballerini will return to co-host the three-hour special on ABC, CMA Fest, set to air on Sunday, Aug. 4th at 8 pm.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":6886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[696,68,30,54],"class_list":["post-6882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cma-fest","tag-kelsea-ballerini","tag-nashville","tag-thomas-rhett"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 07:14:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/06\/thomas-rhett-kelsea-ballerini-to-host-cma-fest-special\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6885,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions\/6885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}