{"id":10244,"date":"2020-09-16T04:55:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T08:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2020\/09\/keith-urban-nervous-about-hosting-acm-awards\/"},"modified":"2020-09-16T04:55:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T08:55:15","slug":"keith-urban-nervous-about-hosting-acm-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/09\/keith-urban-nervous-about-hosting-acm-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Urban Nervous About Hosting ACM Awards"},"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\/WJ92Dyx3l0g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Keith Urban is taking on the role of host for the Academy of Country Music Awards for the very first time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>While he&#8217;s got plenty of live TV experience, Keith said he is more than a little nervous about the gig.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Yes (laughs). Yes, completely. Completely. I don&#8217;t enter it fearlessly. I enter it sort of facing my fear and just walking through it anyway, but I&#8217;m not a host. What do I know? I&#8217;m a guitar player, but I love bringing music into everybody&#8217;s homes or wherever they&#8217;re gonna be watching this from so I go at it with that spirit and that heart.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keith is also nominated for Male Artist of the Year, and will be performing live with pop star P!nk during the show. They are debuting their new duet called &#8220;One Too Many&#8221; off Keith&#8217;s new album, The Speed of Now Part 1, which will be released on Friday, September 18th.<\/p>\n<p>The 55th annual ACM Awards will air live on CBS beginning at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Keith will give an Amazon Music global Livestream performance on Friday, album release day, where he&#8217;ll be playing some of the new songs from the album live for the first time beginning at 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CFL0erApfg5\/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":"Keith Urban is taking on the role of host for the Academy of Country Music Awards for the very first time in his career.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":10245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[123,70,2345,846,2132],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-acm-awards","tag-keith-urban","tag-one-too-many","tag-pink","tag-the-speed-of-now-part-1"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 19:25:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/09\/keith-urban-nervous-about-hosting-acm-awards\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}