{"id":109436,"date":"2026-02-17T07:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/uncategorized\/2026\/02\/47737\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:29:29","slug":"47737","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/02\/47737\/","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Lambert Headlines Concert Before Daytona 500"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Miranda Lambert headlined the pre-race concert at the Daytona 500 on Sunday, February 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That race kicked off the 2026 Nascar season at Daytona International Speedway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And with more than 100,000 fans in the stands, she admitted it&#8217;s a lot to take in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here she is talking to the press and joking about how nervous she was to do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI mean, I think this would be one of the biggest stages, now that you mention it\u2026 thanks for making me nervous. Yeah, it\u2019s just incredible, the amount of people here. But you know what, coming in here, it feels like\u2026 these are my people. Everybody was tailgating, it kind of felt like a concert already, you know what I mean? Everybody\u2019s in a good mood, it\u2019s a celebration, and it\u2019s going to be a fun day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>But she also said that race fans feel like home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sorry for making you nervous, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mirandalambert?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mirandalambert<\/a>! <br><br>She breaks down what it means for her to play the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Daytona500?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Daytona500<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NASCAR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NASCAR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zNhn4qWjyf\">pic.twitter.com\/zNhn4qWjyf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Noah Lewis (@Noah_Lewis1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Noah_Lewis1\/status\/2023052723399348502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miranda Lambert headlined the pre-race concert at the Daytona 500 on Sunday, February 15. That race kicked off the 2026 Nascar season at Daytona International Speedway. And with more than 100,000 fans in the stands, she admitted it&#8217;s a lot to take in. Here she is talking to the press and joking about how nervous","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":109437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[2803,1359,2784],"class_list":["post-109436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-daytona-500","tag-miranda-lambert","tag-nascar"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 16:46:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/02\/47737\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109438,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109436\/revisions\/109438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}