Dierks Bentley and Elle King are getting ready for their very first stint as co-hosts of this year’s CMA Fest ABC-TV special.<\/p>\n
The annual four-day event officially launched on Thursday, June 9th and runs through Sunday, June 12th, so Dierks and Elle will be busy all weekend at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium, the main stage for performances at CMA Fest.<\/p>\n
They are also both set to take the stage on Sunday for their own performances.<\/p>\n
Dierks and Elle said they’re a must-have for ratings this year.<\/p>\n
“They need us for primetime. (Elle) They do. (Dierks) I mean, come on the two of us together, it\u2019s explosive. It\u2019s gonna be great. I\u2019m excited. Actually, it\u2019s fun because A) we\u2019re together. Friends get a chance to hang out for four days together, but it\u2019s gonna be huge for Nashville. This is the first time in three years I guess, since they\u2019ve had the big downtown CMA Fest. (Elle) Yeah, and the only other experience I\u2019ve had with it is coming up there and singing with you. So yeah, I\u2019m excited to do that again. (Dierks) Well we should do that again for sure.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
CMA Fest is set to air on ABC on Wednesday, August 3rd at 8 p.m. The three-hour show will feature dozens of performances filmed during this week’s CMA Fest event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dierks Bentley and Elle King are getting ready for their very first stint as co-hosts of this year’s CMA Fest ABC-TV special.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":86813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[470,7482,1186,2063,481],"class_list":["post-86988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cma-fest","tag-dierks","tag-dierks-bentley","tag-elle-king","tag-nashville"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 23:31:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/06\/dierks-bentley-elle-king-ready-to-hit-primetime\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86988","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=86988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}