Headlines: Carrie Underwood, Cassadee Pope Set for CMTs

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Additional Presenters Announced for “The 70th Annual Tony(R) Awards,” Sunday, June 12 on CBS
ADDITIONAL PRESENTERS ANNOUNCED FOR “THE 70TH ANNUAL TONY(R) AWARDS,” SUNDAY, JUNE 12 ON CBS Uzo Aduba, Claire Danes, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Neil Patrick Harris, Sean Hayes, James Earl Jones, Daniel Dae Kim, Diane Lane, Angela Lansbury, Lucy Liu, Marlee Matlin, Andrew Rannells and Blair Underwood Added to Present on Broadway’s Biggest Night
Tony Award Winner James Corden, Host of THE LATE LATE SHOW with JAMES CORDEN, to Host the Telecast Live from the Beacon Theatre in New York City – Read more at Futon Critic

Carrie Underwood to Perform at 2016 CMT Music Awards – Carrie Underwood has been added to the lineup of performers at Wednesday’s CMT Music Awards, PEOPLE announces exclusively.
Underwood, 33 – “who hold the record for most ‘Video of the Year’ wins” – will perform the fan-favorite “Church Bells.” – Read more at People.com

Cassadee Pope to Perform With Pitbull & Leona Lewis at ‘Fresh and Interesting’ 2016 CMT Music Awards – There’ll be plenty for fans to like about on Wednesday’s telecast, which will feature several all-star (and all-genre) performances — including one that Billboard can exclusively announce. “I’m thrilled to tell you that we have Pitbull performing with Leona Lewis and Cassadee Pope. They’re going to perform his new single ‘Messin’ Around,’ which he recorded with Enrique Iglesias, and we’re having Leona and Cassadee do the Enrique part. That’s a classic example of different worlds colliding that is unexpected, but when you see it, it fits. It works.” – Read more at Billboard.com

Kylie Minogue, Queen + Adam Lambert to perform at 2016 Singapore Grand Prix – Australian popstar Kylie Minogue and British rock band Queen, together with American Idol alumni Adam Lambert, will perform at this year’s Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Grand Prix, race promoter Singapore GP announced on Monday (Jun 6). American a cappella group Pentatonix, British indie rock band Bastille and 70s disco icon KC and the Sunshine Band are also slated to perform at the race, which will be held from Sep 16 to 18 this year. – Read more at Channel News Asia

Lauren Alaina, RaeLynn to Join Kalie Shorr, #LetTheGirlsPlay Artists at CMA Fest – Meet several #LetTheGirlsPlay artists as they perform with RaeLynn, Lauren Alaina and more next weekend at the CMA Music Festival. The Song Suffragettes collective has three shows planned between June 10-12, and their second anniversary show the next Monday. On June 10, the group will play the Listening Room, their home for the weekly #LetTheGirlsPlay shows. Sunday afternoon and evening (June 12), find them for two shows on the CMA Close-Up Stage. Alaina has been confirmed to join the group for the 1:30PM show, while RaeLynn will join them for a 4:15PM set. The CMA Close-Up stage is inside the Music City Center in downtown Nashville. The second anniversary show will take place on Monday, June 13. – Read more at TasteOfCountry

The Voice’s Alisan Porter on Her Upcoming Album: ‘Everything I’ve Been Through Comes Through in My Art’ – “I had such an amazing introduction into the public, and I don’t want to take my foot off the gas, so let’s go,” she tells PEOPLE exclusively. The singer is “totally open” to collaborating, but hopes to be “hands-on and write as much” as possible. “For me, it’s just continuing to follow my heart and do music that speaks to me,” says Porter. – Read more at People.com

Former ‘Idol’ winner visits fan hospitalized before Cleveland show – “Tonight’s show in Cleveland was so special to me,” she wrote in the post. “I was able to bless someone who was supposed to come but ended up back in the hospital. God bless you sister and keep fighting.”
The video shows Barrino sharing a long embrace with the woman, who appears utterly surprised sitting in her hospital bed. – Read more at Cleveland19.com

Trent Harmon previews “There’s a Girl” Music Video

Emmys: Stagnant Reality Genre Could Lead to Yet Another ‘Amazing Race’ Win – The unscripted competition category has been impenetrable since it launched 13 years ago, as network execs scramble to reinvent a broken genre, where new hits are as rare as an A-lister on ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ Winning 10 times since the category’s 2003 inception, The Amazing Race’s dominance in the reality competition field says just as much about its genre as it does about Emmy voters’ tastes. – Read more at The Hollywood Reporter

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