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New CMA ‘Summer Jam’ Will Also Air As Primetime TV Special

Fans at CMA Fest
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Fans gather on Nashville's riverfront for the CMA Fest in 2019.
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A newly announced two-night concert at the end of July will feature big name acts in Nashville, including Luke Bryan, Mickey Guyton, Gwen Stefani, Carrie Underwood and others.

The Country Music Association’s new “CMA Summer Jam” will take place at the Ascend Amphitheater. It will also be recorded as a primetime TV special to air later in the summer on ABC.

Tickets go on sale Wednesday. A portion of the concert’s revenue will go to the CMA Foundation, which is the educational arm of the association. The foundation’s programming is usually bolstered by the annual CMA Fest, but that event was cancelled for the last two years due to COVID.

Paige Pfleger, Criminal Justice Reporter

Paige Pfleger covers criminal justice for WPLN News. She has investigated guns and juvenile justice as a fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, and her investigation into domestic violence and firearms dispossession won a regional Edward R. Murrow award and was a finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a Livingston Award. She previously covered criminal justice and addiction in Ohio and was named the state's reporter of the year by the Associated Press. Her work has appeared nationally on NPR, The Washington Post, Marketplace, and PRI's The World, and she has worked in the newsrooms of The Tennessean, Michigan Radio, WHYY, Vox and NPR headquarters in DC.

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