2 l December
26, 2021 - January 1, 2022
Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
BY JAY BOBBIN
Country-music star Dierks Bentley is among the featured performers
in “New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash” Friday on CBS.
Dierks Bentley helps Nashville bring
the new year to CBS
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Dierks Bentley typically spends New
Year’s Eve on a holiday skiing vacation, but
not this time.
Along with many other country-music
stars, he’ll help CBS get back in the Dec.
31 special-programming game – something
the network largely has been out of since
its years of featuring bandleader Guy
Lombardo and the Royal Canadians.
Starting in primetime schedule and
resuming after late local news on Friday,
Dec. 31, “New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s
Big Bash” will present Bentley, Zac Brown
Band and Dan + Shay as headliners at the
title city’s Bicentennial Capitol Mall State
Park. Bobby Bones and “Entertainment
Tonight’s” Rachel Smith will serve as hosts.
“I have a vested interest in this town and
in country music, and this spotlight is a
big deal for us,” the friendly Bentley says.
“I love watching the New Year’s Eve shows
with my kids and seeing the ball drop, but
it just seems like it’s not what it used to be.
It’s also really cold in New York, and it’s
not that it’s not fun doing those shows, but
there should be one from Nashville. People
love country music, so it’s about time we
have a show coming out of here.”
Bentley will have plenty of peers on hand
for nearly 50 performances from various
Music City venues, and the roster also
includes Jason Aldean, Jimmie Allen, Kelsea
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Luke Bryan, Elle King, Miranda Lambert,
Darius Rucker, Blake Shelton and Cole
Swindell. Holding to Nashville tradition,
the drop of a “music note” will prompt
fireworks at midnight Central time; the new
year’s East Coast arrival also will be marked.
“I’ve been touring this year,” Bentley
reports (though some of his shows were
canceled due to COVID-19 protocols),
“and with what’s happening with audiences
out on the road, there’s this celebratory
feeling and a sense of relief. People are
congregating and singing at the top of their
lungs, and putting a period on 2021 and
hoping for better things in 2022 is going to
be a big theme in downtown Nashville. It’ll
be a much-needed party, that’s for sure.”
The pandemic has given Bentley – who’s
won multiple awards from the Country
Music Association and the Academy of
Country Music – more time than he
expected to work on his forthcoming 10th
studio album. He already has released its
singles “Gone” and “Beers on Me,” both of
which he expects to perform on the New
Year’s Eve special.
“You play every show like it’s the last
one, and you celebrate it like it’s the last
one,” Bentley reasons of the current times.
“Wrapping that feeling into a New Year’s
Eve show, it’s going to be incredible.”
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