Grace Potter at Grand Ole Opry

Grace Evelyn Potter is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She has released five solo albums: Red Shoe Rebel (2002), Original Soul (2004), Midnight (2015), Daylight (2019), and Mother Road (2023). She has also released four studio albums with Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, a band she formed in 2002, which disbanded in 2015 upon her divorce from her bandmate: Nothing but the Water (2005), This Is Somewhere (2007), Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (2010), and The Lion the Beast the Beat (2012).

The Grand Ole Opry began as a weekly Saturday night country music radio program broadcast live on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, and televised on Great American Country network. It is the oldest continuous radio program in the United States, having been broadcast on WSM since October 18, 1925. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From bittersweet ballad to gritty barn burner, Alberta's Noeline Hofmann brings the glowing expanse of the Plains to the stage- a voice with the golden charm of a meadowlark and lyricism with the strike of a rattlesnake. Between a history of working in honky-tonks and punching cattle across the Canadian Prairies, Noeline's sage songwriting and live show bleed a head-turning authenticity through her sterling brand of 'wild rose' country music. Best described by a curator of the Tongue on the Post Folk Music Festival as “a peach with pistol attitude,” the 20-year-old has been taking North America's roots music community by storm since emerging onto the scene in the beginning of 2023 - sharing the stage with an array of revered road warriors, earning nods of recognition from leading independent country music media groups, fellow artists, and music appreciators alike, becoming a winner of the Northern Lights Bluegrass & Old Time Festival, Calgary Songsmiths Acoustic Sessions, and Waynestock songwriting and performance contests, being sought after for songwriting work by leading artists of Alberta’s country music industry, cutting her teeth in countless venues across the continent from dive bars to soft-seat concert halls, embarking on a solo road trip from Alberta to Kentucky and Tennessee after becoming a Top 5 Finalist of the Master Musicians Festival : Take The Stage Contest, and being dubbed "an impressive new singer-songwriter to the scene" by tastemaking independent country music podcast Hippies & Cowboys - firmly establishing herself as an emerging artist to watch. An interview on the radio-style podcast The Thicket with Mike & Josh in Iowa and the release of field recordings of her cover of The Bullfighter by Luke Bell captured by both Hippies & Cowboys at Laurel Cove Festival in Kentucky and Powell River Sessions in Tennessee added significant momentum to her career this summer, spurring collaborations that will reveal themselves in the coming year. This October, a video of her song Purple Gas picked up traction on TikTok garnering the attention of songwriting superstar, Zach Bryan, who shared it with his fans resulting in a viral success of the video leaving her with listeners around the world awaiting a debut release to streaming platforms with bated breath. The trajectory of Noeline’s snowballing notoriety straight out of the gate points towards a road ahead that is chock-full of stage lights and marquee signs; the making of a prominent new voice in the alternative country music soundscape.

Restless Road is a country music group formed by Simon Cowell on season three's American edition of The X Factor. Restless Road consists of members Garrett Nichols, Jared Keim and Zack Beeken. Former members Colton Pack left the group in early 2014 and Andrew Scholz left the group in early 2015. 2013. Beeken, Pack and Scholz originally auditioned for the show as soloists. However, during the bootcamp phase, they were cut. Cowell brought the men back, but only to sing as a group. The trio made their first television appearance on the show in front of the judges and a live audience, performing Keith Urban's “Somebody Like You”, which earned them a standing ovation. The group were later selected by Cowell to advance further along in the competition in his Groups category.

Catherine Tift Merritt is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She has released seven studio albums and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Album for Tambourine. Merritt is a board member of the Artist Rights Alliance and is a Practitioner-in-Residence at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.

Riders in the Sky is an American Western music and comedy group which began performing in 1977. Their style also appeals to children, and they are sometimes considered a children's band. They have won two Grammy Awards and have written and performed music for major motion pictures, including "Woody's Roundup" from Toy Story 2 and Pixar's short film, For the Birds.