Wherein smoke began to fill the stage and add to the evening’s theatrics.Īs many fans have adopted Nashville as their home this week, Church’s “Give Me Back My Hometown” Up next, Church slowly strutted to the mic with a sunglassed swagger as he fired off numbers like “The Outsiders” followed by a passionate performance of “Creepin’,” He steered the crowd through a string of his ’90s smashes, including “Put Some Drive in Your Country” and “T-R-O-U-B-L-E,” and 2002’s “Bonnie and Clyde.” Setting the mood for the evening and looking country cool in his black hat and matching collared shirt with turquoise accents, Tritt took the crowd on a decades-long journey of his can’t-help-but-sing-along numbers. Kicking off the second night of the four-day festival, the seasoned singer told the crowd, “This has really become an anthem for me and hopefully for some of you, too,” before launching into the feel-good hit from 2000. One can only surmise these moments instantly made their way to the social ether-world with hashtags like #Automatic or #RanFan4life.īut if one song could emote the ambiance of the entire evening, it was certainly Tritt’s “It’s a Great Day to Be Alive.” Ironically, as she sang lines from the nostalgic tune - “Come on, let’s take a picture/The kind you gotta shake” - many fans could be seen watching the performance through the screens of their phones, eager to capture the moment with a video or photo. Strutting across the stage, the two performed their feisty new collaboration, “Somethin’ Bad,” ultimately bringing female star power front and center.Įarlier that night, Lambert performed new music from her latest album Platinum including spirited tunes like “Priscilla” and “Little Red Wagon,” before slowing it down with her latest single, “Automatic,”Ī song and video that earlier this week won the singer-songwriter a CMT Music Award for female video of the year. Adorning an embellished and golden peekaboo tank, she paired it with tight black shorts flattering her covetous tanned legs. Lambert, looking the part of a platinum princess with her sparkling silver top laced up the back paired with her complementary shimmering boots, appeared alongside the breathtakingly beautiful Underwood. As the beat intensified, so did the imagery as Lambert and Underwood could be seen flashing across the screen, eliciting collective screams throughout the stadium. Toward the end of the night and midway through her set, a corset-clad Lambert, who had already treated hungry fans to her signature sass with songs like “Fastest Girl in Town,” “Mama’s Broken Heart”ĭevised a plan to bring the party full-throttle.Īs she left the stage for a dramatic pause, Beyoncé’s “Run the World (Girls)” began to pipe through the speakers as the large LED screens on both sides of the stage played a video montage projecting images of legends like Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton. The country fans who packed the football stadium were treated to a lineup of powerhouse performers like Jason Aldean, The Band Perry, Eric Church, Blake Shelton and Travis Tritt. It was a male-dominated lineup Friday (June 6) at Nashville’s LP Field for CMA Music Festival’s nightly concert series, but the biggest moment must be handed to the ladies - Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood, to be exact.