CMT Awards return Sunday night time with host Kelsea Ballerini and a tribute to the late Toby Keith

The CMT Music Awards, celebrating the perfect in nation music movies, are set to return on Sunday night time stay from Austin, Texas.

Hosted by Kelsea Ballerini, the fan-voted present begins at 8 p.m. Japanese and might be broadcast from the Moody Heart on CBS and Paramount+.

This 12 months, the awards are anticipated to function a tribute to the late Toby Keith carried out by Brooks & Dunn, Lainey Wilson and Sammy Hagar and backed by Keith’s longtime band.

Keith, a success nation crafter of pro-American anthems who riled up critics and was cherished by tens of millions of followers, died in February at 62 after being identified with abdomen most cancers.

Ballerini, Wilson, Jelly Roll, Megan Moroney and Cody Johnson lead the nominations with three every.

All these artists, apart from Moroney, are up for the night time’s greatest honor: video of the 12 months.

Scheduled performers embody Bailey Zimmerman, Jelly Roll, Keith City, Dasha, Jason Aldean, Johnson and Moroney.

There are anticipated to be a number of collaborative units, as nicely: Little Huge City will carry out with Sugarland, marking the primary time the latter’s Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush will reunite on the CMT stage since 2011. Different scheduled joint performances embody NEEDTOBREATHE and Jordan Davis and Sam Hunt and Trisha Yearwood.

Yearwood will obtain the inaugural June Carter Money Humanitarian Award, which honors musicians or trade veterans who display “an distinctive dedication to neighborhood and their fellow artists, embodying June’s spirit as a fierce advocate and initiator in paying it ahead,” a press release stated.

Yearwood additionally is predicted to debut a brand new monitor, “Put It in a Track,” the primary from a forthcoming album.