Rimes, Tedeschi Trucks play MerleFest
Monday, May 10, 2021 – LeAnn Rimes and the Tedeschi Trucks Band are among the first set of performers announced for the upcoming MerleFest.
MerleFest 2021, set for Sept. 16-19, will also include Melissa Etheridge (Sunday), Mavis Staples (Sunday), Sam Bush (Saturday), Donna The Buffalo (all four days), Scythian (Thursday, Friday and Saturday performances), and The Waybacks (Friday and Saturday).
The annual festival will be held as usual at Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, N.C. Additional artists scheduled to perform will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets will go on sale June 10.
The festival is usually held in late April but was postponed this year due to COVID-19 after being canceled last year.
More news for LeAnn Rimes
- 08/11/15: Rimes sets Xmas tour
- 07/11/14: At the beach, Rimes gets into holiday spirit with CD, tour
- 10/02/13: Opry goes pink
- 06/04/13: Rimes returns with new CD
- 01/16/13: Rimes visits ET tonight, Kimmel upcoming
- 12/17/12: Rimes performs new single on Leno
- 08/30/12: Rimes opts for anxiety, stress treatment
- 07/22/11: Rimes breathes life into country classics
CD reviews for LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes' "Remnants" album sounds inspired by contemporary times. The title track takes on almost an apocalyptic quality. Lyrically, a lot of these songs - many of which Rimes had a hand in writing - address a dire need for love. We do live in a world where love oftentimes seems to be in short supply. Therefore, three of these songs have "love" in their titles, with one repeating the word three times for good measure.
Although Rimes began her career as a young, Patsy ...
LeAnn Rimes hasn't always been the most consistent album maker over the years, but there's no questioning the quality of her singing. Here gospel-y version of "Silent Night" on this Christmas EP, "One Christmas: Chapter," is truly a thing of beauty. Then when she sings a slow, soulful "Blue Christmas," which features that beautiful yodel in her voice, it should remind you of that wonderful Patsy Cline quality in her early recordings. ...
Say what you will about the vocal chops of today's leading ladies of country - Miranda Lambert, Faith Hill or Martina McBride chief among them - but LeAnn Rimes is hands down, no doubt about it the best female vocalist in country music today.
And it will be bordering on a criminal act - thievery of the first order - if she doesn't sweep every award country music has to offer with her latest. For most of the bulk of the new millennium every Rimes album has been a treat. ...
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