“Smoke Break,” described by The Guardian as “refreshingly smart and bold,” became Carrie’s 22nd career #1 hit as well as her 12th #1 co-write and was the lead single from her gold-selling, #1 debuting Storyteller album.

Photo 1:
Pictured- ASCAP songwriter Chris DeStafano, BMI songwriter Carrie Underwood, ASCAP songwriter Hillary Lindsey

Photo 2:
Pictured- (L-R): Back Row: Sony ATV’s Josh Van Valkenburg, BMG’s Chris Oglesby, ASCAP’s Michael Martin, BMI’s Bradly Collins, ASCAP’s Beth Brinker, BMI’s Jody Williams and Arista Nashville’s Randy Goodman. Front Row: Chris DeStefano, Carrie Underwood, and Hillary Lindsey.

Photo credits: Erika Goldring

Carrie Meets with Military Families and Patients of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Carrie performs live before 17,000 fans at Boston’s TD Garden

Tour Heads to Europe Next Week for C2C Festival with Sold Out Shows in London and Glasgow

The seven-time Grammy winner and Pollstar’s three-time top female country touring artist will continue The Storyteller Tour overseas next week as Carrie headlines five concerts during Europe’s biggest country music festival, Country to Country (C2C). Named “one of the strongest and most engaging performers in today’s music” by the Pittsburgh Tribune, the Carrie-headlined C2C shows at London’s O2 and Glasgow’s Clyde Auditorium have sold out, with festival attendance in London doubling since Underwood’s previous C2C performance in 2013. The international leg of The Storyteller Tour will begin in Stockholm, Sweden on March 4 and will wrap in Dublin, Ireland on March 13. Sam Hunt and Little Big Town will join the Glasgow, London, and Dublin shows. Dates and cities are listed below, and for more info click here.

March 4 – Stockholm, Sweden / Annexet

March 5 – Oslo, Norway / Spektrum

March 11 – Glasgow, Scotland / Clyde Auditorium

March 12 – London, England / O2 Arena

March 13 – Dublin, Ireland / 3 Arena

Carrie visited Seacrest Studios at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

While on tour in Pennsylvania this week, Carrie visited the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia with the Ryan Seacrest Foundation where she was interviewed by and met patients at the Foundation’s Seacrest Studios. Also in Philadelphia, as well as in Boston and Washington, D.C., Carrie met with military families as part of the Honor. Family. Fun. initiative launched in January by Carnival Cruise Line, Operation Homefront, and Carrie to support military families.

Carrie Meets Military Family in Philadelphia with Reps from Carnival Cruise Line and Operation Homefront as part of their Honor. Family. Fun. Initiative

Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, PA on February 22, 2016

Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, PA on February 22, 2016

Photo credits:

Top live shot from Boston- Jeff Johnson

Hospital shot- Courtesy Ryan Seacrest Foundation

Trade Shot- (L-R) Christine Duffy, President of Carnival Cruise Line, Carrie, The Martin Family (Jonathon, Cara, Taryn and Eryca) and Marty Hauser of Operation Homefront

Live Shot from Philadelphia- Jeff Johnson

Live Shot from Philadelphia- Jeff Johnson

In addition to Carrie’s performance at The ACM awards, she will be hosting and headlining the first night of ACM Party For A Cause Festival on Friday, April 1st, “ACM Women of Country Night.”

For more information, visit www.ACMpartyforacause.com.

Pictured here (left to right), backstage at KFC Yum! Center are: Sony Music Nashville Marketing Director Rachel Fontenot, Sales VP Caryl Healey, Promotion & Artist Development EVP Steve Hodges, and Chairman & CEO Randy Goodman; Underwood; Sony Music Nashville EVP/COO Ken Robold; Ann Edelblute, Carrie Underwood’s manager (The HQ); and Sony Music Nashville Marketing Sr. VP Paul Barnabee, Marketing & Media Mgr Bob Foglia, and Digital Strategy VP Sarah Westbrook.

Pictured here are: Invited media, special guests, and label executives gather with Carrie Underwood.

Photo credit: Jeff Johnson

The show “is a no-expense-spared spectacle that highlights her approachable beauty, her roar of a voice and a substantive set of songs that have commanded the charts since her ‘American Idol’ victory a long decade ago,” expressed the Atlanta Journal Constitution. “The in-the-round setup commissioned by Underwood allows for unparalleled vantage points – and even those in the arena’s highest peaks could watch one of four oval video screens situated above each side of the stage.” And says the Florida Times-Union, “Lasers and swaying spotlights and fireworks and explosions all added to the spectacle. But make no mistake, Underwood was the star of the show.”

Underwood, known for her vocal prowess and the ability to create stellar performance moments in any realm, concert, television, or recordings, spent much of 2015 working with her team to create her most spectacular concert tour to date. Barry Lather (Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Usher, Michael Jackson) is the tour’s Creative Director and Butch Allen (Metallica, The Eagles, Eric Church, No Doubt) is Production & Lighting Designer. “The Storyteller Tour” required many weeks of technical planning and rehearsing to program lighting cues, automation, and special effects, followed by numerous full-on performance rehearsals with Underwood and her band.

“The Storyteller Tour” features a staple in any Underwood production, wardrobe changes. She worked with Emmy-winning costume designer Marina Toybina to create varying costume options for each of the five acts so fans will see a variety of outfits every night during her 100+ minute set. Marina also designed the wardrobe for Underwood’s 2012/2013 “Blown Away Tour.”

The massive stage has seven elevator lifts and spans over 150 feet across the arena floor, with a main center stage expanse of 48 feet in diameter that rotates 360-degrees. The center lift can raise to 18 feet high. There are four satellite stages and three concentric LED rings that hover in the air and move throughout the show for visual moments and effects, plus four larger oval screens that provide video for fans on all sides of the arena. A very unique spotlight technology, the Black Track system, follows Carrie where ever she travels across the massive stage with aide by special beacons that have been built into her wardrobe.

Underwood will take a short break from the tour following this weekend to perform on the 58^th Annual GRAMMY Awards®, where the seven-time GRAMMY winner is nominated this year for “Little Toy Guns” in the Best Country Solo Performance category. The GRAMMY Awards® will broadcast live on the CBS Television Network, Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

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“The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round” 

Underwood Performing “Heartbeat”

NASHVILLE, TN – Nashville, TN – (February 1, 2016) – 2016 Grammy nominee Carrie Underwood launched The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round over the weekend in Jacksonville, Florida with a sold-out 360-degrees crowd of nearly 14,000 at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena. This is Underwood’s first tour “in the round.” With the stage in the middle of the arena floor, the 360-degree setting “had the effect of providing front-row seats for hundreds of fans. Lasers and swaying spotlights and fireworks and explosions all added to the spectacle. But make no mistake, Underwood was the star of the show,” said the Florida Times-Union.

Underwood’s second single “Heartbeat” from her #1 selling Storyteller album, being performed in the tour photo, has reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart today. The song was co-written by Underwood, Ashley Gorley and Zach Crowell and was produced by Crowell.

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