Kelsea Ballerini to host 2024 CMT Music Awards
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Kelsea Ballerini, assuming the reins as host of the CMT Music Awards, is the latest-evolving trend in country music's mainstream industry.
It's also one that will continue for its fourth consecutive year at CMT's 2024 awards program on April 7, emanating live from the Moody Center in Austin, Texas. The event airs live on CBS and is available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+.
"I couldn't be more excited to be back for my fourth year with my CMT family to host this year's CMT Music awards in Austin. Hosting an awards show that celebrates the music that the fans love most has been an honor and I know this year will be another unforgettable night," offered Ballerini in a press statement.
Ballerini will also perform live during the festivities.
Ballerini helmed the 2021 and 2023 CMT Music Awards program alongside Kane Brown. In 2022, she performed the duties remotely.
Nominations, performers and presenters for the 2024 CMT Music Awards are forthcoming.
Ballerini's honest and industry-stunning 2023 release "Rolling Up the Welcome Mat" brought heightened mainstream awareness to the Knoxville-area native's decade-long mainstream country career via a March 2023 appearance on "Saturday Night Live" and, in September 2023, gracing the cover of Time Magazine's 2023 Time100 Next issue.
In her Time feature, Ballerini describes emerging from "personal life shifts" after her 2022 divorce from Australian country performer Morgan Evans as offering the "unexpected" benefits of evolving her fan community.
In a 2023 Tennessean feature, Ballerini offers that her road ahead is one defined by "[defeating] the imposter syndrome that makes me feel like people don't know my music" because her openness as a singer-songwriter has caused her fans to "care about [her] art and [her] life equally."
Tickets for the 2024 CMT Awards are now on sale via Ticketmaster and MoodyCenterATX.com.
For more information about the event, visit https://www.cmt.com/cmt-music-awards.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Kelsea Ballerini to host 2024 CMT Music Awards
