UPDATED: CBS is rounding out its line-up for New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash, hosted by Keith Urban and Rachel Smith.
George & Mandy’s First Marriage star Montana Jordan will make a special appearance, along with comedians Bert Kreischer and Leanne Morgan, and Bunnie Xo, CBS announced today. Katelyn Brown will perform a song with headliner and husband Kane Brown, and Alana Springsteen will join Urban for a song.
The five-hour broadcast will feature more than 40 back-to-back performances from Big & Rich, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Luke Combs, Tyler Hubbard, Miranda Lambert, Post Malone, Shaboozey, Brittney Spencer, Chris Stapleton, Zach Top and Lainey Wilson, as well as Urban, Kane Brown and Jelly Roll, who will be headlining from Bicentennial Park.
Reporting live from Times Square, Dustin Lynch and WCBS-New York Weather Anchor Lonnie Quinn will count down with the East Coast at midnight Eastern Time for New York’s Ball Drop; Urban and Smith will keep the party going through midnight Central Time, featuring Nashville’s Music Note Drop at the Bicentennial Mall stage.
The special airs Dec. 31, starting at 8 PM on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.
PREVIOUS, Oct. 8: Four-time Grammy winner Keith Urban has been tapped To headline and co-host CBS’ New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash, which airs Dec. 31, starting at 8 PM on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.
He joins previously announced performers Kane Brown and Jelly Roll who also will take the Bicentennial Mall stage live. Entertainment Tonight‘s Rachel Smith, who has co-hosted all previous editions of the special alongside such country singers as Jimmie Allen and Elle King, returns as co-host alongside Urban.
The five-hour New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash is executive produced by Robert Deaton and Mary Hilliard Harrington in partnership with Music City Inc., the foundation of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp. The special will be directed by Sandra Restrepo.
