Free Miranda tix, Martina's TV show and Kenny Chesney's twin

Martina McBride has announced that she'll be on a new reality show called "Opening Act" on the E! network.  Martina will be part of an Artist Development Team that will search the internet for up & coming talent, and then work with them & give them the opportunity to be the opening act for well known artists like Brad Paisley, Jason Aldean, Rod Stewart & others.  I'm a little surprised that there is another reality singing/talent show in the works because that audience seems to be spread pretty thin with shows like American Idol, The Voice, Duets, America's Got Talent, X-Factor etc.   I wonder if the networks are worried about reality show fatigue with their viewers.  I watched all of The Voice this year and parts of American Idol.  Both shows ended in May and just as they ended, ABC's "Duets" started and there was absolutely no chance that I was going to start watching it.  I'm sure it's a great show with talented singers & celebrity judges, but for me, I was (and still am) burned out.  Then again, their target audience probably isn't 37 year old men.  With that said, I'll probably end up getting suckered in and watching every episode of Opening Act!  The show will premiere July 9th on the E! network.

Turns out you can get booted from a Kenny Chesney concert if you look too much like Kenny.  So says Nathan Blankenship.  Nathan was asked to leave Kenny's concert in Nashville over the weekend for "purposefully trying to impersonate a celebrity", and here's what he says happened:

I'm not sure what to think about this story.  I could understand if they ask him to leave because he's trying to pass himself off as Kenny or being a distraction.  But if he's up-front with people and tells them he's not Kenny right off the bat, then there should be no problem.  I can tell you that if I knew I was a dead-ringer for Kenny Chesney, I wouldn't be caught dead in that hat at his concert, but do my best to not draw attention to myself when I'm in public.  What do you think, should they have booted this guy?

Got a chance for you to win tickets to see Miranda Lambert, Lee Brice and Thomas Rhett all week!  Whenever you hear any song by any of those artists this week between 5am - 4pm, be the 25th caller to qualify to win tickets and backstage passes to meet Miranda!!  Then in the 4 o'clock hour, I will call one qualifiers name on the air and if that person calls back within 10 minutes, they'll win a pair of tickets to the concert and be qualified to win the backstage passes!  Should be fun!  Congrats to Brandy Overstreet for winning today.

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