Nashville, Tennessee 2008 CMA Awards

Okay. So we had SO much fun in Nashville at the CMA awards. We purchased tickets (that were donated by a radio station) at a charity auction last spring to go to the CMA awards. We had no idea what we were purchasing at the time. We ended up being about 10 rows from the tippy tippy top. lol On TV it really fools you. You think they are in a nice theater but nope....it's a basketball type arena. We were very surprised being that everyone is VERY dressed up. It was fine and we LOVED it! Wish we would have brought our banoculars!! ;-P Thank goodness for the jumbo tron. I took some pictures anyway and my camera is not the best zoomer.

It was very neat to be there in person. You realize that all of these people are just normal everyday human beings just like us. Sitting in a basketball arena together. You cannot really tell who the people are in the pictures, but I labeled them. I only posted a few of the pictures from the show.

Our very favortie part of the trip was AFTER the CMA awards were over. We went to the Wildhorse Saloon to watch the up and coming band The LoCash Cowboys perform. They were fantastic! I highly recommend catching them in concert if they come your way. They are country/rock......right up Matt and I's alley. We stayed at the bar until 2 a.m. watching them and drinking our cokes! lol Matt got a picture with the lead singer.

We stayed in a very nice room in downtown Nashville. I could definitely visit Nashville again. I think I am a southern country girl at heart. We walked past the famous "Tootsies" where lots of famous people were/are discovered, on Broadway downtown Nashville. It was too crowded for us to even go inside. It was great to get a way and just have a good old fashion good time with bunch of rednecks! Enjoy the pix :-) and thanks for visiting my blog!

Thank Goodness for the jumbo tron! lol

Taylor Swift (she had trouble with her sound/mic....it was too bad)

Billy Ray & Miley Cyrus and Sugarland singer (jennifer nettles??)

Kelly Pickler

Brad Paisely & Carrie Underwood

Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman

LIVE at the Red Carpet....We only saw the back of Alan Jackson's head....lol

At the Wildhorse Saloon....i guess that's one of the wild horses! lol

All dolled up before the Awards

We watched the LoCash Cowboys at the Wildhorse Saloon after the CMA awards

(this is their bus)

LoCash Cowboys

LoCash Cowboys rockin out

Matt with the lead singer of LoCash. They were VERY VERY good!!


LoCash

Famous Wildhorse Saloon. We had dinner there before the show then after party there to see the LoCash Cowboys perform. They were AWESOME!

Songwritter Tim Nichols

(wrote "live like you were dyin'" sung by Tim McGraw amoungst many other popular songs)

Songwriter and up and coming singer George Ducas

Honkey Tonkin' on Broadway :-p

(The Famous Tootsie's is behind us there somewhere)

Hanging out on Broadway in Nashville. This is where all of the honkey tonks are.

Arrington Winery. Kix Brooks award display case at his winery