Carrie Underwood 2008 Tour to Finish at Grand Ole Opry

After a very successful 2008 for Carrie Underwood, the long road will be ending at the Grand Old Opry, where she was inducted this past May. The “Carnival Ride Tour” was a large step forward, and her first as the Headlining Act.

The 2005 “American Idol” Winner has seen her music make a large crossover into the general pop music culture, much like the rest of Country music has this decade, and seems destined to continue her success.

With her busy tour this year and being the Host of the 2008 Country Music Awards, Carrie is headed towards a short break after her performance on Tuesday Night Dec. 16 at the well documented and all-time country venue Ryman Auditorium. You can watch a one-hour portion of the show Dec. 20 on Great American Country’s “Opry Live,” for more Information you can go to the Grand Ole Opry website.

Carrie Underwood Added To Madame Tussauds

American Idol winner Carrie Underwood visited the unveiling of a wax figure of her in Times Square, New York City today.

The country star has been immortalized in wax at the Madame Tussauds museum in New York City.

Carrie Underwood joins Miley Cyrus (who was unveiled during a similar event in March), Elvis Presley, Britney Spears and Beyoncé.

Carrie Underwood released a special two CD edition of her latest album, Carnival Ride yesterday which features a second disc containing five holiday songs.

The two CD album is available exclusively at Walmart.

Carrie Underwood & Little Big Town Kick Off Fall Tour

Carrie Underwood starts the fall leg of her tour in Cleveland today and she is bringing along Little Big Town as the opening act.

Little Big Town is planning to relaunch it’s third album “A Place To Land” on Octboer 14th with four new songs.

The tour provides Little Big Town with an opportunity to showcase its unique talents to 10000 or more people every night.

Band member Karen Fairchild said, “This is gonna be the best light show we’ve ever had as a band”

“Carrie was gracious enough to give us all of these incredible moving lights. It’s just gonna be fun. When you’re an opening act or a middle act on tour, you’re not using full production all the time. But this is a lot of production for us, being it’s just us and Carrie on this tour. It’s been great. She’s been great already to work with”.

Carrie Underwood and Little Big Town will take a break from the tour on November 12th for the 42nd Country Music Association awards. Both acts are both double nominees at the awards.

Carrie Underwood & LeAnn Rimes Stand Up To Cancer

Carrie Underwood, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus and LeAnn Rimes are just some of the 15 female artists who will participate in a television special called “Stand Up to Cancer”.

The show will be aired simultaneously on ABC, NBC and CBS on September 5th.

There is also a new single called “Just Stand Up” featuring Underwood and Rimes to be released on September 2nd.

Some of the other participating artists in the television special and single include Ashanti, Natasha Bedingfield, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Ciara, Keyshia Cole, Melissa Etheridge, Fergie, Leona Lewis and Rihanna.

The money raised from the show and single will benefit Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) which is an organization focused on speeding up the latest cancer research.