Alan Jackson: 25 Years of Keepin’ It Countrywill open Aug. 29 at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The exhibit will highlight Jackson’s career and run through March 2015. Jackson will also be the museum’s next Artist-in-Residence, the first to do so while being the subject of an exhibit. “Fans will recognize artifacts from milestone moments in Alan’s career, as well as items from his life away from the stage that are as personal as many of the songs he has penned over the years,” says Dir.Kyle Young. More here.

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CLEVELAND (AP) – Jason Aldean is sending “sincere condolences” to the family and friends of Cory Barron, a fan who was found dead after he was last seen at Aldean’s Cleveland concert. Police say Barron, of Fremont, Ohio, disappeared while attending Aldean’s concert on Friday. A worker found his body in a landfill 35 miles away. Police believe Barron may have fallen down a five-story garbage chute and landed in a large waste container. Police are investigating the death as a homicide.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) – Shania Twain will end her run in Las Vegas by the holidays. She will perform her final show on December 13. By the end of the run, she will have performed there for two years.

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What medicine would you give a sick ant?
Antibiotics!

What do you call an ant from overseas?
Important!

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NASHVILLE (AP) – Jason Aldean says he’s dreamed of playing in major league baseball stadiums since he was 6. Now his dream comes true. Aldean plays Progressive Field in Cleveland tomorrow, the first of five baseball stadiums in which he’ll stage concerts. Aldean says it’s “wild” to stand on the pitcher’s mound when the crew is loading in and watch an empty park come to life with his show. He says he looks forward to the next two weeks with “unbelievable pride and gratitude.”

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NEW YORK (AP) – Justin Moore has another daughter. People magazine reports Moore’s wife, Kate, gave birth to a girl on Monday. They’ve named her Rebecca Klein Moore and plan to call her Klein. They have two other daughters, four-year-old Ella Kole and 2-and-a-half-year-old Kennedy Faye.

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NASHVILLE (AP) – The Nashville Songwriters Association International plans to honor John Anderson, Paul Craft, Tom Douglas, and Gretchen Peters this year. They will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October. Anderson’s songs include “Swingin’,” “Seminole Wind” and “I Wish I Could Write You A Song.” Craft’s songs include “Dropkick Me, Jesus” for Bobby Bare and “Brother Jukebox” for Mark Chestnutt. Douglas wrote “Little Rock” for Collin Raye, “I Run To You” for Lady Antebellum and “The House That Built Me” for Miranda Lambert. Peters’ best-known song is “Independence Day” for Martina McBride, but she also wrote “The Chill of an Early Fall” for George Strait.

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Just when you thought the story was over for Garth Brooks‘ five sold-out-then-canceled shows in Ireland, the G-man dangles a new carrot of hope in front of the 400,000 fans left in the cold. “Our guys are still en route and if there is any chance that the five planned concerts can be salvaged and nobody is being let down then we can proceed as planned until the refunds begin,” Brooks writes in a letter to promoter Peter Aiken published in the Irish Independent. “If you think that for any reason that the ‘powers that be’ in Ireland can fix this, then I will faithfully go to the last second.” Meanwhile, Ticketmaster has brought in extra staff to handle the unprecedentedly large refund process, beginning Monday (7/14), which is expected to incur a significant cost. More on the refunds here. Read Brooks’ full letter here.

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