ENCINO, Calif. (AP) – Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert and Florida Georgia Line are among the acts who will participate in a CBS concert special, “ACM Presents: Superstar Duets!” Others on the bill include Clint Black, Patty Loveless, Kenny Chesney, Darius Rucker, Dwight Yoakam, Ronnie Milsap, Eli Young Band, Alabama, Sam Hunt and Luke Bryan. The special will tape during the ACM Party For A Cause Festival in Arlington, Texas, on April 17 and 18. The festival will benefit the Academy of Country Music’s charitable arm. The special will air May 15.

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NEW YORK (AP) – Shania Twain is going to launch her first tour in 11 years, and it will be her last. Twain will begin her “Rock This Country” tour June 5 in Seattle. She tells “Good Morning America” it will be a farewell tour because while she enjoyed her two years performing in Las Vegas, she’s ready to hang it up. She says she wants to go out with a bang. Twain says it will be a different show than the Vegas one. Canadian musician and actor Wes Mack will open for the Seattle date and all the Canadian dates, while Gavin DeGraw will open on the American dates.

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NASHVILLE (AP) – The Grand Ole Opry House is now a landmark. It’s earned a spot on the National Register of Historic Places. The current theater has hosted the Opry since March 16, 1974. It’s the sixth spot to host the Opry, but the only one built specifically for it. The Opry will host a nine-month celebration of its 90th anniversary beginning March 24.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – The documentary “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me” will air first on TV on CNN. The Hollywood Reporter reports CNN will run the film in June.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Lorrie Morgan and Vince Gill will play themselves on an upcoming episode of the ABC show “Nashville.” Their episode runs March 4.

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ASHEBORO, N.C. (AP) – Trisha Yearwood is already in your kitchen. Now she wants to get into the rest of your house. Yearwood has announced a partnership with Klaussner Home Furnishings for her own line of furniture. The collection will be unveiled in April. Yearwood will also release her third cookbook, “Trisha’s Table: My Feel-Good Favorites For A Balanced Life,” on March 31. She’s currently on tour with her husband, Garth Brooks.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Dwight Yoakam thinks you’ll hear bits of his entire career in his upcoming album, “Second Hand Heart.” Yoakam says it has an “energy” and an “irreverence” that hearkens back to the Los Angeles cowpunk scene of the early 1980s. Yoakam also credits Beck as an influence. He says Beck worked with him on his last album, “Three Pears,” and encouraged Yoakam’s “return to a teenage recklessness.” “Second Hand Heart” comes out April 14.

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NASHVILLE (AP) – Martina McBride is already making her Independence Day plans. The Nashville Tennessean reports McBride will perform with the Nashville Symphony for the free downtown concert and fireworks display on July 4.

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NASHVILLE (AP) – The Country Music Hall of Fame is doing gangbusters in terms of attendance. The hall of fame reports attendance last year rose 45 percent from the year before, with nearly 971,000 people coming through its doors. The hall of fame completed a 210,000-foot expansion in April. Current exhibits focus on the music of Kenny Rogers, Ronnie Milsap, Alan Jackson and Tanya Tucker.

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