For many musicians, CMA Fest means juggling gigs and performing with multiple artists during the festival.
Luke Bryan performs onstage for night 4 of the 50th CMA Fest at Nissan Stadium on June 11, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee.When tens of thousands of music fans visit Nashville June 6-9 for the Country Music Association’s annual CMA Fest, most of those attendees will see an artist — or two, or 10 — for the first time.
Artists famously play CMA Fest for free, introducing themselves to potential new fans, cementing their relationships with existing followers and generating revenue for the CMA Foundation, which donates proceeds to music education programs. They might get paid for rehearsal, too, though not every act has one, especially since technology has introduced new options. Most acts employ click tracks that keep the tempo steady in the musicians’ in-ear monitors. Fill-ins can receive “charts” — sheet music that provides chord progressions and song structures — and board tapes from previous shows are now routinely available, providing an opportunity to rehearse at home with the artist’s actual concert performances.
“It probably takes you five minutes into the set to just settle down because you’ve made it, you’ve arrived, the sound check — everything’s working, we hope — and then you can kind of calm down,” Tomek says. “By the time you calm down, the set’s almost over. And then you’re on to the next one.”
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