- Congratulations to Carrie Underwood, who’s among the final nominees announced this morning for The 40th Annual People’s Choice Awards! Carrie’s up for Favorite Country Artist, just one of the whopping 58 categories spanning music, TV, and movies. You can vote as often as you like, with fan voting underway now through 11:59 pm, ET, on December 5th. The winners will be revealed when CBS airs the live broadcast on Wednesday, January 8th. Head over to PeoplesChoice.com for details and to vote for all of your favorites!
- In other Carrie Underwood news, it was just revealed on Monday that she’ll join the fun-and-star-filled line-up for the Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade®, which returns for its 87th year on Thursday, November 28th, airing from 9 am until noon throughout the country on NBC. Be watching the first hour for a special appearance by Carrie and other members of the cast of NBC’s upcoming live event special, The Sound of Music.
- Congratulations to The Swon Brothers — Zach and Colton — Season 4 finalists on The Voice‘s Team Blake (Shelton, of course!), who just signed a record deal with Arista Nashville. Fans can be on the lookout for a first single from the duo next spring!
- In Case You Missed It… Miranda Lambert’s hit single, “All Kinds of Kinds,” recently became a source of inspiration and education for students and teachers at North Park Junior High School in Lockport, New York, when a school video project created by social studies teacher Jeff Dinse brought students together in a video demonstrating what “kinds” of people they are. The video, intended to help teach tolerance, diversity, and understanding, has now attracted more than 63,000 views, and local NBC affiliate WGRZ ran a great story about the project, online here: http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/231164/10/Lockport-School-Music-Video-Goes-Viral. And Miranda herself got wind of the song’s impact on the students, as she shared in an October 28th tweet from @mirandalambert: Just saw this video North Park Junior High made with “All Kinds of Kinds” they have the right idea! #ittakesallkinds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRfQ-L_HOXs …