WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023

Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival Tour is coming to Hersheypark Stadium. The show will be on August 4 at 3:10 p.m.

Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com and HersheyEntertainment.com.

The 2023 Outlaw tour celebrates Nelson’s legendary life and legacy in his milestone 90th birthday year.

The first Outlaw Music Festival debuted in 2016 in Scranton. It’s now one of North America’s biggest annual touring franchises.

You may have heard how Lainey Wilson lived in a camper with no heat when she was trying to get noticed in Nashville.  Her faith in God helped get her through it, and so did something her father said when she was a kid. “When my daddy brought my first horse home, he was like, ‘Lainey, I got you a new horse, get on it.  Ride it.’  And I remember the horse was bucking and it was acting crazy. “And I was crying, ‘let me down, let me down, I wanna get down, I’m scared.’  And I remember like it was yesterday, he told me, ‘You better hold on.’ “Those words have stuck with me forever.  ‘Cause any time I feel like I’m about to lose control or I’m about to fall and hit the ground, it just makes me dig in a little deeper, and it makes me just hold on.”

Stanford University is offering a new course that’s all about a SINGLE Taylor Swift song . . . “All Too Well (Ten Minute Version)”. The original was on her 2012 album “Red”.  Then she put out the extended version in 2021. It’s part of a special program at Stanford where former students are the teachers.  The class is called “All Too Well (Ten WEEK Version)”.  It’ll focus on “an in-depth analysis” of the lyrics.

Carrie Underwood brought out Axl Rose during the encore of her Los Angeles show on Monday for a duet of “Welcome to the Jungle”.  She also posted photos and said, quote, “I’m the luckiest girl in the world.  Thanks, Axl, for showing up, once again, to make the great times even better.”

They announced the first round performers at next month’s “CMT Music Awards”.  They include:  Blake Shelton, Carly Pearce, Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson, Keith Urban, and Carrie Underwood . . . plus the show’s co-hosts Kelsea Ballerini and Kane Brown.  Voting is still open at vote.cmt.com.

Cole Swindell is headlining the Talladega “Saturday Night Infield Concert” on April 22nd.  “I’ve been a NASCAR fan my entire life.  There’s not much that can beat getting to play a show in the center of it all.”  The NASCAR Cup Series GEICO 500 race is the next day, on Sunday.

Eva Longoria is 48.  Gabby on “Desperate Housewives”.

Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas is 48

Bret Michaels is 60.  Lead singer of Poison

Fabio is 64.  Full Name:  Fabio Lanzoni.  Once the highest paid models in the world, and “Cosmopolitan” magazine’s Sexiest Man of the Year in 1993.  He’s modeled for the covers of romance novels that have sold 100 million copies. He was hit in the face by a goose on March 30th, 1999 . . . and he still “Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter”.

Park Overall is 66.  Laverne on “Empty Nest”.

Sly Stone is 80.  Sly & The Family Stone legend. 

Mike Love is 82.  The Beach Boys.  His nephew Kevin Love plays pro hoops for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Phil Lesh from the Grateful Dead is 83.

Judd Hirsch is 88.  “, Alex Rieger on “Taxi”, and Jeff Goldblum’s dad in the “Independence Day” movies.

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