Lainey Wilson & Jason Aldean to Headline Nashville’s Big Bash on New Year’s Eve

New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash volition instrumentality for its 5th twelvemonth with a stellar headlining lineup featuring Jason Aldean, Lainey Wilson and Bailey Zimmerman.

The five-hour escaped performance takes spot successful Music City’s Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park. Special guests see CeCe Winans and the Fisk Jubilee Singers with galore much names to beryllium announced successful coming weeks. The performance airs unrecorded Dec. 31 starting astatine 8 p.m. ET connected CBS and streaming connected Paramount+.

Last year’s lawsuit drew 220,000 people, with headliners Jelly Roll, Keith Urban and Kane Brown. Past performers person included Aldean, Darius Rucker, Brooks & Dunn, Chris Janson, Jon Pardi and Riley Green. The amusement features chiefly unrecorded performances with immoderate taped sets peppered in. It’s the lone televised New Year’s Eve web amusement that focuses solely connected state music.

The lawsuit is enforcement produced by Robert Deaton and Mary Hilliard Harrington successful concern with Music City Inc., the instauration of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp. The peculiar volition beryllium directed by Sandra Restrepo.

Deaton and Harrington launched the amusement successful 2022 connected CBS arsenic a counterpoint to different New Year’s Eve programming and instantly recovered the endowment assemblage to beryllium enthusiastic. “When I reached retired to bash endowment bookings, truthful galore of the managers and artists were saying the aforesaid things,” Deaton told Billboard in 2022, lauding the lawsuit highlighting state euphony and Nashville. With a caller format and a caller show, you don’t cognize until you commencement making the calls. I recovered retired truly rapidly the artists are down this show.”