Ballerini will host from house, the singer introduced Monday in a video posted to Instagram, just some hours earlier than the ceremony. She was set to host from Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium with fellow nation phenom Kane Brown and actor Anthony Mackie.
The “This Feeling” singer stated on Instagram that she was “feeling loads higher” after testing constructive a number of days earlier, so the Nation Music Tv staff introduced a part of the ceremony’s set to her house, from which she’ll carry out and host.
“It’s actually not what we had anticipated or deliberate for, however we’re doin’ our rattling greatest,” she stated within the clip. “Let’s make some lemonade collectively out of those actually bitter lemons.”
The CMT Music Awards are to nation music what the MTV Video Music Awards are to pop — a ceremony, voted on by followers, that awards musicians for music movies and digital performances. The nominees this 12 months embody host and musician Brown, Brandi Carlile, Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood, amongst many others.
The present — with Brown and Mackie onstage, and Ballerini on a makeshift stage at house — airs Monday at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.