MIAMI, Dec. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival
Cruise Line is continuing its popular Carnival LIVE concert series
with a shipboard concert by seven-time Grammy Award-winning country
music superstar Carrie Underwood
aboard the Carnival Imagination in April 2017. Tickets are on
sale now at https://www.carnival.com/carnivallive.
Carnival LIVE is a one-of-a-kind experience that brings the best
in live entertainment to the seas, providing guests an opportunity
to enjoy captivating performances by top artists in a unique and
memorable setting where there's never a bad seat in the
house. Performances are held in the ships' main show lounges
which range in capacity from 750 to 1,400 – giving shows a more
intimate and personal feel.
One of the most popular and best-selling artists in country
music, Underwood will perform in Carnival Imagination's intimate
Dynasty Lounge while the ship is docked in Catalina Island on April
4, 2017, during a four-day cruise that departs from Long
Beach, Calif., April 2, 2017.
The concert follows Underwood's invitation-only concert for
military families aboard Carnival Vista last month to celebrate the
ship's U.S. arrival and commemorate the line's year-long
Honor.Family.Fun program supporting Operation Homefront, an
organization dedicated to building strong, stable and secure
military families.
"Carrie Underwood's concert for
military families aboard Carnival Vista in support of our
Honor.Family.Fun. program was truly incredible and we're absolutely
thrilled that guests aboard the Carnival Imagination will have an
opportunity to experience her one-of-a-kind talent as part of our
Carnival LIVE concert series," said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise
Line.
"Performing in such an intimate setting aboard the Carnival
Vista, was a really special experience," said Underwood. "I look
forward to doing that again and connecting with fans aboard the
Carnival Imagination next spring," she added.
Underwood joins Carnival LIVE's 2017 lineup which includes
performances by best-selling country artists Tim McGraw and Little Big Town and comedians
Jay Leno and Jeff Foxworthy who will perform on seven
different ships departing from five convenient U.S. homeports.
Tickets for Carrie Underwood
range are $80 for general admission,
significantly less than land-based venues, and Premier tickets are
available for $150 and include
seating in the first few rows, Carrie
Underwood merchandise, an Honor.Family.Fun dog tag,
and a commemorative concert pass.
A full listing of all Carnival LIVE performances is available at
https://www.carnival.com/CarnivalLIVE.
For additional information and reservations, contact any travel
agent, call 1-800-CARNIVAL or visit carnival.com.
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About Carnival Cruise Line
Carnival, a unit of
Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), is "The
World's Most Popular Cruise Line®" with 25 ships operating three-
to 16-day voyages to The Bahamas,
Caribbean, Mexican Riviera,
Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, New England, Bermuda,
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Two
133,500-ton Vista class ships are currently scheduled for delivery
- Carnival Horizon in 2018 and an as-yet-unnamed vessel in 2019.
Additionally, two new 180,000-ton ships are scheduled to enter
service in 2020 and 2022.
About Carrie
Underwood
Carrie
Underwood emerged from the promise of her
2005 American Idol win to become a true
multi-format, multi-media superstar, spanning achievements
in music, television, and film. A seven-time GRAMMY®
Award winner, she has amassed over 100 major honors, sold 58
million records worldwide, and recorded 24 #1 singles, 13 of
which she co-wrote, with a catalog of songs that have been streamed
more than 1.9 billion times worldwide. The first female
artist to be twice named the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer
of the Year, Underwood was recognized as Pollstar's top
female country touring artist for her headlining tours in 2008,
2010, and 2012, and this year Billboard ranked her current
"Storyteller Tour - Stories in the Round"as the #1 country
tour for the first half of 2016. All five studio
albums, Some Hearts, Carnival Ride, Play On,
Blown Away and Storyteller – are certified Platinum or
multi-Platinum, and each an American Music
Awards winner as Favorite Country Album – tallied an
incredible 40 weeks at #1 on Billboard's Top Country
Albums chart. The RIAA's highest certified country album
artist to debut this century, Underwood also holds the distinction
of the highest album certification of any country artist to emerge
since 2000 with the 8x Multi-Platinum success of her 2005 debut,
Some Hearts. She is the all-time Top Country Artist
(male or female) on RIAA's Digital Single Ranking, also placing her
among the Top 5 females in the history of RIAA's Digital Single
Program across all genres. In December of 2014, she released
her Platinum-certified Greatest Hits: Decade #1, which
produced two new #1 hits co-written by Underwood, including the
RIAA-Platinum, GRAMMY-winning "Something in the Water."
2016 marks Underwood's fourth season
as the voice of primetime television's #1 program, Sunday
Night Football, and in November, she returned for a ninth
consecutive year as co-host of the CMA Awards. The Grand Ole
Opry member also demonstrated her diversity in 2013, starring as
Maria von Trapp in NBC's three-hour holiday blockbuster,
the Emmy®-winning The Sound of Music Live!, whose
airings attracted 44 million viewers. The reigning CMA Female
Vocalist of the Year, Underwood recently claimed her fourth win in
the category amid the ongoing success of her chart-topping fifth
studio album, Storyteller – the only country album to launch
to Platinum certification since the time of its release in October
of 2015. Underwood is currently climbing the charts with
"Dirty Laundry," the fourth single and follow-up to
Storyteller's three back-to-back #1 hits, "Smoke Break,"
"Heartbeat," and "Church Bells."
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