The 60th CMA Awards performers list just got stacked — and Toledo country fans, this is the preview you will be searching for all week.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons — Lainey Wilson, 2024.

The Country Music Association and ABC announced the second round of performers for the milestone 60th CMA Awards today, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026 — and it is a heavyweight lineup. Newly added to the show are Luke Combs, Lainey Wilson, Chris Stapleton, Vince Gill, Megan Moroney, Mumford & Sons and Stephen Wilson Jr.

That is not a warm-up act. That is a headliner list all by itself, and it lands just eight days before Country Music’s Biggest Night takes over Nashville.

The show airs live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 8/7c on ABC and Disney+, and will be available to stream on Hulu the following day. A limited number of tickets remain at CMAawards.com/tickets.

Who just joined the 60th CMA Awards?

Here is the newly announced class, as Country Now reported:

• Luke Combs — one of the biggest live draws in country music, back on the CMA stage for the 60th anniversary show.
• Lainey Wilson — pulling double duty. She is performing and hosting the show for the third consecutive year, her second time leading the ceremony solo. She is also a triple nominee heading into the night.
• Chris Stapleton — doing double duty of his own, with two collaborations on the night.
• Vince Gill — a CMA Awards legend in his own right, back on the milestone show.
• Megan Moroney — one of the genre’s fastest-rising stars, joining the biggest night of the year.
• Mumford & Sons — making their CMA Awards debut.
• Stephen Wilson Jr. — a four-time nominee this year, also making his mark on the 60th show.

For their CMA Awards debut, Mumford & Sons will be joined by four-time nominee Chris Stapleton. Stapleton will also team up with Stephen Wilson Jr. — two pairings that instantly become must-see moments of the night.

A Brooks & Dunn tribute — and a Dolly Parton celebration

The 60th show is not just about the new names. It is built around two tributes that fit a milestone anniversary perfectly.

Brooks & Dunn, this year’s CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, will be celebrated with a special tribute performance by Brothers Osborne, Luke Bryan, Halestorm, HARDY and Marcus King.

The evening will also include a special tribute to Dolly Parton, celebrating her lasting impact on music and entertainment. No 60th anniversary show would be complete without honoring the Queen of Country — and the CMA is making sure she gets her moment.

Wilson is hosting — again

Lainey Wilson returns to host the CMA Awards for the third consecutive year, marking her second time leading the ceremony solo. She first co-hosted in 2024 alongside Peyton Manning and Luke Bryan before taking the show on by herself in 2025.

“I don’t know if you can ever fully prepare for that, especially being a solo female doing it,” Wilson has said of hosting. “The last solo female to do it was ’91 with Reba [McEntire], besides last year for me. I’m just honored. It’s huge.”

The rest of the lineup is just as loaded

The newly announced artists join a previously revealed lineup that already included Cody Johnson, Miranda Lambert, Ella Langley, Tim McGraw, Kacey Musgraves, The Red Clay Strays, Zach Top and Tucker Wetmore, as Everything Nash reported.

Ella Langley leads this year’s nominees with nine nods, after taking home three CMA Awards last year. She is followed by Miranda Lambert with seven nominations, Kacey Musgraves with five, and Cody Johnson — the reigning Male Vocalist of the Year — with four. Wilson is a triple nominee herself.

Fans can also tune into the CMA Awards Backstage Live, hosted by Lauren Alaina and Haley Baylee, and more presenters are expected to be revealed in the days leading up to the show.

Why Toledo should care

Country is huge in Northwest Ohio — from summer fair stages and honky-tonk nights to packed arena shows whenever the biggest names roll through the Glass City. The 60th CMA Awards is the one night a year when all of it comes together in one place, and this year’s lineup reads like a playlist of the songs Toledo has been singing all year.

Combs, Wilson, Stapleton, Gill, Moroney, Mumford & Sons and Stephen Wilson Jr. — plus tributes to Brooks & Dunn and Dolly Parton — is the kind of bill that turns a Wednesday night into an event. Clear your calendar for Nov. 18, cue up the nominees, and get ready: the 60th CMA Awards just became must-watch TV.

The same show, a very different story

This is the same 60th CMA Awards at the center of today’s earlier ToledoBuzz story — the CMA finally responded to Sammy Kershaw’s red-carpet snub, and he’s still not going. The CMA has said it is “deeply sorry” and has been in touch with Kershaw to find a solution, after artists including Riley Green, Carly Pearce, Mark Chesnutt and Terri Clark spoke out in his defense. The lineup news lands on the same day as that apology — a reminder that this year’s show arrives with plenty of star power, and plenty of conversation around it.

Sources: Country Now and Everything Nash.