Carrie Underwood Talks About Hosting the CMA Awards with Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton

In just a few short weeks, Carrie Underwood will return to host the CMA Awards for the 12th consecutive year, this time with fellow country superstars Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton by her side as special guest hosts.

The entire night is something Underwood is looking forward to, especially because this year’s show will be a celebration of women in country music.

“I was very pleased and happy and excited to hear the news that the CMA wanted to have this year’s show be focused on women in country music – past, present, future, all of us together standing united,” Underwood recently shared with her record label.

The fact that she gets to stand alongside two of her heroes makes the upcoming CMA Awards that much more exciting.

“And of course, my special guest hosts are Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton. It does not get bigger than that or better than that,” she explained. “I feel like the three of us love what we do so much, and we love country music and it means something I feel like to have us up there on that stage kind of driving the bus for the evening and setting the tone. We just want to be respectful of our genre and of this awards show, because it’s so important to us, and shine a lot on what I think is the backbone of country music and that’s the females that have come before all of us and will come in the future.”

While further details surrounding the show, including the performers and presenters for the evening, have yet to be revealed, Underwood insists it’s “gonna be a wonderful night.”

Fans can tune in to The 53^rd Annual CMA Awards on Wednesday, Nov. 13 at 8/7c on ABC.

Carrie Underwood is currently nominated for three CMA Awards, including Entertainer of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year for Cry Pretty.