Jo Dee Messina Races for the Cure

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Nashville/Washington, DC (March 21, 2001 - Joe's Garage ) -- Double-platinum country diva Jo Dee Messina is putting her passion for others to work for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer's 19th annual Race for the Cure. The Grammy nominee sings at the finish line post-party of the world's largest 5 kilometer run/walk June 2 in Washington, DC.

JoDeeMessina.com Chosen As "Site-O-The-Week"!

JoDeeMessina.com was  chosen by CountryStarsOnline.com as their "Site-O-The-Week!" for the week of May 21, 2001.  Fans were able to vote for Jo Dee's site.  Check out her five star rating at CountryStarsOnline.com!!

Jo Dee Messina Sells Out

Double Platinum, Grammy-Nominated Country Singer SRO 1st Weekend

Nashville (02/13/01): Known for doing and saying almost anything onstage, double platinum country sensation Jo Dee Messina kicked off the first weekend of her first-ever headlining tour with the audiences standing on their feet -- in part because of the energy level generated in the venues and in part because the SRO (Standing Room Only) status of the three shows left absolutely no room to spare.

Queen for the Day

Fiery Jo Dee Messina takes her place as CMT's Showcase Artist this week. The energetic sparkplug is "Burn" - ing up the charts with the title cut from her Burn album, and the video is firmly planted in the CMT Top 12 Countdown.

Jerzees & CMT is sponsoring her first major headlining tour this year which begins Feb. 8 in Indiana. She is nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her hit, "That's the Way." On Feb. 11, CMT celebrates this firebrand's success with "Jo Dee Messina Day," which features an exclusive look at the artist as seen by CMT All Access, CMT Showcase, CMT Hit Trip and other special CMT shows.

Jo Dee Messina Is People's Kind of People

Nashville: About to embark on her first ever headlining tour, Jo Dee Messina is getting ready to get up close and personal with the people at People. The double-platinum-selling woman -- whose "That's The Way," the first single from her #1 debuting Billboard Country Album Burn is nominated for a Grammy Award -- is very excited about the prospect of bring profiled in the nation's largest-selling celebrity weekly.

"Everybody reads People," Messina says. "It's an honor to be part of that magazine, for them to think you should be a story. It's one of those things I never even dreamed of because, you know, only really big stars are in People -- and that's not how I view myself."

Jo Dee Messina's Hip To Be Square

Nashville/Hollywood: Jo Dee Messina's always had a knack for cropping up in some pretty fun places. Now the good-timing redhead  is checking into the nationally-syndicated "Hollywood Squares" alongside and Kermit the Frog.

Jo Dee airs on "Hollywood Squares" the week of Feb. 12. Messina will appear on five shows that week…and more than likely get her fair share of laughs. And knowing Jo Dee, she's going to have a fine time in the process.

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Watch Jo Dee on VH1's "All Access: Country Goes Pop"

Don't miss Jo Dee on VH1's special "All Access: Country Goes Pop" which premieres Thursday, March 15 at 10:00 PM ET/PT.  The special explores the phenomenon of women in country music crossing over to also reach a pop audience. Faith Hill and SHeDAISY are also featured.

Jo Dee Messina Pulls 4 Boston Music Awards Nods

Boston (02/14/01): Jo Dee Messina remains a hometown favorite, landing four nominations for the 2001 Boston Music Awards. Having won Act of the Year -- over hometown institutions Paula Cole, Aerosmith, Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Rob Zombie -- the high energy songstress, currently in the midst of an SRO headlining tour, is again in fast company this year.

Fan Fair... Over But Not Forgotten

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Fan Fair 2001 has come and gone, but the memories from that week won't soon be forgotten. Jo Dee had the opportunity to catch up with fans during her 5th annual Fan Club Party, held this year at the Wildhorse Saloon in downtown Nashville. Later the same day, Jo Dee burned up Adelphia Coliseum during her performance on the Curb show in front of thousands of fan fair goers. And on Saturday and Sunday, amidst a crowd so big you couldn't even see her unless she stood on the table, Jo Dee signed autographs and had her picture taken with fans! Be sure to check out the slideshow above of images recapping the week's events.

Jo Dee Performing At TNN & CMT Country Weekly Music Awards

Lee Ann Womack and football great Terry Bradshaw will host the June 13 TNN & CMT Country Weekly Music Awards. CMT and TNN will simulcast the former TNN Country Weekly Music Awards. The three-hour program will be telecast live from Nashville's Gaylord Entertainment Center. Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Jo Dee Messina, Jessica Andrews, Toby Keith, John Michael Montgomery, Montgomery Gentry, Lonestar and Phil Vassar will perform on the fan-voted awards show. (CMT and TNN are owned by Sonicnet.com's parent company, Viacom).

Jo Dee Messina At The ACM Awards And CMT's Red Carpet Pre-Show

Did you get the chance to catch Jo Dee when she co-hosted CMT's special ACM Awards Red Carpet Pre-Show May 9, 2001. CMT tapped the multi-platinum selling artist as the special celebrity to join Hit Trip's Alecia Davis and Jeff Ross as hosts of CMT's ACM Awards Red Carpet Pre-Show. CMT has been on the road as the official media sponsor of Messina's first-ever headlining "Burn Tour 2001." Messina, Davis and Ross were live on the red carpet to talk to country music's biggest and hottest rising stars as they arrived for the show. After the pre-show Jo Dee headed inside to perform her current single, "Downtime," on the nationally televised 36th Annual ACM Awards. Be sure to check out the pictures and video clip above from the Red Carpet and Jo Dee's performance.

Jo Dee Messina's "Driven"

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Nashville/Hollywood: Sylvester Stallone makes movies with a definite intensity -- and "Driven," his latest, is no exception. Set against the fast-paced world of open wheel racing, Stallone stars as Burt Reynolds' star race car driver and his life moves s fast as the cars he drives.

Jo Dee Messina knows about that intensity, too. So it makes sense that the producers tapped the title track from Messina's #1 Billboard Country Album chart debut as their lead single to pop radio and also as music for a critical scene in the Warner Brothers Films worldwide April 27th release.

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CMT Has Huge Promotion On Messina Tour

CMT wasn't quite ready for the 63,000 entries they got for their Jo Dee Messina-driven "Money To Burn" promotion.

The two winners went to Reno this weekend where they got to spend time with the double-platinum entertainer, deluxe accommodations and $5,000! Jo Dee Day was CMT's highest rated programming to date this year. And the 63,000 entries were landmark as well.

"It's an honor people respond like this. It's all about country radio playing the songs and the fans loving them," Jo Dee commented.

Final Nominees Announced For TNN Country Weekly Music Awards

Nashville, TN (March 19 - PRNewswire) -- TNN and Country Weekly magazine today announced the final nominations in the 12 fan-voted categories for the TNN Country Weekly Music Awards.

Jo Dee Messina is nominated for Female Artist of the Year and Album of the Year for Burn.

Winners will be announced June 13, 2001 at the start of Fan Fair week in Nashville, TN.

Jo Dee Messina Cover Girl

Nashville (01/17/01): With her first ever headlining tour in the final stages before heading out for 75+ dates, Jo Dee Messina's been taking care of the media at a fever-pitch. Today, the fiery redhead is at the Franklin Fire Department for a cover shoot for Country Weekly's Feb 22nd issue, which will be on stands on Feb. 6th -- two days before the Burn 2001 Tour opens in South Bend, Indiana.

"It's exciting to know that this tour is creating so much interest," Messina says with a happy laugh. "We want to make sure to take care of all the people that are interested in it before the tour kicks off."

Jo Dee Picks Contest Winner

Recently Jo Dee was on the cover of Country Weekly.  As an added bonus, Jo Dee offered to autograph every cover that fans sent in. In addition, all of the names were entered for a chance to win the shirt Jo Dee wore not only for the Country Weekly cover, but also in the "Burn" video. Find out who Jo Dee hand-picked as the lucky winner!

Jo Dee Messina Presents on the American Music Awards

Nashville/ Los Angeles: With a double platinum award for I'm Alright, a nearly platinum Burn, a four-week #1 in "That's The Way" and a headlining tour slated to kick-off Feb. 8, country's fiery Jo Dee Messina starts 2001 off with a glittering trip to present at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles. With the Tina Arena-penned title track of her #1 Billboard Country Album Sales chart-debut scorching into the Top 10 on the country singles charts, Messina is ready to get her year started.

"I'm honored to be part of the American Music Awards," says the woman who was Billboard's Most Played Female of last year. "Bringing all the different kinds of music together is always so much fun and amazing to see. I can't wait."

At Home With Jo Dee Messina

Watch for Jo Dee's home to be profiled on "E-Celebrity Homes," premiering February 19th! Host Suzanne Sena was in Nashville recently to tape in her home, along with other artists such as Trace Adkins for upcoming segments of her show.

Messina Days Away From Tour Rehearsals

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Jo Dee Messina's eyes flashed with excitement as she told us about her upcoming "Burn" tour. "Everything for The Burn tour is brand new. We're carrying full production, dancers, maybe some surprises here and there. We start rehearsals January 22nd and we have a week of just band rehearsals and a week of dance rehearsals and we run the whole show a few times and we rehearse right up to February 5th when we head to South Bend, Indiana where the first show is. And then we do a run-through the day before with me and Rascal Flatts, then the first show is on the 7th."

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