International country award nominee Kaylee Bell to headline Christmas in the Park

Kiwi state euphony creator Kaylee Bell’s twelvemonth conscionable keeps getting better, with a information for the prestigious CMA Awards, and being named the header enactment astatine New Zealand’s biggest Christmas celebration.

“My set and I are truthful excited to beryllium headlining the Auckland amusement and can’t hold to observe Christmas with New Zealand successful the precise champion mode – connected the large signifier with tons of lights, large euphony and each the fun, energy, and joyousness of performing for a unrecorded Kiwi audience,” Bell said.

Bell had conscionable been nominated for the Jeff Walker Global Country Artist, alongside Australian creator Casey Barnes and Canadian creator Tebey, successful the 2023 Country Music Association’s International Awards.

The awards honoured artists and manufacture executives who had supported and impacted the maturation and promotion of state euphony successful the planetary marketplace.

In June, Bell added a Gold Aria, for her EP Red, to her database of achievements for 2023, presented successful her hometown of Waimate.

That database included supporting Ed Sheeran’s six-date Multiply circuit of New Zealand, completing her archetypal solo circuit of the country, and picking up the Golden Guitar Award for vocal collaboration of the twelvemonth astatine the prestigious awards successful Tamworth, Australia, successful January.

At the time, Bell became the archetypal pistillate state creator successful Australasia to person a golden Aria successful 20 years, with Australian state prima Kasey Chambers achieving the aforesaid occurrence successful 2003, and becoming the archetypal autarkic pistillate state creator successful Australasia to beryllium accredited.

Bell archetypal appeared astatine the Christmas successful the Park successful 2007. This year, arsenic the header act, she would beryllium joined by artists specified arsenic Vince Harder, Ella Monnery, Lavina Williams, Tom Batchelor and Nyree Huyser.

“Coca-Cola Christmas successful the Park has been a immense portion of my beingness for truthful galore years,” Bell said.

“From being portion of the choir arsenic a teenager, to performing arsenic a soloist successful 2016, to apical billing astatine past year’s Christchurch show.

“I’m a immense Christmas instrumentality ... For me, Coca-Cola Christmas successful the Park signals the commencement of the countdown to Christmas and our fabulous Kiwi summer.”

The event’s originative director, Dixon Nacey, said they were thrilled to person Bell and her set instrumentality to header the show.

“She’s a large portion of the Coca-Cola Christmas successful the Park whānau, and she’s connected the accelerated way to the large time. The assemblage are successful for an astonishing nighttime of genuinely world-class Kiwi entertainment.”

Bell was besides the astir streamed pistillate state creator successful Australasia and was present spending her clip betwixt Nashville and Auckland.

Coca-Cola Christmas successful the Park would beryllium held astatine the Auckland Domain connected December 9.