Dolly Parton is the only female nominee for entertainer of the year at the forthcoming Golden Voice Awards show, to be held on June 14 in Nashville. Parton will compete against Bill Anderson, Roy Clark, Charley Pride, and Mel Tillis for the honor. The event takes place aboard the General Jackson showboat, and profits go toward the Performer's Benefit Fund, a non-profit organization that pays medical bills for past and present Grand Ole Opry members.

Numerous Opry legends are scheduled to attend the event, including Bobby Bare, Little Jimmy Dickens, Stonewall Jackson, Jim Ed Brown, and Jeannie C. Riley.

Jo Dee Messina is already deep into her first headlining Burn tour with opening act Rascal Flatts. The singer's performances are drawing rave reviews from fans around the country who insist it won't be long before Messina's name pops up in award show nominee lists under "entertainer of the year." When Messina embarked on this tour, she had one goal in mind, as she tells us: "I don't claim to be beautiful or a great singer. I got into this because I was entertained when I went to go see Reba McEntire and George Strait and the Judds, and that's why I'm in the business, is to help people have fun and just have a blast with the crowd and so that's what I'm hoping to do--leave people feeling entertained."

The Burn tour is scheduled to run throughout the summer, wrapping up on September 22 in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Messina is nominated in the category of top female vocalist at the upcoming Academy Of Country Music Awards on May 9. The singer will be performing her current single, "Downtime," which holds the Number 28 spot on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Lee Ann Womack will help mothers all over the country celebrate Mother's Day with a two-hour CMT special called Mother's Day Diaries. The mother of two will host the special, which also features Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Jo Dee Messina, John Michael Montgomery, Gary Allan, Tanya Tucker, and many others. Mother's Day Diaries airs on May 13 at 12 p.m. and again at 6 p.m. ET.

In other Womack news, the singer is included in InStyle magazine's Grammy night coverage. Womack told the magazine that in her opinion, the best album of the year is Nelly's Country Grammar. In fact, Womack even shared her opinion with Nelly. "I think he was surprised that a country girl could love Country Grammar," said Womack. This particular issue of InStyle is on newsstands now.

Lonestar played music from its upcoming I'm Already There album at a special luncheon in Nashville yesterday afternoon (May 1). The group performed live and listened to album tracks with the music industry crowd, and the members said they were extremely excited about the upcoming album release.

Lonestar guitar player, Michael Britt, talked about the new project with us: "I think we hope that it kind of speaks for itself. We created our new sound with Lonely Grill, but we grew into it with this new one. We really just picked songs that we could enjoy playing for a long time to come and I think that's what we have in the finished product. We have a whole album of songs that we really love and hopefully that will speak for itself."

While Britt and his bandmates are clear on the direction they are headed with the new album, the guitar player wasn't so clear on how to describe the upcoming CD. "I don't think any of us have found a great way to describe it yet. It's kind of like Lonely Grill, but then it's got new stuff...something new about it, but I'm not sure what it is yet. Hopefully, everybody will like it."

Lonestar's I'm Already There will be in stores on June 26.

Patty Loveless took a behind-the-scenes VIP tour of the nearly finished Country Music Hall Of Fame in downtown Nashville recently. "It's funny how when you see these things, you immediately remember where you were, and how it was when you saw them for the first time," said Loveless while touring the new museum. "I remember when I first started coming here, I was 15 years old, and I'd just wander around, looking at everything. I'd come down with my cousin from back home, dreaming but never thinking that this is something I might really be a part of. Just wandering around here, you realized how important this music was."

Loveless and country legend Loretta Lynn are the only women who are part of the Hall's five-part Heart And Soul visual project, designed to help visitors make a meaningful connection to country's roots. A multimedia experience, the new Hall Of Fame broadens the scope of people's experience at the nation's largest archive for country music and memorabilia.

The new Country Music Hall of Fame opens on May 17.

Glamorous events such as award shows might be something those outside of the spotlight dream of, but for Sara Evans, it's those quiet evenings at home that she most enjoys. The singer says she is a homebody, and cherishes every minute that she's able to stay home and just relax with her husband and son.

Those low-key nights are what Evans needs to keep up with the busy pace of her schedule these days, as the singer tells us: "Anything for me that's my idea of romantic or fun is just to stay home in my pajamas and not travel anywhere, cause I really love nights where I can just be home and watch television and do nothing, you know--no makeup! And then I get rejuvenated and I'm ready to go again after a few days at home just relaxing, and then I'm anxious to get dressed up and put makeup on and stuff again."

Evans is headed to Los Angeles next week to perform on the Academy Of Country Music (ACM) Awards on May 9. The singer is also nominated in the categories of top female vocalist and vocal event of the year for her collaboration with the Warren Brothers on "That's The Beat Of A Heart." The ACM Awards will air live on CBS at 8 p.m. ET.

Evans's current single, "I Could Not Ask For More," sits at Number 14 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Amidst talk that platinum-selling country trio Shedaisy is gearing its next album for the pop crowd instead of country, middle Osborn sister Kelsi speaks up. "We're not trying to fit into a crossover record; we're not trying to fit into making a country record," Osborn tells ABC News. "Country music has evolved so much, I don't know anymore, but I wouldn't call it (their new music) traditional--but it is country. That's where we want to be, and that's where we'll stay."

The sisters are adding tracks and vocals to their upcoming new album, which should be in stores by early 2002.

Next Wednesday (May 9), Shedaisy will be performing on the Academy Of Country Music Awards in Los Angeles. The show will be broadcast live on CBS-TV.

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill made the night of several prom-goers at Nashville's upscale Palm restaurant Saturday night (April 28). Upon leaving the restaurant, the McGraws paid the tab for eight tables full of teenagers out after their prom. When the couples were leaving, they were simply told that an anonymous couple paid for their meals. It wasn't until later that word spread that the generous couple turned out to be McGraw and Hill.

While the general manager of the Palm did confirm to the Tennessean newspaper that it was indeed the McGraws who paid the tab, she would not say how much the bill was, only to say it was a "fair amount."