Got A Question?, Canadian Idol

I am really wanting to see the show next week but i am not sure if i have the channel, i have Time Warner Cable anybody know if you get it when you have TWC???

I think you may need to have CTV (Canadian Television), but Im not sure what TWC is so maybe.

My friends and I can't wait only 3 days 17 hours 42 minutes and 2 seconds

Does anyone know if Martina will be on the 2nd day of Idol?

I dont know if i should record Idol or the JCPenny program. Both ar 8pm EST

On last weeks episode where they announced who would be on next week Ben said next week Martina McBride will be here for a live performance.

So I'm assuming the first night where the idols perform will be taped and the results night will be live, per usual.

From the Idol site:

McBride will guide the competitors as they prepare for their country music challenge on Monday’s performance show. Among the country classics expected to be performed are songs from Gordon Lightfoot, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Nancy Sinatra, Dwight Yoakam and Dolly Parton. Then on Tuesday, McBride will join an impressive list of guest artists to perform on the Canadian Idol stage, performing alongside the Top 5 as well as alone.

The country superstar will play host to the competitors this week in Nashville, Tennessee, appearing in taped segments on Monday, August 21 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CTV (check local listings). Then, on Tuesday, August 22 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CTV, McBride performs live from the Canadian Idol stage.

She will be there both nights, but will only be on stage and perform on the Tuesday night, (the night my friends and I are there )

Can't wait! 2 Days 16 Hours 26 Minutes 3 Seconds! lol

This post has been edited by Forrester_777 on Aug 19 2006, 10:34 PM

I was shocked when Ben said Martina was the country singer who would work with the Idols, it is going to be classic country music so with M's timeless album out right now its only fitting to have her!!!! wow Tyler is sooo lucky!!! he is our guy from saskatchewan!!

wait wait wait... Martina is coming back to Toronto on Tues?

yes it seems that way!! she will be part of the canadiol idol results show

On Monday, she'll "be there" by way of maybe sitting in the audience, but mostly it'll show clips of her with the finalists working on their song with her. She's their "coach" this week.

Tuesday, she'll perform.

Yup, my friends and I are going to make many signs like "Canada Loves Martina McBride" lol

Can't wait... 1 day 16 hours 27 minutes 21 seconds till we leave

I definitely TRIED to get tickets.... and failed. It SUCKS.

I wish I could see this. I don't think I have that channel though.

A new article that has more info about the apperance, from the Calgary Sun

McBride meets with 'Idol' hopefuls

Martina McBride helps bring reality to series

By TARA MERRIN -- Calgary Sun

Country music superstar Martina McBride doesn't get nervous very often.

So it's surprising to learn she had butterflies in her stomach when she met the Canadian Idol finalists in Nashville this week.
"I was a little nervous. I'd never done anything like this before and I really wanted to be able to contribute and say something helpful and constructive," she says.
"I didn't feel like it was the right thing to do to try and turn them into country music singers. I just wanted them to do it in their style, which I really think is important, and they did a great job.
"If I had to pick one, I couldn't. They are all so unique."

McBride was given about 15 minutes to work with each of Idol's five remaining competitors as they prepared for tomorrow's country music-themed show.
Among the country classics expected to be performed are songs from Gordon Lightfoot, Willie Nelson, Nancy Sinatra, Dwight Yoakam and Dolly Parton.
"They are all really talented. That was one of the things I was worried about -- that I wouldn't be able to find anything to tell them to improve on," says McBride, who had seen a couple of episodes of Canadian Idol, which CTV sent her.
"What I saw in all of them was a real desire to take any information I gave -- they're like little sponges."

On Tuesday night's results show, McBride will join the Top 5 on the Idol stage in Toronto where they'll perform Don Gibson's I Can't Stop Loving You.
The four-time Country Music Association female vocalist of the year will also sing Tammy Wynette's 'Till I Can Make it On My Own from her album Timeless.

While this will mark the first time McBride will appear on Idol in any country, she is no stranger to the popular series. During the 2005 season of American Idol, eventual winner Carrie Underwood declared McBride to be her favourite singer, performing several of her hits in the competition and putting Independence Day on her first single.
"I haven't watched (Idol) -- it's not something I've ever followed, but I did watch the final show when Carrie won," says McBride, adding shows like Canadian Idol give a big leg-up to aspiring singers.
"All of that experience is certainly helpful -- that experience of being in front of an audience, figuring out what kind of artist you want to be, how to talk to a crowd and how to perform on stage.
"That's really important, but the thing about it is, they have to hang on to it once they get out of there. That's the real test -- they are kind of paying their dues after the fact, which is really hard."

McBride, who discovered country music through her father, the lead singer of a band called the Schifters, certainly knows what it's like to pay her dues.
After moving to Nashville in 1990, she worked on the road selling T-shirts for Garth Brooks and touring with Tim McGraw as a back-up singer before signing a record deal in 1992.

Because McBride's rise to fame did not happen overnight, she says she'd be hard-pressed to give the Idol finalists any advice on how to succeed in the music industry once the show is over.
"I don't know how to hang on to instant fame because I certainly didn't have instant fame -- it's been kind of a long haul for me," she says.
"But I guess I'd tell them, it's really important to treat people well and to learn how talk to an audience. You have to be able to make that connection with an audience in an intimate way or you'll lose them."
As for McBride, she's working on a new album which should be out in the spring and is putting together a Canadian tour for next March.
"It's been a long time since we've been up there to tour, so I think it's time," she says.

Canadian Idol airs tomorrow and Tuesday at 9 p.m. on CTV.

thanks for a great article

HAH! My friend and I were discussing what she'd sing, and I so said TICMIOMO.

It's cool that the group song is going to be I Can't Stop Loving You, though that's my least favorite from the album.