The last time Irish pop-country dynamo CMAT made her way through Nashville was in 2022, when she played a solo show at the OG Basement. A YouTube video from that tour stop, recorded just a few weeks after the singer released her debut studio album If My Wife New I’d Be Dead , shows her sitting alone onstage on a stool with a keyboard balanced on her lap singing a song called “Nashville,” which was written before she’d even visited Music City. Since then, CMAT has headlined multiple music festivals, including the 2025 Glastonbury Festival, where she drew a crowd of thousands. She also released her stellar album Euro-Country , featuring the breakout hit “Take a Sexy Picture of Me,” which has delightfully been dubbed the “Woke Macarana” by some.

So things looked a bit different for CMA

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