Vegas Vacuums Before Company Arrives
• We are just 48 hours away from the start of the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas. The high-powered lineup for the two-day event inside the T-Mobile Arena on Friday and Saturday night includes Justin Timberlake, Fleetwood Mac, Carrie Underwood, Mariah Carey, Kelly Clarkson,Imagine Dragons, Jason Aldean, Sam Smith, Luke Bryan, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Panic! At The Disco, Shawn Mendes, Kygo, Rae Sremmurd, Logic, Childish Gambino and more, plus this year’s Macy’s iHeartRadio Rising Star winner, Heffron Drive.
The Daytime Stage will take place at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on Saturday, September 22 with performances by Logic, Dua Lipa, 5SOS, Lil Uzi Vert, Dustin Lynch, Bazzi, Belly, Bobby Bones and The Raging Idiots, Greta Van Fleet, Bad Bunny, Grandson, Leon Bridges, MAX, Badflower, The Vamps, Drax Project and Evvie, the winner of Fox’s The Four: Battle For Stardom and iHeartMedia’s “On The Verge” artist.
iHeartMedia also announced the celebrity presenters for the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Festival and Daytime Stage include Taran Killam (ex-SNL), Ireland Baldwin, Ken Jeong, Sarah Hyland, Sabrina Carpenter, Iggy Azalea, Jeff Gordon,Boyz II Men, Paula Abdul,Kristin Cavallari, Nikki and Brie Bella from Total Bellas, Erin and Sara Foster from VH1’s Barely Famous, KJ Apa, Skeet Ulrich & Luke Perry from Riverdale, Sharna Burgess (Dancing With The Stars), The CW’s Candice Patton and Nicole Maines and Victoria’s Secret models Lais Ribeiro and Shanina Shaik. Celebrity attendees include Taylor Lautner, Sofia Carson, Debby Ryan, Lance Bass, Jana Kramer and a bunch of other names.
iHeartMedia personalities will be well represented, with host Ryan Seacrest and on-air talent Big Boy, Bobby Bones, Elvis Duran, the cast of The Breakfast Club and Woody. Angi Taylor from WKSC (103.5 Kiss FM)/Chicago will be the 2018 backstage announcer during The CW’s livestream and television special. Each night, Elvis will host a live backstage broadcast featuring performances and exclusive artist interviews that will air in over 150 markets and on iHeartRadio. The CW Network will also livestream the whole thing via CWTV.com and will air a two-night special on October 7 & 8 from 8-10pm ET/PT.
