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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 4 May 2019
Carrie Underwood lifting up women on new Cry Pretty Tour 360

By KRISTIN M. HALL about those pressures, post-
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — ing on Instagram about her
When Carrie Underwood post-baby body or having
was plotting out her up- to pump as she was getting
coming Cry Pretty Tour 360, ready for the Academy of
she realized she had se- Country Music Awards.
lected an all-female lineup "(Isaiah) was 11 months old
with opening acts Maddie when we started the last
& Tae and Runaway June. tour," Underwood said. "So
But then she wondered: it was very much like: do
"Can we do that?" a little makeup, make him
And then told herself: "OK, dinner, come back and do
we have to do this!" my hair, then get him ready
In a genre that often only for bed. So it was worlds
designates one or two slots colliding, but it was great.
to female acts for festivals I'm so lucky I get to take my
or tours, Underwood's are- kids to work with me and
na tour kicks off Wednes- not everybody gets to do
day in Greensboro, North that."
Carolina, with six women The tour comes at an im-
behind the mic through- portant time for both Mad-
out the show. It's becom- die & Tae and Runaway
ing a pattern for women in This April 7, 2019 file photo shows Carrie Underwood, center, performing "Southbound" at the 54th June, who both have new
country music, as Miranda annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas. albums coming this year.
Lambert, Maren Morris and Associated Press "We've never performed
Kacey Musgraves all have our music in a lot of these
had all-female or mostly- ing for the tour, Underwood Underwood will be return- nect so much with so many cities," said Cooke of
female tours recently. blushed when her support- ing to the center of the more people," Underwood Runaway June (Hannah
"I feel like it's been a really ing acts recounted how arenas for this tour, follow- said. Mulholland and Jennifer
great time for women to her songs were intertwined ing her 2016 Storyteller Tour She's bringing the whole Wayne round out the trio).
kind of come together and with their own careers. that also featured a cen- family on the road with her, "We literally couldn't have
be like, 'Let's support each Naomi Cooke from Run- ter stage that allowed her including 4-year-old Isaiah, dreamed up a better plat-
other. We're all in this to- away June remembers al- to spread out. The seven- three-month old Jacob form for us to be releasing
gether. Let's be all in this to- ways getting requests to time Grammy winner is an Bryan, and her husband, new music and playing
gether,'" Underwood said. cover "Before He Cheats" energetic performer, typi- former NHL player Mike new songs."
After her No. 1 album "Cry when she played at cally sprinting around and Fisher. "Somebody's got to In a year when no women
Pretty" came out last year, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, singing from all sides of the watch the kids when I am were nominated for enter-
Underwood is hitting the a downtown honky tonk. stage and blowing away onstage," Underwood said tainer of the year at the
road again and playing in Taylor Dye of Maddie & Tae fans with her impressive vo- with a laugh. ACMs, Underwood — who
more than 50 cities through recalled that she often won cal chops. The music industry isn't al- has won that award twice
October. Sitting down in local talent shows when she "I loved being able to see ways supportive of work- — has a chance to prove
a Nashville rehearsal hall sang "Cowboy Casanova" so much more of the audi- ing moms and Underwood that women deserve to be
where they were practic- or "Temporary Home." ence and be able to con- has been blunt and honest in that category again.q

Jennifer McMahon's 'The Invited' is a powerful novel

By OLINE H. COGDILL she teaches history. They the property in 1924 is a ple gone is their 14-year-
Associated Press live in a nice condo and kind of a bonus, especially old neighbor, Olive Kissner,
"The Invited: a Novel" (Dou- try not to live outside their appealing to the historian whose mother promised
bleday), by Jennifer Mc- means. But Helen's ennui is in Helen. She doesn't be- to find the treasure before
Mahon palatable — vanishing only lieve in ghosts, but she does the woman supposedly ran
Jennifer McMahon again when she volunteers in a believe in history. away.
proves that the modern "living museum" that recre- Helen may have to rethink McMahon keeps "The In-
ghost story is more than ates life in the mid-1800s for her views when strange vited" grounded in reality,
things that go bump in the visitors. While happily mar- things happen at the dilap- even when spirits suppos-
night. It hinges on reality, ried, the couple's life seems idated trailer on the land edly hover over the land.
slowly building to a terror set in stone until Helen in- where they are staying. Ee- The Wetherells' relation-
that seems real and some- herits a large sum of money rie packages are left on the ship is well designed with
times personal, as it does when her father dies. doorstep; items such as cell- the building of their house
in McMahon's highly enter- The opportunity to change phones, wallets and money serving as a metaphor
taining "The Invited." their lives is irresistible. They disappear, and what looks for their marriage — with
McMahon's powerful novel buy 44 heavily wooded like Hattie's ghost hovers some construction going
supplies a plethora of frights acres just outside the small over the land's bog. These smoothly, collapsing at oth- This cover image released by
that emerge from believ- rural village in Vermont on supposedly supernatural er times. Helen's embracing Doubleday shows "The Invit-
ed," a novel by Jennifer Mc-
able characters trying to which the avid do-it-your- happenings may be a way their new home's myths is Mahon.
navigate normal lives. selfers plan to build their of scaring away the couple nicely balanced by Nate's Associated Press
Helen and Nate Wetherell dream home. That the land because legend has it that skepticism. And McMahon
have good jobs at an elite is believed to be haunted Hattie buried treasure on doesn't forget the little de- a household budget, espe-
private school in Connecti- by Hattie Breckenridge who the land. One of the locals tails of life. A ghost spot- cially when you've quit your
cut. He teaches science, was hanged as a witch on who most wants the cou- ting pales when planning job.q