In a surprise announcement, Keith and Nicole reveal that there is a new addition to their family. On December 28th, Urban and Kidman’s biological daughter, Faith Margaret, was born via a gestational carrier at Centennial Women’s Hospital in Nashville.

Our family is truly blessed, and just so thankful, to have been given the gift of baby Faith Margaret. No words can adequately convey the incredible gratitude that we feel for everyone who was so supportive throughout this process, in particular our gestational carrier.

Baby Faith joins big sister Sunday Rose who Nicole gave birth to in July of 2008. Kidman also has two adopted children with ex-husband, actor Tom Cruise.

Congratulations to Keith, Nicole, Sunday and their families.

Carrie Underwood walked away as the big winner with six awards at the Inaugural American Country Awards on Fox. The show featured some killer performances, but not a whole lot in the line of awards. So how did the show stack up to the other slew of country music award shows?

On the plus side, the ACAs were overall high energy and filled with performances. I think Trace Adkins was the perfect choice for the host. For one, he's as country as country can be and you don't get the feeling with him that he's wearing the cowboy hat just for show. He was also very witty and very funny. If the ACAs come back for a year number two, I hope they keep Trace around as the host.

Keith shares an inside look of the Nashville flood and recording studio with this exclusive documentary on keithurban.net.

Keith will also be visiting Jay Leno Tuesday, Dec. 7, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show Thursday, Dec. 9. Be sure and set those DVR's!

Lady Antebellum comes up huge with six Grammy Award nominations. Lady A is up for:

Album of the Year for "Need You Now"
Record of the Year for "Need You Now"
Song of the Year for "Need You Now"
Best Country Album for "Need You Now"
Best Country Song for "Need You Now"
Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "Need You Now."

Here's the full list of nominations for country artists:

Best Female Country Vocal Performance
Satisfied - Jewel
The House That Built Me - Miranda Lambert
Swingin' - LeAnn Rimes
Temporary Home - Carrie Underwood
I'd Love To Be Your Last - Gretchen Wilson

Are you ready Canada? Keith Urban has added nine Canadian stops to his recently announced 2011 Get Closer World Tour. Newcomers The Band Perry will be the opening act for this particular leg of the tour. Openers for US dates have yet to be announced.

September 9th: Scotiabank Place Ottawa, ONT
September 10th: Air Canada Centre Toronto, ONT
September 12th: John Labatt Centre London, ONT
September 15th: MTS Centre Winnipeg, MAN
September 16th: Regina, SAS Brandt Centre
September 17th: Credit Union Centre Saskatoon, SAS
September 21st: Rexall Place Edmonton, ALB
September 23rd: Scotiabank Saddledome Calgary, ALB
September 26th: Rogers Arena Vancouver, BC

Head to www.keithurban.net for more tour dates and all things Keith Urban.

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Country's Grammy®-winning megastar Keith Urban and his Oscar®-winning wife, Nicole Kidman will appear together for the first time on Oprah! The episode airs today, Monday, November 29, 2010. Check local listings for show times.

Musical instrument retailer, Guitar Center, is currently running the “Your Next Record With Keith Urban” contest. If you were thinking of entering and haven’t done so yet, better hurry because the deadline for submissions is November 30th, one week from today (www.yournextrecord.com). The competition is open to unsigned artists, age 18 and older, living in the continental US.

So, what will the lucky winner receive? The prize package includes: a 3-song EP recorded with a top producer, a $10,000 Guitar Center shopping spree, $10,000 worth of new gear/endorsement deals from Gibson, D’Addario, Planet Waves and Evans, a feature of the winner’s single on itunes, an opening slot on a Keith Urban show and Urban will appear with the winning artist on a song. Yes, that’s right…one very lucky winning artist will have bragging rights and can say that Keith appeared on their single! For aspiring artists I’d imagine that would just be the icing on an already pretty good cake.

Fresh off a week filled with promotional TV appearances and hopping aboard Amtrak to “Get Closer” to fans upon the release of his latest album Keith Urban is set to hit the football field next. This week Keith heads to Dallas and the “Big D” for rehearsals in preparation for his halftime show appearance during the Dallas Cowboys vs. New Orleans Saints game on Thanksgiving Day (3:15pm CT on FOX). The performance is part of the kick-off of the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign. Cameras will be following Urban throughout his time in Dallas for a documentary entitled Keith Urban: Halftime in Real Time, for the NFL Network, which will take viewers behind-the-scenes of what goes into pulling off this type of production, the first of its kind profiling a Thanksgiving event. The documentary special will air Saturday, November 27th, at 10:30pm EST on the NFL Network.

Edit: If you don't get the NFL Network in your area, you're in luck because GAC will also be premiering the special on Wednesday, December 1st at 10:30pm (EST) as a GAC special event.

Keith Urban is going to do his best to keep both his fans and his family happy when he heads out onto the road in 2011 for his Get Closer tour. Urban will hit 44 cities on the tour, with the first date being on June 16th in Mobile, Alabama. The schedule, which lets him do two or three shows then have a few days of off-time, will allow him to spend more time with his family and also, he hopes, give the crowd as much energy as he can on each and every stop of the tour.

"I think we should never be going through the motions up there if we can avoid it," Urban said. The tour will feature a new stage production and some new songs from his sixth album Get Closer.

Urban plans to release international tour dates and opening act information later.