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Maren Morris Knows She Is A Role Model, Announces Short Tour Film

Maren Morris sees many pre-teen and teenage girls singing along with her songs at her shows, and she takes the role model role very seriously. Maren told us recently, “Yeah,…

Maren Morris Knows She Is A Role Model, Announces Short Tour Film
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Maren Morris sees many pre-teen and teenage girls singing along with her songs at her shows, and she takes the role model role very seriously.

Maren told us recently, "Yeah, I meet a lot of young girls at my shows in the crowd, and they're always so sweet. I try to give them my guitar picks when I walk by. I hope they go and play guitar."

She recalls her musical role model when she was just a girl. "I remember my first concert being LeAnn Rimes and just being so in awe of her. And I think I was eight or nine years old, and just looking up to her and thinking, 'Wow, someday that could be me.' [That] kind of responsibility is a huge deal to me."

That got even bigger for her when she had her son Hayes in 2020, "Now that I'm a parent, even though I have a boy, I feel like through my words, through my lyrics, through my activism, like whatever I'm doing. Young girls are seeing it. Young kids are seeing it, and hopefully, they're being inspired to just be themselves and not water themselves down or dim their light in any way."

Morris has wrapped the majority of her "Humble Quest Tour," with just one date on the books to end the tour in Nashville on December 2, 2022.

Maren just announced that she would release a short film about the tour on Friday (11/4). She wrote on Instagram along with a clip, "Humble Quest: In Rare Form, a short film + seven reimagined tracks off Humble Quest out Friday. This came as an idea to me near the end of my tour when my band and I had worked so hard every show to find new moments to make each performance magical and unique. We were able to reimagine the songs of Humble Quest in this very stripped, beautiful form at sunset on a hill in North Carolina. No lighting, no bells and whistles, just Mother Nature, music, and friendship. Oh, and some pretty good gin & tonics."

Maren Morris tends to dazzle a bit when she hits the stage in concert on her "Girl Tour," or just playing a promotional gig, award show performance and of course will do the same her upcoming dates on buddy Miranda Lambert's "Pink Guitars and Road Side Bars Tour."

Just because we can, we take a look as Maren's great stage moments through the years.

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Maren Morris performs onstage during the 52nd Academy of Country Music Awards at T-Mobile Arena on April 2, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada.


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Maren Morris performs a private concert at The McKittrick Hotel on September 12, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)


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Maren Morris perfroms onstage during the 2018 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 20, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada.


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Maren Morris performs onstage at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 20, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada.


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Maren Morris performs exclusively for Hilton Honors members at Gotham Hall on May 11, 2018 in New York City.


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Maren Morris (C) performs with John Osborne (L) and T.J. Osborne (R) of Brothers Osborne onstage during the 54th Academy Of Country Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 07, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada.


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Maren Morris performs on stage for day 4 of the 2019 CMA Music Festival on June 09, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Maren Morris and Brandi Carlile perform on stage for day 4 of the 2019 CMA Music Festival on June 09, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Maren Morris performs with Zedd at Coachella Stage during the 2019 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on April 21, 2019 in Indio, California.


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Maren Morris performs at her “GIRL: The World Tour” at Brooklyn Steel on May 03, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.

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