Carrie Underwood photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

Thanksgiving is officially a holiday, but that won’t stop many of country music’s top stars from working while the rest of us eat.

Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban and James Otto are a few of the artists who have Turkey Day activities planned. Some of those appearances — including Taylor’s first-ever network special — were already shot. But others, such as Gloriana’s appearance in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, indeed occur in real time.

Here’s a roundup of country-related Thanksgiving stuff:

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Gloriana photo courtesy of Emblem Records.

Gloriana’s Cheyenne Kimball (on the left in the photo above) might be closely associated with “Wild At Heart,” but her heart has already been tamed.

Cheyenne is engaged to another singer-songwriter, she announced to the world via Twitter.

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Gloriana photo courtesy of Emblem Records.

Thanks to the single “Wild At Heart” and an opening slot on the Taylor Swift Fearless Tour, Gloriana built quite a strong foundation in the last couple years as a new country band.

The song’s harmonies and its catchy melody definitely caught on — “Wild At Heart” was certified gold just last month.

With that success behind them, the four members — Cheyenne Kimball, Rachel Reinert and brothers Tom and Mike Gossin — started writing songs on Tuesday for the next album. Despite the attention they’ve gotten, they’re feeling no pressure to duplicate or exceed the last one. In fact, they’re itching to see what kind of changes they can make to their core sound.

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Taylor Swift surprised country radio programmers during a recent dinner in New York City before her sold-out Madison Square Garden show. Pictured above with Taylor are her tour openers, Gloriana and WKLB/Boston MD Ginny Rogers. (l-r): Gloriana’s Mike Gossin, Cheyenne Kimball, WKLB’s Ginny Rogers, Taylor, Gloriana's Tom Gossin and Rachel Reinert. Photo courtesy of Big Machine Records.

Sept. 29, 2009 — Gloriana has made quite the splash in 2009. The band earned its first hit with “Wild At Heart,” reached No. 2 on the Billboard country album chart with its initial CD and hit the road as an opening act on Taylor Swift’s Fearless Tour.

Taylor was, perhaps, a bit of a visionary, offering the band the concert slot when it was still just trying to get a little traction by visiting radio stations across the U.S.

“We had been doing this tour for about 20 weeks in a 15-passenger van, just driving around the country and flying to different states day in and day out,” group member Tom Gossin told The Youngstown Vindicator of Ohio. “We were in a van leaving a radio station when we got a phone call. We put it on speaker, and a girl got on and said, ‘It’s Taylor Swift.’” Continue Reading

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