Music News for Wednesday

Apr 4, 2018 | 6:30 AM

UPDATED TAYLOR SWIFT MUSEUM EXHIBIT COMING TO NEW JERSEY: New Jersey is about to get The Taylor Swift Experience. The singer’s popular exhibit, which first debuted in 2014 at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, is coming to Newark’s Prudential Center starting April 6th. It will be on display Tuesdays through Sundays throughout the spring and summer. The Taylor Swift Experience has been updated to include an aesthetic that matches her latest album, Reputation. The exhibit will now feature looks from her “Look What You Made Me Do” and “Ready for It?” videos. Also on display will be handwritten lyrics, home videos, personal photographs and “early childhood keepsakes.” Tickets run from $7 to $10. The Taylor Swift Experience previously made stops in New York City and the Grammy Museum Mississippi.

SHERYL CROW AUCTIONING OFF A HORSEBACK RIDE FOR CHARITY: Sheryl Crow has teamed up with the fundraising site Omaze to auction off a horseback ride at her Nashville ranch for charity. Bids will go to benefit the Pink Lotus Foundation, a nonprofit that provides breast cancer screenings and services to low-income, uninsured and under-insured women in the U.S. The winner and a friend will receive a flight to Nashville and a stay at a four-star hotel, as well as a riding session with Sheryl, who’s a breast cancer survivor. After sharing tea with the singer afterwards, the winner will also receive a signed copy of Breasts: The Owner’s Manual, an upcoming book by Dr. Kristi Funk that has a foreword by Sheryl. The deadline to enter is May 16th and the winner will be announced around May 31st.

ARIANA GRANDE’S ‘ONE LOVE MANCHESTER’ PERFORMANCE NOMINATED FOR BRITISH EMMY: Ariana Grande is a hero in the U.K. thanks to her organization of the One Love Manchester charity concert following the terrorist bombing outside her Manchester concert last year. Now, one of her performances from that show has been nominated for a BAFTA Television Award, the British equivalent of the Emmys. Ariana’s show-concluding performance of her song “One Last Time” at the One Love Manchester event is nominated for the “Virgin TV Must-See Moment Award,” the category for the best television moment of 2017. Her competition in the category includes the scene in Game of Thrones when the Night King kills Daenerys’ dragon, and the moment when actress Jodi Whitakker was revealed as the first-ever female Doctor on the BBC’s Doctor Who. The winner will be revealed May 13th at the BAFTA Awards.

CARDI B TO CO-HOST ‘THE TONIGHT SHOW’ NEXT WEEK: Cardi B will be taking over ‘The Tonight Show’ next week. According to Deadline, the Bronx rapper will perform and sit down with Jimmy Fallon, before acting as the show’s first-ever co-host. Cardi will appear on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday, April 9th. On another note, Cardi gave fans a surprise release early Wednesday morning (April 4th). She dropped a track called, “Drip” featuring Migos, which appears on her not-yet-released debut album, Invasion of Privacy.