Old Dominion haven’t even begun their 2019 tour, but they’re already ready to keep it going. The country group has announced more dates for their Make It Sweet Tour, which will launch on Jan. 18 in Chicago, Ill.

Additional stops on Old Dominion’s 2019 Make It Sweet Tour include Athens, Ga., Washington, D.C., and Tallahassee, Fla., among other cities, as well as some festival appearances, at Stagecoach in California and others. A complete list of currently announced stops is below; fans with tickets to previously announced shows should note that three mid-February stops have been rescheduled to allow Old Dominion frontman Matthew Ramsey to undergo leg surgery.

Old Dominion will be joined by special guests Michael Ray, Jordan Davis, Morgan Evans, Mitchell Tenpenny, Brandon Lay, Carlton Anderson, the Washboard Union and Jason Benoit on select dates of their 2019 Make It Sweet Tour. For ticket information, visit the band’s website.

The 2019 Make It Sweet Tour borrows its name from Old Dominion’s new single, “Make It Sweet.” The infectious tune advises “Life is short, make it sweet,” and is the group’s first taste of new music from their forthcoming third studio album, the follow-up to 2017’s Happy Endings.

Carol Channing, the lanky, ebullient musical comedy star who delighted American audiences over almost 5,000 performances as the scheming Dolly Levi in “Hello, Dolly” on Broadway and beyond, has died. She was 97.

Publicist B. Harlan Boll said Channing died of natural causes at 12:31 a.m. Tuesday in Rancho Mirage, California. Boll says she had twice suffered strokes in the last year.

Besides “Hello, Dolly,” Channing starred in other Broadway shows, but none with equal magnetism. She often appeared on television and in nightclubs, for a time partnering with George Burns in Las Vegas and a national tour.

Her outsized personality seemed too much for the screen, and she made only a few movies, notably “The First Traveling Saleslady” with Ginger Rogers and “Thoroughly Modern Millie” with Julie Andrews.

Over the years, Channing continued as Dolly in national tours, the last in 1996, when she was in her 70s. Tom Shales of The Washington Post called her “the ninth wonder of the world.”

Channing was not the immediate choice to play Dolly, a matchmaker who receives her toughest challenge yet when a rich grump seeks a suitable wife. The show, which features a rousing score by Jerry Herman that’s bursting with joy and tunes like “Put On Your Sunday Clothes,” ″Before the Parade Passes By” and “It Only Takes a Moment,” is a musical version of Thornton Wilder’s play “The Matchmaker.”

Theater producer David Merrick told her: “I don’t want that silly grin with all those teeth that go back to your ears.” Even though director Gower Champion had worked on her first Broadway hit, “Lend an Ear,” he had doubts about Channing’s casting.

She wowed them in an audition and was hired on the spot. At opening night on Jan. 16, 1964, when Channing appeared at the top of the stairs in a red gown with feathers in her hair and walked down the red carpet to the Harmonia Gardens restaurant, the casehardened New York audience went crazy. The critics followed suit. “Hello, Dolly” collected 10 Tony Awards, including one for Channing as best actress in a musical.