Fresh from a winning night at the ACM awards, the Dixie Chicks [ tickets ] are back in the stadiums with the massive George Strait Country Music Festival. Come June, the spunky country trio will take to the road with fellow Strait Fest feature act Tim McGraw and simultaneously take a featured main stage position on the Lilith Fair tour.

Prior to the May 15th Strait tour stop in Washington, DC, they'll join Vice President Al Gore at an annual memorial service honoring peace officers slain in the line of duty. The group will perform Lonesome Road following Gore's keynote address.

The Dixie Chicks took home three trophies -- for Album of the Year, Top New Vocal Duet / Group and Top Vocal Duet / Group of the Year -- at last week's ACM awards in Los Angeles, a feat that is credited with a subsequent surge in album sales.

The group's current Wide Open Space album has been certified quintuple-platinum, signifying retail shipments of over 5 million copies, and in its 66th week of release is enjoying a resurgence in the album charts, moving into the #11 position on the pop side and locked in the #2 position on the country chart (where #1 has been Shania Twain territory for many weeks).

The days of playing intimate clubs are not long past for the group, though much of the spring has been spent playing to full stadiums on the George Strait Music Festival, a tour that will wrap up with a June 6th show at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium.

From the Strait tour, the Chicks will pair up with Tim McGraw for July and August dates that will be intertwined with a sizable run on this year's Lilith Fair tour, where they will be a featured main stage act.

Following the summer tour schedule, there are tentative plans for a new Dixie Chicks album.