The 56th Academy of Country Music Awards will be held this Sunday night in Nashville at three of the biggest venues in town, the Ryman Auditorium, The Grand Ole Opry, and the Bluebird Cafe, hosted by Keith Urban and Mickey Guyton.
Get ready for these big performances!
Elle King and Miranda Lambert will open the show with “Drunk And I Don’t Wanna Go Home.”
Dierks Bentley, Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Luke Combs, Dan + Shay also performing.
Power couple Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd will debut their new song, “Chasing After You,” and Thomas Rhett premiering “What’s Your Country Song” and “Country Again” on the ACM stage.
Blake Shelton celebrating the 20th Anniversary of his first hit single “Austin” as well as “Minimum Wage” will be fun!
Chris Stapleton, Brothers Osborne, Chris Young and Kane Brown singing “Famous Friends” and Carly Pearce and Lee Brice duetting on “I Hope You’re Happy Now.”
Carrie Underwood is performing a medley from her new album of gospel hymns, My Savior with Gospel legend CeCe Winans.
Kelsea Ballerini and Kenny Chesney will sing, “Half Of My Hometown,” plus Lady A, Ashley McBryde and Keith Urban. His co-host Mickey Guyton will grace the stage and “the man” himself Alan Jackson!
New Artist winners Gabby Barrett and Jimmie Allen will perform as well.
Luke Bryan was set to shake his hips on the ACM stage but now the country superstar will be watching from a distance.
On Monday, Luke tested positive for COVID-19 and as a result (obviously) has been pulled from the show. He is one of the nominees for Entertainer Of The Year.
The 2021 ACM Awards are set for April 18 at 9PM Atlantic time on CBS and available to stream on Paramount+
https://www.acmcountry.com/noms
Good luck to all our Hot Country friends!
-Ian
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