The Country Music Awards Academy – curved on the country’s “party of the year” – started in Frisco today.
The starry affair started at 7 p.m. at the star Ford Center and is hosted by Reba Mcéntire for the 18th time. For those who have settled at a distance, the show is in trouble on Prime Video and Twitch Channel by Amazon Music.
The artists walked on the red carpet this afternoon and The Dallas Morning News was parked there to chat with them and capture all the catchy looks.
The Red Carpet Show was broadcast on Twitch from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Album of the year
Lainey Wilson wins with Whirlwind. Also nominated was nominated F-1 Billion. Malone has been nominated in five categories and has been excluded from prices so far.
Keith Urban wins the Triple Crown Prize
Urban has become the first artist since 2010 to win this prestigious honor. The prize is awarded to those who won a new artist of the year, an artist of the year and an artist of the year.
Urban, who came to the show with his wife, Nicole Kidman, filmed for her CBS Music Competition series, The roadEarlier this year at the Deep Ellum and Tannahill’s Tavern and Music Hall factory at Fort Worth. The reality TV show should be presented in the fall and aims to find “the next big musician”.
Female artist of the year
Lainey Wilson was appointed female artist of the year for the third consecutive year. Kacey Musgraves, who grew up in the small town of Golden, about 80 miles east of Dallas.
Alan Jackson wins the Lifetime Success Prize
Jackson, who brought his farewell tour to Fort Worth in February, sang his moving ballad “Remember when” after Mcentire announced it as the winner of an inaugural Achievement Award of his life.
Single of the year
The native Alabama Ella Langley and Riley Green won with their smashed duo, “you seem that you love me.” “I was also nominated” I had help “, by Post Malone and with Morgan Wallen. The song was from Malone’s crossed album, F-1 Billion.
A new female artist occurs
Ella Langley, who received the honor before the prize ceremony show, played “was not for the wind”. The Breakout singer had the most appointments of all the artists this year, with eight. Six of his appointments were for his duet with Green.
Duo of the year
Country Legends Brooks & Dunn win the duo of the year.
Male artist of the year
Chris Stapleton wins the male artist’s prize of the year for the fifth time and the second consecutive year.
Blake Shelton and Lainey Wilson continue the theme of Texas
Shelton, from Oklahoma, sang his “Texas”, who believes that his daughter is “probably in Texas”. Wilson, the reigning artist of the year, followed with “Whirlwind”, which speaks of “Cuttin” through a city in Texas “.
Year group
Old Dominion wins the group of the year for the eighth year in the row. Flatland Sextet Flatland cavalry of Lubbock Sextet.
New male artist of the year occurs
Zach Top, who was appointed new male artist of the year before the prize ceremony program, interpreted his ballad “use me”.
Miranda Lambert plays
Miranda Lambert, from eastern Texas, played “Run” from her 10th studio album, Texas postcards. Lambert spent his early childhood in Van Alstyne, north of Dallas, before his family moved to Lindale.
Year’s song
Cody Johnson from Sebastopol received the song of the year for “Dirt Cheap”. He said he had started his career as a songwriter in Texas when the price is accepted. Lionel Richie presented.
Post Malone was also nominated in this category for “I had help”, featuring Wallen.
Opening female
The price show has started with a mixture of 12 minutes of ACM songs of the year for the past six decades. The artists understood Mcentire, Clint Black, Wynonna Judd and Garland Native Leann Rimes.
A hot socket by Jelly Roll
Before Jelly Roll lights the ACM scene with Shaboozey, he made a hot vision of the red carpet: Tex-Mex is greater than the BBQ of Texas.
“I don’t want Texas barbecue lovers to come for me right now, but Tex-Mex is different. It is better than Mexican cuisine by a group,” he said.
“I’m illuminated on the internet,” he said, grimacing.
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According to Cheryl Kool, McENTIRE has passed for a quick photo session on the red carpet and posed with FAWNING fans in the section. Kool and his siege comrade Brad Davidow also spotted the Backstreet boys.
“I have met them all individually,” said Davidow. “I was like [a] Fan Boy. “”
Kool sounded: “He almost passed out.”
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A buzzing red carpet
The red carpet is full of budding acts from the country moving from Press Square to Press Square. Many women wear ball dresses while men are largely dressed in chic Western outfit. No post Malone observation yet, but we may have spotted Leann Rimes.
Coffey Anderson is delivered with jokes and cool pants
Coffey Anderson, singer-songwriter of Bangs, in Texas-about three o’clock southwest of Dallas-amazed on the red carpet with pants he joked was made from the sofa of his grandmother (spoiler alert: they came from the male line of Nova fashion). On his white cowboy hat, he had slipped a feather of turkey and a ribbon of the American flag.
Anderson is perhaps best known for his presence on social networks, where he promotes some of his songs.
“I had record labels, I lowered myself and I saw YouTube,” he said. “I saw a monkey roll a monocycle … a million people looking at a monkey. I was as maybe they would listen to me to sing. ”
Standing on the red carpet, he said he felt “so much gratitude” for country music.
“It’s so special to see some of my heroes become friends, some of my peers become legends,” he said.
He gave a cry to Mcentire, the host tonight, as well as Garth Brooks and Dwight Yoakam.
The wild blue singer arrives
The wilder blue singer Zane Williams wore a white sleeve dress shirt with a picturesque viewed panel at the top – an eBay finds his original wife.
The group, from Texas, recently dropped a crowdfunding album Always in the Runnin ‘.
When he was asked what he was running, Williams replied: “Something better, something better than where you are … you have been crushed for a long time, but you still have a long way to go, so you can’t stop.”
The red carpet has opened its doors
Native of Plano, Cheryl Kool, 58, and Brad Davidow, 52, from Chicago, met in a curly section for replacements. Disaded cheers came out of the region, while people posed for photographs near the entrance.
“You have no idea of the work that goes there behind the scenes, and the number of people who have sweated and tears to really make it all happen,” said Kool while the ceremony organizers collapsed.
Davidow is looking forward to catching Jelly Roll on the red carpet while Kool is the most excited to see Mcentire, “the queen of country music”.
“I love that country has increased because it has always been my favorite,” said Kool. “I think that because it touches my soul in a way that no other music makes for me.”
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Among the nominees in Texas, there is Post Malone and the east of Texas Darling Kacey Musgraves.
Malone participates in five categories, including the album of the year with F-1 Billion.
Meanwhile, Musgraves is a competitor for the female artist of the year and the song of the year for his single “The Architect” of the album Far deeper.
The Academy of Country Music Awards arrived in Texas for their 50th show in 2015 at the AT&T stadium in Arlington. The party migrated north to Frisco in 2023 and it has been there since.
“We really fell in love with the Star District,” said ACM CEO Damon Whiteside in a recent interview, citing the region’s infrastructure and the capacity of 12,000 stadium seats.
He also praised the energy of the Texas Country fans base (and those who traveled for the celebration).
“They go out and they are there to have fun,” he said. “They are standing all the time. They sing all the songs.”
By reflecting on the 60th striking show of this year, Whiteside hinted a program dedicated to the superstars of the past, the present and the future of country music – a point brought home by the mixture of 12 minutes previously announced of ACM songs of the year since the last six decades.
More than 30 artists will take the ACM scene, according to the executive producer of the ceremony, Raj Kapoor. The programming includes coming like Jelly Roll and Shaboozey as well as country artists established like Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert.
