‘ACM Honors’ to Celebrate Morgan Wallen, Miranda Lambert, ‘Yellowstone,’ Shania Twain at August Ceremony
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticThe recipients of the Academy of Country Music’s annual “ACM Honors” for 2022 were announced Wednesday, with the honorees at the ACM’s industry-centric adjunct ceremony in August to include Morgan Wallen, Shania Twain, Miranda Lambert, Chris Stapleton, ASCAP exec Connie Bradley and the television series “Yellowstone.”The ceremony will take place August 14 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
The show is not to be confused with the org’s competitive ACM Awards broadcast, which took place March 7 at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium and went out over Prime Video this year.
The “ACM Honors” show was created 15 years ago for honorary awards voted by the board. No broadcast or webcast component has yet been announced, although in 2021 the “Honors” went out over Circle TV network.
Information on a host, performers and ticket on-sale information for the show will also come at a later date.Sure to be an attention-getter is the special award for Wallen, who not that very long ago was persona non grata at awards shows in and out of country music.
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