UPDATE (Aug. 16): Lauren Alaina, Jason Aldean, Terri Clark, Jackson Dean, Kameron Marlowe and Lee Ann Womack have been added as performers at the 2024 ACM Honors, which will be presented on Wednesday, Aug. 21 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Jordan Davis and Carly Pearce, who were already set to co-host the show, are now confirmed as performers as well.
Darius Rucker, previously announced as a performer, will not be appear, due to a scheduling conflict.
Dean will perform a Glen Campbell classic as part of a special segment devoted to this year’s ACM Lifting Lives grant cycle. Scott and Sandi Borchetta’s Music Has Value Fund pledged $100,000 to magnify focus on music and memory care. Campbell died in 2017 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Campbell’s musical legacy was celebrated on the Big Machine release Glen Campbell Duets: Ghost on the Canvas Sessions, which was released in April.
As previously reported, the 17th Academy of Country Music Honors will air Tuesday, September 24 (9:00 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. CT / 6 p.m. PT) on Merit Street, marking the first time the special will air on the network as part of a larger partnership between Merit Street Media and the Academy of Country Music.
To view Merit Street, audiences can access the channel-finder link by entering zip codes at www.meritstreetmedia.com. Merit Street can be found on DirecTV, Dish, U-Verse, Samsung TV Plus and additional broadcast, basic cable, national satellites, and FAST channels, as well as the free streaming app, Merit+, available to download via iPhone & Android mobile devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Fire TV, and Roku.
PREVIOUSLY (July 31): Eric Church, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Tyler Hubbard, Jamey Johnson, Ashley McBryde, Darius Rucker and Keith Urban are the first performers announced for the 2024 ACM Awards, which will be presented on Wednesday, Aug. 21 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
Carly Pearce and Jordan Davis are set to host the event, which will pay tribute to this year’s previously-announced honorees Walt Aldridge, Tony Brown, Luke Bryan, Alan Jackson, Shannon Sanders, Lainey Wilson and Trisha Yearwood.
Pearce is hosting for the fourth straight year. Davis is the reigning ACM song of the year winner, having won at the May 16 show for co-writing “Next Thing You Know” with Josh Osborne, Chase McGill and Greylan James.
Brown has worked closely with both Harris, for whom he played piano, and Gill, for whom he produced many recordings, including one that won an ACM Award – “Building Bridges,” a 2006 collab with Sheryl Crow which was voted vocal event of the year.
In addition to performing on the show, Hubbard will present the ACM studio recording and industry awards portion of ACM Honors, which is in its 17th year.
Additionally, previously announced artist-songwriter of the year winner Chris Stapleton and songwriter of the year Jessie Jo Dillon will be feted at ACM Honors.
Limited tickets for ACM Honors are available through AXS, including VIP packages which include a ticket in the VIP artist section of the Ryman (first seven rows), a ticket to the VIP pre-party reception, a commemorative Hatch Show Print poster, parking, and drink tickets.