{"id":891419,"date":"2026-06-25T08:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/891419\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:56:16","slug":"acm-honors-event-celebrates-kacey-musgraves-ella-langley-leslie-fram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/891419\/","title":{"rendered":"ACM Honors Event Celebrates Kacey Musgraves, Ella Langley, Leslie Fram"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe lineup of country music heavyweights due to receive special awards from the Academy of Country Music<\/a> this summer has been set, with Kacey Musgraves<\/a>, Ella Langley<\/a> and Eric Church among the stars being feted at the 19th annual ACM Honors<\/a> program. It will take place Aug. 19 at the Pinnacle in Nashville.<\/p>\n

\n\tOthers being honored during the ceremony include music industry figures Leslie Fram<\/a> and Mike Curb; songwriters Bill Anderson, Brett James and Jessie Jo Dillon; the pioneering act the Carter Family; the Paramount+ TV series \u201cLandman\u201d; the U.K.\u2019s C2C: Country to Country music festival; and attorney Scott Zolke.<\/p>\n

\n\tCarly Pearce will co-host the ACM Honors show for the sixth time, joined by first-timer Parker McCollum. Performers and presenters will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n

\n\tPresale tickets went on sale Wednesday to ACM members and ACM A-List members, with a general-public on-sale to follow Friday via AXS.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ACM Spirit Award, given in memory of Merle Haggard for his maverick qualities, is earmarked for Kacey Musgraves, whose recent \u201cMiddle of Nowhere\u201d album reaffirmed her as one of country\u2019s most important modern figures.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ACM Poet\u2019s Award, recognizing a long body of songwriting, will go to two artists being awarded posthumously, the Carter Family and Brett James. The Carters became trailblazers for the nascent genre in the late 1920s; James is known for writing hits for Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride and many others.<\/p>\n

\n\tEric Church is getting the ACM Lifting Lives Award, named for the org\u2019s charitable arm. He is being honored for \u201chis immense support of others throughout his career and his notable contributions to large-scale disaster relief fundraising and rebuilding efforts following Hurricane Helene.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ACM International Award, for expanding country\u2019s influence to global markets, is being given to the C2C festival, Europe\u2019s biggest gathering of country stars and their fans.<\/p>\n

\n\tTaylor Sheridan\u2019s \u201cLandman\u201d is the recipient of the ACM Film Award, awarding a movie or TV series that prominently features country music.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ACM Lift Every Voice Award is going to Leslie Fram, who did groundbreaking work in a long tenure at ACM where she was able to champion new talent and especially make way for women and others who faced bigger challenges in making inroads as successful artists. She founded the CMT Next Women of Country franchise in 2013 and, outside of the network, also co-founded the groups Change the Conversation, Nashville Music Equality and Equal Access. <\/p>\n

\n\tTwo major figures are due to receive the ACM Icon Award \u2014 Bill Anderson, who rose to fame as an artist in the late \u201950s and has continued as a hit songwriter well into the 21st century, and Mike Curb, who went from a songwriting career to becoming the founder-owner of Curb Records (with an interlude as California\u2019s lieutenant governor along the way).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ACM Service Award, for an artist or other industry figure who has devoted time and effort to the ACM as an organization, will be given to Scott Zolke, a partner at Loeb & Loeb LLP. The Academy\u2019s release notes that Zolke \u201crepresented ACM in negotiations with Amazon Prime Video, securing a multi-year renewal agreement for the ACM Awards to exclusively livestream on the platform\u201d and that he \u201cwas key to the groundbreaking deal, which continues to elevate the ACM Awards\u2019 presence and viewership globally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso being honored at the ACM Honors this August are two figures who were announced at the time of the Academy of Country Music Awards in May: ACM Artist-Songwriter of the Year winner\u00a0<\/strong>Ella Langley and ACM Songwriter of the Year winner\u00a0Jessie Jo Dillon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lineup of country music heavyweights due to receive special awards from the Academy of Country Music this…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":891420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[29],"tags":[361383,95168,115623,171,157167,361384,975,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-891419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-academy-of-country-music","tag-acm-honors","tag-ella-langley","tag-entertainment","tag-kacey-musgraves","tag-leslie-fram","tag-music","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116809917288558912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}