Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton to host 2023 Academy of Country Music Awards show
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Dolly Parton returns — this time alongside Garth Brooks — to host this year's 58th Academy of Country Music Awards.
The show airs live May 11 at 7 p.m. CDT for a global audience exclusively on Amazon's Prime Video from Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas, near Dallas. The full rebroadcast will stream the next day for free on Amazon's Freevee.
The 7-year-old, 12,000-seat indoor stadium in Frisco is mainly used as the Dallas Cowboys' practice facility.
A limited number of tickets, starting at $400, are still available on SeatGeek.
Parton is returning as ACM host after appearing last year alongside Jimmie Allen and Gabby Barrett.
In 2022, the ACM Awards became the first major awards ceremony to exclusively livestream in partnership with Prime Video. In addition, this year's show marks its first return to Texas since the 2015 ACM Awards, which drew a crowd of 70,000, a Guinness World Record for an awards show, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
"I am thrilled to return to host the ACM Awards, this time with my friend Garth," Parton said via a press release. "While I've had the pleasure of spending time with him throughout the years, I can't believe we've never had the chance to work together."
Recently, regarding his 2016 exclusive partnership with Amazon Music, Brooks told an audience at the Country Radio Seminar that Amazon also being a retailer of physical units allowed him to help songwriters get paid.
"I stick up for the songwriters because I’m freakin’ one of them," he said. "Everything I do for the songwriters, I do for myself.”
Amazon and MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke added: "As we bring back the Emmy-nominated Academy of Country Music Awards to our global audience, we are thrilled to continue to showcase the power of Amazon to create what will be an unforgettable night of live entertainment experiences with Dolly and Garth at the helm of 'Country Music's Party of the Year.'"
Academy of Country Music CEO and ACM Awards executive producer Damon Whiteside notes that he "couldn't be more excited" to bring an "unforgettable" event to the Dallas Cowboys' World Headquarters.
Parton will be premiering the lead single from her upcoming rock album at the show. Tentatively titled "Rock Star," it is expected to arrive in fall 2023.
The Academy of Country Music recently announced the return of its Topgolf fundraiser for ACM Lifting Lives, set to take place May 10 at The Colony near Dallas. The event will be followed by a sold-out live concert on the golf green featuring ACM Award winner Morgan Wallen, HARDY, Lainey Wilson, ERNEST, Bailey Zimmerman and DJ 13lackbeard.
This marks the first announced event as part of ACM Awards week taking over North Texas, with additional programs still to be revealed.
The nominees, performers, and presenters for this year's show will be announced in the coming weeks via ACMcountry.com.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton to host Academy of Country Music Awards
