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    ACM Awards bring country music back near Las Vegas site of shooting rampage

    by Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times Apr 16, 2018 5 minutes

    LAS VEGAS - Country singer Jason Aldean is an old hand at awards shows by now, a regular presence among nominees at the annual Grammys, Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music ceremonies where he's piled up dozens of awards and nominations over the years.

    But it's safe to say that the musician from Macon, Ga., has never experienced a more emotionally packed night than Sunday's ACM Awards here in Las Vegas - nor one where that emotion had so little to do with who won what.

    Aldean, along with dozens of his country music peers, gathered in the same city where 58 music fans were killed and hundreds more injured while he was on stage in October at the Route 91 Harvest Festival of country music.

    They assembled for Sunday's ceremonies at the MGM Grand, a short distance from where a shooter emptied one ammunition

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