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“Thank you to my friends here for holding me up when I needed it,” Ramsey, 45, told his bandmates Trevor Rosen, Brad Tursi and Geoff Sprung Thursday on stage at the Ford Center in Frisco, Texas.
He started his acceptance speech with a shout-out to legends likeGarth Brooks,Dolly PartonandRandy Travis, and he said he was grateful to have Old Dominion “included in this party.”
“I don’t know how. It’s an amazing thing that we are mentioned in the same thing,” he said. “But I also know that there are people obviously hurting in the world right now, trying to figure out how to make sense of divisiveness and shootings and things like that, and there are people that are really hurting right now. We are so proud to be in a room full of country music fans and make music for those people, but we’re most proud to make music for people that are hurting right now.”
He continued: “Thank you for including us in this party and allowing us to make music for whoever needs it. We will continue to try and do so.”
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He continued: “I promise we’ll keep up updated on my recovery and any other shows that might be affected. This tour has been such a blast so far this year and before you know it, I’ll be back out there with No Bad Vibes! Love you all. – m”
The injury forced Old Dominion to push three performances on their No Bad Vibes tour to 2024, though the band was able to pick things up again in April.
The 58th Academy of Country Music Awards are airing live from Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas Thursday, May 11 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT and stream live exclusively on Prime Video.
source: people.com
