GRAMMY Awards Will Pay Tribute to Route 91 Victims with Special Performance
Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris and Eric Church will create a memorable collaboration like none other to honor the innocent lives lost during the Route 91 massacre.
It’s been just a little more than three months since tragedy struck the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, leaving behind many victims forever haunted by the attack that took place.
The 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards will take time out to pay tribute to the lives lost and injured during the country festival with a special performance by some of country music’s greatest voices. Eric Church, Brothers Osborne and Maren Morris plan to team up with each other to play a universal, yet classic, track in honor of the victims of the Las Vegas shooting.
As confirmed by the GRAMMY Awards executive producer Ken Ehrlich in an article from the Associated Press, the artists will provide a light to such a dark point in American history by unifying together to play a song not yet decided on.
“We considered a number of songs. We wanted something that is universal. We wanted something that spoke to the subject, which certainly this song does. When you listen to the lyric, this one certainly stood out,” Ehlrich said to AP.
Although the performance will mark a more somber note in the program, Church felt as though it was the right thing to do to remember the innocent ones who lost their lives doing something they all loved: seeing live music.
Never forgetting the feeling of being one of the headliners at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, though, Church replays the moments in his head and hopes to do the victims justice with the GRAMMY performance.
“In all honesty, there’s not a day that goes by since that day that I have not thought of it and thought of the people and the victims,” Church said in the release. “That being our last show of the year, I took it in differently than I have maybe taken in other shows. I savored it. I remember everything about it.”
In October of 2017, the Route 91 Harvest Festival was attacked by a gunman in a nearby hotel who shot down at the grounds during a Jason Aldean set. 58 people died during the shooting, and hundreds more left critically wounded and injured from the massacre.
The 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards will air live from Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday, January 28, at 7:30 p.m. EST on CBS.
