Dollymania.net: Dolly should be in Nashville on Tuesday to accept her Jim Reeves International Award from the Academy of Country Music (ACM). You may recall it announced back in March that Dolly was this year’s honoree for the award, the recipient of which is chosen by the Academy’s board to recognize contributions to expanding country music’s audience around the world. It marked her ninth career ACM win. Dolly’s name appeared on the screen during April’s ACM ceremony telecast, but the trophy – like those for the Pioneer Award and the musician honors – was not presented on stage. Until last year, these “off camera” honorees received their awards in a brief ceremony with a few performances and speeches in the summer (that’s how it was when Dolly received her Pioneer Award in June 2007, which happened to be the last public appearance she made with Porter Wagoner prior to his death later that year), but last year they turned it into a huge production and re-named it the ACM Honors. It was announced in August that Dolly devotee Lee Ann Womack had been tapped to host the ceremony, a private event held in Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center. As was reported back in March, others being honored include Merle Haggard and Harlan Howard with the Music Poets Award for songwriting and Randy Travis, Hank Williams Jr., Jerry Reed and frequent Dolly duet partner Kenny Rogers with the Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award in addition to the musician honorees and the Toby Keith movie Beer For My Horses with the Tex Ritter Award.
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