Dan + Shay Spreading Country Music Overseas

Dan + Shay were among the honorees at the ACM Honors event which took place at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on Wednesday, August 25th.

The duo received the ACM Jim Reeves International Award, which honours “outstanding contributions to the acceptance of country music throughout the world.”

After accepting their award on stage, Dan Smyers said…

“You know, when we started having some more success with our songs and when they started spreading internationally — you know, I think the peak of that was when we did a collaboration on ‘10,000 Hours’ with Justin Bieber. We were getting messages and DMs from all over the world and places we had never been to before and to know that we were one of the folks spreading country music to these different places was an incredible thing, and for us to be a part of that to get this award here tonight is a nice token of that and, yeah, we’re so grateful. It’s amazing.”

Other honorees last night included Luke Combs, Loretta Lynn, Toby Keith, Lady A and Rascal Flatts.

Categorised in: Country Music News

This post was written by Cheryl Johnstone