May 11 (UPI) -- The 2023 Academy of Country Music Awards will take place Thursday.
The 58th annual ACM Awards will be held at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, and stream at 8 p.m. EDT on Prime Video.
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1 of 5 | Dolly Parton will host and perform at the ACM Awards on Thursday. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks will co-host the ceremony.
Parton will also perform, along with Jason Aldean, Kane Brown, Ashley McBryde, Lainey Wilson and other artists.
Hardy leads the nominees with seven nominations, followed by Wilson with six and Brown, Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert and Cole Swindell with five each.
How to watch
The ACM Awards will stream Thursday at 8 p.m. EDT on Prime Video.
Participants
Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks will co-host the ceremony.
Parton will also perform "World of Fire," a first single from her forthcoming rock album, Rockstar.
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Other performers include Jason Aldean, Kane Brown, Ashley McBryde, Luke Combs, Jelly Roll and Lainey Wilson. British pop star Ed Sheeran will perform at the ACM Awards for the first time.
Morgan Wallen will no longer perform due to a vocal cord injury.
Nominations
Hardy leads the nominees with seven nominations, including Song of the Year for "Wait in the Truck," his song with Wilson, who is up for six awards.
Brown, Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert and Cole Swindell have five nominations each.
Zach Bryan and Hailey Whitters were announced Tuesday as the winners of ACM New Male Artist of the Year and ACM New Female Artist of the Year, respectively.
Dolly Parton, who founded the "Imagination Library" in her native Sevier County in Tennessee, attends a function at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on March 23, 2000. Parton was in town to pick up an award from the Association of American Publishers for her efforts to promote literacy. Her five-year-old program has already donated 150,000 books to the county's children. Photo by Joel Rennich/UPI | License Photo
