The 6th Annual ACM HONORS is an evening dedicated to recognizing the special honorees and off-camera category winners from the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. The event took place on Monday, September 24, 2012 at 7 p.m. at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. The evening was presented by City National Bank. Dierks’ Bentley made his debut for hosting the event and this was the third time the ceremony will be held at the Ryman Auditorium.

Country music has so many talented artists, songwriters and people working behind the scenes. And at the event, they gave awards to these people because without them the show wouldn’t go on. The Academy of Country Music Special Awards are voted on by the ACM Board of Directors and are awarded during years that the Board of Directors feels there are clear and deserving candidates.

This year Gayle Holcomb was presented with the Mae Boren Axton Award, which is given in recognition of years of dedication and service by an outstanding individual to the Academy of Country Music. Holcomb, a country music leader at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, has served as an Academy of Country Music board member for 17 years and five years as ACM chairman. During her tenure as chair, Holcomb was a driving force for the organization’s rapid change and growth, including moving the Awards show from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 2003. She helped launch AMC Lifting Lives in 2005, guiding the vision for the charity as it got under way initially, and continuing her support of the organization by becoming chairman. She made the initial endowment to form the ACM Lifting Lives Diane Holcomb Emergency Relief Fund, in honor of her mother, to enable the fund to respond quickly to unforeseen, immediate financial needs of ACM members, staff and members of the country music community.

The SCOOP congratulates Gayle Holcomb on this amazing accomplishment. Not only is Gayle a winner in the show ring, but in the Country Music Industry as well.