Country awards on the move
The annual Country Music Assn. Awards show will mark its 39th anniversary next year by leaving its home base of Nashville for the first time.
The nationally televised ceremony will be held Nov. 15, 2005 at Madison Square Garden in New York, CMA and city officials announced Tuesday at a Manhattan press conference. The relocation was credited largely to the efforts of NYC Big Events Inc., an organization established to bring high-profile events to the city.
This year’s CMA Awards will take place at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville on Nov. 9, and a CMA spokeswoman said Tuesday that the show will return there in 2006.
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