Kacey Musgraves Makes Debut ACM Awards Performance With ‘Dry Spell’
The seven-time ACM Award winner loaded up on sausage and double entendre as she carried out the lead single from her newest album, Middle of Nowhere
Kacey Musgraves hit the stage on the 2026 ACM Awards for the primary time ever on Sunday night time breaking a surprising dry spell with a efficiency of her personal single… “Dry Spell.”
The seven-time ACM Award winner’s efficiency was full of cheeky double entendre. It opened with Musgraves sitting atop a washer earlier than selecting up some sausages on the butcher’s counter of a makeshift grocery retailer (à la the “Dry Spell” music video). Even the signage was slyly ribald with cream, juice, melons, and bananas on sale, and eggplants and cucumbers positioned in aisle 69.
Earlier this month, Musgraves launched his seventh studio album Middle of Nowhere. With loads of pedal metal guitars and the singer’s Texas roots on full show, the LP is her most country-leaning undertaking in years. The LP marked Musgraves’ first since 2024’s Deeper Well.
In celebration of the album, Musgraves has delivered a handful of reside performances from a surprise Coachella set to album promotion exhibits in London, and most not too long ago, a three-night residency at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas. For her remaining night time on the famed Texas venue, the singer introduced out fellow nation queen, and ACM Awards nominee, Miranda Lambert to sing their new duet “Horses and Divorces.”
Musgraves is not up for any awards on the ceremony this yr since Middle of Nowherelaunched on May 1 of this yr, falls out of the eligibility interval. The singer has received seven ACM Awards through the years, together with Album of the Year for 2018’s Golden Hour.
Other performers set to take the stage all through the night time embody Ella Langley, Little Big Town, Miranda LambertCody Johnson, Carter Faith, Parker McCollum, Lainey Wilson, and Riley Green.