In one of the most emotional performances of the night, country artists Maren Morris, the Brothers Osborne and Eric Church sang "Tears in Heaven" in honor of the victims of the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas.
Each of the performers onstage was on the roster of the festival, which was interrupted by gunfire on Oct. 1. Fifty-seven people and the gunman died in the shooting.
The four singers performed the Eric Clapton weeper "Tears in Heaven," written by the artist after the death of his son. Before doing so, they acknowledged the tragedy_but sound issues garbled some of the comments.
Morris dedicated the song to music fans who lost their lives in Las Vegas, and added that "a continent away, the same was true in Manchester, England."
She said, "The painful truth is that this year, in just those two events, 81 music lovers, just like us, went out to enjoy a night of music and never came back home ... So tonight, for those we lost, Eric, Brothers Osborne and I, who all performed in Las Vegas that tragic weekend, wanted to come together and honor the memory of the beautiful, music-loving souls so cruelly taken from us."
