Legends Garth Brooks, George Strait To Perform Together At April ACMs

Oklahoman Garth Brooks will team up with George Strait and the legends will perform together for the first time at next month's Academy of Country Music Awards to honor Dick Clark.

The performance by the two most recent winners of the ACM's artist of the decade award is symbolic. That award will be renamed for Clark, the entertainment icon and longtime producer of the ACM Awards who died last year.

The pairing of two of country music's most beloved — and best-selling — stars will draw plenty of attention to the 48th annual awards, which air live on CBS on April 7 from Las Vegas. Another Oklahoman, Blake Shelton, and Luke Bryan will host the show.

Clark began producing the show in 1979 and his family's company, dick clark productions, still handles those duties.

Brooks retired from touring in 2000 and just finished a three-year stint in Las Vegas. He has said he will put on a world tour "sometime" after his youngest daughter graduates from high school in 2014.

Strait announced last year that his 2013 tour would be his last, but he is not retiring from making music.