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Jan 9, 2000

Shania Twain takes the People's Choice award for Favorite Female Musical Performer during a CBS telecast from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in California

Jan 17, 2000

Garth Brooks is named Artist of the Decade for the '90s during the American Music Awards at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. He also wins trophies for Favorite Male Country Artist and Favorite Country Album, for "Sevens." Shania Twain nets two

Feb 11, 2000

James Caveye is arrested in San Francisco and becomes the second man charged in the 1998 murder of Nashville club owner David "Skull" Schulman. Schulman had aided in the development of "Hee Haw"

Feb 22, 2000

Willie Nelson receives a Grammy award for lifetime achievement in a special ceremony, along with Harry Belafonte, John Lee Hooker, Woody Guthrie and record producer Mitch Miller. Trustees awards also go to producer Phil Spector and record exec Clive Davis

Feb 23, 2000

The Dixie Chicks and Shania Twain each win twice during the 42nd annual Grammy Awards at Los Angeles' Staples Center. The Chicks' "Ready To Run" takes Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group, while "Fly" earns Best Country Album

Feb 23, 2000

Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman," Faron Young's "Hello Walls" and The Byrds' album "Sweetheart Of The Rodeo" enter the Grammy Hall of Fame along with such other 1960s recordings as "Unchained Melody" and "My Way"

Mar 23, 2000

Garth Brooks appears with Brad Pitt and Bill Maher at the New Millennium Ball, a Los Angeles fundraiser for the UCLA School of Medicine. Brooks' mother, Colleen, was treated for cancer at the facility

Mar 26, 2000

Faith Hill sings "Over The Rainbow" and "The Way We Were" as a last-minute replacement for Whitney Houston on the Academy Awards, broadcast by ABC-TV from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Garth Brooks performs "Everybody's Talkin'" in the same medley; Ray Charles does "Secret Love"

Apr 10, 2000

Alan Jackson sings "Chattahoochee" and Brooks & Dunn perform "My Maria" with Lee Roy Parnell on guitar at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium as NBC tapes a special, "25 Years Of No. 1 Hits: Arista Records' Anniversary Celebration." The bill includes Whitney Houston, who does a medley that features "I Will Always Love You"

Apr 30, 2000

Multi-instrumentalist Bill Woods dies at Bakersfield's San Joaquin Hospital several weeks after triple bypass heart surgery. His resume included work with Merle Haggard, Jean Shepard and Tommy Collins

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