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Las Vegas Shooting: 2018 Grammy’s Honor Victims With Tribute Performance
Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris and Eric Church perform “Tears in Heaven,” at the Grammys in tribute to victims of the Las Vegas shooting. Photo courtesy of CNN.

Las Vegas Shooting: 2018 Grammy’s Honor Victims With Tribute Performance

Four months after the Las Vegas shooting, the 2018 Grammy’s honored the 58 concert-goers killed in the massacre at the Route 91 Harvest Festival — including one from Santa Clarita — with a special tribute performance.


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Country artists Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris and Eric Church came together to perform an emotional rendition of Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven,” at the 60th Grammy Awards on Jan. 28 at Madison Square Garden in New York. 

Santa Clarita resident John Phippen, who was killed in the Las Vegas shooting. Photo courtesy of JP Specialties via Facebook.

“On October 1, all of country music was reminded in the most tragic way the connection we share with our fans, and the healing power of music will always provide,” said Church before the performance.

Morris added, “To honor 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.”

The tribute was also dedicated to victims of the bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, that left 22 concert-goers dead in May 2017.

Related: Las Vegas Shooting: Santa Clarita Hero Travis Phippen Recounts His Experience, His Father’s Heroism

Among the 58 killed in Las Vegas was Santa Clarita resident John Phippen, a father of five who was fatally shot while shielding a fellow concert-goer from gunfire alongside his son, Travis.

Travis was the first of the more than 500 victims who were wounded to file a lawsuit against the estate of gunman Stephen Paddock, 64, who killed himself in the Mandalay Bay hotel room where he executed his attack.

“The Phippin family wants all of us to learn something from this tragedy,” said Richard Patterson of the law firm Owen, Patterson, & Owen in Valencia, who is representing Travis in the suit, as well as many other victims from Santa Clarita. “They want change. They want the industry to learn from it, the hotel and the concert business. They want more security, they want metal detectors and better visibility of emergency exits. They want safety for the public.”

Of the more than 500 concert-goers who were wounded that night, at least a dozen of them were from Santa Clarita.

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Melissa Lampert-Abramovitch has been writing for KHTS since Feb. 2014. She currently writes “Community Spotlight” and feature stories, and coordinates all aspects of both the”KHTS Adopt a Pet” video feature series and “Top Things to Do in Santa Clarita.” She is the creator of “KHTS Adopt a Pet” and acted as News Editor from 2019-2020, as well as Features Director and Newsroom Manager from 2016-2018. A former Valley Publications Staff Writer, Melissa was a contributor to the Santa Clarita Gazette and Canyon Country Magazine from 2015-2016. She has published feature stories with Pet Me Magazine, The Pet Press, The Signal, COC's Cougar News, and KJAMS Radio.