Country music star Luke Combs and others approve of plans to bring the Route 91 Harvest festival back to Las Vegas

    Raechal Shewfelt
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    People mourn the deaths of those killed during the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas. (Photo: Matt McClain/Washington Post via Getty Images)

    Fourteen months after the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history broke out at the 2017 event, the promoter has announced plans to bring the Route 91 Harvest music festival back to Las Vegas.

    Sources told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the revived festival would take place at a different venue, although still on the city’s Strip — the Las Vegas Festival Grounds, a 35-acre plot on the southwest corner of Sahara Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard — in the fall. The tragic shooting, in which 58 people died and hundreds more injured, took place at another location, the Las Vegas Village, near the Mandalay Bay resort.

    The news was met with mixed reviews. People who supported the idea tended to echo the thoughts of Grammy-nominated singer Luke Combs, who was standing on the side of the stage, watching Jason Aldean perform, when the shooting began. Combs is in favor of bringing back Route 91, which was not held in 2018.

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    Luke Combs performs on Aug. 11, 2017, in Macon, Ga. (Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

    “It could be the kind of show that can be a show of solidarity,” Combs told Taste of Country on Thursday. “You can’t let something like that dictate what you are going to do because that’s what those people want — they want people to remain in fear. I’m not going to be scared to live my life, so I think it’s a really good thing that it would go back.”

    He sees the idea of another Route 91 as “a really awesome way to honor the victims and survivors.”

    Combs said he has a close connection with the fans who were also there at the time.

    “We have helped them heal, and they have helped us heal,” Combs said. “So I would be very welcoming of seeing that festival come back.”

    Others felt similarly.

    But for some, the idea of it was still too much.

    Just last month, the U.S. Justice Department said it would give $17 million to survivors of the shooting in order to pay for counseling, legal assistance, rehabilitation and other costs to help in their recovery.

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