The festivities continued at Next Wave, a beach party in the middle of the desert—which sounds like a fever dream but was, in fact, very real. ACM staged an entire sunset-soaked festival hosted by emerging stars Dasha and Ashley Cooke, with a closing performance by Keith Urban. The entire esplanade at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino was strewn with beach blankets and cowboy boots; their occupants ditching them to go dosey-doe in the ankle-deep water surrounding the stage.