Brad Paisley and Blake Shelton to host Grand Ole Opry special on NBC this weekend
Country music stars Brad Paisley and Blake Shelton have a good time 95 years of the Grand Ole Opry this weekend with a primetime NBC special.
“Grand Ole Opry: 95 Years of Country Music” airs Sunday at9 p.m. EST on NBC. Paisley and Shelton host this system, which options performances from Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks, Marty Stuart, Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Kane Brown, Old Crow Medicine Show, Darius Rucker, Lady A, Little Big Town, Carrie Underwood and the aforementioned hosts.
Performances had been taped on the Opry House in Nashville, a information launch mentioned. The Grand Ole Opry — billed because the longest-running reside radio program on this planet — celebrated its ninety fifth birthday final October with welcoming again socially-distanced audiences after months of Saturday livestream broadcasts inside an empty theater.
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Viewers can count on “95 Years of Country Music” to dig into Opry archives, too. Per a information launch, the present pulls archive “interviews, performances and appearances” from Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, Minnie Pearl, Loretta Lynn and extra.
Archival photos and video to be featured embody the Opry throughout World War II, surviving the 2010 Nashville flood and persevering with to this system all through the pandemic.
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