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Ashley McBryde just released her latest album "Lindeville" and accepted an invitation from country music star Garth Brooks to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry, where McBryde first performed in 2017.  McBryde was completely shocked by the invitation, as it was presented to her during her interview with CBS Mornings, where she thought she would be talking about her new music, but it ended up being more than that.  During the interview, Brooks virtually dropped in from the Grand Ole Opry to share the news with McBryde. Ashley McBryde recently released her newest album "Lindeville."  (Erika Goldring/WireImage) "Miss Ashley McBryde, on behalf of the Opry and myself as an Opry member, I'm gonna try not to cry, we would love for you to consider becoming the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry," Brooks said.  McBryde took a deep breath and fought back tears as she responded to Brooks.  "It would be the great joy and the great honor of my life," McBryde answered.

now-viral drunken Dolly Parton tribute at the Grand Ole Opry on Friday.“The Elle King event, originally for Fri. 1/26/24 has been rescheduled to Sat.

Little Big Town is helping usher in the inaugural People’s Choice Country Awards.

Terri Clark is proud to be honoured among the greats.

BreAnna Bell Darius Rucker and Lyle Lovett are taking their talents to Helena, Montana. The country music singers will guest star in an upcoming episode in this season of “Big Sky: Deadly Trails,” ABC announced on Wednesday. Lovett is set to play Tex, a seemingly well-mannered cowboy and tracking specialist with a hidden menacing side, while Rucker will portray Tex’s partner named Possum. According to the synopsis, the character is “a hired gun who works at night like his nocturnal namesake.” This season of “Big Sky: Deadly Trails” follows private detective Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunbury), undersheriff Jenny Hoyt (Katheryn Winnick), and newly appointed sheriff Beau Arlen (Jensen Ackles), as they work together attempting to maintain order in Helena, Montana, with their investigative skills. After their local backcountry trip led by outfitter Sunny Barnes (Reba McEntire) goes off the rails, the group faces their most dangerous mystery yet where every camper involved is under suspicion.

Dolly Parton is showing support to Loretta Lynn, after the country music icon died at 90. "So sorry to hear about my sister, friend Loretta," Parton wrote on Instagram. "We’ve all been like sisters all the years we’ve been in Nashville and she was a wonderful human being, wonderful talent, had millions of fans and I’m one of them.

Reba McEntire is honoring the late country star Loretta Lynn. Lynn, a country music icon, was 90 years old. "Mama and Loretta Lynn were four years apart, Mama being the oldest.They always reminded me a lot of each other.

Stonewall Jackson was a country music singer who was a longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry.Stonewall Jackson was a longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry who was a country music star during the honky tonk era of the 1950s and 1960s. After serving in the Navy, he went to Nashville in 1956 and his career quickly took off.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Country musician Stonewall Jackson, who sang on the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years and had No.

Chris Willman Music WriterThis is part of a series of articles commemorating the Grand Ole Opry’s 5000th weekly broadcast, which takes place Saturday, Oct. 30 on WSM and Circle TV, live from Nashville’s Opry House.If there’s anything you could bet on in country music, it’s that Ashley McBryde is a future Grand Ole Opry member… and probably, much further down the line, a Country Hall of Famer, too.

Tom T. Hall, a Country Music Hall of Fame artist known for such songs as “I LIke Beer,” died today at age 85. He died at home in Franklin, Tennessee, according to his son. No cause of death was given.

Chris Willman Music WriterThere’s no kidding around about the “ole” in Grand Ole Opry: The most venerable of all American broadcast institutions will celebrate its 5,000th Saturday night show in October, to be preceded by a month-long countdown to the historic milestone.Plans for the commemorative events were discussed at a press conference at Nashville’s Opry House Tuesday featuring WSM and “Opry” host Bill Cody talking with Carly Pearce, the newest member of the Opry, and musician and

Chris Willman Music WriterHal Ketchum, a mainstay of the country music chart in the 1990s and a Grand Ole Opry member, died Monday at age 67.“With great sadness and grief we announce that Hal passed away peacefully last night at home due to complications of Dementia,” his wife, Andrea, wrote on Ketchum’s Facebook page.

CMA Awards in November.McEntire, a Country Music Hall of Famer and veteran host of country music awards shows, returns after hosting last year with Carrie Underwood and Dolly Parton. It will mark her fifth year as a host.

ACM Awards might have looked a lot different this year, but that didn't keep the night's big stars from bringing the heat. Country music's biggest names came together, separately, for a fun and lively evening of music and unity.As the first live awards show since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the show's slew of artists and singers belted out their performances from different iconic locations across the city of Nashville, including the Grand Ole Opry, the Ryman Auditorium and the

The late Charlie Daniels was honored by friends and fellow musicians during a touching memorial service in Tennessee on Friday. The country music legend died on Monday at age 83 of a hemorrhagic stroke.The Grammy-winning and wildly acclaimed Country Music Hall of Fame and Grand Ole Opry member was known to be devoted to his faith, the U.S.

Country Music legend Charlie Daniels, best known for his monster 1979 hit “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” died Monday of a hemorrhagic stroke. He was 83.

Beloved veteran country session musician and longtime Grand Ole Opry house band guitarist Jimmy Capps has died at age 81. A spokesperson for the Opry confirmed the news to Billboard, though no cause of death was revealed at press time.

Singer Jan Howard has died aged 91.

American country music singer Joe Diffie has tested positive for Covid-19.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A publicist for Joe Diffie says the country singer has tested positive for COVID-19.

The Grand Ole Opry owner's bet on the country lifestyle is paying off, even though global fears of an uncontained coronavirus is hammering its stock.