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Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton Highlight Grand Ole Opry 95 Year Celebration on NBC

Brad Paisley and Blake Shelton hosted the Grand Ole Opry’s NBC special, celebrating 95 years of the country music institution. Big highlights of the show included Kane Brown’s first Opry…

Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton Highlight Grand Ole Opry 95 Year Celebration on NBC
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Brad Paisley and Blake Shelton hosted the Grand Ole Opry's NBC special, celebrating 95 years of the country music institution.

Big highlights of the show included Kane Brown's first Opry set performance, as well as Darius Rucker inviting Lady A to become Opry members.

Here is set list of the two-hour TV special:

Little Big Town - “Win, Beer, Whiskey”  

Dierks Bentley  -“Burning Man”

Darius Rucker with Old Crow Medicine show - “Wagon Wheel”

Kane Brown’s Opry debut performing a new song for the first time: "For m Daughter."

Blake Shelton - “Ole Red” 

Brad and Carrie Underwood “Lousianna Women, Mississippi Man”

Dolly Parton - “ 9 to 5” from her 50th Opry anniversary social in 2019.

Dierks Bentley and Marty Stuart - “Poncho and Lefty” 

Kelsea Ballerini - “Nothing at All”

Brad Paisley - “American Saturday Night”

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood  - “Two of A Kind”  

Lady A invited to be Opry members sang - “Forever and Ever Amen” 

Kelsea Ballerini - “Hole In The Bottle”

Blake Shelton - “God’s Country”

Darius Rucker paid tribute to Charley Pride singing “Kiss and Angel Good Morning.”

Brad Paisley sang a tribute to women in country music, his new song “Off Road”

New Opry Members Lady A closed the show by singing, “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” 

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.