{"id":18878,"date":"2020-11-30T08:45:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T13:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=18878"},"modified":"2020-12-01T04:37:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T09:37:59","slug":"darius-rucker-to-release-christmas-duet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/11\/darius-rucker-to-release-christmas-duet\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Rucker To Release Christmas Duet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ud2mHuNhoM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Darius Rucker has teamed up with electronic artist and violinist Lindsey Stirling for a special performance of the classic Christmas carol \u201cWhat Child Is This\u201d for the CMA Country Christmas television special, airing at 9 p.m. tonight on ABC.<\/p>\n<p>The duet has also just been released as a digital-only single.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fdIPWGqPwZ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Darius said the performance was the idea of the show&#8217;s executive producer, Robert Deaton.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;To be getting to sing &#8216;What Child Is This&#8217; and to be getting to do it with Lindsay is amazing, and when (producer) Robert called me and asked me if I wanted to do it I was so honoured. She&#8217;s such an amazing musician and to get up here and get to do that song with her on the CMA Country Christmas I think is pretty awesome.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CH1HaNchbhQ\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Darius also recently released an original holiday song with his Hootie &amp; the Blowfish bandmates and young songstress Abigail Hodges called \u201cWon\u2019t Be Home For Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song honours the sacrifice of military members and their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darius Rucker has teamed up with electronic artist and violinist Lindsey Stirling for a special performance of the classic Christmas carol \u201cWhat Child Is This\u201d for CMA Country Christmas.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":18926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1205,439,2485,2502],"class_list":["post-18878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cma-country-christmas","tag-darius-rucker","tag-lindsey-stirling","tag-what-child-is-this"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 14:05:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/11\/darius-rucker-to-release-christmas-duet\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18925,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878\/revisions\/18925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}