{"id":45362,"date":"2025-09-12T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=45362"},"modified":"2025-09-12T08:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:26:05","slug":"country-stars-to-guest-star-in-a-grand-ole-opry-christmas-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/09\/country-stars-to-guest-star-in-a-grand-ole-opry-christmas-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Stars To Guest Star In &#8216;A Grand Ole Opry Christmas&#8217; Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hallmark Channel has just announced the addition of twelve country music icons to the star-studded cast of their upcoming holiday film, A Grand Ole Opry Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Anderson, Rhett Akins, Megan Moroney, Jamey Johnson, Drew Baldridge, Maggie Baugh, Suzy Bogguss, Mickey Guyton, Pam Tillis, Dailey &amp; Vincent, Riders in the Sky, and Tigirlily Gold will all make special guest appearances in the film, joining previously announced country superstar Brad Paisley.<\/p>\n<p>Brad also wrote and performs original music for the movie, and will also provide the Hallmark \u201cCountdown to Christmas\u201d campaign anthem.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Hallmark Channel to me is a major part of finding the joy and the spirit of the holidays. I loved the challenge of creating that same magic with this music.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A Grand Ole Opry Christmas will premiere during Hallmark\u2019s 16th annual \u201cCountdown to Christmas\u201d holiday event in mid-October, and stars fan-favourite actors Nikki DeLoach and Kristoffer Polaha.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNyMEIbwPWV\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Megan Moroney, Jamey Johnson, And Rhett Atkins Will Guest Star In &#8216;A Grand Ole Opry Christmas&#8217; Movie","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":40960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6502,1509,39,6603,5495,413,6602,6604,1722,6601,4645,821,1188,216,2186],"class_list":["post-45362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-a-grand-ole-opry-christmas","tag-bill-anderson","tag-brad-paisley","tag-countdown-to-christmas","tag-drew-baldridge","tag-hallmark","tag-hallmark-channel","tag-hallmark-christmas","tag-jamey-johnson","tag-maggie-baugh","tag-megan-moroney","tag-mickey-guyton","tag-pam-tillis","tag-rhett-akins","tag-suzy-bogguss"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 12:33:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/09\/country-stars-to-guest-star-in-a-grand-ole-opry-christmas-movie\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45362","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=45362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45363,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45362\/revisions\/45363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}