{"id":5544,"date":"2019-04-17T06:09:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T10:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=5544"},"modified":"2019-04-17T06:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T10:09:52","slug":"kelsea-ballerini-joins-the-opry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/04\/kelsea-ballerini-joins-the-opry\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsea Ballerini Joins The Opry"},"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\/T6E_KQTgQzc&amp;t\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Kelsea Ballerini officially became the newest and youngest member of the Grand Ole Opry on Tuesday, April 16th in Nashville. The 25-year-old was welcomed into the institution by one of her idols, Carrie Underwood, with whom she dueted on Trisha Yearwood&#8217;s &#8220;Walkaway Joe&#8221; during the show.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1118320996509941760&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Keith Urban also turned up to welcome Kelsea and perform one song &#8212; &#8220;Blue Ain&#8217;t Your Color&#8221; &#8212; for the excited crowd.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1118311497866842112&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>An emotional Kelsea spoke with reporters backstage prior to her induction where she talked about the comfort that being an Opry member brings her.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so new. I&#8217;m such a baby artist and to be able to play this stage once is a dream but to be able to know that I can play this stage in 30 years when the radio quits me and when touring quits me, it&#8217;s really comforting and it&#8217;s really beautiful so I&#8217;m really excited. Crap!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kelsea returns to the road and her headlining Miss Me More tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelsea Ballerini officially became the newest and youngest member of the Grand Ole Opry.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":5546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[96,830,112,68,30,445],"class_list":["post-5544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-carrie-underwood","tag-grand-old-opry","tag-keith-urban","tag-kelsea-ballerini","tag-nashville","tag-opry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 15:25:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/04\/kelsea-ballerini-joins-the-opry\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544","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=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5545,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions\/5545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}