{"id":12404,"date":"2021-01-22T04:55:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T09:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2021\/01\/lady-a-invited-to-join-the-grand-ole-opry\/"},"modified":"2021-01-22T04:55:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T09:55:36","slug":"lady-a-invited-to-join-the-grand-ole-opry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/01\/lady-a-invited-to-join-the-grand-ole-opry\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady A Invited To Join The Grand Ole 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\/Y3Yuy4_hIi4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Lady A was surprised with an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry on Thursday, January 21st when the group was taping a performance for an upcoming TV special.<\/p>\n<p>The two-hour NBC special, Grand Ole Opry: 95 Years of Country Music, will air on Sunday, February 14th at 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Opry member Darius Rucker extended the invitation to Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood on the Opry stage, and their membership is effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation and the group\u2019s first performance as an Opry member will be shared with fans and viewers everywhere during the television special.<\/p>\n<p>Lady A made their Opry debut on Nov. 2, 2007. Hillary said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is the best surprise we could ever ask for. I\u2019ve been coming here since I was a little girl so to say we are honored is an understatement. We are so truly grateful to officially be a part of this amazing family.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Grand Ole Opry members Brad Paisley and Blake Shelton will serve as co-hosts for Grand Ole Opry: 95 Years of Country Music.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1352414309746409474&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lady A was surprised with an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry when the group was taping a performance taping for an upcoming TV special.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":12405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[734,85,822,108,823,1965,91],"class_list":["post-12404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-charles-kelley","tag-darius-rucker","tag-dave-haywood","tag-grand-ole-opry","tag-hillary-scott","tag-lady-a","tag-opry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 22:24:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/01\/lady-a-invited-to-join-the-grand-ole-opry\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}