{"id":1304893,"date":"2019-03-06T06:24:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1803648"},"modified":"2019-03-06T06:24:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T13:24:12","slug":"kelsea-ballerinis-dream-opry-dreams-came-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/kelsea-ballerinis-dream-opry-dreams-came-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsea Ballerini\u2019s Dream Opry Dreams Came True"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 8m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

She has wanted this since she was 12 years old.<\/p>\n

And last night (March 5), that dream came true for Kelsea Ballerini<\/a> when Little Big Town joined her on stage at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville and asked her to become the country music club\u2019s newest member.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t have the right words yet, but @littlebigtown just asked me to become the newest member of the @opry. This has been at the very top of my bucket list since I wrote my first songs at 12 years old,\u201d Ballerini wrote on Insatgram, \u201cand tonight the heart of country music wrapped their arms around me and asked me to be family. In tears over how much this means to me. Thank you thank you thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the way the band asked her, though, that really made Ballerini\u2019s heart melt right there on that coveted Opry stage. She\u2019d joined Little Big Town to perform their \u201cGirl Crush,\u201d and she took the first line of the song: I got a girl crush\/Hate to admit it but.<\/em> Then Karen Fairchild chimed in with, Kelsea Ballerini, will join the Opry?<\/em><\/p>\n

After the initial shock, Ballerini walks off stage in disbelief. Then she returned for hugs and applause and more tears.<\/p>\n

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The Opry shared pictures of the big moment on their Instagram as well.<\/p>\n

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Alison makes her living loving country music. She’s based in Chicago, but she’s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Alison Bonaguro 8m ago She has wanted this since she was 12 years old. And last night (March 5), that dream came true for Kelsea Ballerini when Little Big Town joined her on stage at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville and asked her to become the country music club\u2019s newest member. \u201cI don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1304893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 20:31:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}