The Grand Ole Opry is celebrating 60 years of the CMA Awards with a star-studded tribute that will also honor the late John Anderson, whose remarkable history with the Opry House began before he was a country music star.
In fact, Anderson actually helped build it.
The Grand Ole Opry announced that its Nov. 8 show will celebrate the “Opry House era” of the CMA Awards, which were held at the venue from 1974 to 2004. Vince Gill, an 18-time CMA Award winner who hosted the awards 12 times during that era, will host and perform.
Ricky Skaggs, Deana Carter, Lorrie Morgan and Jamey Johnson are also among the CMA winners scheduled to appear, with additional artists set to be announced in the days leading up to the show.
The night will take on added significance following Anderson’s death last week.
The country legend had originally been scheduled to appear at the celebration and, according to the Opry, confirmed that he would perform on the show just one day before his death.
Instead, the Nov. 8 performance will include a multi-artist tribute to Anderson, whose connection to the Grand Ole Opry House stretches back more than five decades.
After moving to Nashville at age 17 in 1972, Anderson worked as a member of the construction crew building the new Grand Ole Opry House. He was assigned to work on the roof, where he had a view of the area that would eventually become the Opry House stage.
A decade later, Anderson was standing on that stage as one of country music’s newest award-winning stars.
At the 1983 CMA Awards, Anderson won both the Horizon Award, now known as New Artist of the Year, and Single of the Year for “Swingin’.” He later shared in another CMA victory when Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles won Album of the Year in 1994.
Anderson’s tribute will be part of a larger celebration of the decades when some of country music’s biggest stars gathered at the Opry House for the CMA Awards.
Skaggs, an eight-time CMA winner and the 1985 Entertainer of the Year, is scheduled to appear, as is Carter, whose “Strawberry Wine” won Single of the Year. Morgan, who won Vocal Event of the Year for “Til a Tear Becomes a Rose” with Keith Whitley and shared in the Common Thread Album of the Year victory, will also perform.
Johnson, meanwhile, will perform a set featuring CMA Song of the Year winners from the 1974-2004 period. Johnson has twice won the award himself, for “Give It Away” and “In Color.”
The celebration will also feature vintage CMA Awards clips from the Opry House era featuring Alabama, Alan Jackson, Barbara Mandrell, Ronnie Milsap, Dolly Parton and more.
“The Grand Ole Opry House is woven into the history of the CMA Awards, with more than half of our 60 years broadcast live from that stage,” CMA CEO Sarah Trahern said in the announcement. “We’re so grateful to the Opry for bringing our Country Music family together to honor that era and the artists who made those nights unforgettable.”
The special Opry performance will take place 10 days before the 60th Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Lainey Wilson, airs live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and Disney+.
For Anderson, the tribute brings his story at the Opry House full circle: More than 50 years after the teenage construction worker helped build the venue, some of country music’s biggest names will gather on its stage to honor his legacy.
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