It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – well kinda. It feels like its closer because we get more and more information about Countdown to Christmas. Hallmark, you make us all so happy with all of the news.
People announced that Nikki DeLoach and Kristoffer Polaha are set to star in A Grand Ole Opry Christmas. We definitely love the Grand Ole Opry – country music is in our soul.
“I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry. It’s the biggest stage for country music, an American institution that I’ve revered since I was a child, witnessing greats like Clint Black, Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks and Loretta Lynn,” DeLoach said in a statement to People. “In my wildest and biggest dreams, I never imagined that I would one day be able to be a part of its story. And to do it alongside one of my longest and best friends, Kris Polaha, the legend that is Brad Paisley and with our Hallmark Channel team, is an unimaginable dream come true. I am beyond honored, humbled and grateful.”
WHAT ITS ABOUT
The movies official synopsis reads, “Gentry Woods (DeLoach), daughter of late country music icon Jett Woods — half of the famed duo Winter and Woods — abandoned her dream of a songwriting career and distanced herself from her father’s legacy following his tragic car accident 30 years prior. When the Grand Ole Opry invites her to represent Jett at their centennial celebration at Christmas, she’s hesitant to return to the place steeped in bittersweet memories.”
“Encouraged by her good friends, Gentry visits the Opry and, while seated in one of the vaunted venue’s oak church pews, is suddenly transported to 1995. Gentry’s lifelong friend Mac (Polaha), a country music talent manager, finds himself in 1995 as well. Thanks to some Christmas magic, Gentry gets precious time with her father, creative inspiration to finish the song she began decades earlier as a teen and learns surprising answers to questions about her father that have followed her for the last three decades.”
DeLoach and Polaha in a movie together? That’s something that we know that we are excited for. That and the original music from Brad Paisley? That’s a dream. We just need to know if DeLoach and Polaha will be singing.
Are you excited for Countdown to Christmas? A Grand Ole Opry Christmas will air later this year as part of Hallmark Channel’s 16th annual Countdown to Christmas.
