The special show will again be hosted by the legendary, Country Music and Rock -n- Roll Hall of Fame member, Brenda Lee. Sponsored by the Nashville-based nonprofit, Music City Christian Fellowship, the concert wraps up the week at the conclusion of CMA Music Fest each year, leaving fans and guests with an uplifting memory of Nashville. Sunday Mornin’ Country is the longest-running named Country/Gospel event during the well-attended music festival.
“Sunday Mornin’ Country is one of my favorite things to be a part of each year. It reminds me of my childhood; going to church, being with old friends, meeting new friends and sharing the songs of my childhood,” said Brenda Lee. “I am honored to be invited to host the 40th anniversary show this year at the Grand Ole Opry House.”
2020 performers will include Brenda Lee, Charlie McCoy, Buddy Jewell, Adam Warner, Larry Black and Nadine, LuLu Roman, The Babcocks, The Fox Brothers with Rena’ Jones and Shelton Bissell, Chris Golden, Margo Smith and Holly Watson, Melanie Walker, Stu Phillips, The Music City Quartet, Dianne Sherrell, The Tennessee River Boys, The Country Chorale featuring the Davis Family, Judy Gilbert, Bev McCann and Mark Thomas with more announcements coming soon.
Past years performers have included the talents of Jeannie Seely, John Berry, Skeeter Davis, Roy Acuff, Lynn Anderson, Jason Crabb, Chris Young, Jimmie Wayne, The Oak Ridge Boys, Roy Clark, Freddy Hart, Grandpa Jones, Charlie McCoy, Vestel Goodman, Paul Richey, Marty Raybon, Ricky Skaggs, Connie Smith, Rhonda Vincent, The Whites, Tammy Wynette, Brenda Lee, Linda Davis, Jean Shepard and many others.
Operation Song will be this year’s featured Sunday Mornin’ Country guest. Operation Song’s mission is to empower veterans and active-duty military to tell their stories through the process of songwriting. Over 800 songs have been written in the program with veterans of WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, and with their families. To learn more, go to www.operationsong.org
Keep current with Sunday Mornin’ Country on the Music City Christian Fellowship website and stay in touch on social media platform Facebook.
About Music City Christian Fellowship:
The Music City Christian Fellowship is a non-profit organization of born-again Christian believers, involved in the Music and Entertainment Industry, dedicated to the proclaiming of the Gospel of Jesus Christ through our gifts of music. A Scripture-based, Spirit-filled, God-led, and trust in Jesus for all things, believing in the Bible as God’s inspired Word for man, that everyone might live a life that is pleasing to Him. It is the desire to be able, with the crumbling of old barriers and birth of new freedoms, to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the entire world through the international, language of music! For more information on the Music City Christian Fellowship visit musiccitychristianfellowship.org.