Carly Pearce recently made her 50th performance on the Grand Ole Opry, and she continues to return to that stage every chance she gets because of her love and gratitude for the institution and the organization. Carly explains, “When I was just workin’ in Nashville trying to figure it out, I cold emailed Pete Fischer, who’s now with the ACMs and he was the manager of the Opry at the time. And we became friends and he became a mentor, and over the next two years he really mentored me and told me I wasn’t ready yet but he saw something in me.”
After a couple of years, in 2015, before she had a record deal, the Grand Ole Opry gave Carly her first real break by allowing her to perform on the Opry, and Carly says, “They took a gamble on me when I didn’t have anything going on. And I think that they knew the way that I feel, like people like Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood have held it so precious and made it such a part of their brand, I wanted to do that. And I just wanted to very much make it one of my missions in the genre to be one of the people that you think of and really do consider them family.”
While Carly normally performs her own songs, like her current single, “Hide the Wine,” when she appears at the Opry, she recently covered Dan & Shay’s hit song, “Tequila,” for the Opry Radio Replay, which you can see on the Grand Ole Opry’s YouTube page.
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“When I was just workin’ in Nashville trying to figure it out, I cold emailed Pete Fischer, who’s now with the ACMs and he was the manager of the Opry at the time. And we became friends and he became a mentor, and over the next two years he really mentored me and told me I wasn’t ready yet but he saw something in me. And fast forward to 2015, and I mean the Opry was one of the very first places to really give me a break and they took a gamble on me when I didn’t have anything going on. And I think that they knew the way that I feel, like people like Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood have held it so precious and made it such a part of their brand, I wanted to do that. And I just wanted to very much make it one of my missions in the genre to be one of the people that you think of and really do consider them family.”