Country star Riley Green is set to headline the halftime show of the 113th Grey Cup, the CFL announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Canadian icon Sarah McLachlan will sing O Canada and Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor of the legendary Blue Rodeo will perform before the game.<\/p>\n
The Grey Cup is set for Nov. 15 at Calgary\u2019s McMahon Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom national treasures to global stars, this year\u2019s Grey Cup entertainment lineup reflects what makes the CFL special: homegrown excellence, world-class talent and a uniquely Canadian celebration on our biggest stage,\u201d said CFL commissioner Stewart Johnston said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old Green, who has three No. 1 hits on the Billboard Canada Country Chart including \u201cDon\u2019t Mind If I Do,\u201d a duet with Ella Langley, has a personal connection to football. Green played quarterback at Jacksonville State. On the team from 2007 to 2009, Green appeared in four games, starting two, threw for 612 yards and four touchdowns.<\/p>\n
Green\u2019s newest album, That\u2019s Just Me, was released on Sept. 18 and features an appearance from iconic country duo Brooks & Dunn. Green has previously won five Academy of Country Music Awards and four Country Music Association Awards.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve spent a lot of time touring across Canada over the past several years, and the fans up there have always shown up for us in a big way,\u201d Green said in a statement. \u201cI\u2019m excited to finally get to experience a Grey Cup and be part of the energy surrounding it. Getting to perform at halftime in front of that crowd is going to be a hell of a time, and a pretty special way to wrap up what\u2019s been a really wild year!\u201d <\/p>\n
A native of Halifax, McLachlan is one of Canada\u2019s most successful musical exports, selling over 40 million albums worldwide. The creator of the Lilith Fair tour, McLachlan has four No. 1 albums in Canada. A 12-time Juno Award winner and three-time Grammy Award winner, her 1994 album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy is considered one of the decade\u2019s seminal releases.<\/p>\n
Accomplished solo artists in their own right, Cuddy and Keelor have been co-lead vocalists of Blue Rodeo since its formation in 1984. Responsible for classics \u201cTry,\u201d \u201cFive Days in May,\u201d and \u201cHasn\u2019t Hit Me Yet,\u201d Blue Rodeo has released 16 studio albums and four live releases. The band previously served as the halftime act for the 97th Grey Cup in 2009, which was also played in Calgary.<\/p>\n
The two-time Juno Award-winning James Barker Band will also perform at the Grey Cup Kickoff Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country star Riley Green is set to headline the halftime show of the 113th Grey Cup, the CFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[712,49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-907955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}