Garth Brooks And Trisha Yearwood Love The Olympics
Garth Brooks and his wife Trisha Yearwood are glued to their TV for the next week and a half. The country music couple is watching coverage of the 2024 Summer Olympics taking place in Paris, France.
Garth said Monday (7/29) on his Inside Studio G, “I’m just an ‘up’ guy. I love to be ‘up,’ so I think that’s why The Olympics get me. To hear the stories – the backstories – that they do and stuff is pretty cool.”
Brooks says there is also something more he feels the gathering of athletes from all around the globe is doing. “What it’s doing is it’s shrinking the world, to me. It’s showing me that other people have the exact same people that we do – just warriors that won’t give up on their dream.'”
He concluded, “It’s pretty cool. I love The Olympics.”
Trisha agrees and says she can’t get enough of the Summer Games, either, “You guys probably don’t know this, but I asked for uneven bars when I was 12.” She added, “I was obsessed like the rest of the world…so, I’m obsessed with gymnastics. I can’t wait to watch that.”
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Austin City Limits is celebrating its gold Anniversary beginning this fall, and they’re going to kick off their 50-year celebration by inviting Garth Brooks to join the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame.
When he heard the news, Garth said, “To be part of anything Austin City Limits is and always has been an honor. I am humbled and grateful to not only be a part of the 50th Anniversary but to be inducted into the ACL Hall of Fame is over the top.”
Brooks’ induction will take place September 5 at the Moody Theater, Austin City Limits’ studio home in Austin, Texas. Highlights from the event – and Garth’s performance with his band – will air as an hour-long special on September 28 as part of ACL’s anniversary celebration on PBS.
The country superstar has longtime ties to Austin City Limits. He first appeared on the program in 1990 at the beginning of his career, then returned a decade later to open and close the program’s milestone 25th season with two hour-long episodes.
A couple of years ago, he participated in a pair of memorable, intimate, non-broadcast events to close the show’s longtime home inside Studio 6A on the University of Texas campus, where the program had been recorded since 1974.
Previous inductees include such diverse musical luminaries as B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Guy Clark, Kris Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, Ray Charles, Roseanne Cash, Roy Orbison, Willie Nelson, and Trisha Yearwood.
