Grand Jubilee is the resident production at Grand Country Music Hall, and its heart is a quartet: New South, whose four voices carry both the Jubilee and Grand Country's gospel production. This page is built the way the show is experienced — mostly performance.

BCUSA Cast of the Grand Jubilee 2020

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A full 2020 episode of Branson Country USA from Grand Country Music Hall built around the Grand Jubilee cast — the resident production that anchors Grand Country's theater. The episode presents the Jubilee's quartet singing and the Grand Country house cast in a complete televised stage set. The film carries no caption track, so it is presented here as performance footage.

PlayBranson 385 Luke Menard with Grand Jubilee and New South Gospel

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Luke Menard joins Play Branson to talk about singing with New South and Grand Jubilee at Grand Country. Menard — a former American Idol finalist — is part of the quartet at the heart of both productions: New South's gospel performances and the Grand Jubilee show at Grand Country Music Hall. He discusses the quartet blend, the Grand Country stage and singing harmony-driven material night after night.

Key takeaways
  • Luke Menard sings with both New South and the Grand Jubilee cast at Grand Country
  • The quartet is the musical core of Grand Country's resident productions
  • Menard came to Branson with a national TV singing background

Behind the Scenes - New South at Grand Country

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An Explore Branson behind-the-scenes film with New South at Grand Country Music Hall — the quartet offstage and in rehearsal around their Grand Country performances. Short venue film presented as watch content; its auto-caption track was unusable, so no transcript is stored.

The quartet on stage

A full 2020 Branson Country USA episode presents the Grand Jubilee cast in a complete televised set (performance footage; the episode carries no caption track). Five more films are the quartet at work: 'Bubba Hyde,' the gospel standard 'Why Me Lord,' the fast harmony of 'Get Away Jordan,' a four-part cover of 'You're Still The One,' and the full cast's gospel finale 'Goodbye World Goodbye.'

The one interview

Luke Menard — a former American Idol finalist who sings with both New South and the Jubilee cast — talks through the quartet blend and what singing harmony-driven material night after night at Grand Country demands. A short behind-the-scenes film catches the quartet in rehearsal (watch content; its auto-captions were unusable).

Sources: the 8 videos on this page — one interview, seven performance films, which is the honest shape of this show's record.

New South "Bubba Hyde"

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New South performs 'Bubba Hyde' on the Grand Country stage — the Grand Jubilee quartet in a full harmony number filmed for the Grand Country channel. Pure performance footage of the resident quartet.

New South "Why Me Lord"

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New South sings 'Why Me Lord' in a Grand Country performance film — the quartet's gospel side, the same voices that carry the Grand Jubilee and New South Gospel productions at Grand Country Music Hall.

New South "Get Away Jordan"

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New South performs 'Get Away Jordan' — a fast quartet number filmed at Grand Country, showing the tight four-part harmony the Grand Jubilee cast is built on.

Watch: Grand Jubilee, guided

2 videos · summaries from the actual guides

New South "You"re Still The One"

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New South covers 'You're Still The One' at Grand Country — the resident quartet taking a country-pop standard into four-part harmony on their home stage.

Grand Jubilee Cast "Goodbye World Goddbye"

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The Grand Jubilee cast performs 'Goodbye World Goodbye' — a full-cast gospel finale-style number from the resident production at Grand Country Music Hall.


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