Santa is getting a little help this year: A whole cast of country stars is set to deliver the gift of music on Christmas Eve with the encore broadcast ofCMA Country Christmas.

The special, which originally aired Dec. 3, offers two full hours of holiday cheer, all well worth watching whether you missed it the first time around or just want to savor it again.

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CMA Country Christmas Hosted by Trisha Yearwood

Trisha Yearwoodhas taken over the reins of the 10th edition of the annual special, afterReba McEntire’s two-year hosting stint. Yearwood ably oversees the all-star cast, which includes top country actsLady Antebellum,Chris Janson,Rascal Flatts,Dierks Bentley,Chris Young,Runaway JuneandBrett Young.

Kelly and Chenoweth.Donn Jones/CMA

Tori Kelly and Kristin Chenoweth perform “Children Go Where I Send Thee” with Trisha Yearwood at the 2019 “CMA Country Christmas” special filmed at Belmont’s Curb Center in Nashville, Tennessee. “CMA Country Christmas” will air on Tuesday, December 3 on ABC.

Indeed, For King & Country, the Christian pop duo consisting of brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone, delivers perhaps the show’s biggest “wow” moment, a driving, percussion-centric version of “The Little Drummer Boy” that may well bridge the divide between that love-it-or-hate-it song. Since its original airing, the performance has racked up close totwo million YouTube views.

Lady Antebellum.Donn Jones/CMA

Lady Antebellum performs “White Christmas” at the 2019 “CMA Country Christmas” special filmed at Belmont’s Curb Center in Nashville, Tennessee. “CMA Country Christmas” will air on Tuesday, December 3 on ABC.

Janson takes charge with a boogie-woogie version of “Run Rudolph Run,” bringing along his blazing harmonica. For an uplifting “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” Winans shows why she’s a gospel queen, with able harmony backup from Rascal Flatts’ Gary LeVox,Jay DeMarcusand Joe Don Rooney. Winans returns with a full choir to put a gospel flourish on “Hark the Herald Angels Sing,” and Rascal Flatts reappears for a doo-wop version ofto the tune of the Beach Boys’a cut off Flatts’their 2016 Christmas album.

Yearwood onstage.Donn Jones/CMA

Trisha Yearwood performs “Silver Bells, Jingle Bell Rock and Winter Wonderland” at the 2019 “CMA Country Christmas” special filmed at Belmont’s Curb Center in Nashville, Tennessee. “CMA Country Christmas” will air on Tuesday, December 3 on ABC.

Other highlights include Tori Kelly’s reverent “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” Chris Young’s smooth and jazzy “Christmas Song,” Runaway June’s buoyant “Sleigh Ride,” and Yearwood’s tenderoff her1994 Christmas album.

All but one of the 15 performances was recorded before a packed house at Curb Event Center on the campus of Nashville’s Belmont University, Yearwood’s alma mater. Perhaps the show’s most poignant moment was filmed at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital:Dierks Bentleysang an intimate, acoustic version of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” before a small audience of young cancer patients and their parents.

CMA Country Christmasairs at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT Tuesday on ABC.

source: people.com