Songs Revealed for New Country Bear Musical Jamboree Coming This Summer to Magic Kingdom

May 30, 2024 in "Country Bear Musical Jamboree"

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Posted: Thursday May 30, 2024 8:04pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

A new video from Walt Disney Imagineering reveals three of the new songs for the upcoming Country Bear Musical Jamboree at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.

Tracks will include "A Whole New World," "Try Everything," and "Bear Necessities."

Paying homage to the musical revues of Nashville, Imagineers worked alongside record-breaking 10-time CMA Musician of the Year, Mac McAnally, on the music — McAnally is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame and Alabama Music Hall of Fame. For the voice of the beloved bear, Trixie St. Claire, country singer Emily Ann Roberts added her twangy vocals to "Try Everything." Allison Russell and Christopher Scott Thile slowed things down a bit with a mandolin-style of "A Whole New World" for Wendell and Teddi Barra.

"I’ve never done anything like this, where the song is truly coming to life before folks' eyes," shared Emily Ann. "It was really neat to hear the whole concept and then being able to stand behind the mic and think ‘how do I put myself in Trixie’s shoes?"'

Watch the latest "We Call It Imagineering" installment to see behind-the-scenes of a recording session and listen to the new Country Bear Musical Jamboree songs.

The refreshed Country Bear Musical Jamboree is set to open this summer, but Disney has yet to provide a specific date. Current best estimates suggest an August 2024 opening.

New Country Bear Jamboree 2024 poster

The new show pays homage to the Opry-style shows of Nashville. While the Country Bear Musical Jamboree will include easter eggs from the beginning to the end including a familiar tune fans may remember, the bears will sing new, reinterpreted Disney tunes in different genres of country music – like bluegrass, pop-country, Americana, rockabilly and other styles.

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Charlie The Chatbox Ghost1 day ago

Could be! My guess would’ve been the wine. she’s got plenty of love in the new display cabinets at least! Meanwhile the poor sun bonnets have no painting from Marc and iirc aren’t in much of the queue props

Steamboat711 day ago

My guess is that it's because Trixie is nothing like her original tearful self anymore

Charlie The Chatbox Ghost6 days ago

Dang. Poor Trixie. Though I had no clue Gomer’s wasn’t there before the new show!

EagleScout6106 days ago

It's not. Gomer's new portrait is where Trixie was

Charlie The Chatbox Ghost6 days ago

Also, just realized- one month exactly from today I’ll finally be seeing the new show for the first time! I’m gonna be in Orlando for WDW.NT’s Muppet event (and to see MuppetVision one last time of course) and I figured there’d be no better time to see it! (Warning: pure yapping below) The only negative part of this trip is that my wife isn’t coming with me (she’s pregnant and doesn’t want to be in Orlando in June, understandably), and I FINALLY got her to come around to the bears. When we first went to Disney together in 2018 she was terrified of Wendell when we saw him outside and she thought the show was creepy (I loved it despite barely being able to hear anything- I saw it as a kid but forgot it so that viewing was basically another first time), and when we went with my family in 2023 she (and my family) vetoed my request to go see them. But now my wife actually likes them and Wendell is her favorite, lmao. She even spent an afternoon with her grandpa showing him songs from the original (the original recordings, not the shows) because she likes them so much. Probably helped that I haven’t shut up about them for the last 7 years of our 10 years together! She’s done the same thing to me with Greek mythology and true crime, so it’s even at least lmao.

Charlie The Chatbox Ghost6 days ago

Asking here because I can’t find any mention online- is Trixie’s original Marc Davis painting still on display in the lobby? I haven’t seen it in any POVs, and I just thought that they could’ve removed it due to her having a glass of wine- which seems weird given Big Al still has his moonshine jug that’s labeled “XXX”- making it unmistakably alcohol. If it is gone, I hope it’s being well preserved. Would much rather have Trixie up on the walls instead of the rejected concept art bears.

Agent H9 days ago

I still can’t believe Henry doesn’t have a costume as the second most recognizable bear.

Comped9 days ago

Including the design process, testing, fabrication, and labour (especially labour)? Several hundred thousand, is most likely. Some properties (Lion Guard I know for a fact, but there are others) have even had characters designed and tested but never brought out for guests... I'd expect that this design probably cost well north of $200k all in, assuming they didn't just modify an existing costume. One of the rare things I don't have particularly hard numbers on, unfortunately. Of course copies are a fraction of that.

networkpro9 days ago

I find Liver Lips even more funny these days than it was before with all of the bizarre lip augmentation that you can find in the media.

Disgruntled Walt9 days ago

He will always be Liver Lips to me.

Cmdr_Crimson9 days ago

Knowing them they would be TDL M&G's only...We don't even have a new version of Orange Bird out yet....

Charlie The Chatbox Ghost9 days ago

Do we know how much it costs Disney to make a costume? Surely it can't be that expensive. I wonder if they'd ever pony up some money to finally give Henry a walk-around costume (other than the one from Disney on Parade in the 70s), or for Trixie since they've been using her a lot in the marketing for the show lately? I know four bears is a lot already, but at least have the main character as a meet-and-greet!