Ride 'em, Obama.
The commander in chief, the First Family and other D.C. bigwigs were treated to a night of down-home cowboy entertainment in July that will air on national television Saturday evening, featuring some of the country music industry's biggest sellers -- and the spurs-jingling Obama himself.
Country superstar Brad Paisley joined fellow chart-toppers Alison Krauss and Charley Pride onstage at the White House July 21 to perform for the Obamas, who sat front-and-center at the star-studded country music fest that will air Saturday at 9 p.m. on the Great American Country channel.
The Grammy-winning Paisley said as he performed his hit "Welcome to the Future" that he celebrated Obama's Election Day in New York's Times Square -- and that it was an "unbelievable" experience.
"Very few things have moved me the way I was moved on November 4th," Paisley said to the Obamas and the members of Congress in the audience.
"I stood there and watched the world turn on a time," Paisley said, according to People magazine. "I'm a two-time father...I thought about [my children]...you are the first president they will remember, which is something."
Before he performed, Paisley, 36, quipped to Obama that the then president-elect probably didn't have time to stop by Manhattan on his big day.
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"I'm sure you were busy," he joked as the president laughed.
The show is the second event in a series created by First Lady Michelle Obama, intended to promote arts education for children.