Disney World's Country Bear Jamboree now closed to reopen in the summer with new songs

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Saturday January 27, 2024 9:08am ET · "Country Bear Musical Jamboree"
Disney World's Country Bear Jamboree now closed to reopen in the summer with new songs

The doors of Grizzly Hall at Magic Kingdom are now closed as the Country Bear Jamboree begins its transformation into the Country Bear Musical Jamboree.

There are no construction walls, just a sign letting guests know of the closure - "Bear With Us We're Rehearsing A Brand New Show"

A temporary stage is currently in front of Grizzly Hall, which will be used for the upcoming Cast Member service celebration.

Looking ahead to the new show, which opens in the summer of 2024, Disney says, "The Country Bears are getting ready to put on a new show that 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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TheDude19715 days ago

On a recent Country Bears note- what are the odds we get any merch for the 55th? They’ve gotten merch for almost every 5th anniversary since the 20th, but Disney seems really adverse to making merch for them, only exceptions being Big Al pins of course lmao.

Smiley/OCD5 days ago

Technically, while Fox may own the movie, the song itself was released on RCA records, now owned by Sony. The rights to the use of the song is governed by the song owner (since it was written by Dolly, her estate has complete control of the song’s licensing rights).

Comped5 days ago

Technically 9 to 5's soundtrack is actually owned by Disney since they bought Fox Records as part of Fox. Not that 9 to 5 works in the context... But weirdly enough it is technically a Disney song.

TheDude19715 days ago

Part of me thinks she’d also be honored to be included and wouldn’t mind it. Not like a single song sung by bears would turn people away from a whole park of Dolly!

TheDude19715 days ago

I was thinking of what Dolly songs each of the bears would sing if they did a Dolly-centric show. “Jolene” is an easy lock for Trixie imo, as is 9 to 5 for the Sun Bonnets, but the rest isn’t as easy, especially when there’s not many women in the bear band.

Touchdown5 days ago

Dolly owned her own theme park, where you can hear a huge portion of her catalog. I’m not sure she would have approved the rights to her signature song to be preformed at a competitor.

MickeyMania265 days ago

well as fun as that would have been Im not sure Jolene would be fitting lol, but I get what your saying. A Dolly song certainly would have been amazing. One tribute special tonight showed clips of her at Disney, it looked like it was back in the early 80s with Mickey and Minnie at Epcot in their original Epcot FW costumes...anyone know any other details or history info on the visit, was it for the opening?

Animaniac93-985 days ago

After watching all the tributes to Dolly, it got me thinking that Disney's refusal to pay for any licensed country music in this newest version of the show means we were robbed of something like Trixie singing "Jolene"

Haymarket2008Jun 10, 2026

I am still floored that CBJ didn't get a full merch line a la Japan when it reopened. Put it in the shop across the street, donezo.

FigmentsBrightIdeasJun 10, 2026

First bigger piece of Country Bear merch we’ve seen in a while. Bunny, Bubbles, and Beulah t-shirt! (Second slide). 😁 Hoping this means there’ll be more soon! :

Smiley/OCDApr 30, 2026

Of course I realize that…yes my appliances at home sometimes need repair and occasionally my vehicle needs repair, but I don’t have a repair team available practically 24/7 at my beck & call to address them either.

Tony the TiggerApr 30, 2026

You do realize that mechanical things break, right? Is it your fault when your appliances break? Especially when they’re used every day. Especially when when they’re used all day every day. And sometimes, they don’t break at night when no one would see.

TrainsOfDisneyApr 23, 2026

definitely seems like we’ve gone backwards- at a d23 event I remember imagineers saying Great Moments opened a year early at Disneyland because they didn’t need the 2nd backup Abe in NYC.

EagleScout610Apr 23, 2026

Decided to make a CBJ Effects Watch thread to keep up on Teddi or anything that may go wrong in the show. Country Bear Musical Jamboree Effects Status Watch