Garth Brooks Trisha Yearwood join country music stars for the Grand Ole

The curtain rose this weekend in Nashville for a singular milestone in entertainment history — the 5,000th Saturday night Grand Ole Opry broadcast. Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Darius Rucker, Vince Gill, Chris Young and a half-dozen others lined up to celebrate the nearly century-old country music program with live performances from the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. WSM radio carried a broadcast of the show, same as it did in 1925 when the "barn dance" program debuted in downtown Nashville. Some could turn the dial to hear Brooks and company, while others tuned in online or via cable for a video livestream of the performance. No matter the medium, the Opry delivered what it has promised since family and friends began gathering for broadcasts thousands of Saturdays ago: A night of country music entertainment. Read along for highlights as six decades of Opry members paid tribute with songs old and new to a show that's withstood wartime, natural diester and a global pandemic. A crash course in country music history opened the show Saturday night with some of the finest teachers in Opry history leading the class. The band kicked off to an ovation-earning medley from Darius Rucker, Connie Smith, Bill Anderson, Terri Clark and more, with each paying tribute to the songs that artists that helped establish the Opry as an indelible force for generations. Anderson, a 60-year Opry veteran, kicked off the show with Roy Acuff tune "Wabash Cannonball." A run of cross-country songs followed, including Hank Williams' "Jambalaya" (sung by Smith), Patsy Cline's "San Antonio Rose" (sung by The Gatlin Brothers), Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (Rucker), Loretta Lynn's "Coal Miner's Daughter" (Clark) and Charlie Daniels' "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" (Chris Janson) — and that was just the first six minutes. Vince Gill brought a piece of music history with him to the show, playing a well-worn acoustic guitar he said was once owned by formative Opry star Sam McGee. One-half of old time outfit The McGee Brothers, Gill said Sam McGee first played Nashville's famed AM radio program in 1926, months before the barn dance program became known as the Grand Ole Opry. Gill played an acoustic version of "Way Downtown" in tribute to The McGee Brothers."What a neat night to be out here," Gill said, adding: "I think every time I come out here to sing songs, I always want to sing an appropriate song. ... Tonight, because the show is the 5,000th, it's a big deal for all of us and all of you."The Country Music Hall of Famer closed his two-song appearance with "Making Plans," a nod to late "Rocky Top" bluegrass picker Sonny Osborne, who died earlier this week. It isn't a night at the Opry without "Will The Circle Be Unbroken.


All data is taken from the source: http://usatoday.com
Article Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/10/31/grand-ole-opry-5000-show-garth-brooks-vince-gill-trisha-yearwood/6224363001/


#opry #newswomen #newstodaybbc #newsworldwide #usanewstoday #usnewsworldreport#