Ryman Announces Bluegrass Lineup for Summer Series
03/22/2009 14:38
Get ready for another incredible summer of bluegrass
at the Mother Church of Country Music. Bluegrass
Nights at the Ryman kicks off June 25th
The series will run for six weeks through July 30th and will also feature Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press, Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain boys, Jim Lauderdale, The Dan Tyminski Band, The Steep Canyon Rangers, The SteelDrivers and Daily & Vincent.
The Ryman auditorium is the historical epicenter of live bluegrass performance. On a Saturday night in December of 1945, bluegrass music as we know it today was born when a twenty-one year old young man by the name of Earl Scruggs stepped up to the WSM microphone on the Ryman stage playing the five-string banjo with a three-finger roll.
Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys that night also included guitarist/lead singer Lester Flatt, fiddler Chubby Wise, and bass player Cedric Rainwater. Their weekly broadcasts on the Opry at the Ryman Auditorium over WSM, their Columbia recordings, and personal appearances through early 1948 provided the architectural ground work for all of bluegrass music.
Tickets are $25.50 each and full season passes are available. Click for details.