Head to the home of country music in Nashville and hit the Opry House stage in this fascinating history of the longest-running radio show in America.
Since 1925, radio listeners have enjoyed the music, comedy, and camaraderie of the Grand Ole Opry. Learn about how the Opry live show got its start, the star-studded Opry 100 celebration, and everything in between in this guide to the most historic venue in Music City, USA.
Did you know the Opry is still broadcast every Friday and Saturday night? There was even a Grand Ole Opry theme park: Opryland USA! Are you curious about why Elvis Presley left the Opry upset after his one and only performance there? He stood on the same stage that was shared by greats like Hank Williams and Loretta Lynn. That stage is represented by a six-foot circle of wood set in the new Opry stage today. It has witnessed performances from the likes of Garth Brooks, Taylor Swift, and Darius Rucker.
Discover all this and much more about one of the country's most beloved musical and media institutions in What Is the Grand Ole Opry?
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David Stabler is the kid-friendly alter ego of Robert Schnakenberg, a Senior Copywriter at Random House. Schnakenberg has written several books of pop history including Secret Lives of Great Authors (Quirk, 2007), Secret Lives of the Supreme Court (Quirk, 2008) and Distory: A Treasury of Historical Insults. His work has also appeared in The American Writer,
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