A public celebration of Troy Gentry’s life will take place Thursday, Sept. 14 at 11 a.m. CT at the Grand Ole Opry House, located at 2804 Opryland Drive in Nashville. For those unable to attend, a live stream of the service will be available. A private, family internment will follow. Troy’s official obituary is below.…
The Grand Ole Opry will host a series of Wednesday night shows this September that will benefit Country Cares for St. Jude Kids, which was founded by Alabama’s Randy Owen in 1989 and has since raised more than $700 million in pledges for the children of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Artists slated to perform…
Chris Young was surprised during his Grand Ole Opry performance Tuesday night (Aug. 29) by Vince Gill with an invitation to become an official Opry member. The invite came prior to Chris’ performance of his chart-topping single, “Sober Saturday Night,” which features Vince. Chris’ formal induction will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 17, just days…
The Grand Ole Opry’s brand-new digital series—Opry Icons—gives fans an in-depth look into the lives and times of iconic Opry members who have helped sustain the Nashville institution for 90-plus years. The new series includes performance highlights and intimate backstage interviews with legendary country singers and their friends—and no one has more friends than Vince…
If you don’t have time to comb through social media all day, here’s what you’ve been missing over the last 24 hours or so in the country music world: Brett Eldredge celebrates with Edgar. Dierks Bentley suits up. Shay Mooney channels his inner Happy Gilmore. Walker McGuire synchronizes their moves. LOCASH gets silly at a…
Reba McEntire announced today (July 20) that she will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of her Grand Ole Opry debut with two shows on Sept. 22. Reba shared the announcement via a Twitter video that inclued a short anecdote about her debut on the Opry in 1977, where she was upstaged by none other than…
Jim Casey talks with Jackie Lee about growing up in a musical family, playing in a bluegrass band with his father and mother, how the death of his mother has affected his life over the past year, performing Brooks & Dunn’s “Believe” in tribute to his mother on the Grand Ole Opry, the greatest Travis Tritt…
If you needed another reason to come to Nashville, the sun and moon are providing one next month—and so is the Grand Ole Opry. A total solar eclipse will be occurring on Monday, August 21. And Nashville just happens to be the biggest city in the country in the direct path of the eclipse (beginning…
Kelleigh Bannen’s powerful single, “Church Clothes,” is about a couple that disguises their failing relationship by getting dressed up and going to church together. When Kelleigh initially heard the tune—which was co-penned by Liz Rose and Nicolle Galyon—she was struck with how brave the song was. “It’s specifically about this couple that’s getting dressed and…
Jim Casey talks with Chris Janson about getting recharged by spending some time on the beach with his family, giving people a break from the real world for three minutes with his feel-good songs, his love of the “mixology” culture despite no longer drinking alcohol, his new single, “Fix a Drink,” working on his next album,…
