Theater
Grand Ole Opry
Live country-music radio show turned custom-built performance hall on the edge of the city.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville traces the on-air joke a radio announcer named George D. Hay made in December nineteen twenty-seven, the one that gave the show its name. It follows the program from a scrappy program built around an elderly fiddler, through thirty-one years at the Ryman Auditorium downtown, to the custom-built home you are standing in now, with stops for Hank Williams and Elvis Presley along the way. Best heard while facing the stage.
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