April 30, 2013, 11:15 pm George Jones’ funeral will take place on Thursday, May 2 at The Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee, starting at 10 a.m. Central and will be open to the public. Doors will open at 9 a.m. GAC will broadcast the funeral service live at 10 a.m. Central, with radio partners WSM 650AM and SiriusXM [...] Read More
December 16, 2012, 11:22 pm Twenty years ago, Jimmy Wayne was in high school listening to Jody Lee Hager, an inmate from the local prison in Dallas, NC, talk to his class. “The prison would send him around to the schools to tell the children, ‘Think smart. Don’t be like me,’ Jimmy recalls. Hager also had a guitar. He picked [...] Read More
October 17, 2012, 4:24 pm Any country artist will tell you playing at the Grand Ole Opry is one of the highest honors they can receive and Eric Church is no exception. In July, he stepped on the Opry stage while the show was being filmed to be broadcast on GAC. It wasn’t his first Opry performance, but it was [...] Read More
April 22, 2012, 12:36 am The first time Keith Urban heard one of his solo songs on American radio, he was at a gas station across the street from the Grand Ole Opry. He’d stopped to fill up in route to downtown Nashville when “It’s A Love Thing” came across the airwaves. Saturday night, things came full circle as he [...] Read More
March 27, 2012, 2:29 pm Carol Lee Cooper, longtime Grand Ole Opry background vocalist, brought her Opry career to a close on Saturday, March 24. A portion of the show, hosted by her friend Marty Stuart, was performed in her honor. During the segment, Opry Vice President and General Manager Pete Fisher presented Carol Lee with a framed print commemorating her [...] Read More
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