Ryman Auditorium

Bluegrass Pass Purchase Info • 2010 Schedule

Experience the best in bluegrass on the very stage
where bluegrass was born over 60 years ago...

The Ryman Auditorium, the Mother Church Of Country Music and the home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974, is sacred to the history of country music.

Especially important to the history of the Ryman is its significant role in the history of bluegrass music. Although Bill Monroe had been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1939, it wasn't until a Saturday night in December of 1945 when 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. This was the final ingredient in what we now know as bluegrass music.

Although it wasn't known as bluegrass at the time, there was something very unique and special about this edition of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys with Earl Scruggs which 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.

The well documented careers of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, Jim & Jesse, and the Osborne Brothers, all legendary bluegrass acts, also became Grand Ole Opry members in their own right on the Ryman Auditorium stage.

Also important are the virtually dozens of well known bluegrass musicians who came through the ranks of the aforementioned bands appearing on the Ryman stage.

Text by Eddie Stubbs, 650 WSM Personality, Grand Ole Opry Announcer
& Host of Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman

Springer Mountain Farms Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman
June 24 through July 29, 2010 - Thursday Nights at 7:30 pm

Bluegrass Passes for All 6 Shows Only $125
To purchase your Bluegrass Pass, click here!
Bluegrass Passes may also be purchased at the
Ryman Box Office or by calling (615) 889-3060

	Vince Gill Thursday, June 24 at 7:30 pm $26	Website
	Artist To Be Announced Thursday, July 1 at 7:30 pm $26
	Artist To Be Announced Thursday, July 8 at 7:30 pm $26
	Dailey & Vincent Thursday, July 15 at 7:30 pm $26	Website
	Artist To Be Announced Thursday, July 22 at 7:30 pm $26
	The Del McCoury Band Thursday, July 29 at 7:30 pm $26	Website

Full Ryman Events Listing

Tickets available online through GetGaylordTickets.com,
at the Ryman Box Office or by calling (615) 889-3060.

An important note about tickets:

Tickets obtained from unauthorized sources may be lost, stolen, or counterfeit, and if so are void.

A ticket is a revocable license. It is unlawful to reproduce tickets in any form. Unauthorized or unlawful resale or attempted resale is grounds for seizure and cancellation without compensation. Management reserves the right, without the refund of any portion of the ticket price, to refuse admission to or eject any person whose conduct is deemed by management to be disorderly, who uses vulgar or abusive language, or who fails to comply with these and other management rules. Breach of any of the foregoing will automatically terminate license.