Sunday Songbook:
Keep It Country – 100 Years of the Grand Ole Opry

Presented by The Everyman Sunday Songbook

Sunday 4 October

The Everyman Sunday Songbook goes country!

Just over 100 years ago, an insignificant radio station in Nashville, Tennessee began broadcasting a one-hour programme on Saturday nights. It was called WSN Barn Dance and it featured local musicians playing the traditional hillbilly music of the Appalachian Mountains, much of it brought across the Atlantic by Irish emigrants fleeing the Great Famine. To the surprise and delight of the managers, the programme took off…and how! Listeners tuned in from all across the USA. The name was changed to the Grand Ole Opry, and over the years it developed into a multimillion-dollar business, making Nashville the centre of the country music world.

Keep It Country – 100 Years of the Grand Ole Opry looks back on a century of country hits, from the trailblazing twang of Hank Williams and the rhinestone sparkle of Dolly Parton to the home-spun wisdom of Jim Reeves and the heart-wrenching anthems of Garth Brooks.

Come for the songs…and leave with the memories!