Tuesday night promises to be one of those special nights at the Grand Ole Opry House as Opry member Carly Pearce will be making her 100th appearance on the Opry.
Carly, who is one of the Opry's newest members, has certainly shown her commitment to the Opry, more so than a number of other members (including one who took just over 17 years to make it to appearance #90).
Tuesday promises to be a great night, as in addition to Carly, Opry members John Conlee, The Whites, Dustin Lynch, The Isaacs, Ricky Skaggs and Ashley McBryde are all on the schedule. In fact, the only non-member is Megan Patrick, who is making her Opry debut.
Tuesday April 11
7:00: John Conlee, Megan Patrick, The Whites, Dustin Lynch
Intermission
8:15: Carly Pearce, The Isaacs, Ricky Skaggs, Ashley McBryde
The lineup for Wednesday night is not as impressive as Tuesday, but still solid. Opry members Jeannie Seely, Don Schlitz and Jamey Johnson headline. Very frequent Opry guest Maggie Rose is also scheduled, as is El Dorodo, who is making their Opry debut.
Wednesday April 12
7:00: Jeannie Seely, Carter Faith, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Don Schlitz
Intermission
8:15: Maggie Rose, El Dorodo, Jamey Johnson
Finally, Opry Country Classics continues its spring run, with Crystal Gayle the Spotlight Artist this week, and featuring Suzy Bogguss, among others.
Thursday April 13
Opry Country Classics 7:00
Host: Larry Gatlin
Spotlight Artist: Crystal Gayle
Also Appearing: The Gatlin Brothers, Suzy Bogguss, Jake Hoot, Emmy Russell
Megan Patrick, who is making her Opry debut on Tuesday night, comes to Nashville from Canada, where she is an award-winning artist. She is a back-to-back CCMA Female Artist of the Year winner with several Top Ten singles to her credit. Her most recent collection is the Juno Award-winning ‘Wild As Me’ EP. So far, it has achieved over a million streams on Spotify alone and setting the stage for her eagerly awaited American introduction with “My First Car” and its similarly intoxicating follow-up single, “Goes Good with Beer.”
El Dorodo, who will be appearing on Wednesday night. consists of members of Tyler Childer's band, The Food Stamps. According to their website, you may hear aspects of these different genres represented in our music. We are fans first. Our hearts lie in Country/Western/Old Time music and culture. We represent true, honest Country music to be consumed by the masses and we do so with full hearts. Our aim is to get back to the basics of love…El Dorodo is country music.
Overall, three nice shows this week.
Mike, still being anonymous!
ReplyDeleteCarly Pearce and Carrie Underwood have been among the best of the newer, younger members, and I bow to them. I seem to recall Brad Paisley saying after Jimmy Dickens died, "Tater, we'll take it from here." I wonder where he took it.
Apparently, nowhere near the Opry House. It's as if Brad wanted membership so badly until he had it, then lost interest and moved on.
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