There is only one mid-week Opry show on the schedule this week and that will be the Tuesday Night Opry. Grand Ole Opry members Bill Anderson, T. Graham Brown, The Isaacs, Jeannie Seely and Chris Young are on the schedule. For Chris, this will be his first Opry appearance of the year.
Rounding out the schedule will be comedian Brad Upton, Maddie & Tae and making their Opry debut AJ Lee & Blue Summit.
AJ Lee & Blue Summit are an award-winning, energetic, charming, and technically jaw-dropping band quickly rising on the national roots music scene. Based in Santa Cruz, California, the group met as teenagers, picking and jamming together as kids at local bluegrass festivals until one day, they decided they would be a band.
Currently made up of AJ Lee on mandolin, fiddler Jan Purat, and guitarists Scott Gates and Sullivan Tuttle, the band carries that youthful, festival-parking-lot energy with them still today, but at the same time there’s a genuine ease and confidence to their music making. As they ready their third studio album, City of Glass – their first label release, out July 19th via Signature Sounds – their product feels mature and fully realized, while deep in the Blue Summit pocket. City of Glass is an album that’s just as much country soul and gritty, bluesy Americana as it is rock club and festival-ready string band fare, all framed through a California folk lens while clearly primed for a much wider audience.
The 'Opry obviously knows when to schedule their shows, but it is interesting to me how some weeks feature an 'Opry show practically every night of the week (including Sunday) while weeks like this one have only ONE weekday show.
ReplyDeleteI have the funny feeling they are in touch with whatever agency keeps track of conventions in Nashville.
DeleteHonestly as much as I love the Opry I don't like the fact that some weeks have 6 show nights I think they should do Fridays and Saturdays and maybe the occasional Tuesday night show
DeleteI sure have a problem even after all these years getting used to shows any and all days some weeks. The Opry broadcast is Friday and Saturday to me. With that in mind, again tonight as with may week nights, I forgot to tune in until Bill Anderson had finished his first song. Can anyone tell me what he opened with?
DeleteThanks,
Jim
I can not Jim. My power went out last night. And WSM no longer has ANY archives of ANYTHING on their website, so we will never know. I just love big corporations, don't you?
DeleteBill opened up with "I Get the Fever" last night.
DeleteThanks Robert.
DeleteFor Wednesday Night, there was a "Private Opry". This happens several times a year in conjunction with the Convention Business in Nashville, especially as it relates to the Gaylord Opryland Resort. Even though these don't get included as official Opry Shows, they still take place and account for some of the sporadic days of the week when there isn't a public show.
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