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Yahoo
02-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Grand Ole Opry Announces Historic Concert
Grand Ole Opry Announces Historic Concert originally appeared on Parade. For just the fourth time in its history, the Grand Ole Opry is coming to Carnegie Hall. The two venues made a joint announcement on Thursday, July 24, that Carnegie Hall Presents an Evening With the Grand Ole Opry is coming to the legendary New York City venue on March 20, 2026. The special show will "celebrate 250 years of the United States of America and 100 years of the Grand Ole Opry." "The evening is part of Carnegie Hall's United in Sound: America at 250 festival reflecting on the 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence," according to the press release. It continues, "In more than 35 concerts as part of the United in Sound festival at Carnegie Hall, audiences will experience Broadway, jazz, film music, rock 'n' roll, hip-hop, bluegrass, classical, country, and so much more, showcasing the very best of the American spirit through music."The Grand Ole Opry show on March 20, 2026, will mark just the fourth time in Opry history that it has headlined a show at Carnegie Hall. The previous three visits were in 1947, 1961 and 2005. Tickets can be added to current and new Carnegie Hall subscription packages for the 2025-2026 season and purchased as part of a Create Your Own subscription series. Single tickets go on sale to the general public on August 11. That sale will be a limited release for fans, with additional tickets going on sale when the artist line-up is confirmed. Ongoing Opry 100 celebrations include: 'Opry 100 Honors Porter Wagoner' (August 12), 'Opry 100 Honors Bill Monroe' (September 16), 'Opry 100 Honors Minnie Pearl and Roy Acuff' (October 18), and more to be announced for 2026. Opry's first-ever live international broadcast from London's iconic Royal Albert Hall on September 26 featuring Opry members Luke Combs, Ashley McBryde, Carly Pearce, Darius Rucker and Marty Stuart. During the month of October, the Opry will celebrate its 'Rhinestone Milestone' birthday all month with birthday shows, plaza parties, special fan activations, surprises, and more. On November 28, the Opry will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its November 28, 1925, inaugural broadcast with an all-star Opry member show. More details to come. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 Grand Ole Opry Announces Historic Concert first appeared on Parade on Jul 24, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 24, 2025, where it first appeared. Solve the daily Crossword
New York Times
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
In the Age of the Algorithm, Roots Music Is Rising
Billy Strings and Chris Thile were singing an old song called 'Rabbit in a Log' at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Clouds of weedy smoke rolled up to the stage from below, and thunder echoed from the surrounding mountain peaks as the crowd of 7,000 nodded blissfully and trance-bopped in Dead-show fashion. The song, also known as 'Feast Here Tonight,' is about extracting a rabbit from a hollow log when you don't have a dog (you'll need to fashion a brier snare), cooking it over an open fire and finding a place to lay your weary bones for the night. So it's about the techniques and outlook of the hobo, redolent of atavistic physical competence and the unforgiving facts of life. Like a lot of old-timey music heard in our disorienting present, it sounds like equipment for living, shaped and road-tested by hard times. Bill Monroe, the main force behind the merger of Scottish fiddle tunes with blues and gospel that came to be called bluegrass, recorded the song in the 1930s, but its roots extend back to earlier folk traditions in the South. It carries a considerable payload of history, and it also offers an occasion to shred. Billy Strings, who is already regarded at age 32 as an all-time great flat picker, grimaced in concentration as he laid down dense, twisting skeins of guitar notes. Thile, who is known as a wizard of the mandolin able to play anything with anybody, was all smiles and seemed to do everything without effort: impossibly swift runs, chordal washes, daring harmonic touches. Billy Strings told me later that his immediate reaction to hearing Thile warm up on mandolin backstage was 'I better get some coffee.' But Billy Strings was the main attraction. Born William Lee Apostol, he is one of the biggest names in the world of roots music and still getting bigger. He consistently sells out arenas, and it seems just a matter of time before he moves up to stadiums. He has been wildly successful in attracting fans of all ages, including devotees of jam bands, heavy metal and other genres beyond the roots-music scene. He told me, 'I'll throw in some diminished runs for metalheads; you know, put some horns on it,' referring to the devil-horns finger gesture favored by fans of heavy metal, who lap up the ominous minor sound of diminished chords. Billy Strings, whose marquee turn with Thile opened the Telluride festival last June, was one of a cohort of youngish, proven-yet-still-rising stars who converged there that also included Molly Tuttle, Charley Crockett and Sierra Ferrell. They are all big fish in the expanding pond of the roots-music scene who have been testing the vaster waters of the mainstream — showing up all over late-night TV, movie soundtracks and music awards shows. Endlessly in demand as guest stars on other artists' songs, they are both generating and riding the cultural momentum as American popular music makes one of its regular cyclical swings back toward acoustic instruments and natural voices, the values of community and craft and a heightened sense of connection to the soulful experience and hard-won wisdom of those who lived in the past. Like crafting and sewing and other embodied competences also making a comeback, music handmade by flesh-and-blood humans on instruments made of wood and metal has acquired special added meaning. It offers a strong contrast to the disembodied digital reality that more and more of us inhabit more and more of the time. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Axios
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Indianapolis weekend events: Aldabra Tortoises return, Pacers, Fever and more
It seems like everyone in Indy has the need for speed. Yes, but: For those who prefer to take it slow, we've got the perfect recommendations for fun away from the hustle and bustle of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. What's happening: Step into the city's slowest pit stop to see the giant Aldabra tortoises make their return to the Indianapolis Zoo this Memorial Day weekend. Two males and three females are joining the zoo family, with two of them being welcomed back to the Circle City after calling the facility home in the ' 90s and 2000s. Their permanent home is still being built, so they're spending their time in an exhibit space called "The Pit Stop" near the flamingoes. If you go: 1200 W. Washington St. Open 9am-5pm Monday-Thursday and 9am-7pm Friday-Sunday. Memorial Day hours will be extended until 7pm. Tickets start at $32. Here are the rest of our weekend picks: 🏁 Make your own checkered flag Indy 500 paperweight out of glass during a class at Glass Arts Indiana, 1pm Friday. Tickets start at $75. 🎸 Head south to Bean Blossom for three days of music, workshops and vibes during The Americana Bean Jamboree at Bill Monroe's Memorial Music Park & Campground, 5-9pm Friday and Saturday. 🏀 See the Indiana Fever take on the New York Liberty, 1pm Saturday. Tickets start at $32. 🎵 Enjoy the return of Moon Drops Distillery's free summer concert series when local band The Two Jasons hit the stage, 7pm Saturday. 🤘 Witness Puscifer, Primus and A Perfect Circle coming together on the Sessanta tour, 8pm Saturday at Ruoff Music Center. Tickets start at $54. 📣 Cheer on some ultimate frisbee action when the Indianapolis Alleycats host the Detroit Mechanix at Kuntz Stadium, 6pm Saturday. ⛹️ See if the Pacers can topple the Knicks in Game 3 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, 8pm Sunday.
