Vince Gill Honors Opry’s 100th Anniversary Milestone
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Backstage at the Opry is where a collection of country music artifacts resides that would fit in any hall of fame: Minnie Pearl’s hat. The footwear McCreery wore when he was inducted. historic programs and a handwritten list of “the top ten ugliest men on the Grand Ole Opry” could all be found on Friday. Skaggs carried Thompson’s fiddle around nearly everywhere he went, including the red carpet setup in the makeshift studio behind the stage.
When Johnson, who would play his hit “In Color” during the show, walked the red carpet, he said, “When I played the Opry the first time, all of a sudden there was the time before and the time after.”
As Pam Tillis walked the carpet and was handed a photo of herself and her father, Mel Tillis, at the Opry, she teared up and said, “in the words of Hank Williams, Jr., I’m carrying on a family tradition - just not the stoned part.”
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It’s that relationship between artist and institution that has driven Opry leadership to spend recent years connecting a younger generation of artists to the circle at the center of its stage.Aided by the OpryNext project, rising stars like Kaitlin Butts, 49 Winchester and Wyatt Flores have had multiple nights at the Opry this year. Opry vice president Dan Rogers tells Rolling Stone that such a move is meant to ensure a 200-year festivity when the time comes.
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