Grand Ole Opry News

Published: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 7:32 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 7:32 p.m. Two different types of opera - classical opera and Grand Ole Opry music - will be featured in a unique fundraiser Saturday evening at the Hardin Center for Cultural Arts.

"These were the songs that made me fall in love with music," says Lorrie Morgan .

DeKalb resident Gary Mullis entered songs he wrote into the Songwriters Contest Division of the Talent Expo 2009, which was sponsored by Northwest Alabama Music Publishing Co.

Grand Master Fiddler Championship top ten winners include from left, Doug Fleener, fourth place; Mia Orosco, fifth place; Kimber Ludiker, sixth place; Laura Cash, seventh place; Bubba Hopkins, tenth place; James Schlender, ninth place and Maddie Denton, eighth place.

The building that houses Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame is in the shape of a bass clef with windows that resemble piano keys.

BMNN wrote: on Oct. 21, 2009: The Grand Master Fiddler Champion for 2009 is Alex Hargreaves of Corvallis, Oregon.

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 7, the 280th day of 2009 with 85 to follow. The moon is waning.

Gene Williams, Loretta Lynn, Mike Snider and the late Dottie Rhodes were inducted Sept.

Announcement : Randall Franks to Serve as Grand Master Fiddler Celebrity Co-Host BMNN wrote: on Sep.

Editor's note: The two groups being inducted into the Mid-America Music Hall of Fame on Saturday both have local ties.

Thursday night will be a celebration of Oklahoma music that blends rock, blues, Western swing and one very bright - and young - country music superstar.

A Song in Keith's Heart If you love country music and the people who write the lyrics and the melodies that make up the songs, those who travel the highways east to west, south to north with a song on their lips and love in their heart, I suggest you continue to read this.

Gene Williams, Loretta Lynn, Dot Rhodes and Mike Snider will be inducted into the George D. Hay Music Hall of Fame, named for the man who created the Grand Ole Opry.

Active as a performer and recording artist in the 1970s and 1980s, Johnny Russell was remembered for "Rednecks, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer," perhaps country music's quintessential blue-collar anthem.

It wasna t that he [ Bill Monroe ] didna t like the [Dobro] players, he just didna t like the instrument in his band because Roy Acuff, they were both on the Grand Ole Opry at that time, he had a Dobro player in his band, so he didna t want to copy Roy Acuff.

As I suppose many folks did in the '30s, '40s, '50s and even later, I looked forward to Saturday night and the weekly broadcast of the Grand Ole Opry.

As I suppose many folks did in the '30s, '40s, '50s and even later, I looked forward to Saturday night and the weekly broadcast of the Grand Ole Opry.

Mike Seeger, whose talents as a multi-instrumentalist, sound engineer, archivist and scholar made him a major figure in American roots music over the past half-century, died Friday night at his home in Lexington, Va.

In no hurry, John Rice Irwin showed off his exhibits at the Museum of Appalachia.

Tennessee's top old-time banjo picker, Grand Ole Opry favorite Leroy Troy, brings his Tennessee Mafia Jug Band to Cumberland County Playhouse on July 23, at 8 p.m. Leroy Troy and the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band is sponsored by BB&T/Legge Insurance Agency.