On March 15, 1974, the Grand Ole Opry country music radio show closed its run at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee ...

Before he was one of the pioneers in country and bluegrass music, Roy Acuff’s mission was to be a big-league ballplayer. A bout with sunstroke and the subsequent inability to be in sunlight for ...

Sam Bush with Suns of Stars on the Pisgah Outdoor Stage Gates: 6:00 pm Show: 6:30 pm. SAM BUSH BAND There was only one ...

So, he hired a 48-year-old Roy Acuff. The play-by-play announcer became known as “The Voice of the Missions” during his 25-year career in the Alamo City. “Roy was a big part of our staff and ...

Country music star Roy Acuff paused his busy schedule on Sept. 13, 1958, to meet local Republican candidates at the SEMO District Fair, captured in a rare photo from the Southeast Missourian archive.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Tuesday, Aug. 20, marked the grand opening of the new WSM studio in the Roy Acuff Theatre. WSM, which had previously broadcasted from the Opry Resort, now has a permanent ...

LGBTQ+ musicians have always played a part in country music, but even today they are being kept just outside the spotlight.

The list is being slowly released to celebrate the Grand Ole Opry's 100th anniversary this year and will continue until all 100 songs have been named.

His parents met at a Roy Acuff concert and Crowell was only two years old when his father insisted on taking him to see Hank Williams perform. By age eleven, he was playing in his father’s honky ...

On the 2024-25 team, IMG has five Division I commits, including Acuff, signed with Arkansas, and three more uncommitted four-stars. So the St. Mary's star, who signed with Michigan basketball in ...

SACRAMENTO — Both the men’s pole vault and women’s high jump finals at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials went to overtime Sunday, with Chad Harting and Amy Acuff having to survive jump ...