Sunday Songbook: Keep It Country – 100 Years of the Grand Ole Opry
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The Everyman Sunday Songbook presents Sunday Songbook: Keep It Country – 100 Years of the Grand Ole Opry The Everyman Sunday Songbook goes country! Just over 100 years ago, an insignificant radio station in Nashville, Tennessee began broadcasting a one-hour programme on Saturday nights. It was called WSN Barn Dance and it featured local musicians playing the traditional hillbilly music of the Appalachian Mountains, much of it brought across the Atlantic by Irish emigrants fleeing the Great Famine. To the surprise and delight of the managers, the programme took off…and how!
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