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    Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman: Sam Bush with special guests The Josh Williams Band

    Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman: Sam Bush with special guests The Josh Williams Band

    Presented by Ryman Auditorium at Ryman Auditorium

    July 7, 2011

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    Springer Mountain Farms presents Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman. Sam Bush with special guests The Josh Williams Band

    Experience the best in bluegrass on the very stage where bluegrass was born over 60 years ago. The Ryman Auditorium, the Mother Church Of Country Music and the home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974, is sacred to the history of country music. Especially important to the history of the Ryman is its significant role in the history of bluegrass music. Although Bill Monroe had been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1939, it wasn't until a Saturday night in December of 1945 when bluegrass music as we know it today was born when a twenty-one year old young man by the name of Earl Scruggs stepped up to the WSM microphone on the Ryman stage playing the five-string banjo with a three-finger roll. This was the final ingredient in what we now know as bluegrass music.

    Known as the originator of “Newgrass,” Sam Bush is a mandolin-playing advocate of progressive bluegrass. Bush has released a number of bluegrass albums and received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist from the American Music Association in 2009. The Bowling Green, Ky. native also sings and plays the banjo and fiddle.


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        Ryman Auditorium

        116 Fifth Avenue North
        Nashville, TN 37219

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        $26.50/ticket, Bluegrass Pass for all 6 shows $128 until 2/28/11

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        July 7, 2011

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        Thursday 7:30pm

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