Any guy that owns a banjo (me) is a bona fide member of the bluegrass nation. But even if you don’t, and maybe you just own the “O Brother Where Art Thou?” soundtrack, the Ryman has a great summer series for you.

It’s called “Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman” and runs every Thursday at 7:30 through July. That makes for a total of six great shows, including some really big-name artists like Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys, and the Dan Tyminski Band. First up is Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper on June 25th.

The Ryman is a fitting place for the series as it played a key role in the birth of bluegrass. It was there that on a Saturday night in December 1945 a 21-year-old Earl Scruggs stepped to the WSM microphone on the Ryman stage playing a five-string banjo with a three-finger roll. And so bluegrass was born.

Dane

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