Bluegrass Nights 2009 - Bluegrass Today

Doyle Lawson and Ricky Skaggs are among the performers scheduled to appear during the forthcoming Bluegrass Nights Series at The Ryman.

Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman, an annual concert series in Nashville, begins June 25 with a show featuring Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, with Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper in support. The series at the historic Ryman Auditorium will also feature Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder (July 2), Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, Bobby Osborne & the Rocky Top X-Press and Next Best Thing (July 9), Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys and Jim Lauderdale (July 16), the Dan Tyminski Band and Steep Canyon Rangers (July 23) and Dailey & Vincent and the SteelDrivers (July 30).

Ticket information can be found at The Ryman web site.

Author: Richard Thompson

Richard F. Thompson is a long-standing free-lance writer specialising in bluegrass music topics. A two-time Editor of British Bluegrass News, he has been seriously interested in bluegrass music since about 1970. As well as contributing to that magazine, he has, in the past 30 plus years, had articles published by Country Music World, International Country Music News, Country Music People, Bluegrass Unlimited, MoonShiner (the Japanese bluegrass music journal) and Bluegrass Europe. He wrote the annotated series I'm On My Way Back To Old Kentucky, a daily memorial to Bill Monroe that culminated with an acknowledgement of what would have been his 100th birthday, on September 13, 2011. View all posts by Richard Thompson