Grand Ole Time

Hello gang, I hope everyone is feeling well, living their best life as a landscape architect intern. Racking in the dough and riding the flow. This weekend the fam bam came into town and pewww bahhhh we went to town. We went to the Grand Ole Opry House for their 5,462 straight airing. Hall of fame country singer,  "Whispering" Bill Anderson. This man has written 80 number one hits for country music singers. A few new artists also played and a couple more legends like John Connelly and Dean Dylan. The atmosphere was amazing, 10/10 do recommend. My parents and I also went to the Ryman for a backstage tour. The Ryman is known for being the "Mother church of country music" where shows are still performed today. The Grand Ole Opry use to be held there every Saturday night for originally $100 a week. The Ryman was the third location for their performances as their crowds grew larger and rowdier for the newly found bluegrass and hillbilly banjo music with "rockabilly." They still play shows to this day ranging from heavy metal, funk, soul, blues, and many more genres. We also visited the Country Music Hall of Fame for about 4 hours...do recommend if you're into country. So much history that I could blah blah for several more paragraphs at least but to keep it short, we had a grand ole time.

Godspeed,

Evan Michael Cart

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