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Grand Ole Opry To Celebrate 100th Anniversary Of Inaugural Broadcast

October 17, 2025/by Lauryn Sink

The Grand Ole Opry will celebrate 100 years since its inaugural broadcast with two shows on Nov. 28.

November 28, 2025 marks exactly 100 years since the evening a single fiddle tune performed by Uncle Jimmy Thompson marked the first Grand Ole Opry broadcast.

Slated to appear during the shows is Trace Adkins, Bill Anderson, Mandy Barnett, T. Graham Brown, Steven Curtis Chapman, Henry Cho, The Gatlin Brothers, Vince Gill, The Isaacs, Kathy Mattea, Charlie McCoy, Scotty McCreery, Gary Mule Deer, Riders In The Sky, Ricky Skaggs, Don Schlitz, Connie Smith, Marty Stuart, Pam Tillis, The Whites, Mark Wills, Suzy Bogguss and more to be announced soon.

The Grand Ole Opry has been celebrating Opry 100 throughout 2025 with special shows, more than 60 Opry debuts so far this year, and the Opry’s first-ever live international broadcast from London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall. The celebrations will continue into 2026. A full schedule of Opry 100 events can be found here.

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Lauryn Sink is a staff writer at MusicRow Magazine. Hailing from Lexington, North Carolina, Lauryn is a 2025 graduate of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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