The Grand Ole Opry Announces Plans to Reopen

The Grand Ole Opry just announced plans to slowly reopen. After announcing in March that they would keep their Saturday night shows going, but without an audience, the historic venue just revealed that they will start allowing guests as soon as Nashville moves into Phase 4 of their reopening plan.

“We continue to work to resume Grand Ole Opry shows with live audiences as soon as we can do so aligning with the re-opening guidelines of Nashville,” a statement reads on their website. “When shows with a live ticketed audience do return, we plan to start slowly, having shows one night per week on Saturdays. Assuming all goes well, we would expand to additional nights.”

The original statement from the Grand Ole Opry said that they would resume ticketed shows in July, but a representative from the Opry later said they revised their original statement to reflect the most recent changes.

“While we are unsure when ticketed shows will return, presently tickets are on sale for Saturdays throughout July,” the statement continues. “Shows on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday during the month of July have been canceled and tickets for these events will be automatically refunded to the credit card used to place the order … No decision has been made about shows beyond July. Right now, we hope to proceed as planned.”

The statement goes on to say that refunds will be issued automatically if tickets were purchased directly from Opry.com; otherwise, refunds should be requested from the third party where the tickets were sold.

Artists like Luke Combs, Keith Urban, Steve Wariner, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood and Craig Morgan have continued to perform week after week, a situation that Craig admits is a bit uncomfortable.

“It is super weird,” Craig acknowledged on the Bobby Bones Show. “Playing without an audience is not as weird as people might think, because we do a lot of TV, we do a lot of things like that, where there’s not necessarily a live audience. But it is SUPER weird to do it in a place where you’re used to having a live audience, one of which is almost always sold out. So it’s a little weird to be at the Ryman Auditorium or at the Opry house, doing a show without a live audience, just because of where we’re at.”

Lady A will perform this Saturday, along with The Scott Family. On Saturday, June 27, Jimmy Buffett will make his Grand Ole Opry debut, performing alongside Mac MacAnally and Brad Paisley. The Opry shows continue to be streamed online and on the Circle Network. Find more information at Opry.com.