Grand Ole Opry Celebrates Broadcast Milestone

Country Music Stars Celebrate 5,000th Show

Nashville, TN (AP) – The Grand Ole Opry’s broadcast of its 5,000th Saturday show attracted a host of big country music stars to its historic venue. Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Darius Rucker, Vince Gill, Chris Young and a half-dozen others lined up to celebrate the nearly century-old country music program.

The radio broadcast was carried by WSM radio. Brooks and Yearwood closed the show with a set of several songs before Brooks ended with his country classic “Friends in Low Places.”