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Nashville is "Music City, USA"

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Thursday, 11 March 2010 08:14

Nashville is a small city that feels like, rather than city. It is situated on the banks of the Cumberland River in the center of the State of Tennessee. It is usually referred to as "Music City USA" or as the world capital of Country Western music.

The Country or "hillbilly" music was born in the 1920s, shortly after the broadcasting and recording the local "folk" singers had the opportunity to listen to what they created their contemporaries in other parts of the United States. Country music was initially based on Scottish and Irish tunes and ballads, which were popular with the "barn dances" (barn dances) in many rural states. Soon they became very popular among millions of farmers and factory workers of the cities
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throughout the country.
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It is the seat of the famous "Grand Ole Opry"

In 1925, a small radio station in Nashville, Tennessee began a program with Direktdarbietungen broadcast by country musicians. The Saturday evening program of one hour followed by a program of classical music called the Grand Opera, and soon they gave him the nickname "The Grand Ole Opry. A little later the program from stations throughout the country has been transferred and could be heard by millions of fans of country music.

Amateur singers and musicians in country music went in droves to Nashville, hoping to get a chance at the Grand Ole Opry sing or play music and become rich and famous. The big commercial record producer from New York and Los Angeles noticed at the beginning of the market by hillbilly records do not, so started small producers from the stars of the Nashville country music record. Today, this type of music in the international recording industry is well accepted and almost all the major record producers have a branch and a recording studio in Nashville. "Music City" really deserves its name.

The Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville, was the original seat of the Grand Ole Opry. It is Nashville

open to the general public to visit and is still used for numerous concerts and other shows.
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"Opryland" is now located in the Music Valley

The new home of the Grand Ole Opry is now in the "Opryland" located in the Music Valley (Musiktal), in a suburb of Nashville. You can visit the radio and television studios of Opryland or occupy a recording spectacle of a Grand Ole Opry every Friday and Saturday, tickets to several weeks if ordered in advance.

The Opryland Hotel is one of the most impressive hotels in the United States with its large, glass-covered, Binnenhof in which tropical gardens, a typical Southern plantation house, a village, waterfalls, a lake, fountains and a river are housed with excursion boats. You can visit this fabulous atrium of the Opryland Hotel just to spend the lunch hour relaxing in the food court to browse some of the 30 shops, eating in one of five themed restaurants at night, or spend a few nights in one of 2 883 rooms. The theme park Opryland Theme Park which was located next to the Hotel closed its doors in 1998 and will soon reopen as a large shopping center.

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