Upstairs restrooms, only available during concerts, are located adjacent to the concessions counter. The Ryman is equipped with one elevator in the lobby that accesses the balcony. Should you require special assistance in reaching your seat, please see any Guest Service staff member during the event. There is also an elevator available backstage so those taking the Backstage Tour have accessibility to all areas of the tour.
Subscribe for updates, events offers and more. To sign up to receive our emails, Fill in the following fields and hit submit. Thanks, and Welcome! The Grand Ole Opry website uses cookies in order to improve your experience. By continuing to browse this website you are agreeing to its use of cookies. This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible.
Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.
If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.
Ryman Auditorium. How To Get Here Rep. Stay up to date with the Opry. Sign up for our newsletter. Stay In Touch Subscribe for updates, events offers and more. Powered by GDPR plugin. When emergencies struck, when other men despaired of rescuing a boat from sandbar or ice, fire or boiler explosion, they counted on Captain Tom to find a way.
Ryman, in , was 43 years old and father of eight children, at the height of his business career, when he dropped in one night to hear the Rev. Sam Jones, famous revivalist, preach in a tent at the corner of Eighth and Broad. The evangelist preached soul-shaking sermons on the evils of drink. Ryman, well aware of the problems all up and down the river, repented of operating bars that would tempt others. His new religious fervor so gripped Ryman that he wanted others to share it.
As he came out of the tent and found part of the crowd outside, he was determined to build a tremendous tabernacle where Nashvillians of all faiths could worship together any season of the year.
Ryman took his idea to Jones, and his enthusiasm was contagious. Meanwhile Ryman had other ways of sharing his religious with others. He established a mission for steam men next door to his office, on Broad Street, near the river.
He employed a full-time minister to hold nightly services there, and he hired a teacher for night school for steamboat men and their families. His generosity to Nashville's poor reached in all directions. Ryman built a Gospel Wagon to take the gospel to neighborhoods without churches, and on Sunday afternoons, in the business district, streetcars and other traffic stopped while the Gospel Wagon — compete with pulpit, organ and choir — held forth.
At the same time, he was soliciting donations for the tabernacle. That summer the foundation of massive stone was laid.
By the spring of , the brick walls of Union Gospel Tabernacle were built to a height of about six feet. A canvas roof was stretched over the walls so that Nashville could welcome Jones back for another revival series on Sunday, March 25, Nashvillians, rich and poor, reached deep in their pockets to pay for the great bleak barn of a building with its marvelous acoustics and its earnest pews.
By , the Tabernacle called Union because it was to unify all faiths was near enough to completion to house another revival by Jones. But the building has been planned for a variety of events that would contribute to the "religion, morality, and the elevation of humanity to a higher plan and more usefulness," and it was already fulfilling the wider purpose. Twice, the Ryman came close to being destroyed, with WSM and Roy Acuff calling for its demolition soon after the Opry moved to the Grand Ole Opry House until a dedicated group of people, including then-US Senators Howard Baker and Bill Brock, both representing Tennessee, spared the Ryman from such a fate by fighting against the proposed demolition, shining it up, and giving it some love in the form of a complete renovation during the s.
The other time was in when, with police acting on a tip from a citizen, a car bomb weighing about pounds was disarmed less than 20 minutes before it was set to go off and destroy a 3-block area of downtown Nashville that included First Baptist Church of Nashville and the Ryman, with the intended target being a nearby strip club.
In , a series of renovations began in earnest to both beautify the Ryman, inside and out, and add many modern amenities that have made it into a truly first-class concert and performance venue.
In mid, the Grand Ole Opry House suffered from a massive flood, forcing it to shut down while it was being restored. For the five months during which the Opry House was closed for repairs, the Ryman Auditorium, on several occasions, served as one of several backup venues for the Grand Ole Opry. In , the Ryman was renovated yet again, with much of the renovation being gutted and remodeled.
0コメント