Grand Ole Opry @ Royal Albert Hall

[Grahambythesea]

Good to see BBC devote a chunk of prime time Saturday viewing to the concert celebrating 100 years of the Opry. Can’t say they were my favourite acts from the US, but the house band were great. I wish the chosen UK acts had represented some of the British Country talent, may be the Shires or Remember Monday. 

[Lozz196]

I caught the tail end of it, and listened to quite a bit on Thursday evening. Whilst I’m not a country aficionado I liked the majority of what I heard - and agree, the house band sounded very good.

[Wombat]

Yes, very enjoyable! I was surprised Marcus Mumford was there. But more surprised at the ‘lack’ of any Fenderyness. I thought it would be a prime occasion to whip out something vintage but everyone went ‘super clone’!

[Grahambythesea]

I noticed the bass player was on a Sadowsky and a couple of the teles were by luthiers. Gibson and Taylor were out front for acoustics with Martin trailing behind. 

[MacDaddy]

5 hours ago, Grahambythesea said:

I wish the chosen UK acts had represented some of the British Country talent,

 

Hank Wangford?

[casapete]

I watched the whole programme and was very impressed with the band ( just superb ) and

most of the headline acts, with the exception of the Mumfords contributions. Their vocals

were a bit frail and not quite in tune, especially compared with the other main performers. 
( I didn’t know the Mumfords were even considered to be a country outfit TBH.)