The Grand Ole Opry returned to Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival this year to headline the festival’s opening night. The Opry carried on the festival’s long-standing tradition of representing country, bluegrass, and roots music with performances by Old Crow Medicine Show and fellow Opry members Ricky Skaggs and Riders In The Sky, plus special guests Steve Earle and the Dukes, Morgan Evans, Ashley Monroe, Wendy Moten, Molly Tuttle, and even the Opry Square Dancers and Opry announcer Bill Cody came along for the ride.
BGS handed off the That Tent torch to the Opry in 2018, after five years of the BGS SuperJam. You can revisit our years of BGS x Bonnaroo goodness here: 2017; 2016; 2014.
The entire cast of Grand Ole Opry at Bonnaroo gather backstage.
Of course the Opry Square Dancers came along.
Morgan Evans.
Wendy Moten
Old Crow Medicine Show acoustically electrify the crowd.
Steve Earle and the Dukes.
Wendy Moten joins OCMS.
Steve Earle and Ricky Skaggs - a truly legendary duet.
Country singer/songwriter Ashley Monroe.
Ricky Skaggs getting into it.
Riders In The Sky continually doing it the cowboy way.
A rainbowy Molly Tuttle demonstrating her incredible clawhammer guitar style.
Riders In The Sky and the packed-in Bonnaroo crowd.
The grand finale.
All photos: Chris Hollo
