Opry City Stage Coming to Times Square in 2017
October 27 2016 - 8:48AM
Business Wire
Grand Ole Opry Owners to Open Multi-Level
Entertainment Venue and Restaurant in Early 2017
Country music’s most famous brand is coming to New York City.
Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. (NYSE:RHP) today unveiled its
plans for Opry City Stage, the Grand Ole Opry’s first “home away
from home,” a four-level entertainment complex on historic Broadway
in Times Square.
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Set to open in April 2017, Opry City Stage will share the best
of Nashville food and music, including live entertainment,
simulcast performances from the Grand Ole Opry House and more in a
two-floor bar and restaurant space. A world-class listening room
and private event space will occupy the fourth floor, and the
ground level will hold the complex’s retail area featuring many of
Nashville’s signature brands.
“For 91 years the Grand Ole Opry has connected country music
fans with their favorite artists through live performances, radio
and more recently, digital technology,” said Colin Reed, chairman
and CEO of Ryman Hospitality Properties. “Opry City Stage is all
about taking the diverse sounds that originate in Nashville to
other markets so that fans have another way to discover new artists
and connect with the music they love. We believe that once our Opry
City Stage guests get a taste for all the Grand Ole Opry and
Nashville have to offer, they are going to want to visit Music City
and experience it for themselves.”
The fourth-floor listening room will feature an array of
programming, including curated performances from Music City’s famed
songwriting epicenter, the Bluebird Cafe, made possible by a
licensing agreement between Ryman Hospitality Properties and the
Nashville Songwriters Association International. The relationship
extends beyond the Times Square property to include future venues,
touring products, sponsorships, and ecommerce opportunities.
“We are tremendously excited that two of the most compelling
entertainment brands in Nashville—the Grand Ole Opry and the
Bluebird Cafe—are embarking on this partnership to share our unique
styles of entertainment in New York City and beyond,” said Erika
Wollam Nichols, president and general manager, Bluebird Cafe, Inc.
“The Opry and Bluebird have each developed a wide base of loyal
fans who are wildly passionate about and respectful of the music,
both in our longtime homes of Nashville as well as when we have
stepped outside our Nashville footprints for special shows on the
road. Our songwriting community is part of what makes Nashville so
great, and we simply can’t wait to entertain rooms full of New York
City listeners, introducing them to Nashville and New York-based
writers alike.”
Opry City Stage Times Square will be opened by a joint venture
partnership with New York City-based SPK Hospitality Group LLC.
Reed continued, “The Opry has always enjoyed a warm welcome in
New York City, and we believe Opry City Stage will appeal to both
New Yorkers and tourists who will now be able to hear authentic
country music in one of the world’s most famous entertainment
centers. With its millions of annual visitors from around the
world, Times Square is a logical place to debut the Opry City Stage
concept, which we believe can be expanded to other tourist-focused
markets in the near future.”
About Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc.
Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. (NYSE: RHP) is a REIT
for federal income tax purposes, specializing in group-oriented,
destination hotel assets in urban and resort markets. The Company’s
owned assets include a network of four upscale, meetings-focused
resorts totaling 7,805 rooms that are managed by lodging
operator Marriott International, Inc. under the Gaylord
Hotels brand. Other owned assets managed by Marriott
International, Inc. include Gaylord Springs Golf Links, the
Wildhorse Saloon, the General Jackson Showboat, The Inn
at Opryland, a 303-room overflow hotel adjacent to Gaylord Opryland
and AC Hotel Washington, DC at National Harbor, a
192-room hotel near Gaylord National. The Company also owns and
operates media and entertainment assets, including the Grand Ole
Opry (opry.com), the legendary weekly showcase of country music’s
finest performers for 91 years; the Ryman Auditorium, the
storied former home of the Grand Ole Opry located in downtown
Nashville; and 650 AM WSM, the Opry’s radio home. For additional
information about Ryman Hospitality Properties,
visit www.rymanhp.com.
About The Bluebird Cafe
Opened in 1982, the Bluebird Cafe is one of the most famous
listening rooms in the world. Focusing on songwriters and the
original music they create, the 90-seat venue has gained worldwide
recognition as an intimate performance space where both up and
coming songwriters and chart-topping hitmakers perform “in the
round”, sharing their songs and stories behind those songs. The
Bluebird is known for jump starting people’s careers including
Kathy Mattea, T. Graham Brown, Faith Hill, Taylor Swift and of
course, Garth Brooks’ legendary performance that secured his record
deal with Capitol Records. Over 70,000 people attend a show in the
tiny venue annually; many of them as a result of seeing the
Bluebird in the Foo Fighters' documentary, Sonic Highways, the
feature film, The Thing Called Love or most recently on the hit
drama, Nashville. Over the years, the Bluebird Cafe has been
featured in publications such as Southwest Spirit, National
Geographic Traveler, The New York Times and Rolling Stone where the
venue was voted one of the Top 10 Best Clubs in America.
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