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The Kentucky Opry in Prestonsburg is a major institution, using the Mountain Arts Center. Louisville is home to the West Point Country Opry, while the city of Owensboro is a major bluegrass center, and is home to the International Bluegrass Music Association. [2] In the capital city, Frankfort, there is the Kentucky Coffeetree Cafe. The cafe is ...
Only Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia have higher German ancestry percentages than Kentucky among Census-defined Southern states, although Kentucky's percentage is relatively smaller than the previously named states' percentages. [3] Kentucky was a slave state, and black people once comprised over one-quarter of its population.
Kentucky's regions (click on image for color-coding information) Kentucky can be divided into five primary regions: the Cumberland Plateau in the east, which contains much of the historic coal mines; the north-central Bluegrass region, where the major cities and the state capital (Frankfort) are located; the south-central and western Pennyroyal Plateau (also known as the Pennyrile or ...
Terri Clark has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry for 20 years. Two decades have also elapsed since she celebrated a quartet of Top 10-selling country albums with her 2004 "Greatest Hits" release.
Eastern Kentucky native and country music star Tyler Childers will perform at the Dec. 12 inauguration ceremony of Gov. Andy Beshear. Beshear won a second term Nov. 7, defeating Republican ...
All seven Black female country performers present at the Opry on Feb. 17 have benefitted from CMT's programs. 'Grow and glow' Parker and her manager Alex Evelyn are members of the 2023-2024 Equal ...
The rotunda of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. This is a list of the 155 inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, as of 2024, counting groups as a single inductee. Of these, 16 inductions are solo female performers, and 1 induction is a female duet.
Divisions of the Midwest by the U.S. Census Bureau into East North Central and West North Central, separated largely by the Mississippi River [1] Scotts Bluff National Monument in western Nebraska. The first recorded use of the term Midwestern to refer to a region of the central U.S. occurred in 1886; Midwest appeared in 1894, and Midwesterner ...