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The biggest by-product of the country music scene, tourism, now caters over 9 million visitors who make the pilgrimage to the ‘Athens of the South’ to get a taste of authentic ‘opry’. Many of them make there first stop the legendary Grande Ole Opry to see there heroes up close and personal in the 4,400-seater concert hall that plays home to the very best that Country music and Bluegrass has to offer. Truth be known the venue has only been used as the Grand Ole Opry since the mid-seventies when it was moved from its original home at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Downtown Nashville. However the new 45,000 square foot ‘Opry’ has proven so successful with both audiences and artists alike that it has led to the development of a huge hotel complex with nearly three thousand rooms, which not only has its own man made park it even has its own river running around the outskirts.
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