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Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium announced its annual Ryman Community Day will take place Sunday, May 30, a day when Tennessee residents are invited to experience the Ryman’s daytime tour experience free of charge. Presented by PNC Bank and supporting partners Farm Bureau Health Plans, Hiller and Nissan, complimentary self-guided tours will be available from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. with presentation of a valid Tennessee state ID at the Ryman box office.

Warner Music Nashville recording artist Michael Ray honored his uncle just days after he passed in the best way he knew how: by telling the story of their family. Together with award-winning songwriters Michael Hardy and David Garcia, he penned the track “Picture” (listen HERE) about memories made and memories still to make. Today he releases the song alongside its official music video, directed by David Bradley (watch HERE). Fans will notice in the video a guitar labeled “Amos” – the name of his late grandfather and his 2018 album – the same one with which Ray made his Grand Ole Opry debut more than six years ago. The full circle moment speaks to the message that “Picture” offers.

Widely recognized for helping launch the careers of some of country music’s biggest stars as an award-winning songwriter and producer for likes of Kenny Chesney and P!ink and Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani, Ross Copperman is coming full circle with the release of his forthcoming EP, Somewhere There’s A Light On, arriving May 21 via Photo Finish Records. “Holdin’ You,” Copperman’s latest track from the project is available now, joining already released title-track, “Somewhere There’s A Light On,” “Not Believe” and “Electricity,” the latter co-written with Ed Sheeran.

Multi-Platinum entertainer Dierks Bentley and singer/songwriter Fancy Hagood recently appeared on The Doctors to talk about how Music Health Alliance is "a game-changer" for the music community and how the non-profit has provided aid to musicians during the pandemic as well as the destructive tornadoes that devastated parts of Tennessee last year.