Newest Member Of Country Hall Of Fame Ricky Skaggs To Perform At The Dixie

By Shannon McFarlin WENK/WTPR News Director
Huntingdon, Tenn.—Country Legend Ricky Skaggs was formally inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame Monday night and the timing couldn’t be better for Skagg’s upcoming performances at The Dixie Performing Arts Center in Huntingdon.
Tickets are still available for both of Skagg’s performances at The Dixie: 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, November 3.
Ticket process run from $30 to $55 and can be ordered from The Dixie’s website or by calling 731 986 2100.
Skaggs is one of the all-time Dixie favorites, having appeared there before. Skaggs career is easily among the most significant in recent country music history and is a 15-time Grammy Award winner.
Skaggs was inducted by Hall of Fame member Garth Brooks.
At the ceremony, Skaggs said, “It’s kinda hard to believe that this day has really come. To hear someone say, ‘The newest member of the Country Music Hall of Fame’ are some of the greatest words you could ever hear this side of Heaven!” He said the honor was ‘beyond humbling’.
According to the Country Music Hall of Fame website, several took to the state to honor Skaggs, including Brooks and Chris Stapleton.
After being presented with his medallion, Skaggs was asked to take it off so as not to scratch the instrument he was being asked to play. Then the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum offered Skaggs the honor of playing the famed Gibson F-5 mandolin of his hero, Bill Monroe.
An emotional Skaggs led the audience in the traditional singing of “Will The Circle Be Unbroken”.