[Red Badger]

For Folk music, you don’t need a drummer at all..............For decades, the Grand Ol’ Opry would not allow drums on stage..............

[Tax-chick]

The Folk Society includes all kinds of acoustic music. We do a lot of Latin American music, which requires percussion, and modern bluegrass can use a drum.

[knittnmom]

Can’t remember for sure, but it seems to me that they made an exception and allowed one drum on stage for “Bonaparte’s Retreat” by Pee Wee King.

[reaganaut]

For decades, the Grand Ol’ Opry would not allow drums on stage

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WS Holland (Cash’s drummer) was the first to play a full set of drums at the Opry, IIRC.