Ricky Skaggs

15-time GRAMMY winner, Country Music Hall of Fame and IBMA Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame member Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder will be performing select dates this summer at Dierks Bentley’s Off The Map Tour 2026! You will not want to miss this! Get ready for Ricky Skaggs and his band, Kentucky Thunder, to play an amazing set of exceptional country and bluegrass music!

For tickets/info: https://rickyskaggs.com/tour/

Here is Ricky Skaggs, working magic on his Fender Telecaster during the 75th Anniversary of the Telecaster, the world's first mass-produced, solid-body electric guitar and one of the most influential instrument designs of all time, at the commemorative Tele Town show on May 4th at the historic Ryman Auditorium.

Photo credit: Russ Carson / Carson Photoworks

“Since we were sharing a dressing room together at the Tele Town concert, I just had to get a picture with Zach for my 5 year old grandson. Zach Top and Alan Jackson are his favorite country singers….well Papaw too! Thanks Zach for being so gracious!” - Ricky Skaggs

Photo credit: Amelia Taylor

"It was great to catch up with Jack White and hear him play and sing. He and I have a real love for the old stuff. We were both honored to celebrate Fender Guitar’s Tele Town. What an unforgettable night!!" - Ricky Skaggs

I sure do love playing at the Ryman and I sure do love catching up with a legend like that of Ricky Skaggs. Some of you might remember Ricky came around and did a sweet version of “Old Enough” with The Raconteurs many years ago. Last night we had the privilege of playing the Fender Telecaster’s 75th anniversary tribute show together at the mother Church of country music. We of course couldn’t resist the temptation to take a photo with our favorite Casters together.

Ricky Skaggs knows a thing or two about musical versatility. For decades, Skaggs' career has been marked by his prolific, seamless shifts between genres. As a result, his critically lauded works have shaped both bluegrass and country music along the way. - People

Ricky Skaggs Says 'I Felt Like I Needed to Come Back' to Bluegrass, the 'Music of My Youth,' After Country Albums (Exclusive) Ricky Skaggs told PEOPLE at the Musicians Hall of Fame 2026 induction ceremony that he felt compelled to return to bluegrass music after creating almost a dozen hit country records, inspired largely by the feelings the music evoked of his youth.

The Musicians Hall of Fame inducted a new class of members during a Nashville ceremony on April 28.

The evening launched with a private medallion ceremony, held in the Fisher Center’s Brad Paisley Ballroom, where Linda Chambers, Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum co-founder and CEO, presented Hall of Fame medallions and custom-made jackets to honorees, with help from guests and 2016 Musicians Hall of Fame inductees Ricky Skaggs and Don Felder. - Billboard

Musicians Hall of Fame Inducts 12 New Members, Including Dolly Parton, Keith Urban & Michael McDonald Keith Urban, Dolly Parton, Dann Huff, and John Boylan were among those inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame during a Nashville ceremony April 28.

Here’s Ricky Skaggs on the red carpet tonight at the The Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum Concert & Induction Ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee!

NEW SHOW: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder make their return to The Princess Theatre on Friday, August 14.

Pre-sale tickets for Princess members go on sale tomorrow at 10AM. Public tickets go on sale this Friday, May 1 at 10AM via princesstheatre.org

Thanks for sharing, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

A soaring tenor vocalist adept on the mandolin, guitar, and fiddle, Ricky Skaggs fine-tuned his craft in the bands of bluegrass patriarch Ralph Stanley and Emmylou Harris before becoming a solo artist.

Arguably bluegrass music’s hottest young picker and singer in the 1970s, Skaggs established himself as both heir apparent to the reigning legends and a leader of the progressive bluegrass movement.

Skaggs adapted his sound enough to become a mainstream country star in the 1980s and was named the CMA Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year in 1985. From 1981 through 1989, he scored nineteen Top Ten country singles, including the No. 1 country hits “Heartbroke,” “Uncle Pen,” and “Country Boy.”

Since 1990, Skaggs has become bluegrass’s leading ambassador, prominent as a TV and radio host, concert attraction, and award-winning recording artist. In 1997, he established Skaggs Family Records and released the straight-ahead bluegrass album “Bluegrass Rules!" The Grammy-winning collection also took home the International Bluegrass Music Association's Album of the Year award and was the first of eight IBMA Instrumental Group of the Year wins for Skaggs’s band, Kentucky Thunder. All in all, Skaggs has earned fourteen Grammys.

Skaggs was inducted into both the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2018.

Read more:
https://www.countrymusichalloffame.org/hall-of-fame/ricky-skaggs

Always an honor to step onto the Grand Ole Opry stage. See y’all in the circle at Opry Country Classics tonight April 16! Get tickets at Opry.com or tune-in from home on WSM Radio: wsmradio.com/listen-live!