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    • Oct 3, 2015
    Ralph Stanley has a pacemaker installed in surgery
    Jun 23, 2016
    Ralph Stanley dies at his home in Sandy Ridge, Virginia, after battling skin cancer. As a member of The Stanley Brothers, he had a hand in such bluegrass classics as "Rank Stranger," "Angel Band" and "How Far To Little Rock." As a solo act, he earned a Grammy for "O Death," from the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
    Jun 28, 2016
    Ralph Stanley is buried in Smith Ridge, Virginia. Vince Gill sings "Go Rest High On That Mountain" during the outdoor memorial service with harmonies provided by Ricky Skaggs and Patty Loveless
    Oct 19, 2017
    Dierks Bentley leads a tribute concert to the late Ralph Stanley at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. Also on the bill are Darryl Worley, Heidi Newfield, Nathan Stanley, Ralph Stanley II, T. Graham Brown, T Bone Burnett and Doug Supernaw
    Jul 13, 2018
    "Ralph Stanley: Voice From On High" opens at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. The exhibit includes several instruments, a suit and microphones the bluegrass singer used on a 1940s radio show at WCYB in Bristol, Virginia
    Oct 24, 2018
    Dierks Bentley leads a Tribute to Ralph & Carter Stanley at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. Also on the bill are The Travellin' McCourys, The Gibson Brothers, Dan Auerbach, Sierra Hull, Ralph Stanley II and Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
    Jan 6, 2019
    The Country Music Hall of Fame exhibit "Ralph Stanley: Voice From On High" closes after six months in Nashville. Memorabilia in the presentation included stagewear, a banjo, a guitar and microphones from his work at a Bristol, Virginia, radio station
    Sep 23, 2019
    The bluegrass storyline continues in episode six of the PBS series "Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns" with music by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, plus Ralph Stanley's "Pretty Polly" and The New Lost City Ramblers' "On Some Foggy Mountain Top"
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