A country music duo from South Africa lands an Opry debut

Forrest Sanders

October 2, 2023

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Saturday afternoon, The Franklin Theatre debuted a new documentary as part of the Nashville Film Festival. It was about country music duo Dusty & Stones. The duo was in middle Tennessee for the premiere, more than 8,700 miles away from their home of Eswatini in Southern Africa.

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