Join us on Saturday, January 6 at 7pm for a Breaking Up Christmas Concert featuring The New Smokey Valley Boys, The Cabin Creek Boys, and Mountain Park Old Time Band! Breaking Up Christmas is an old Blue Ridge Mountains tradition where people celebrated the 12 days of Christmas with house parties filled with old-time stringband […]
SORRY! THIS FREE EVENT HAS NOW REACHED CAPACITY! Join us Friday, January 26 at 7pm for an evening of stories and music with luthiers Jayne Henderson and Wayne Henderson. Jayne will give a talk on her road to becoming a luthier, learning from her father Wayne, and the innovations in eco-sustainability she is bringing to the craft. She […]
WE WANT YOU TO VOLUNTEER AT THE BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC MUSEUM! Volunteers are needed to assist in the galleries on a daily basis, help in archives and collections, provide curatorial research and exhibit assistance, support special events, assist in The Museum Store, and act as docents for guided adult and school tours. Training is […]
The Appalachian photographs taken by Cecil Sharp as he collected songs from the region are the focus of a new special exhibit at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum!
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum is calling on the community of fans and festivalgoers to submit photographs for a new special exhibit -- Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion Through Your Eyes -- to open later this summer.
Join us on Friday, April 6 at 7pm in the museum’s Performance Theater for “Strong Mountain Women: How Ballads Power People – Songs and Stories from the Appalachian Collections of Cecil Sharp, Maud Karpeles, and Olive Dame Campbell.”
Interested in helping us share the story of the 1927 Bristol Sessions with the world? Become a volunteer! Take part in a volunteer training session and we'll match up your area of interest with our needs.
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum and Tennessee State Museum are partnering together for a special Teacher In-Service Program on June 8, 2018 for elementary, middle, and high school educators.
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum’s Pick Along Summer Camps are back! Not only will your child learn about Bristol’s important role in country music history and its lasting influence on the music of today, but they will also learn the skills necessary to play an instrument!
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum presents a film screening and Q&A session with director David Weintraub of A Great American Tapestry: The Many Strands of Mountain Music June 30, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.
