BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Birthplace of Country Music - ECPv6.3.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Birthplace of Country Music X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://birthplaceofcountrymusic.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Birthplace of Country Music REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221202T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221202T210000 DTSTAMP:20240328T114008 CREATED:20221118T172950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221118T172950Z UID:10021551-1670004000-1670014800@birthplaceofcountrymusic.org SUMMARY:A BCM Christmas with Riders in the Sky DESCRIPTION:Tickets now on sale to the public! \nDate: Friday\, December 2\, 2022 \nTime 6:00 p.m. EST \nLocation: Performance Theater\, Birthplace of Country Music Museum \nTickets: $100 \nBUY TICKETS \nJoin us for a very special BCM Christmas special with Riders in the Sky\, which includes dinner and a cash bar\, hosted by WBCM Radio Bristol. \nClick here to learn more about the benefits of becoming a member of our 1927 Society so that you may receive exclusive\, first-access to concert tickets and more. \nAbout Riders in the Sky \n \n40 years ago there were no laptops\, no cellular phones\, no Google\, no downloads\, no Skype\, no Tweets\, no Apple\, no Microsoft\, no texting\, no electric cars\, no Uber. A different world. But there were three young men with drive and wit who wanted to keep a special music alive. They believed in preserving the heritage of Western Music and presenting it to a new generation. They believed in entertaining\, and they did so… entertaining themselves as well as the audience! And they believed in creating original Western Music to continue the tradition\, not just seal it in amber as a museum piece. \nThe quartet has slowed up very little and the numbers begin to add up: an astonishing 7\,200+ appearances\, 35 years on the Grand Ole Opry\, 40 records albums (well\, now CDs\,) and tours of all 50 states and all over the world. \nHonors accumulated as well. In addition to the two GRAMMY Awards\, Riders received numerous awards from the Western Music Association\, including the highest: membership in the Western Music Hall of Fame; numerous Wrangler awards from the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Museum; awards from the Academy of Western Artists; enshrinement in the Walkway of Western Stars\, and more. What began as a celebration of classic Western Music and an evening of hilarity has become a career\, and that career has become a legend\, one which\, 40 years on\, shows no signs of stopping or even slowing down much. \nRanger Doug\, Too Slim\, Woody Paul and Joey the Cowpolka King… 44 years on\, “The Cowboy Way.” URL:https://birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/event/a-bcm-christmas-with-riders-in-the-sky/ LOCATION:VA CATEGORIES:Radio Bristol,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Riders-in-the-Sky-Web.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221203T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221203T170000 DTSTAMP:20240328T114008 CREATED:20221025T190729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221114T221214Z UID:10021507-1670076000-1670086800@birthplaceofcountrymusic.org SUMMARY:Bluegrass Jam DESCRIPTION:The Birthplace of Country Music Museum in partnership with the East Tennessee Bluegrass Association is hosting a monthly gathering of local musicians for a bluegrass jam session! The jam events are intended to provide a space for local musicians to gather and pick\, collaborate\, share their experiences\, and—most importantly—to have fun. The jams are acoustic and only feature traditional bluegrass instruments: acoustic guitar\, upright bass\, fiddle\, mandolin\, banjo\, and dobro. \nThe jams are free and open to the public. All ages and skill levels are welcome. Those just interested in listening are also welcome! \nBluegrass Jams will be held on Saturday Dec. 3 from 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.\, serving as a great warm-up for Saturday night gigs! Musicians are asked to bring their own instruments. \nThe sessions will be held in the Learning Center at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. \nFor more information call 423-573-1927. URL:https://birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/event/bluegrass-jam/ LOCATION:Birthplace of Country Music Museum\, 101 Country Music Way\, Bristol\, VA\, 24201\, United States CATEGORIES:Museum,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022_BCMM_BluegrassJam_Web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T210000 DTSTAMP:20240328T114008 CREATED:20221116T132611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221116T133229Z UID:10021511-1670526000-1670533200@birthplaceofcountrymusic.org SUMMARY:Farm and Fun Time featuring Darrell Scott\, John Long DESCRIPTION:Be part of the live studio audience for WBCM Radio Bristol’s variety show hosted by Kris Truelsen and his house band Bill and the Belles. \nDate: Thursday\, December 8\, 2022 \nTime: 7:00 p.m. EST (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.\, audience is asked to be seated by 6:55 p.m.) \nLocation: Performance Theater\, Birthplace of Country Music Museum \nTickets: $40 \nBUY TICKETS \nJoin us in the intimate performance theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum for WBCM Radio Bristol’s Farm and Fun Time live variety show with special guests Darrell Scott and John Long. \nHosted by Kris Truelsen and his house band Bill and the Belles\, Farm and Fun Time is a re-imagining of the classic WCYB Radio program of the same name that aired in the 1940s and 1950s. Radio Bristol’s Farm and Fun Time broadcasts live before a studio audience and recorded for television syndication on Blue Ridge PBS\, East Tennessee PBS\, and PBS North Carolina. It can be accessed on 100.1 FM in the Bristol area\, or online at ListenRadioBristol.org and on Radio Bristol’s free mobile app. Viewers may also tune in to watch through Radio Bristol’s Facebook page. \nAbout Darrell Scott \n \nDarrell Scott “mines and cultivates the everyday moment\, taking the rote\, menial\, mundane\, and allowing it to be surreal\, ever poignant\, and candidly honest\, lilting\, blooming\, and resonating. The words he fosters allow us to make sense of the world\, what is at stake here\, and our place in it. And ultimately\, Darrell knows the sole truth of life is that love is all that matters\, that we don’t always get it right\, but that’s the instinctive and requisite circuitous allure of things\, why we forever chase it\, and why it is held sacred. \n2017 and 2018 Darrell opened for and performing with the Zac Brown Band\, these days find him roaming his Tennessee wilderness acreage hiking along the small river\, playing music\, or sharing each day with the woman he loves\, also an artist in her own right. He often leads songwriting workshops to help people tell their own truths with their stories\, and is as busy as always writing\, producing\, performing\, and just plain fully immersing himself at the hips in life. \n​If one really opens their eyes and sees how incomparably varied in surreal depth and breadth the musical territory he is both delving into and setting the high water mark with\, it leaves the rest in a bewildered wash of gravel road dust and fading taillights. For good luck finding that two-legged soul who walks around among us who can keep up with him─ain’t gonna happen.”\n~ Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate \nAbout John Long \n \nDelta blues man John Long is a native of St. Louis\, but his love of the blues took hold in Chicago. He moved to Denver in the mid-1970s and soon became known as “Colorado’s own Bluesman\,” and has had the opportunity to open shows for many and varied names in the blues\, and also folk music artists\, many of whom he also got the chance to play with. A few of these included\, along with Homesick\, Muddy Waters\, John Hammond\, B.B. King\, Snooky Pryor\, John Lee Hooker\, the Fabulous Thunderbirds (Stevie Ray & brother Jimmy)\, Odetta\, Big Mama Thornton\, George Thorogood\, Phoebe Snow\, Steve Goodman\, John Prine\, and Big Walter Horton. Long has played internationally\, in Europe\,  Canada\, Austria and Germany\, as well as coast to coast in the United States. \nAbout Bill and the Belles \n \nBill and the Belles is a Johnson City\, TN-based band known for combining a stringband format with their signature harmonies\, candid songwriting\, and pop sensibilities. Their delightfully deadpan new album\, Happy Again\, is full of life\, humor\, and tongue-in-cheek explorations of love and loss. Bill and the Belles is Kris Truelsen on guitar\, fiddler Kalia Yeagle\, banjo/banjo-uke player Aidan VanSuetendael\, and bassist Andrew Small. The group has a knack for saying sad things with a bit of an ironic smirk\, and anyone who’s been to one of their shows can attest that you leave feeling lighter and refreshed. This is a band that revels in the in-between: deeply engaged with the stringband tradition and eager to stretch those influences to a contemporary setting. A timeless place where Jimmie Rodgers and Phil Spector can overlap\, and a driving fiddle and banjo tune makes way for a sentimental parlor song. And while Bill and the Belles’ latest chapter offers a bigger\, moodier\, and more decade-ambiguous sound\, they maintain their status as the most refreshing stringband around. URL:https://birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/event/farm-and-fun-time-featuring-darrell-scott-and-john-long/ LOCATION:VA CATEGORIES:Farm & Fun Time,Radio Bristol,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022_RB_FFT_Dec_Web.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR