Events from April 20 – July 27 › Special Events › – The Birthplace of Country Music
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A BCM Christmas with Riders in the Sky

Join us for a festive evening with one one of America's longest running and most entertaining country/western acts, Riders in the Sky! A sit-down dinner is included with cash bar.

Bluegrass Jam

Birthplace of Country Music Museum 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United States

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!

Farm and Fun Time featuring Darrell Scott, John Long

Be part of the studio audience for WBCM Radio Bristol's throwback live variety show featuring renowned singer-songwriter Darrell Scott, Delta blues man John Long, and hosted by Kris Truelsen and his house band Bill and the Belles.

Farm and Fun Time featuring The Deslondes, Erika Lewis

Be part of the studio audience for WBCM Radio Bristol's throwback live variety show featuring New Orleans quintet, The Deslondes, and Erika Lewis, hosted by Kris Truelsen and his house band Bill and the Belles.

Event Series Monthly Community Jam

Monthly Country Jam

Birthplace of Country Music Museum 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United States

Musicians of all ages and skill levels welcome to participate in this free monthly jam session every second Saturday at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, 2 - 5 p.m.

Film Screening — Seizing Justice: The Greensboro Four

Birthplace of Country Music Museum 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United States

Join us for a FREE screening of the Smithsonian Channel documentary Seizing Justice: The Greensboro Four, which tells the story of four African American college students who began a nonviolent sit-in at a Woolsworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and started a revolution.

Film Screening and Discussion – The Green Book Guide to Freedom

Birthplace of Country Music Museum 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United States

Join us for a FREE screening of the Smithsonian Channel documentary The Green Book Guide to Freedom, an exploration of a travel guide to navigate the sometimes treacherous highways of a segregated nation. The film screening witll be followed by a discussion about local and regional Green Book sites.

Film Screening – Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier

Birthplace of Country Music Museum 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United States

Join us for a FREE screening of the Smithsonian Channel documentary Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier, which explores the untold story of the decades-long battle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to be the first superpower to bring diversity to the skies, told by the Black astronauts and their families who were part of this little known chapter of the Cold War.

SOLD OUT! 1927 Concert Series featuring Paul Thorn

The Birthplace of Country Music presents the 1927 Concert Series, an intimate concert experience, featuring magnetic singer-songwriter Paul Thorn at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum.