In March 2016, the Birthplace of Country Music Museum unveiled the special exhibit “Made in Tennessee: Manufacturing Milestones.” The exhibit chronicles the rich variety of manufacturing traditions in Tennessee over the past 2 ½ centuries from the early agricultural and craft heritage to our current age of advanced technology and global competition. The diverse panels […]
With our permanent exhibits and a rotating Special Exhibits Gallery, the Birthplace of Country Music Museum is a great place to bring your students. Educators are invited to visit the museum for free to learn more about school group visits at two Open Houses in February and March. Wednesday, February 10, 4:00—6:00pm Thursday, March 3, […]
On Friday, March 4, WBCM's "On the Sunny Side" program will be celebrating the recent release of the CD and book, "Blind Alfred Reed: Appalachian Visionary." Ted Olson, author of the liner notes, and Denny Reed, Blind Alfred Reed's grandson, will be discussing Reed's musical legacy with Kris Truelsen on the show. You can hear them […]
Join us for Radio Bristol Sessions, a live radio interview and performance at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. Everyone is invited to be part of the studio audience for free! You can also listen live by downloading the Radio Bristol mobile app or tune in locally in the Bristol area at WBCM Radio Bristol 100.1 FM. […]
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum is participating in a special Museum Day Live! on Saturday, March 12, 2016. In the spirit of the Smithsonian Museums, which offer free admission every day, Museum Day Live! is an annual event hosted by Smithsonian Magazine in which participating museums across the country open their doors for free […]
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum Please note this event is a Museum Members Event It all started with Ralph Peer, the ambitious record producer who recorded the 1927 Bristol Sessions and helped make The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers into household names. On March 30, the Birthplace of Country Music Museum will open a […]
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum The Director of the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University, Gregory Reish, Ph.D., will offer a lecture and demonstration on the guitar styles of musicians who recorded on the 1927 Bristol Sessions. The focus of this fascinating program will be on Mother Maybelle Carter’s fingerpicking style […]
From 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Historic Downtown Bristol will be filled with art lovers as several galleries and some local favorites join together to host another Art D’Vine event! This art walk offers patrons the chance to gain after-hours access to merchants, sample domestic and international wines, and enjoy a range of works from artists […]
Spring is in the air and it’s the perfect time to have fun with family at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum! There will be lots of fun, games, and activities that the whole family will enjoy together! Best of all, Family Fun Day is free and includes admission to "Made In Tennessee: Manufacturing Milestones" […]
Multi-instrumentalist Dr. Lee Bidgood, Assistant Professor of Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies at East Tennessee State University (ETSU), will present a lecture detailing the history of mandolin orchestras, their wide repertoire, and some of the catalogs of companies like Gibson who marketed mandolin and banjo orchestras. A performance by the ETSU Mandolin Orchestra […]
