Through text and artifacts, multiple theater experiences, film and sound, and interactive displays, the Birthplace of Country Music Museum shares the story of the 1927 Bristol Sessions recordings, explores how evolving sound technology shaped their success, and highlights how this rich musical heritage lives on in today’s music.
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.”
The Birthplace of Country Music presents the RTE 23 Listening Room with Folk Soul Revival at the Park Avenue Theater in Norton, Virginia, April 7, 2018.
Radio Bristol presents the Farm and Fun Time variety show, live from the Birthplace of Country Music Museum with Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys and David Davis & the Warrior River Boys Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 6:00 p.m.
The New Respects, Cordovas, and Young Mister slated to perform at the RTE 23 Music Festival coming to the campus of UVa-Wise August 25, 2018. Date: Saturday, August 25, 2018 Time: 5:00 p.m.—10:00 p.m. Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum FREE EVENT It's the 5th anniversary of the RTE 23 Music Festival and BCM will […]
