To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Country Music Hall of Fame’s historic exhibit, Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues, 1945-1970, the museum will host a series of events during the month of July. To conclude the month, the museum will join with Music City Roots for a concert at the Factory at Franklin.
Among the artists scheduled to perform on Wednesday, July 30 at 7 p.m. are Levert Allison, the Jimmy Church Band, Clifford Curry, Mac Gayden, Frank Howard, Marion James, Robert Knight, the McCrary Sisters, the Valentines and the Charles Walker Band. General admission tickets are $15 and available at Grimey’s New & Pre-Loved Music or by emailing tickets@musiccityroots.com. The event will also broadcast live on Hippie Radio (94.5 FM).
The museum’s 2 p.m. Sunday programs through July are to include weekly film screenings featuring the television shows The!!!!Beat and Night Train. On Saturday, July 26, an R&B Dance Workshop will be held for families in the Taylor Swift Education Center. Rock-and-roll legend Buzz Cason will additionally be the subject of the museum’s quarterly program series Poets and Prophets on Saturday, July 5 at 1:30 p.m.
The critically acclaimed 2004-05 exhibit celebrated Music City’s contribution to R&B, which influenced Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix and cultivated live music activity on Jefferson Street, as well as spirited entrepreneurs who created the city’s first record companies, and aired WLAC’s rhythm & blues programming across half the United States when most national radio considered the music taboo. From this exhibit came a Grammy-winning CD set by the same name, released by Lost Highway.
Programs hosted at the museum are included with museum admission and are free to museum members.
By: Laura Hostelley
Category: Artist, Featured, Organizations
