Listen
Loading station info...
57239
Array
(
[0] => exhibits
[1] => museum
[2] => special-events
)
Array ( )
Date: Thursday, May 1, 2025
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Cost: Free and open to the public, but RSVPs are requested
This event is complementary programming to the Ellen Elmes: The Art of Music & Mountains exhibit on display at the museum through September 30. Special thanks to the United Company Foundation for their support of programming related to this exhibit.
About the Farm and Fun Time Disc
Early in 2017, Glen Harlow donated a Farm and Fun Time radio transcription disc containing live tracks that have not been heard in over 60 years. The fact that an original live recording of the Stanley Brothers with the Clinch Mountain Boys from Farm and Fun Time exists at all is pretty amazing, because the discs used to record radio broadcasts in the mid-20th century are highly unstable and prone to degradation, delamination, and breakage. This disc was no different – it was fragile, damaged, and unplayable. Until recently, recordings on degraded lacquer discs like this one were usually lost forever. Enter the Virginia Association of Museums Top 10 Most Endangered Objects initiative and the Northeast Document Conservation Center – through grant support and technical expertise, we can now access the songs on this broken disc! You can read all about the disc and this preservation process HERE and HERE.
