The Birthplace of Country Music

Road to Bristol Rhythm Concert Series ft. Morgan Wade
2021-06-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | VA
Morgan Wade to headline the Road to Bristol Rhythm Concert Series in June!
Date: June 19, 2021
Time: 7:00 p.m. EDT
Location: The Lawn at The Sessions Hotel
Tickets: $25
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The Birthplace of Country Music (BCM) is making up for lost time and ramping up the excitement for its annual Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion music festival with a monthly outdoor concert series starting in June.
The Road to Bristol Rhythm Concert Series, sponsored by Virginia is for Music Lovers, will offer music lovers a taste of what they’ve been missing during the pandemic, with elements of the September festival’s best features – great live music by premiere talent set in a glorious, outdoor location in Historic Downtown Bristol. Musical guests headlining the Road to Bristol Rhythm Concert Series are also slated to perform at Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion this September, offering a preview of what’s in store at our 20th anniversary celebration late summer!

About Morgan Wade
Produced by Sadler Vaden – Jason Isbell’s longtime guitarist and an acclaimed solo artist in his own right – Morgan Wade is among our region’s ascending singer-songwriters, one who is fast emerging on a national level. The Floyd, Virginia native’s latest release Reckless is a country-rock truth-teller, bleeding with longing, intimacy and achingly conveyed in Wade’s signature, evocative tonality. The recording is receiving rave reviews from the likes of Rolling Stone and American Songwriter, among others.

Road to Bristol Rhythm Concert Series ft. Jim Lauderdale
2021-07-17 19:00 - 20:30 | VA
Jim Lauderdale to headline the Road to Bristol Rhythm Concert Series in July!
Date: July 17, 2021
Time: 7:00 p.m. EDT
Location: The Lawn at The Sessions Hotel
Tickets: $25
TICKETS ON SALE MAY 17
The Birthplace of Country Music (BCM) is making up for lost time and ramping up the excitement for its annual Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion music festival with a monthly outdoor concert series starting in June.
The Road to Bristol Rhythm Concert Series, sponsored by Virginia is for Music Lovers, will offer music lovers a taste of what they’ve been missing during the pandemic, with elements of the September festival’s best features – great live music by premiere talent set in a glorious, outdoor location in Historic Downtown Bristol. Musical guests headlining the Road to Bristol Rhythm Concert Series are also slated to perform at Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion this September, offering a preview of what’s in store at our 20th anniversary celebration late summer!

About Jim Lauderdale
The Grammy Award-winning Jim Lauderdale is the undisputed rhinestone-studded King of Americana, having worked with just about everybody who’s anybody in Nashville over the course of his distinguished, decades-long career. His songs have sold millions of records for the likes of George Strait, Patty Loveless, Lee Ann Womack, Blake Shelton, and Vince Gill, among others, and artists from Willie Nelson to John Oates line up to collaborate with the iconic songwriter. Jim is also a big fan and supporter of Bristol and its music heritage, and often takes time to promote the efforts of the Birthplace of Country Music.

1927 Society Concert with Darrell Scott
2021-07-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Birthplace of Country Music Museum, 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, 24201, United States
The Birthplace of Country Music proudly presents an intimate 1927 Society Concert Series experience featuring music by Darrell Scott.
Date: Saturday, July 24, 2021

Time: 7:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Tickets: $100 plus Bristol, VA admission tax/fees
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About the 1927 Society Shows
The 1927 Society Concert Series is an intimate concert experience set in the “acoustically perfect” Performance Theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. It’s more than a night of music, it’s a very personal event with some of the most renowned roots music artists performing today.
Guests are asked to arrive promptly at 6:00 p.m. to enjoy a reception with heavy hors d’oeuvres and an open bar (ages 21+ with valid ID) before the show, included with a ticket.
Click here to learn more about the benefits of becoming a member so that you, too, may receive first-access to to shows!

About Darrell Scott

Darrell Scott is a Grammy-nominated performer and recording artist, a highly demanded multi-instrumentalist (he plays 13 instruments!), and an ASCAP songwriter of the year. Darrell delivers his soulful performances in solo, duo, trio, band, and string quintet configurations, all equally dynamic and powerful.
For more information about Darrell Scott visit www.DarrellScott.com.

Road to Bristol Rhythm Concert Series ft. Amythyst Kiah
2021-08-07 19:00 - 20:30 | VA
Amythyst Kiah to headline the Road to Bristol Rhythm Concert Series in August!
Date: August 7, 2021
Time: 7:00 p.m. EDT
Location: The Lawn at The Sessions Hotel
Tickets: $25
TICKETS ON SALE MAY 17
The Birthplace of Country Music (BCM) is making up for lost time and ramping up the excitement for its annual Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion music festival with a monthly outdoor concert series starting in June.
The Road to Bristol Rhythm Concert Series, sponsored by Virginia is for Music Lovers, will offer music lovers a taste of what they’ve been missing during the pandemic, with elements of the September festival’s best features – great live music by premiere talent set in a glorious, outdoor location in Historic Downtown Bristol. Musical guests headlining the Road to Bristol Rhythm Concert Series are also slated to perform at Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion this September, offering a preview of what’s in store at our 20th anniversary celebration late summer!

About Amythyst Kiah
Though Amythyst Kiah is a Chattanooga native, Johnson City and Bristol have long claimed her as their own since she moved here as a teen to attend East Tennessee State University. During her time there, she was deeply influenced by her studies at the institution’s Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music program, and developed a deep reverence and love for old-time and roots music. Amythyst also interned at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, aiding in research efforts prior to opening. Since then she has taken her Southern gothic sound to the world stage, having toured internationally and been honored with a Grammy nomination for her song “Black Myself.” With a recent guest spot on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! and a new album, Wary + Strange, due out this summer, there is little doubt that her upward trajectory is well-deserved and isn’t likely to slow down any time soon.

1927 Society Concert ft. Paul Thorn Band - SOLD OUT!
2021-08-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Birthplace of Country Music Museum, 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, 24201, United States
Unfortunately, tickets to this concert are now SOLD OUT.
Date: Saturday, August 14, 2021

Time: 7:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum
About the 1927 Society Shows
The 1927 Society Concert Series is an intimate concert experience set in the “acoustically perfect” Performance Theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. It’s more than a night of music, it’s a very personal event with some of the most renowned roots music artists performing today.
Guests are asked to arrive promptly at 6:00 p.m. to enjoy a reception with heavy hors d’oeuvres and an open bar (ages 21+ with valid ID) before the show, included with a ticket.
Click here to learn more about the benefits of becoming a member so that you, too, may receive first-access to to shows!

About Paul Thorn
Raised in Tupelo, Mississippi, Paul Thorn has rambled down back roads, battled four-time world champion boxer Roberto Duran on national television, signed with and been dropped by a major label, performed on stages with Bonnie Raitt, Mark Knopfler, Sting, and John Prine among many others, and made some of the most emotionally restless yet relatable music of our time.
For more information about Paul Thorn Band visit www.paulthorn.com/

Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion
2021-09-10 - 2021-09-12 | VA
Dates: September 10-12, 2021
Location: State Street, Historic Downtown Bristol, VA-TN
Tickets: Details coming soon!
The award-winning Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion music festival celebrates 20 years in Historic Downtown Bristol, VA-TN, home to the 1927 Bristol Sessions, September 10-12, 2021!
Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion music festival is an electrifying music experience that features the very best roots music. Held annually in historic downtown Bristol TN/VA, the three-day music is amped to the beat of Appalachia’s past, present, and future. The festival digs down deep into the roots of the traditional Appalachian sound and lifts its branches to new heights. It all happens in the heart of the Birthplace of Country Music.
It’s an annual celebration of Bristol’s rich history as the place where the 1927 Bristol Sessions recordings created the “big bang” of country music; they were the recordings that brought early country music to the mainstream and were the first recordings of The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers.
The influence of the 1927 Bristol Sessions can still be heard in the soundtrack of today. It’s the roots and far-reaching branches of those seminal recordings that fuels the lineup of each Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion.
Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion takes place in Historic Downtown Bristol, VA-TN on State Street and the surrounding area. Located on the Virginia and Tennessee border with 20 outdoor stages and indoor venues and more than 100 acts of live music, Bristol Rhythm takes visitors on a journey through Appalachia’s musical past, present, and future.
Past performers at Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion include Dwight Yoakam, The Avett Brothers, Dr. Ralph Stanley, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Doc Watson, Old Crow Medicine Show, Moon Taxi, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Patty Loveless, Wynonna Judd, Buddy Guy, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, Corey Harris, John Oates, Colin Hay, and many, many more.
Click here for more information.

Bristol Sessions Super Raffle
2021-09-12 12:00 - 16:00 | VA
The Birthplace of Country Music (BCM) will hold its third annual Bristol Sessions Super Raffle as a fundraiser to benefit the Birthplace of Country Music Museum.
What: Birthplace Sessions Super Raffle
When: Sunday, September 12, 2021 from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Where: Birthplace of Country Music Museum
The Super Raffle is an opportunity for patrons to support the Museum while creating an opportunity to win one of 49 great prizes.
A winner will be drawn every five (5) minutes and prizes include 4 vehicles, a fabulous vacation, jewelry, a motorcycle, and much more – plus LOTS OF CA$H! Only 5,000 tickets are available for purchase, and ticket buyers do not have to be present to win.
Winners will be announced during the live event at the Museum. Winners will also be notified via phone or mail. Additionally, winners will be listed on the Bristol Sessions Super Raffle Website and Facebook event page on the day of the Raffle.
Raffle tickets are for sale for $100 each and include two ticket numbers on each ticket. BCM is offering an incentive to ticket purchasers who buy multiple tickets. The “Buy 10 Get 1 Free” offer gives the buyer a free ticket with the purchase of 10 tickets. The “Buy 10 get 1 free” option must be purchased by a single buyer, and those 11 tickets must all be in one individual’s name, or in no more than two names designated by the buyer (if, as example, a male Buyer wants to put 5 in his name, and 6 in his wife’s name).
Tickets can be purchased online or at one of the following locations:

Birthplace of Country Music Museum (Bristol, VA)
The Travel Shop (339 W. Main Street, Abingdon, VA)
Olive Oil Company (152 E. Main Street, Abingdon, VA)
Crabtree Buick (2311 Lee Highway, Bristol, VA)
Cranberry Lane (623 State Street, Bristol, VA)
Sidetrack Tobacco (523 State Street, Bristol, VA)
Fabric, Etc. (507 State Street, Bristol, VA)
Bill Gatton Honda (2130 Volunteer Parkway, Bristol, TN)
Friendship Motorsports (2033 W. State Street, Bristol, TN)
Friendship Ford (3192 W. State Street, Bristol, TN)
Olive Oil Company – Kingsport (102 E. Main Street Suite #1, Kingsport, TN)
Wallace Imports of Bristol (310 Volunteer Parkway, Bristol, TN)
East TN ATV (106 Clay Little Road, Elizabethton, TN)
Tickets for the Raffle will be on sale until September 11 or when 5000 tickets are sold.

If tickets are still available, they will be sold at the Museum and online until 11:59 PM on Saturday, September 11, 2021. Tickets may not be sold by other ticket sellers after 11:59 on September 8, 2021.
The Raffle drawing will be held on Sunday September 12, 2021, and the drawing will take place at the Museum at 101 Country Music Way, just outside Festival gates.
For more information and to purchase a raffle ticket, click on the link below.
RAFFLE WEBSITE

Black Friday, Holiday Open House & More!
2021-11-26 - 2021-11-30 | VA
Dates: Friday, November 26-30, 2021
November 26: #Black Friday
Weekend passes to Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion 2022 go on sale for $90 – the deepest discount you’ll see all year! Purchase before midnight on December 12, 2021 for delivery just in time for Christmas!
November 27: #SmallBusinessSaturday
#ShopSmall to support locally-owned small businesses in your community!
November 28: Birthplace of Country Music Museum Open House
#MuseumStoreSunday & #ArtistsSunday
Join us at the museum for a special Holiday Open House as we celebrate the holidays with live music from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET, door prizes, a 20% discount in The Museum Store off one item, and light refreshments!
Be sure and peruse our vast collection of unique gifts in The Museum Store including exclusive Birthplace of Country Music merchandise and items created by local artisans. From handmade bath and body items and candles to one-of-a-kind pottery and jewelry, shop local and support their small businesses!
November 29: #CyberMonday
Instead of shopping national chains, support local online businesses, including The Museum Store!
November 30: #GivingTuesday
Click here to make a one-time donation to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum or ask how you can become a member of our 1927 Society!

Friends of 1927 Concert Series: Mike Farris
2022-01-29 18:00 - 21:00 | VA
Date: Saturday, January 29, 2022
Doors open: 6:00 p.m.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Tickets: $100 (taxes, fees included)
Tickets on sale now to the public:
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Birthplace of Country Music is proud to present the Friends of 1927 Concert Series featuring the Grammy Award-winning artist Mike Farris.
The Friends of 1927 Concert Series is a unique concert experience where fans have the opportunity to interact with the artists in a relaxed setting over adult beverages and hors d’oeuvres, all included in the ticket price.
Tickets are made available first to Friends of 1927 for a limited time before opening them up to the public. There is a very limited number of tickets so everyone is encouraged to purchase early.
Ask how you can become a Friend of 1927 and support the Birthplace of Country Music Museum by emailing info@birthplaceofcountrymusic.org or call 423-573-1927.

About Mike Farris
In 2015 Mike Farris became the first artist to receive a Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album for his release Shine for All the People. Known as a powerhouse vocalist with blue-eyed soul, Farris also earned the Americana Music Award and the Dove Award. He has also performed at Bonnaroo, Merlefest, SXSW, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. Artists such as Rodney Crowell, Buddy Miller, Patty Griffin, and Marty Stuart are struck by Mike Farris’ incomparable voice. He has opened for Patti LaBelle, Mavis Staples, Blind Boys of Alabama, Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby. Mike’s spirited soul-gospel fusion also led to an invitation to perform at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 16th Annual American Music Masters Concert honoring Aretha Franklin. Concert takes place in the Performance Theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum.

Tennessee Songwriters Week Qualifying Round at the Museum
2022-02-05 13:00 - 16:00 | VA
The Birthplace of Country Music is hosting a qualifying round for the 2022 Tennessee Songwriters Week!
Date: Saturday, February 5, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Tickets: $10 (For spectators only; songwriters enter below, no registration fee required)
**COVID-19 POLICY:
Musicians, audience members, judges and staff in attendance will be required to show proof of vaccination or proof of negative COVID-19 test result taken within 72 hours of entry.
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Aspiring singer-songwriters dream of the opportunity to perform at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe, and for a few lucky artists, that opportunity will arrive during 2022 Tennessee Songwriters Week! A number of venues, including the Birthplace of Country Music in Downtown Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee, will host qualifying rounds for singer-songwriters to compete for a place in the spotlight at this historic proving ground for artists – and spectators are invited to watch the competition!
Click here for more information on Qualifying Rounds, Showcase Events, and more.
CONGRATULATIONS, SONGWRITERS!
The following artists have been chosen to compete in Tennessee Songwriters Week Qualifying Round at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum Feb. 5:
Adam Bolt
Alexis May Hamilton
Ari Silver
Audrey Rose
Blake Branscom
Chip McLain
Daniel Davis
Ella Patrick
Forencia Rusiňol
Jonathan Short
JP Parsons
Justin Crider
KT Vandyke
Logan Fritz
Makenzie Phipps
Michael Litton
Noah Spencer
Sam Collie
Savannah Smith
Toby Gibson
Up to 20 contestants will be considered for the Qualifying Round at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum on Saturday, February 5, 2022, but we will be accepting a waitlist after the first 20 spots are filled. There is no registration fee. Any legal resident of the Unites States, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico are eligible.
The deadline to register is January 11, 2022.
Rules for Entry:
Songwriter must own the rights to the song they will perform during the competition. Upon entry, they also must provide song lyrics and a link to a YouTube video of the registrant performing the song they will sing during the performance. During the competition, all songwriters will have 5 minutes to perform and must perform the original song they submitted upon entry. Entrant may sing acapella or have live accompaniment. Light percussion is allowed if there is no set-up time necessary. Entrant may bring up to two (2) performers to accompany on instruments. Back up tracks are not permitted.
The original song performed must not disparage any group of persons, religion, be considered inflammatory or inappropriate. Sponsor(s) or Sponsor designee has the final authority to determine if the song performed violates the above. If Sponsor(s) determine that the original song performed is in violation of these rules, the entrant will be requested to cease the performance, agrees to leave the venue without incident, and will be disqualified from consideration.
Each and every performance by an Entrant will be judged by a panel of at least three (3) individuals from the songwriting community in and around Tennessee. If a judge is related by marriage or blood or has a close personal connection to an Entrant, the Judge will refrain from scoring that Entrant. Entrants will be evaluated numerically from 1-5 in the following categories considering both the Entrant’s song and performance: 1) originality; 2) vocal and/or instrumental talent; and 3) emotional connection to the audience. 1-5 on a numerical scale considering both the song and the performance.
A panel of judges will choose four (4) songwriters from the Feb. 5 Qualifying Round at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum to advance to the Songwriters Week Showcase to be hosted at one of six (6) historic venues in the following cities: Franklin, Memphis, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Gatlinburg, and Johnson City. The eligible songwriters will be given the opportunity to perform an original work. From each of the six (6) locations, hosting twenty (20) songwriters each, one (1) songwriter will be selected by a panel of judges to play their original work at The Bluebird Cafe on Sunday, March 20, 2022.
Notification and verification:
Following closure of the sign up period, successful Entrants will be notified via phone or email by the Venue to which they are assigned. Entrants that move forward from the Qualifying Round to Tennessee Songwriters Week Showcase will be notified following their respective performance at the respective venue. Successful registrants should contact the respective assigned venue with any questions.
If an Entrant is found to be ineligible or not in compliance with these rules at any time during the contest period that Entrant will be disqualified.
Each of the six (6) winners from the Tennessee Songwriters Week Showcase must be present during the announcement at the venue on the date of the performance in order to win. The six (6) winners will be required to complete a W-9 form for tax filing purposes, providing their Social Security number and an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release (the “Affidavit”). If an Entrant is otherwise eligible under these Official Rules but is deemed a minor in his or her state of primary residence, the Entrant’s parent or legal guardian will be required to execute and return the Affidavit on the minor’s behalf.
Non-compliance with this requirement will result in forfeiture and the entrant with the next highest score from that venue will be selected, this should occur in real time at the venue.
Prize Conditions:
Please visit BluebirdCafe.com to read about frequently asked questions regarding The Bluebird Cafe. Prize is not assignable or transferable although Sponsors reserve the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value due to unavailability. Prize must be taken on dates specified by Sponsor or Prize will be forfeited in its entirety. Dates so specified are subject to change by The Bluebird Cafe only. All other expenses not specifically mentioned herein, including but not limited to tips, gratuities, incidentals, local and long distance telephone calls, and service charges, required transportation, any necessary lodging, all meals and beverages, and any other miscellaneous expenses not specifically mentioned above, are the sole responsibility of the entrant/winner(s).
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In addition, the winner(s) are solely responsible for all federal, state, and local taxes as well as other fees associated with receipt of a prize, regardless of whether a prize is used in whole or in part. Taxes on the prize are solely the responsibility of the winner and winner agrees to provide a W-9 Tax form. Each prize winner will be required to disclose his/her social security number on the W-9 for the purpose of issuance of a 1099 MISC form for tax purposes.
Governing Law/Jurisdiction:
Except where prohibited, entrant agrees that any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of, or connected with, the Contest or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action. Further all issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, entrant’s rights and obligations, or the rights and obligations of the Sponsor(s) in connection with the Contest, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Tennessee, without regard to its conflict or choice of law rules. The Tennessee Claims Commission or the state or federal courts in Tennessee shall be the venue for all claims, disputes, or disagreements arising under this Contract. The entrant/winner acknowledges and agrees that any rights, claims, or remedies against the State of Tennessee or its employees arising under this Contract shall be subject to and limited to those rights and remedies available under Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 9-8-101 – 408.
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The Becky Buller Band Presented by King University
2022-02-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Birthplace of Country Music Museum, 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, 24201, United States
Date: Monday, February 28, 2022
Time: 7:00 p.m. EST
Location: Performance Theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Tickets: FREE but there is limited seating so you must RSVP ahead of time to guarantee a seat
RSVP HERE
Join us on Monday, February 28, 7:00 p.m. for a performance by the Becky Buller Band at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. This free event is courtesy of King University. It is open to the public but attendees must RSVP for their free ticket.
Becky Buller is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer from St. James, Minnesota, who has traversed the globe performing bluegrass music to underwrite her insatiable songwriting habit. Her compositions can be heard on records by Ricky Skaggs, Rhonda Vincent, and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, to name just a few. Buller has written songs for Grammy award-winning albums, including co-writing “Freedom,” the lead-off track for The Infamous Stringdusters’ 2018 Grammy-winning album, Laws of Gravity, as well as “The Shaker” on The Travelin’ McCoury’s self-titled release, which brought home the Grammy for Best Bluegrass in 2019. Buller is the recipient of eight International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) awards, including the 2016 Fiddler and Female Vocalist, and the 2018 Gospel Recorded Performance for the song “Speakin’ to That Mountain.” She was a 2020 nominee for SPBGMA’s Fiddle Player of the Year and served as a musician and songwriter on three additional Grammy nominated albums in 2020. She tours extensively with the Becky Buller Band and recently released her third album, Distance and Time. Equally passionate about bluegrass music education, Buller has 20 years of experience teaching fiddle, singing, and songwriting at workshops and camps around the world. She currently serves on the board of the IBMA Foundation.

Suzanne Stryk: The Middle of Somewhere Book Release and Talk
2022-03-31 19:00 - 21:00 | VA
Date: Thursday, March 31, 2022
Time: 7:00 p.m. EDT
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Tickets: Free event
“There’s no such thing as the middle of nowhere. Every place is the middle of somewhere for some living being.” That was Suzanne Stryk’s mantra as she traveled her home state exploring its natural ecology and cultural life from an artist’s perspective.
For this launch event for Stryk’s new book The Middle of Somewhere: An Artist Explores the Nature of Virginia, she’ll project artwork as she shares stories from her journeys – from sketching a kestrel at a Shenandoah Valley farm to picking carrots in Monticello’s famous garden to searching for salamanders under logs at Grayson Highlands State Park. This program is a part of the Arts Alliance Mountain Empire‘s (AAME) Speaker Series. Stryk will be selling signed copies of her book following the talk (cash only).
Suzanne Stryk is an artist who finds equal fascination in the natural world and the visual arts. Her conceptual nature paintings and assemblages have appeared in solo exhibitions throughout the United States, and her portfolios and related writings have been featured in Terrain.org, Orion, Ecotone, and the Kenyon Review. She is the recipient of a George Sugarman Foundation grant and a Virginia Commission for the Arts fellowship for the project Notes on the State of Virginia, the precursor to The Middle of Somewhere. She is a resident of Southwest Virginia.
For more about the author, visit Trinity University Press at tupress.org or suzannestryk.com

1927 Society Concert Series
2022-05-20 18:00 - 20:45 | VA
The Birthplace of Country Music proudly presents the intimate 1927 Society Concert Series experience featuring live music by Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters.
Date: Friday, May 20, 2022
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. EDT
Location: Performance Theater, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Tickets: $100
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The 1927 Society Concert Series is an intimate concert experience set in the “acoustically perfect” Performance Theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. It’s more than a night of music, it’s a very personal event with some of the most renowned roots music artists performing today. Guests are asked to arrive promptly at 6:00 p.m. to enjoy heavy hors d’oeuvres by Catering by Catherine and an open bar (ages 21+ with valid ID) before the show, food and drinks included with ticket. Post-performance, guests will have the opportunity to mingle with the artist(s) after the show.
Members of the Birthplace of Country Music’s 1927 Society are given access to exclusive ticket pre-sales to the 1927 Society Concert Series before they go on sale to the public. To learn more about becoming a member of the 1927 Society and all its advantages, click here.
About Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters
The music of Asheville, North Carolina based outfit Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters is nuanced, bringing insight and wit to the stories Platt tells through songwriting. Lyrically driven, the band’s country roots music often inspires introspection, whether it be about life on the road, heartache or hope.
There is an empathic and charming wit ingrained in Platt’s songwriting. She has a knack for accessing a deep well of emotion and applying it to her storytelling, whether she is writing from her own experiences or immersing herself into the melody of emotions in another person’s life.
Performing along with Platt, The Honeycutters are Matt Smith (pedal steel and electric guitars), Rick Cooper (bass/vocals), and Evan Martin (drums/vocals).

Monthly Bluegrass Jam
2022-05-28 14:00 - 17:00, 2022-06-25 14:00 - 17:00, 2022-07-23 14:00 - 17:00, 2022-09-24 14:00 - 17:00, 2022-10-22 14:00 - 17:00 | Birthplace of Country Music Museum, 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, 24201, 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! The jam events are intended to provide a space for local musicians to gather and pick, collaborate, share their experiences, and—most importantly—to have fun. The jams are acoustic and only feature traditional bluegrass instruments: acoustic guitar, upright bass, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, and dobro.
The jams are free and open to the public. All ages and skill levels are welcome. Those just interested in listening are also welcome!
Bluegrass Jams will be held on the fourth Saturday of each month from 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m., serving as a great warm-up for Saturday night gigs! Musicians are asked to bring their own instruments.
The sessions will be held in the Learning Center at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum.
For more information call 423-573-1927.

"In Good Keeping in 2022" Film Premiere
2022-06-15 17:30 - 20:00 | Birthplace of Country Music Museum, 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, 24201, United States
When: Wednesday, June 15, 5:30pm
Where: Birthplace of Country Music Museum, Performance Theater
Cost: Free and open to all, but registration is required to attend
REGISTER HERE

Join us on Wednesday, June 15 for the Virginia Folklife Program’s screening of In Good Keeping in 2022. Since its inception in 2002, the Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program has served over 150 two-or-more person teams of mentor artists and apprentices representing the breadth of cultural expression in the Commonwealth. This feature-length documentary film showcases the artists and tradition bearers from the 2021-2022 apprenticeship class, followed by a discussion (and a little music) from participating artists, including: Walter “Skip” Herman & K. T. Vandyke, Emily Spencer & Lisa Ring , Chris Testerman & Sophia Burnett & Karlie Keepfer, Eddie Bond & Andrew Small, and Mac Traynham & Ashlee Watkins.
This event is co-presented by the Birthplace of Country Music Museum and Mid Atlantic Arts’ Central Appalachia Living Traditions. The museum featured the special exhibit Real Folk: Passing on Trades & Traditions through the Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program in 2020; you can learn more about that exhibit and experience a virtual tour of it HERE.
Reception with refreshments will start at 5:30pm, the screening will begin at 6:00pm. Following the film, stay to hear discussion and music by the featured artists.
VIRGINIA FOLKLIFE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM
The Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program has supported artists who are masters in traditions ranging from instrument repair in southwest Virginia to Mongolian mask-making in Northern Virginia to growing and grinding heirloom cornmeal on the Eastern Shore. By awarding teacher-student teams financial support and providing a platform to share their work, the Virginia Folklife Program works to sustain the community traditions that entertain, nourish, inspire, and define Virginians. The Virginia Folklife Program, based at Virginia Humanities, is the state center for the documentation, presentation, support, and celebration of Virginia’s rich cultural heritage.

1927 Concert Series
2022-07-23 18:00 - 21:00 | VA
The Birthplace of Country Music proudly presents the intimate 1927 Concert Series experience featuring live music by the charismatic, soon-to-be icon of country, Hannah Dasher.
Date: Saturday, July 23, 2022
Time: 6:00 p.m. EDT
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Tickets: $100
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The 1927 Concert Series is an intimate concert experience set in the “acoustically perfect” Performance Theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. It’s more than a night of music, it’s a very personal event with some of the most renowned roots music artists performing today. Guests are asked to arrive promptly at 6:00 p.m. to enjoy heavy hors d’oeuvres by Catering by Catherine and an open bar (ages 21+ with valid ID) before the show, food and drinks included with ticket. Post-performance, guests will have the opportunity to mingle with the artist(s) after the show.
Members of the Birthplace of Country Music’s 1927 Society are given access to exclusive ticket pre-sales to the 1927 Society Concert Series before they go on sale to the public. To learn more about becoming a member of the 1927 Society and all its advantages, click here.
About the Artist

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Nashville’s best-kept secret: Hannah Dasher.
When Dasher takes the stage, you see a country star who was born to entertain.
What you don’t see is what it took her to get to that stage. “In order to pay my band, I had to start cleaning houses and sell all my guitars, including the first and only one my daddy ever gave me. For years, I wrote songs and played shows on borrowed guitars,” Dasher recalls. “Eventually, I scrubbed enough toilets to buy my first Gibson.”
Aside from Hannah’s work ethic, her strong, non-conforming, swaggy lyrics set her apart from her peers early on, earning her the nickname Hannah Damn Dasher. Accompanying her big hair and her larger-than-life personality is a voice that’s even bigger. Listen closely and you’ll hear remnants of Lorrie Morgan, Dolly Parton, Aretha Franklin and Alan Jackson. It all makes for a sound that’s familiar — like your favorite 90’s country — yet uniquely fresh.
In fact, that fresh take on the familiar further sets Dasher apart from every other country music hopeful who moves to Nashville to chase the neon dream. Her carefully crafted songs, classically country voice and presence on stage give her a leg up in a genre where fitting in just wasn’t a good fit.
And already, it’s starting to pay off. During the quarantine summer of 2020, Dasher decided to try out her comedic, country music-infused cooking series, “Stand By Your Pan” on TikTok. Within six months, her platform grew from 12,000 followers to over a million. “People appreciate that I’m authentically unfiltered Hannah, and I’m very confident in who God made me to be,” she says.
Quite the entertainer beyond the kitchen, the triple threat is now a Fender Next Artist, and the face of the new 2021 Telecaster coming this fall. “Jaren Johnston (from the band The Cadillac Three) gave me my first electric guitar a few years ago and said, ‘Now here. Learn it!’ So I did. I don’t know the notes, I just play by ear.”
While Dasher’s ascent has been almost a decade in the making, someone once told her, “Reba wasn’t built in a day.” So she’s comfortable with the slow climb, because she’s surrounded herself with a Nashville family of songwriters, musicians, producers and industry allies who push her to be better. “So many people have had instrumental talks with me about getting out of my own way. It’s hard to relinquish control of your art and to navigate that, while keeping everyone around me inspired.”
Her latest release The Half Record — due out July 9 — is the music that Dasher is very proud to be sharing with the world. “I like to leave things better than I found them. This is so much bigger than me,” she shares.
Being born and raised near Savannah, Georgia, Dasher likes to say that she’s been keeping country country since 1989. And while she did have some rock and Motown influences in the mix, the cassettes she wore out when she was growing up were Patsy Cline’s Greatest Hits, Clint Black’s Killin’ Time and Alan Jackson’s A Lot About Livin’ (And a Little ’bout Love).
Now that she’s fully immersed in the grown-up life of a country singer-songwriter, Dasher admits that from a very young age, she was not merely a fair-weather fan. She was the kind of fan who made country music her life’s mission. “I didn’t like to read books, but I’d read song lyrics and liner notes front to back. I was that nerdy kid who knew who Keith Stegall was when I was 8 years old,” she admits. “And I always wanted to be a country singer. Hell, I practiced my CMA Awards speeches in front of my bathroom mirror with a hairbrush as a little girl.”
Once she’d moved to Nashville after graduating from college, Dasher balanced her work at Bass Pro Shops with her work honing her songwriting craft. It paid off just a year and a half after she arrived, when she signed a publishing deal in 2012.But it wasn’t until 2017 that she signed with Sony Music Nashville. “I knew I wanted to be a singer, but then I discovered songwriting,” Dasher recalls. “Then I thought, ‘Maybe I want both. Maybe I don’t just want to be Reba McEntire. Maybe I want to be Alan Jackson as well.’ It took five years between my publishing and record deals because I felt like I couldn’t be the kind of artist I wanted to be until the songs were in place.”
“I was loading up my gun for the gun fight,” she says of the years she spent learning how to trust her pen. “I even had an early cut with Brad Paisley — a co-write with Paisley, Chris DuBois and Brent Anderson — called ‘Go to Bed Early.’ It was an idea I’d started working on right around the time I got fired from Bass Pro Shop.”
Once Sony discovered and then signed Dasher, she says, her team was careful about the timing of her releases, because in country music, timing can be everything. “They never made me feel like I wasn’t enough,” the CMT Next Women of Country says. And now that the time is right, Dasher is all in. She was born to entertain, and now she’s devoted 32 years of hard work to perfecting her art. It shows at all her shows. Hannah Damn Dasher, indeed.

"Born in Bristol" Global Premiere & 1920s-Themed Watch Party
2022-07-30 20:00 - 23:00, 2022-07-30 22:00 - 23:00 | VA
Join us for the “Born in Bristol” World Premiere Outdoor Watch Party in Historic Downtown Bristol!
Date: Saturday, July 30, 2022
Time: 8:00 p.m. EDT
Location: The Downtown Center, 810 State Street, Bristol, TN
Cost: Event is FREE, but please RSVP
CLICK HERE TO RSVP
Watch the global premiere of “Born in Bristol” from home at 8/7c on DittyTV and 10/9c on Circle All Access Network

In celebration of the 95th anniversary of the 1927 Bristol Sessions, the public is invited to attend the world premiere of “Born in Bristol” at 8 p.m. EDT, July 30. The 1920s-themed, outdoor watch party will be held at the Downtown Center (810 State Street) in Bristol. Festivities kick off with live music by Northfork. The watch party will synchronize at 10 p.m. EDT with Circle Network’s global premiere.
The event is free, but the public is asked to RSVP online to attend. Attendees are encouraged to dress in the period of the roaring twenties. Movie concessions and adult beverages will be available for purchase; alcohol will only be sold to patrons 21 and over with valid photo ID.
“Born in Bristol,” produced by Tennessee Tourism and Plan A Films, is a 53-minute docudrama profiling the 2015 recording of Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited CD project. Orthophonic Joy was produced in partnership with Tennessee Tourism and the Virginia Tourism Corporation. The film features interviews with artists including Ashley Campbell, Ashley Monroe, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Eric Church, Marty Stuart, Shannon Campbell, Sheryl Crow, Steve Earle, and Vince Gill, as well as GRAMMY-winning producer Carl Jackson. Cinematic reenactments were shot in several locations in Historic Downtown Bristol.
“Born in Bristol” will premiere globally on Saturday, July 30 at 10/9c on Circle Network and repeats throughout August. It will also debut on connected devices worldwide on DittyTV on Saturday, July 30 at 8/7c with repeats in August.
The watch party is presented by the Birthplace of Country Music, in partnership with the City of Bristol, Tennessee, Bristol, Tennessee Parks & Recreation, Believe in Bristol, Explore Bristol, Express AV and Bristol Broadcasting Company.

Trivia Night: Mountain Dew & More
2022-08-03 18:30 - 21:00 | Michael Waltrip Brewing, 221 Moore Street, BRISTOL, VA, 242014140, United States
When: Wednesday, August 3, 7:00-9:00pm
Where: Michael Waltrip Brewing, 221 Moore Street, Bristol, VA
Cost: Free and open to the public; a donation of $10 per team is suggested (all proceeds will support the museum’s educational and public programming)
Quiz team info: No limit on the number of quiz team members! Please arrive by 6:30pm to register your team for the event.
Join us at Michael Waltrip Brewing on Wednesday, August 3, for Trivia Night: Mountain Dew & More! Quiz Maestro Eric Drummond Smith, along with the Birthplace of Country Music Museum’s curatorial team, will have questions galore on history, moonshine, NASCAR, music, an infamous lime-green soda, and hillbilly lore, from easy peasy to downright diabolical. So get your dream team together and come out for an evening of trivia fun. The winning team will receive some great museum and Mountain Dew swag!
This event is complementary programming to the museum’s current special exhibit – “It’ll Tickle Yore Innards!”: A (Hillbilly) History of Mountain Dew – on display through August 7.
Trivia Night: Mountain Dew & More is free but a donation of $10 per team is suggested – all proceeds will support the museum’s free or low-cost educational and public programming. There will be a donation jar at the event for anyone who would like to contribute.
Please arrive by 6:30pm to register your quiz team.

Radio Bristol's Farm and Fun Time
2022-08-11 19:00 - 20:30 | VA
Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022
Time: 7:00 p.m. EDT (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; audience asked to be seated by 6:55 p.m.)
Location: Performance Theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Tickets: $35
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Join us in the intimate performance theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum for WBCM Radio Bristol’s Farm and Fun Time live variety show with special guests Fireside Collective, Larry Bellorin and Joe Troop.
Hosted by Kris Truelsen and his house band Bill and the Belles, Farm and Fun Time is a re-imagining of the classic WCYB Radio program of the same name that aired in the 1940s and 1950s. Radio Bristol’s Farm and Fun broadcasts live before a studio audience and recorded for television syndication on PBS stations across the South. It can be accessed on 100.1 FM in the Bristol area, or online at ListenRadioBristol.org and on Radio Bristol’s free mobile app. Viewers may also tune in to watch through Radio Bristol’s Facebook page.

About Fireside Collective
A quintet who cheerfully disregard every kind of one-dimensional label that might be attached to their music, Fireside Collective has been on a roll since emerging seven years ago from the fertile roots music scene of Asheville, North Carolina. In quick order, the progressive bluegrass group released its debut album, won the 2016 Band Contest at MerleFest, earned an International Bluegrass Music Association Momentum Band of the Year nomination and embarked on an ambitious touring schedule that’s earned an enthusiastic reception from traditional bluegrass to wide-ranging, eclectic music festival audiences alike.
​Blending the characteristic interplay of bluegrass instrumentation and harmonies with strong original material and exuberant energy, Fireside Collective has drawn on folk, blues, funk and a wide variety of bluegrass sounds to create a distinctive body of work that’s all their own.

About Larry Bellorin and Joe Troop
Larry Bellorín & Joe Troop were destined to make music together. Larry hails from Monagas, Venezuela and is a legend of Llanera music. Joe is from North Carolina and is a GRAMMY-nominated bluegrass and oldtime musician. Larry was forced into exile and is an asylum seeker in North Carolina. Joe, after a decade in South America, got stranded back in his stomping grounds in the pandemic. Larry works construction to make ends meet. Joe’s acclaimed “latingrass” band Che Apalache was forced into hiatus, and he shifted into action working with asylum seeking migrants.
Currently based in the Triangle of North Carolina, both men are versatile multi-instrumentalists and singer-songwriters on a mission to show that music has no borders. As a duo they perform a fusion of Venezuelan and Appalachian folk music on harp, banjo, cuatro, fiddle, guitar, maracas and whatever else they decide to throw in the van. The program they offer features a distinct blend of their musical inheritances and traditions as well as storytelling about the ways that music and social movements coalesce.

About Bill and the Belles
Bill and the Belles is a Johnson City, TN-based band known for combining a stringband format with their signature harmonies, candid songwriting, and pop sensibilities. Their delightfully deadpan new album, Happy Again, is full of life, humor, and tongue-in-cheek explorations of love and loss. Bill and the Belles is Kris Truelsen on guitar, fiddler Kalia Yeagle, banjo/banjo-uke player Aidan VanSuetendael, and bassist Andrew Small. The group has a knack for saying sad things with a bit of an ironic smirk, and anyone who’s been to one of their shows can attest that you leave feeling lighter and refreshed. This is a band that revels in the in-between: deeply engaged with the stringband tradition and eager to stretch those influences to a contemporary setting. A timeless place where Jimmie Rodgers and Phil Spector can overlap, and a driving fiddle and banjo tune makes way for a sentimental parlor song. And while Bill and the Belles’ latest chapter offers a bigger, moodier, and more decade-ambiguous sound, they maintain their status as the most refreshing stringband around. Visit the band’s website at BillandtheBelles.com for touring and more information.

Bristol Rhythm Green Team/HOKA 5K Plog
2022-08-13 09:00 - 12:30 | VA
Date: Saturday, August 13, 2022
Time: 9:00 a.m. EDT
Location: State Street Brewing (801 State Street, Bristol, VA)
Cost: Free to participate (beer and food not included)
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Plogging is a community and environmentally focused way to exercise. You pick up trash and recyclables as you walk/run. This event gives us the opportunity to call attention to the important of recycling and not littering and keeping our Downtown clean.
What to expect:
Meet us at State Street Brewing at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 13. Participants will have two walk/run routes to choose from, each starting in Historic Downtown Bristol, and then branching out to nearby neighborhoods in Tennessee and Virginia.
HOKA and Mountain Sports, Ltd. will be set up at the brewery with shoes to demo during the run and to purchase. The Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion Green Team will be there to talk about volunteer opportunities at Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion music festival coming up September 9-11 in Historic Downtown Bristol.
The San Taco food truck will be on site at 11:00 a.m. so you can hang out with some good brews and food after helping make Bristol a greener place to live!
Participants will have the chance to take home some cool swag, and the person who brings back the most trash/recyclables will win a weekend pass to Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion!
Stick around after the plogging session for a raffle, where you’ll have the chance to win some cool prizes, including a pair of HOKA shoes and two passes to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum.
Special thanks to Appalachian Chiropractic Wellness Center for their sponsorship of the BRRR Green Team!
Itinerary:
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Arrive at State Street Brewery to get your maps for plogging route and grab a pair of HOKA shoes to test out during the plog! Demo shoe sizes are limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis, so please arrive early to secure your size.
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
5K plog, walk or run. Pick up trash along your route.
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Raffle and prizes awarded
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Food truck and beer available for purchase.
Click here for more information on HOKA event standards, event safety guidelines and to register.

Bristol Sessions Super Raffle Prize Drawing
2022-09-11 12:00 - 16:00 | VA
Join us in-person or tune in to WBCM Radio Bristol for the Bristol Sessions Super Raffle live drawing at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum during Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion – where we’re giving away up to $250,000 in cash and big prizes!
Date: Sunday, September 11, 2022
Time: Noon – 4:00 p.m.
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Raffle Ticket Price: $100
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BROWSE RAFFLE PRIZES
The Birthplace of Country Music (BCM) will hold its fourth annual Bristol Sessions Super Raffle as a fundraiser to benefit the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. The Super Raffle drawings will take place on Sunday, September 11, 2022, from 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. The Super Raffle is an opportunity for patrons to support the Museum while creating an opportunity to win one of 49 great prizes.
A winner will be drawn every five (5) minutes and prizes include vehicles, a vacation, jewelry, a motorcycle, and much more – plus LOTS OF CASH! Only 5,000 tickets are available for purchase, and ticket buyers do not have to be present to win.
Winners will be announced during the live event at the Museum. Winners will also be notified via phone or mail. Additionally, winners will be listed on the Bristol Sessions Super Raffle website and Facebook event page on the day of the Raffle.
Raffle tickets are for sale for $100 each and include two ticket numbers on each ticket. BCM is offering an incentive to ticket purchasers who buy multiple tickets. The “Buy 10 Get 1 Free” offer gives the buyer a free ticket with the purchase of 10 tickets. The “Buy 10 get 1 free” option must be purchased by a single buyer, and those 11 tickets must all be in one individual’s name, or in no more than two names designated by the buyer (if, as example, a male Buyer wants to put 5 in his name, and 6 in his wife’s name).
Tickets can be purchased online or at one of the following locations:

Birthplace of Country Music Museum (Bristol, VA)
Progressive Tractor (18044 Lee Hwy. Abingdon, VA)
The Travel Shop (339 W. Main Street, Abingdon, VA)
Friendship Ford (3192 W. State Street, Bristol, TN)
Abingdon Olive Oil Company 102 E Main St Suite #1, Kingsport, TN
Abingdon Olive Oil Company 335 Cummings St. Abingdon, VA
Friendship Motorsports (2033 W. State Street, Bristol, TN)
Wallace Kia of Bristol (340 Volunteer Parkway, Bristol, TN)
Wallace Nissan of Kingsport (2733 East Stone Drive, Kingsport, TN 37660)
Cranberry Lane (623 State St, Bristol, VA 24201)
Online at BristolSessionsSuperRaffle.org

Tickets for the Raffle will be on sale until September 10 or when 5,000 tickets are sold.
If tickets are still available, they will be sold at the Museum and online until 11:59 PM on Saturday, September 10, 2022. Tickets may not be sold by other ticket sellers after 11:59 on September 7, 2022.
The Raffle drawing will be held on Sunday September 11, 2022, and the drawing will take place at the Museum at 101 Country Music Way, just outside Festival gates.
For a complete list of rules, frequently asked questions, a list of all the prizes, and to purchase tickets, click here.

DBVI "Out of Sight" Experience
2022-10-12 12:00 - 16:00 | VA
Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum
FREE EVENT!
The Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired brings it’s “Out of Sight” Experience to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum to celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month and White Cane Day. Drop in anytime during the day, or make it a point to hear DBVI success stories during a special presentation at 2:30 p.m. in the performance theater. There will be free activities and drawings for door prizes.
Visit DBVI on Facebook for more information.

Radio Bristol's Farm and Fun Time
2022-10-13 19:00 - 20:30 | VA
Date: Thursday, October 13, 2022
Time: 7:00 p.m. EDT (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; audience asked to be seated by 6:55 p.m.)
Location: Performance Theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Tickets: $35
SOLD OUT!
Join us in the intimate performance theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum for WBCM Radio Bristol’s Farm and Fun Time live variety show with special guests Sunny Sweeney and Ferd.
Hosted by Kris Truelsen and his house band Bill and the Belles, Farm and Fun Time is a re-imagining of the classic WCYB Radio program of the same name that aired in the 1940s and 1950s. Radio Bristol’s Farm and Fun broadcasts live before a studio audience and recorded for television syndication on PBS stations across the South. It can be accessed on 100.1 FM in the Bristol area, or online at ListenRadioBristol.org and on Radio Bristol’s free mobile app. Viewers may also tune in to watch through Radio Bristol’s Facebook page.

About Sunny Sweeney
Sunny Sweeney, a genre-bending, songwriting spitfire who has spent equal time in the rich musical traditions of Texas and Tennessee, returns with Married Alone, the celebrated singer-songwriter’s fifth studio album and the follow-up to 2017’s critically acclaimed Trophy. Co-produced by beloved Texas musician and larger-than-life personality Paul Cauthen and the Texas Gentlemen’s multi-hyphenate Beau Bedford, Married Alone is Sweeney’s finest work yet, bringing together confessional songwriting, image-rich narratives and no shortage of sonic surprises for a loosely conceptual album about loss and healing.

About FERD
Ferd is a man and a band creating a fresh and vibrant interpretation of American music. Ferd is set to release their first album, Feelin’ Like the Wind, in 2022. The album is a musical journey into the toils of joy we all find while stumbling our way to forgiveness.
Ferd Moyse the man was raised in the Mississippi Delta. Born in the land of the Blues, he was exposed to music from the beginning. Sometimes his parents might take him to parties where the likes of Sam Chatman may have been playing, but when he was old enough to be left alone, his job was staying home flipping cassette tapes for his father’s weekly ritual of recording a Mississippi Public Radio show called, “Grass Roots.” The 3-hour show was young Ferd’s introduction into bluegrass and old time music.
At the same time, music was all over the Delta and he would see things from Son Thomas playing at his church or John Hartford at an old high school auditorium. Ferd began playing guitar at an early age and began performing with various blues bands around Mississippi. A chance encounter with a Doc and Merle Watson CD turned his attention to acoustic music and into Appalachia. He moved to western North Carolina and crossed paths with the fiddle, eventually becoming fiddler and singer with the Virginia based Hackensaw Boys.The band was turning heads making original music with a punk-rock spirit. With the Hackensaw Boys, Ferd traveled nationally and internationally playing every festival and club stage they could find, creating an unpretentious version of our folk music. They eventually released albums for Netwerk and Free Dirt Record labels and even working with grammy-winning producer Larry Campbell. Ferd is also know all over by his work with the New York based bard, Morgan O’kane. Together, Ferd and O’kane have traveled extensively busking and playing stages from Brazil to Belfast.

About Bill and the Belles
Bill and the Belles is a Johnson City, TN-based band known for combining a stringband format with their signature harmonies, candid songwriting, and pop sensibilities. Their delightfully deadpan new album, Happy Again, is full of life, humor, and tongue-in-cheek explorations of love and loss. Bill and the Belles is Kris Truelsen on guitar, fiddler Kalia Yeagle, banjo/banjo-uke player Aidan VanSuetendael, and bassist Andrew Small. The group has a knack for saying sad things with a bit of an ironic smirk, and anyone who’s been to one of their shows can attest that you leave feeling lighter and refreshed. This is a band that revels in the in-between: deeply engaged with the stringband tradition and eager to stretch those influences to a contemporary setting. A timeless place where Jimmie Rodgers and Phil Spector can overlap, and a driving fiddle and banjo tune makes way for a sentimental parlor song. And while Bill and the Belles’ latest chapter offers a bigger, moodier, and more decade-ambiguous sound, they maintain their status as the most refreshing stringband around. Visit the band’s website at BillandtheBelles.com for touring and more information.

1927 Concert Series featuring Western Centuries
2022-10-14 18:00 - 21:00 | VA
The Birthplace of Country Music presents the 1927 Concert Series, an intimate concert experience, featuring Seattle-based roots band Western Centuries at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum.
Date: Friday, October 14, 2022
Time: 6:00 p.m. EDT
Location: Birthplace of Country Music
Tickets: $100
Click Here to Purchase Tickets
The 1927 Concert Series is an intimate concert experience set in the “acoustically perfect” performance theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. It’s more than a night of music, it’s a very personal event with some of the most renowned roots music artists performing today. Guests are asked to arrive promptly at 6:00 p.m. to enjoy heavy hors d’oeuvres and an open bar (ages 21+ with valid ID) before the show, food and drinks included with ticket. Post-performance, guests will have the opportunity to mingle with the artist(s) after the show.
Members of the Birthplace of Country Music’s 1927 Society are given access to exclusive ticket pre-sales to the 1927 Society Concert Series before they go on sale to the public. To learn more about becoming a member of the 1927 Society and all its advantages, click here.

About Western Centuries
In an age when independence is idolized and every person seems to be seeking their own lone wolf career path, Seattle-based roots band Western Centuries believes that the way forward is better together. Collaboration, inspiration and mutual admiration are what Cahalen Morrison, Ethan Lawton, and Jim Miller cite as the heart of their project. Western Centuries celebrates their third album as a “band’s band” with the release of “Call the Captain,” (a tongue-in-cheek reference to the band’s lack of hierarchy), on Free Dirt Records. Unsurprisingly for such an egalitarian outfit, the collection offers harsh criticism of dogmatic belief systems, all while leading by example with a unique, genre-defying sound.
“Western Centuries comprises a terrific blend of what we love at WNCW: good ole’ rock-n-roll, a healthy dose of honky-tonk twang, and some great songwriting courtesy of Cahalen Morrison, Jim Miller, and Ethan Lawton.” —Martin Anderson, Music Director & Morning Host, WNCW-FM, Spindale, NC
Visit the band’s website at WesternCenturies.com.

Square Dance at the Museum is BACK!
2022-11-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Birthplace of Country Music Museum, 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, 24201, United States
UPDATE: EVENT SOLD OUT!
Time to “do-si-do”! You’re invited to a square dance at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum!
Date: Friday, November 4, 2022
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Tickets: Free, but please RSVP HERE
After a two-year break, Square Dancing at the Museum is back! Join us for an evening of old-fashioned square dancing with caller Tyler Hughes, who will lead the evening with live music to get your feet moving. No partner or experience necessary – just a desire to have a great night out!
This square dance is free and open to the public, though donations will be greatly appreciated!
Get your dancing shoes on and spread the word! For more information, email info@birthplaceofcountrymusic.org or call 423-573-1927.

* The square dance will be held in the museum’s Special Exhibits Gallery, and we ask participants to wear sturdy, comfortable shoes (no heels please!) to protect the wooden floor.
