Upcoming Events
From music festivals, racing, history, heritage, food and everything in between. Here's your guide.
Birthplace of Country Music
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Farm and Fun Time
THE BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC PRESENTS RADIO BRISTOL'S Farm and Fun Time Join us this Thursday for Radio Bristol's Virtual Farm and Fun Time! This Farm and Fun Time variety show will feature Scott Miller, Redd Volkaert, and house band Bill and The Belles. Join us online Thursday, October 8 at 7:00pm! Stream on Radio Bristol's Facebook Page or
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Farm & Fun Time: Merle Monroe, The Wildmans, and Bill and the Belles
THE BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC PRESENTS RADIO BRISTOL'S Farm and Fun Time Join us this next month for Radio Bristol's Virtual Farm and Fun Time! This Farm and Fun Time variety show will feature Merle Monroe, The Wildmans, and house band Bill and The Belles. Join us online Thursday, November12, at 7:00pm! Stream on Radio Bristol's Facebook Page or Radio
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Radio Bristol’s Farm and Fun Time ft. Merle Monroe, Nora Brown
Birthplace of Country Music Museum 520 Birthplace of Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United StatesBe part of the studio audience for Farm & Fun Time featuring music guests Merle Monroe and Nora Brown! Farm and Fun Time hearkens back to the days of classic live radio and features today’s top traditional country, bluegrass and old-time artists. We’re proud to bring back this historic program to a new generation of
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Radio Bristol Book Club
Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift—these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it’s Rosanne Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old
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Pandemic Perspectives: Smithsonian Lecture Series
Through our affiliation with the Smithsonian, the Birthplace of Country Music is sharing a free virtual lecture series called “Pandemic Perspectives: Stories Through Collections” over the coming months starting from November (with access to past recorded talks). Topics include voting and comfort food during a pandemic, museums collecting to record the history of COVID-19, vaccine
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Thanksgiving Story Time
Tag along for storytime with Summer Apostol and Toni Doman! Join the gals with a special virtual reading of a Thanksgiving themed tale. The storytelling pair combine their love for Appalachian folklore and sound stories - stories that incorporate the use of musical instruments, found objects and self-made sounds - to tell the tallest of
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Birthplace of County Music: Story Time
Join us on Wednesday, December 23 at 11:00am for the Birthplace of Country Music Museum’s Virtual Story Time! BCM’s own Summer Apostol and Toni Doman will be reading a sweet story called Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile, written by Gloria Houston and illustrated by Susan Condie Lamb. Special thanks to Harper Collins who gave permission for us
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Special Exhibit – Honky Tonk: Portrait of Country Music 1972-1981
Birthplace of Country Music Museum 520 Birthplace of Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United StatesIn the 1970s, photographer Henry Horenstein shot album covers for upstart bluegrass label Rounder Records. But in his off-hours, he soon became unofficial photographer to the culture of country musicians great and small, and their dedicated fans. It’s a world that looks quite a bit like country songs sound: full of hard-working operators and lonely
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Special Exhibit: A Selection of Hard Rock’s Country Music Memorabilia
Birthplace of Country Music Museum 520 Birthplace of Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United StatesThe Birthplace of Country Music Museum and Hard Rock International have partnered up to bring priceless items from Hard Rock’s vast collection of country music memorabilia to Historic Downtown Bristol for exhibition. Hard Rock items featured in the museum’s new Honky Tonk special exhibit include costume pieces worn by Loretta Lynn and the Queen of
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Special Exhibit: Centennial of Women’s Suffrage
Birthplace of Country Music Museum 520 Birthplace of Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United StatesThe Birthplace of Country Music Museum is marking the centennial of women’s suffrage in the United States with two poster exhibits: Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service) and To Make Our Voices Heard: Tennessee Women’s Fight for the Vote (Tennessee State Museum). Both exhibits are a wonderful way to
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