The Six Annual Ford Community Day

Join us for a day full of activities:

  • Instrument Demonstration: Fiddle and Banjo – Matt Combs and Dave Talbot
    10:30a.m.-11:30a.m. • Hall of Fame Rotunda
    Fiddler Matt Combs has worked with Elizabeth Cook, Jerry Douglas, the Nashville Bluegrass Band, Ray Price, Curly Seckler, Mike Snider, and others. 

  • Family Program: Musical Petting Zoo
    11a.m.-3p.m. • Crump Terrace (Weather Permitting)
    Our family program offers budding musicians a chance to bang a drum, strum an autoharp, and pick a banjo.

  • Film Screening Logo

    Songwriter Session: Chris Janson and Phil O'Donnell
    11:30a.m.-12:15p.m. • Ford Theater
    Janson wrote songs recorded by Tim McGraw and more. O’Donnell penned songs by Montgomery Gentry, Rodney Adkins, and others. Pass Required

  • Concert and Autograph Signing Josh Turner
    12:30p.m. • Curb Conservatory
    MCA Nashville’s double-platinum selling singer and songwriter Josh Turner will perform. Following the concert, Turner will sign his current CD, Punching Bag, purchased from the Museum.*

  • Poets and Prophets: Salute to Legendary Songwriter Red Simpson
    1:30p.m.-3:00p.m. • Ford Theater
    Simpson, the Bard of Bakersfield, will give an intimate interview and performance. Following the program, he will sign a custom Hatch Show Print, purchased from the Museum.* Pass Required

  • Concert and Autograph Signing Lauren Alaina
    3:30p.m. • Curb Conservatory
    Lauren Alaina will perform live in the Curb Conservatory. Following the concert, Lauren Alaina will sign her CD, Wildflower, purchased from the Museum.*

  • Hatch Show Print Demonstration
    12:00p.m.-4:00p.m. • Hall of Fame Rotunda
    Visitors can observe Hatch Show Print’s letterpress printing demonstration, and hand-crank a commemorative printed memento at the conclusion of the Museum experience.

    • * Artist product purchase required to participate. Visit CountryMusicHallofFame.org for signing guidelines. Signings from the Hall is presented by CMT.

    Pass Required Due to limited seating, a program pass is required for your complimentary seat. Passes will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.

    Show your Ford car key to receive 10% off Museum Store and Two-Twenty Grill purchases. Not valid with other offers.

    Membership Discount – Ford Community Day only: 30% off all membership levels when purchased at the Museum.

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