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The Country Music Hall of Fame ^® and Museum celebrated Ford Community Day for the fifth consecutive year on Saturday, February 4. The record crowd of more than 5000 visitors enjoyed free museum admission, courtesy of Ford Motor Company Fund, as well as a performance and autograph signing from Hunter Hayes, an autograph signing with the Oak Ridge Boys, a Hatch Show Print demonstration and a Musical Petting Zoo.

January 21, 2012
To celebrate publication of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Country Music, music executive Scott Borchetta sat down on January 21, 2012, for an interview with museum staffer Michael McCall. Borchetta is one of ninety-two new entries in the encyclopedia, compiled by the staff of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and published by Oxford University Press. McCall served as an editor of the book, along with Paul Kingsbury and John W. Rumble.

December 12, 2011
A few years back, Sarah Trahern turned on morning news coverage of the Iowa presidential caucuses one wintry day. Watching it, she flashed back to a previous job as a producer for the cable TV channel C-SPAN, and for a moment she missed being in the middle of a bustling political campaign instead of watching press coverage from afar.  

Suzy Bogguss admitted that, even today, seventeen years later, she still brags "constantly" about the record she made with her longtime friend, Chet Atkins, in 1994. Bogguss and a talented band appeared Saturday, December 10, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, in a performance supporting the museum's exhibition Chet Atkins: Certified Guitar Player, Her set included three songs from that album, titled Simpatico: "I Still Miss Someone," "When She Smiled at Him," and "One More for the Road."

December 6, 2011
Hank Williams Jr. capped the four-year run of his family's Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibit just as he opened it: With a powerful solo acoustic performance spiked with personal memories and songs that expressed the full spectrum of musical legacy.

December 3, 2011
Wayne Carson wrote his first song to try and impress a young woman he had just met. He named the song "Coco," the nickname given the woman by her friends, because they said her short, Audrey Hepburn-styled hairdo made her look like a coconut.

October 29, 2011
On October 29, 2011, the day after Charlie Daniels turned seventy-five, and the fortieth anniversary of Duane Allman's death, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum presented a panel discussion reflecting on the scope and meaning of what both men-and their southern-rock colleagues-achieved so many years ago.

October 22, 2011
D.J. Fontana accumulated a variety of experiences as a drummer before Elvis Presley asked him to join his band, the Blue Moon Boys, in August 1955. Fontana's decision to join them resulted in his becoming one of the most celebrated musicians in American music history.

October 13, 2011
The Country Music Hall of Fame^® and Museum hosted a reunion of musicians, producers, songwriters, and performers who helped pioneer and popularize the Muscle Shoals, Alabama, music industry on October 13, 2011. The panel discussion, Land of 1,000 Dances: The Groundbreaking Sounds of Muscle Shoals, featured David Briggs, Donnie Fritts, Rick Hall, Jimmy Johnson, Dan Penn, Norbert Putnam, Spooner Oldham, and Candi Staton. Music historian and author Holly George-Warren moderated the discussion. The panel was presented in partnership with the Americana Music Association.