“Ralph Emery’s impact in expanding country music’s audience is incalculable. On radio and on television, he allowed fans to get to know the people behind the songs. Ralph was more a grand conversationalist than a calculated interviewer, and it was his conversations that revealed the humor and humanity of Tom T. Hall, Barbara Mandrell, Tex Ritter, Marty Robbins, and many more. Above all, he believed in music and in the people who make it.”

—Kyle Young, CEO
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

"Dallas Frazier is among the greatest country songwriters of all time. He could convey infectious fun with 'Elvira,' and then write something as stunningly sad and true as 'Beneath Still Waters.' His songs helped Connie Smith to become a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. He was a man of kindness, generosity, and faith, who overcame a hardscrabble upbringing to offer smiling gifts to all of us. He lived a beautiful life of a beautiful mind."

—Kyle Young, CEO
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Open now: Bill Anderson: As Far as I Can See, an exploration of the Country Music Hall of Fame member’s life and musical legacy, from childhood through his contributions as one of the most decorated recording artists, songwriters, and entertainers in history. Stocked with historic photographs, significant artifacts, instruments, manuscripts, interactive multimedia, and more, the exhibition is scheduled to run through March 19, 2023.

With Florida Georgia Line: Mix It Up Strong, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum explores the music, career, friendship, and collaboration of Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley, from their meeting in college to their duo's swift emergence as a multiple-award-winning, genre-blending, fan favorite. The new exhibition opens Friday, January 21, 2022.

The Country Music Hall of Fame's 2020 class—Dean Dillon, Marty Stuart, and Hank Williams Jr.—were formally inducted during a private Medallion ceremony held at the Museum on Sunday, November 21, 2021. Each inductee was honored and their career achievements highlighted in front of an audience of family, friends, collaborators, and fellow Country Music Hall of Fame members in the Museum's CMA Theater. Click below to learn more about the 2020 class and the 2021 group of members-elect.

We house timeless stories and unlimited inspiration. We preserve and protect legends and treasures. Inside the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, you're invited to stand up close to history, to get a glimpse behind the scenes at the music and artists that sustained you this past year, and before, and beyond. Here, you'll find the moments that made country music history. Be moved, be inspired, be together. BE HERE.

New and now available: season three of the Museum's podcast Voices in the Hall, streaming on Spotify. Hear intimate conversations with some of country music’s most fascinating and influential figures, including Duane Eddy, Mark Knopfler, and Ashley McBryde, among others. Seasons one and two—with Dierks Bentley, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, and more—are also now available on Spotify for on-demand listening.

For more than twenty-five years, Martina McBride has been creating substantive, socially aware country music, her anthems of personal empowerment—including “Independence Day” and “A Broken Wing”—contributing a much-needed perspective to the genre. The exhibition Martina McBride: The Power of Her Voice explores one of country music’s most distinctive voices.

Channeling her own galactic country spirit and influences from Dolly Parton to Daft Punk, Kacey Musgraves is riding a critical wave behind her Grammy-winning, universally acclaimed album Golden Hour.

Just announced: drummer Eddie Bayers, singer-pianist-composer Ray Charles, steel guitarist Pete Drake, and mother-daughter duo the Judds are joining the Country Music Hall of Fame. Election to the Country Music Hall of Fame is country music's highest honor, and new members are elected annually by an anonymous panel of industry leaders chosen by the Country Music Association (CMA).