While Nashville’s contributions to country music have been documented extensively, the city’s far-reaching rhythm & blues legacy is not as well known. The Museum’s current exhibition Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues Revisited explores how Middle Tennessee’s vibrant, pioneering R&B activity played a significant role in building Nashville’s worldwide reputation as “Music City” in the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s. For the past two decades, a Black-owned concert promotion company called Lovenoise has been working to make room for R&B, soul, and hip-hop in Nashville’s live music landscape. A four-part series, Making Noise, a joint production by WPLN and WNXP, the sister stations of Nashville Public Radio, recently chronicled Lovenoise’s story and impact. This program will look at the evolution of the city’s Black music scene through the point of view of musicians from different generations. Participants for the panel discussion include music journalist and Making Noise host Jewly Hight; Lovenoise founder Eric Holt; and musicians Frank Howard, Regina McCrary, Joey Richey, and Bryant Taylorr. Following the conversation, Levert Allison, Ca$h K, William Davenport, Howard, the McCrary Sisters, and Richey will perform with a house band led by Elijah “DD” Holt. Presented in support of the exhibition Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues Revisited and in partnership with Lovenoise and the National Museum of African American Music, with support from WNXP. Ford Theater. Limited seating. Free.

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