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Local? Us Too!

For nearly 60 years, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has presented exhibits and educational programs that serve the Nashville community and its visitors. For locals who live in Nashville-Davidson and bordering counties, the Museum makes accessing its resources even easier – from discounted gallery admission to free educational programming.

Local Admission

Adult

  • $29.95 (online or at Museum box office)
  • Free Museum admission for up to two adults is available by checking out a Community Counts Passport at participating public libraries in Nashville-Davidson County, Robertson County, and Sumner County.    

Local Kids Visit Free

  • Youth ages 18 and under visit free. Up to two accompanying adults receive 25% off admission. 
  • Youth ages 15 and under must be accompanied by an adult or chaperone who is age 16 or older. 

RESERVE TICKETS

Membership

  • Museum members enjoy free admission, access to hundreds of programs and hands-on activities for families, dining and shopping discounts, exclusive pre-sale opportunities for CMA Theater concerts, and so much more. 
  • Residents of Nashville-Davidson and bordering counties who receive SNAP and Families First benefits may purchase discounted memberships for $5. 

Live Music Every Weekend

The programs below are included with Museum admission. If you have any questions, please call (615) 416-2001.
  • Canaan Smith Image

    Songwriter Session: Canaan Smith

    March 15 | 12:00 - 12:45 PM | Ford Theater


    Canaan Smith hit the top of the Billboard Country Airplay chart in 2014 with his #1 single “Love You Like That,” which he co-wrote. He has released three studio albums: 2015’s Bronco, 2021’s High Country Sound, and January’s Chickahominy. As a songwriter, Smith has had his songs recorded by Jason Aldean, Tyler Hubbard, Cody Johnson, Love and Theft, RaeLynn, and Cole Swindell.

  • Musician Spotlight: Emerald Rae with Oisín Cooke and Eamonn Dillon

    March 16 | 1:00 - 1:45 PM | Ford Theater


    Emerald Rae is a fiddler and folksinger from Gloucester, Massachusetts, with a degree in film scoring from Berklee College of Music. In 2013, she released her debut album, If Only I Could Fly, which highlighted both her vocal abilities and her skills on fiddle, guitar, and the crwth, an ancient Welsh fiddle (pronounced “krooth”).

  • Luke Combs's Band Artist Photo

    Music and Conversation: Meet the Wild Cards, Luke Combs’s Band

    March 22 | 11:00 AM- 12:30 PM | Ford Theater


    Live performances have been key to Luke Combs’s success from the beginning. Over the past decade, as the country star has progressed from playing bars to mounting international stadium tours, his band, the Wild Cards, has remained by his side. They’ve also forged a bond with Combs’s dedicated fans, dubbed “the Bootleggers,” by playing parking lot concerts for tailgaters before Combs’s stadium gigs and at other fan gatherings. During this program, hosted by the Museum’s Dave Paulson, Wild Cards members Jamie Davis, Korey Hunt, Tyler King, Kurt Ozan, Dustin Nunley, Mat Maxwell, and Jake Sommers will share songs and stories from their decade-long journey with Combs. Offered in support of the exhibition Luke Combs: The Man I Am. Ford Theater.

  • Kappy Artist Photo

    Interview: A Conversation with Artist Manager Chris Kappy

    March 22 | 2:30 - 3:45 PM | Ford Theater


    In the spring of 2015, Chris Kappy—who had been working for the music event company Sixthman for more than a decade but wanted to be an artist manager—saw Luke Combs command a small crowd at an Athens, Georgia, club and knew he’d found his first client. He moved to Nashville that fall to manage Combs full-time. In the near decade since, Kappy has expanded his management company, Make Wake Artists, to include a team of nearly two dozen employees. Make Wake’s clients now include Combs and his wife Nicole, the Castellows, Brent Cobb, Flatland Cavalry, Josh Abbott Band, Meghan Patrick, and more.

  • Vickie Vaughn Image

    Musician Spotlight: Vickie Vaughn

    March 23 | 1:00 - 1:45 PM | Ford Theater


    Bassist and vocalist Vickie Vaughn fronts the Vickie Vaughn Band, a progressive bluegrass ensemble. She has performed at DelFest and on the Grand Ole Opry, and has toured as a backing vocalist with Patty Loveless. Vaughn also performs with the Grammy-nominated bluegrass band Della Mae. In 2023 and 2024, she was named the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Bass Player of the Year. Vaughn will be releasing her debut solo record, produced by Sister Sadie’s Deanie Richardson, in 2025.

  • James House Artist Image

    Songwriter Session: James House

    March 29 | 12:00 - 12:45 PM | Ford Theater


    James House wrote Martina McBride’s #1 song “A Broken Wing,” as well as Diamond Rio’s “In a Week or Two,” Dwight Yoakam’s “Ain’t That Lonely Yet,” and his own single, “This Is Me Missing You,” all Top Ten hits on the Billboard charts. His songs have also been recorded by Joe Bonamassa, Sara Evans, the Mavericks, Kylie Minogue, Lorrie Morgan, Olivia Newton-John, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, and Ricky Van Shelton.

  • Jaelee Roberts Artist Image

    Musician Spotlight: Jaelee Roberts

    March 29 | 1:00 - 1:45 PM | Ford Theater


    Jaelee Roberts is an award-winning bluegrass vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, and songwriter. In 2022, she released her debut album, Something You Didn’t Count On, which debuted in the Top Ten on the Billboard Bluegrass Albums chart and earned her the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America’s 2023 Album of the Year award. Roberts was also named SPBGMA’s 2023 Female Vocalist of the Year and the International Bluegrass Music Association’s 2024 Female Vocalist of the Year. In addition to her solo work, Roberts is a member of the award-winning bluegrass band Sister Sadie and appears on the group’s Grammy-nominated album No Fear.

  • Songwriter Session: Tommy Karlas

    April 5 | 12:00 - 12:45 PM | Ford Theater


    Tommy Karlas wrote Montgomery Gentry’s #1 hit “Roll with Me” and songs recorded by Trey Lewis, Love & Theft, Old Dominion, Blake Shelton, Randy Travis, Trisha Yearwood, and Warren Zeiders.

  • Jaime Hanna Artist Image

    Musician Spotlight: Jaime Hanna

    April 6 | 1:00 - 1:45 PM | Ford Theater


    Jaime Hanna is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who since 2018 has performed alongside his father, Jeff Hanna, as a member of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Prior to joining NGDB, he toured and collaborated with Gary Allan and the Mavericks, and was part of the duo Hanna–McEuen with songwriter Jonathan McEuen.

  • JayDee Manes Artist Image

    Nashville Cats: JayDee Maness

    April 12 | 2:30 - 4:00 PM | Ford Theater


    At the outset of his sixty-plus-year career, renowned pedal steel guitarist JayDee Maness helped sow the seeds of country-rock, recording with the Byrds on their landmark 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo and with Gram Parsons’s International Submarine Band. Additionally, he was a founding member of the Desert Rose Band and toured with Buck Owens’s Buckaroos. Many of music’s biggest names have sought out Maness’s driving, precise style: as a session musician, he has recorded with Vince Gill, Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Ray Stevens, Rod Stewart, Tanya Tucker, Dwight Yoakam, and many others.

  • Tom Lombardo Image

    Musician Spotlight: Todd Lombardo

    April 13 | 1:00 - 1:45 PM | Ford Theater


    Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer Todd Lombardo has played alongside Jerry Douglas, Viktor Krauss, Patty Loveless, and Taylor Swift. As a session player skilled in acoustic guitar, mandolin, and banjo, he has contributed to recordings from artists including Jelly Roll, Post Malone, Gwen Stefani, and Morgan Wallen. Lombardo also played guitar on Kacey Musgraves’s Grammy-winning 2018 album, Golden Hour. He has also received three Academy of Country Music Acoustic Guitar Player of the Year nominations and is a Grammy-nominated audio engineer.

  • Scoot Teasley Artist Image

    Songwriter Session: Scoot Teasley

    April 19 | 12:00 - 12:45 PM | Ford Theater


    Scoot Teasley wrote his singles “Let Me Move On,” “Nothin’ on Me,” and “Country Back,” the title track to his 2024 debut EP. He also wrote “The Chop,” which has become an anthem for the Atlanta Braves baseball team. Teasley’s latest single is “Gone to Dust,” released earlier this year.

  • Justin Moses Image

    Musician Spotlight: Justin Moses

    April 27 | 1:00 - 1:45 PM | Ford Theater


    Justin Moses is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist who plays mandolin, resonator guitar, guitar, banjo, fiddle, and bass. He has appeared onstage or worked in the studio with artists including Garth Brooks, Béla Fleck, Vince Gill, Bruce Hornsby, Alison Krauss, Brad Paisley, and Marty Stuart. Moses has been named Dobro Player of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association five times and was awarded the same honor from the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America in 2023.

  • Noah Thompson Artist Photo

    Songwriter Session: Noah Thompson

    May 3 | 12:00 - 12:45 PM | Ford Theater


    Noah Thompson won American Idol’s twentieth season in 2022. He has written his songs “American Dream,” “Demons in My Whiskey,” “Middle of God Knows Where,” and “Upbringing,” as well as his latest single, “Here Lately.” Thompson also wrote “Front Door Famous” for Luke Combs’s 2024 album, Fathers & Sons.

  • Musician Spotlight: Justin Schipper

    May 4 | 1:00 - 1:45 PM | Ford Theater


    Multi-instrumentalist and seven-time Academy of Country Music award nominee Justin Schipper played pedal steel and dobro on tour with Josh Turner and Shania Twain and has performed with Gregg Allman, Billy Gibbons, Kris Kristofferson, Little Big Town, Chris Stapleton, and Carrie Underwood. He has played banjo, dobro, guitar, mandolin, and pedal steel on records by Lauren Alaina, Ingrid Andress, Beyoncé, Lee Brice, Kristian Bush, Cam, Florida Georgia Line, Mickey Guyton, Faith Hill, Chris Isaak, Chris Janson, Lady A, Post Malone, Tim McGraw, Kacey Musgraves, Parmalee, and Sugarland. Schipper co-produced the soundtrack for the film The Last Movie Star, starring Burt Reynolds.

  • Tim James Artist Image

    Songwriter Session: Tim James

    May 10 | 12:00 - 12:45 PM | Ford Theater


    Tim James wrote Lee Brice’s “Love Like Crazy,” Toby Keith’s “My List,” and George Strait’s “Give It All We Got Tonight.” He has also had his songs recorded by Trace Adkins, Rodney Atkins, Montgomery Gentry, Darius Rucker, Chris Stapleton, and Josh Turner. In 2023, James released a memoir, Going Crazy (Left Foot, Right Foot, Breathe).

  • Luis Espaillat Artist Photo

    Musician Spotlight: Luis Espaillat

    May 11 | 1:00 - 1:45 PM | Ford Theater


    Bass player Luis Espaillat is a session and touring musician. He has recorded with Sam Grow, Jared Ming, Ava Paige, Ryan Waters Band, Cody Weaver, and Bailey Zimmerman; has toured with Trace Adkins and Lindsay Ell; and has also performed with Brett Eldredge, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Lee Greenwood, the Guess Who, Ty Herndon, Jon Pardi, and Pam Tillis.

  • Songwriter Session: Tia Sillers

    May 24 | 12:00 - 12:45 PM | Ford Theater


    Tia Sillers co-wrote “Blue on Black” (Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Five Finger Death Punch with Brantley Gilbert and Brian May), “Heaven, Heartache, and the Power of Love” (Trisha Yearwood), the Grammy-winning hit “I Hope You Dance” (Lee Ann Womack), “There’s Your Trouble” (The Chicks), and songs recorded by Vince Gill, Alan Jackson, David Nail, Jon Pardi, and Pam Tillis.

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Educational Programs

From banjo classes to friendship bracelet-making programs, the Museum offers a wide range of fun and interactive experiences for the whole family. Visit the Taylor Swift Education Center to participate in art, music, and dance programs or to pick up exhibit scavenger hunts and other gallery resources.

The Museum serves the local community by offering music and art-making programs at libraries, community centers, and other locations in Nashville-Davidson County and bordering counties (Cheatham, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson, and Wilson). Community events are free and open to the public.

The Museum provides dynamic, interdisciplinary learning experiences that support curriculum standards in core subject areas. Programs for every grade level are designed to meet virtual and in-person classroom needs. Free resources are available via the Teacher Resource Portal.

Community Counts Passport

Free Museum admission for up to two adults is available any time by checking out the Community Counts Passport at participating public libraries. 

Community Counts

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Information on the Museum’s membership program is available here. Museum members enjoy free admission to the Museum galleries, family and youth programs in the Taylor Swift Education Center and hundreds of additional educational programs, including Songwriter Sessions.

Additionally, residents of Nashville-Davidson and bordering counties who receive SNAP and Families First benefits may purchase a Family Membership for $5. This level of membership is regularly $125.

The Museum’s permanent exhibition, Sing Me Back Home, tells the story of country music from its pre-commercial roots in the nineteenth century through its vibrant life today. The Museum’s galleries feature priceless artifacts, including instruments, stage wear, one-of-a-kind recordings, films and more. Along the way, visitors can enjoy a variety of temporary or rotating exhibits. Read more about current Museum exhibits.

Museum members receive a $5 discount at select Metropolis lots located near the Museum. Visit the Museum’s Membership page for more information.

The Museum’s self-guided experience takes approximately 90 minutes.

Yes. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum strives to provide all visitors with an enjoyable experience by offering services to assist with various needs and abilities. Visit the Museum’s accessibility page for more information.

Call the Museum seven days a week, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central at 615-416-2001, or email questions to reservations@countrymusichalloffame.org. More answers to commonly asked questions about the Museum are here.

Current Exhibitions

American Currents:

State of the Music

This annual exhibit offers a broad look at country music and its place in American culture over the past year, exploring musical developments, artist achievements, and notable events. The latest installment, which will be open through January 2026, features music and moments from cozy clubs to arena rafters.

Rosanne Cash:

Time Is a Mirror

Rosanne Cash: Time Is a Mirror, traces the life of an artist, raised within a legacy few get to experience, who established a legacy all her own. Referred to as “a musical mystic” and a “songwriting time traveler,” Cash has created work that moves among genres and transcends time with a singular voice.

Luke Combs:

The Man I Am

From his blue-collar North Carolina roots to his place at the top of the country charts, the exhibit will trace Luke Combs’s life and career by way of musical instruments, song manuscripts, stage wear, tour memorabilia, and more.

Night Train to Nashville:

Music City Rhythm & Blues Revisited

In celebration of its twentieth anniversary, Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues Revisited returns to the Museum on April 26, 2024. The acclaimed 2004–2005 exhibit explored an often-overlooked chapter of Nashville’s musical history—an influential rhythm & blues scene that thrived from the 1940s through the 1960s. And the exhibit’s companion compilation album won a Grammy in 2005. This twentieth-anniversary edition of Night Train revisits highlights from the exhibit’s debut, along with new artifacts and rare photos.

An American Masterwork:

Thomas Hart Benton’s "Sources of Country Music" at 50

An American Masterwork: Thomas Hart Benton’s “Sources of Country Music” at 50 explores Benton’s process in creating his final painting, which was commissioned by the Museum in 1973. The exhibit includes sketches, drawings, lithographs, photographs, and a three-dimensional model of the painting, along with a 1975 video of Benton speaking about the mural.

Western Edge:

The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock

Western Edge examines the close-knit communities of Los Angeles-based singers, songwriters and musicians who, from the 1960s through the 1980s, embraced country music, frequented local nightclubs, and created and shaped the musical fusion known as “country-rock” – ultimately making an indelible and lasting impact on popular music.

Sing Me Back Home

Folk Roots to the Present

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s core, permanent exhibition tells the story of country music from its pre-commercial roots in the nineteenth century through its vibrant life today. This exciting, multi-layered experience includes artifacts, photographs, original recordings, archival video, newly produced films, touchscreen interactive media, and beautifully rendered text panels.

RESERVE TICKETS

Local kids visit free. Plus, up to two accompanying adults receive 25% off admission.

RESERVE TICKETS