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Museum And Music City Roots Team Up For Night Train To Nashville 10th Anniversary Celebration

June 11, 2014
Exterior of Country Music Hall of Fame taken from a drone.

July 30 Concert Provides Finale for Month of Night Train-themed Museum Programs

NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 11, 2014 – The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum and Music City Roots will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the pivotal exhibition Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues, 1945-1970 and the accompanying Grammy-winning CD set with a special concert collaboration on Wednesday, July 30, at 7:00 p.m. at The Factory at Franklin. The show will be broadcast live on Hippie Radio (94.5 FM).  General admission tickets are $15 and available at Grimey’s New & Pre-Loved Music or musiccityroots.com

Among the artists scheduled to perform at the show are Levert Allison, the Jimmy Church Band, Clifford Curry, Mac Gayden, Frank Howard, Marion James, Robert Knight, the McCrary Sisters, the Valentines and the Charles Walker Band.

Earlier in the month, Buzz Cason, writer of the Nashville R&B hits “Everlasting Love” (Robert Knight) and “Soldier of Love” (Arthur Alexander), will be the subject of the museum’s quarterly program series Poets and Prophets on Saturday, July 5 at 1:30 p.m., in the museum’s Ford Theater.

There will be weekly film screenings featuring the television programs The!!!!Beat and Night Train, on Sundays at 2:00 p.m. in the Ford Theater.  On Saturday, July 26, the museum will present a R&B Dance Workshop for families in the Taylor Swift Education Center. All programs are included with museum admission and free to museum members. For program details visit countrymusichalloffame.org/calendar.

Revisit, or discover for the first time, the appeal of this one-of-a-kind exhibit by going to the museum’s website. Photos, exhibit text, classic film clips of The!!!!Beat and Night Train, and suggested reading and listening lists round out the Night Train to Nashville online experience. https://countrymusichalloffame.org/NightTrain

About Night Train to Nashville
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s 2004-05 groundbreaking project, Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues, 1945-1970, included a large, critically-acclaimed exhibition; Grammy-winning CD set; accompanying publications; live performances; and other public events.  While Nashville’s contributions to country music have been documented extensively, the city’s far-reaching R&B legacy is not as well known. Nor is the degree to which the two styles of music influenced each other here.
During the years when Nashville grew into its title of Music City, African American artists such as Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix spent hours of bandstand apprenticeship in Nashville’s black nightclubs. At the same time, Nashville radio station WLAC blasted rhythm & blues across half the United States when most national radio considered the music taboo, and black and white musicians made hit records together in Nashville’s studios, in tacit disregard of segregation.
The exhibit and museum programs featured pioneering television shows Night Train and The!!!!Beat, and stories about the live music activity on Jefferson Street, the spirited entrepreneurs who created the city’s first record companies, and a number of popular recording acts such as Bobby Hebb, Etta James and the Prisonaires.
 
About Music City Roots
Music City Roots is a weekly live radio show and HD webcast featuring the finest roots and Americana music based in or passing through Nashville. Since going on the air in October 2009, Music City Roots has broadcast the authentic sound of today’s Music City, embracing the traditional and the progressive in equal measure. Every Wednesday night at 7:00 pm Central, four or five guest artists perform to an intimate audience of 300-600 people, with a live broadcast to the world via Livestream.com and flagship radio partner Hippie Radio 94.5 FM. Veteran Grand Ole Opry announcer Keith Bilbrey emcees with help from musical host, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Jim Lauderdale, and interview guy Craig Havighurst. Thirteen episodes per year are edited for distribution by American Public Television via flagship PBS-affiliate WNPT in Nashville. A syndicated version of the radio show is also broadcast on a growing network of terrestrial radio stations nationwide.

Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is operated by the Country Music Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964. The museum’s mission is the preservation of the history of country and related vernacular music rooted in southern culture. With the same educational mission, the foundation also operates CMF Records, the museum’s Frist Library and Archive, CMF Press, Historic RCA Studio B and Hatch Show Print®.

More information about the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is available at countrymusichalloffame.orgor by calling (615) 416-2001.

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