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Renfro Valley Barn Dance was an American country music stage and radio show originally carried by WLW-AM in Cincinnati, Ohio on Saturday nights. It debuted on October 9, 1937, from the Cincinnati Music Hall and moved to the Memorial Auditorium in Dayton, Ohio. It was hosted by John Lair, Red Foley, Cotton Foley, and Whitey Ford.
Renfro Valley Barn Dance, 1939–1957, stage show continues to bear the name; Renfro Valley Gatherin', Sunday morning country music program airing nationally from Renfro Valley, Kentucky. (1943–present) Korn’s-A-Krackin’, from KWTO in Springfield, Missouri and carried by the Mutual Broadcasting System (1946-195?).
Renfro Valley is home to the Renfro Valley Entertainment Center. Since being founded by local area native John Lair and others in 1939, Renfro Valley Entertainment Center has hosted the Renfro Valley Barn Dance, a traditional country music show which gave entertainers such as Hank Snow, Hank Williams, Red Foley, and Homer and Jethro the spotlight early in their careers.
The UK Department of Theatre & Dance will present its 13th annual dance concert “Home” inside the Guignol Theatre on Feb ... will perform at Renfro Valley in Mt. Vernon on Feb. 3 at 8 p.m. $12 ...
Arlo McKinley Concert at Renfro Valley. ... take part in therapeutic riding demos and more during Central Kentucky Riding For Hope’s open barn day on Aug. 17 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. 4185 ...
A second program was launched in the 1930s by National Barn Dance's then-president John Lair in Renfro Valley, Kentucky; the Renfro Valley Barn Dance still takes place weekly but is no longer aired on radio (although a sister program, the Renfro Valley Gatherin', does still air weekly on Sunday mornings).
Each Old Dominion Barn Dance has an early show at 2 p.m. and a late show at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range in price from $35 - $75 and can be purchased in advance or at the door, if not sold out. Old ...
The Coon Creek Girls were one of the first all-female string bands. The band was created in the mid-1930s by John Lair for his Renfro Valley Barn Dance show. The group toured throughout the greater region of Cincinnati, and performed at the White House for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, his wife, Eleanor and the King and Queen of England, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.