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According to local oral tradition, Queen Victoria was so impressed by the Singers that she commented that with such beautiful voices, they had to be from the Music City of the United States. Hence, the moniker for Nashville, Tennessee – Music City USA – was born. [2] They returned to Europe the following year, touring from May 1875 to July ...
The Music of East Tennessee has a rich history, and played a major role in the development of modern country and bluegrass music. [1] [2] [3] ...
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The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is the world's largest repository of country music artifacts. Early in the 1960s, as the Country Music Association's (CMA) campaign to publicize country music was accelerating, CMA leaders determined that a new organization was needed to operate a country music museum and related activities beyond CMA's scope as simply a trade organization.
The Mountain City Fiddlers Convention was held in the East Tennessee town of Mountain City, in May 1925. [1] The gathering was attended by many acclaimed Appalachian musicians, and pioneers of bluegrass and country music, such as G. B. Grayson, Charlie Bowman, and Al Hopkins.
Country music songwriter and performer Dean Dillon stands next to his Tennessee Music Pathways marker unveiled next to the Coal Creek Miner Museum in Rocky Top on Sept. 22.
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The Nashville sound was pioneered by staff at RCA Victor, Columbia Records and Decca Records in Nashville, Tennessee.RCA Victor manager, producer and musician Chet Atkins, and producers Steve Sholes, Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, and recording engineer Bill Porter invented the form by replacing elements of the popular honky tonk style (fiddles, steel guitar, nasal lead vocals) with "smooth ...