Country Music Hall of FameStars of Country Music, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and many more! The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville is a showcase of country music history with a long list of country music singers.
Along the way you will see case after case of themed exhibits about Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and more. You can read about the story of country music and see the instruments, costumes and photos that make the story come to life. You can even hear original recordings of country music stars. At the end of the self-guided tour you will find yourself in the Hall of Fame Rotundra, the space that honors the Hall of Fame members. This space was designed to recognize each member equally. All of the plaques are distributed around the room randomly. There are also special exhibits that honor individual careers of those members who had a significant impact on country music, such as Hank Williams,Ray Charles, Kitty Wells and Patsy Cline. 
Have you ever seen the TV show Master Series on the GAC channel? It is taped at the Country Music Hall of Fame. The Master Series is about popular country music videos by some of country music’s greatest stars. Famous stars like Reba McEntire or Garth Brooks are usually the topic of the show and are present for the tapings. Guest of the museum can watch the tapings. How cool is that? Interested in taking a tour of the historic RCA Studio B? This is an opportunity to see where stars like Elvis Presley, Chet Atkins, Willie Nelson and many others did there recordings. You can schedule a visit when you visit the museum.For more information about the Country Music Hall of Fame visit their website at
www.countrymusichalloffame.com The hours for touring the museum are from 9:00am to 5pm daily with the exception of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. They are also closed on Tuesdays during the month of January and February. The museum is located 222 Fifth Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. Need need to know where to park? Actually I have found an organization called Park It! Downtown whose sole purpose is to promote downtown. They have a ton of information about downtown parking, shuttles and just getting around downtown. I recommend you that you visit their website to find where to park downtown. They can do a much better job than I can on telling you the best place to park. The website is simply
www.parkitdowntown.com Donna's Corner My connection to Dolly Parton. Some of my fondest childhood memories are summers visiting the lady who I thought of as my grandmother. I called her Mae. She lived in Sevierville Tennessee but she had a cabin and a shack in Pittman Center about 5 miles from Gatlinburg right on the Little Pigeon River. We had family reunions up there which was great but my parents would take us up there often to see Mae.
My mother also thought of Mae like a mother to her. She was actually my mother's cousin. My mother lost her mother at age four and Mae helped my mother a lot when she was growing up. In reality she wasn't my grandmother but she felt like one. She passed away a few years ago just one month shy of her 100th birthday. Mae was also one of Dolly Parton's school teachers. She took Dolly to the Cas Walker Show in Knoxville which is where Dolly first appeared on television and got her start in country music. This picture is of Dolly Parton and Anna Mae Ogle and others. Mae is the lady that is laughing in the blue dress. I do not know who the other ladies are. My mother says that she thinks the picture was taken at the ceremony for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library which provides books for children from birth to age five. I have never met Dolly but I would love to meet her or better yet I would love for my mother to meet her. I am sure she could tell us some things about Mae that we don't know. Well that is my connection to Dolly Parton. I hope you enjoyed the story and your visit to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Photo Contributions Thanks to cliff1066 for the photo contributions.Click here to see more photos by
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