Hot Events at the Hall
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has an excellent line-up of events over the next few weeks, starting tomorrow night (7/9) with Stealing Angels at the Hot Nights at the Hall concert series. Doors open at 6:00 p.m., followed by the performance at 7:00 p.m.
One highlight will be a program at RCA Studio B featuring a discussion with Elvis Presley‘s famed sidemen Harold Bradley, David Briggs and Norbert Putnam. Legends of RCA Studio B: Conversations with All the King’s Men takes place Tues., Aug. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds will benefit the Museum’s educational mission. Tickets here.
On Saturday, July 9 at 2:00 p.m., the Hall presents a special session celebrating the release of I Love: Tom T. Hall’s Songs of Fox Hollow. Performers Peter Cooper and Eric Brace assembled an impressive cast of musicians and guest singers to re-record the songs from Hall’s 1974 masterpiece.
Session player James Burton will be honored on Sat., July 23 at 1:30 p.m. His guitar playing shaped country music on classics by Merle Haggard (“Mama Tried”), Emmylou Harris (“Two More Bottles of Wine”), and Jerry Lee Lewis (“Rockin’ My Life Away”).
Museum members will be admitted free to some of these programs. Details at countrymusichalloffame.org.
