AFFILIATED EVENTS

New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music
The Tennessee Valley Museum of Art is the first of six venues for an Alabama tour of the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibition, New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music. The exhibition is touring the U.S. It identifies the cultural exchange that reshaped musical traditions of many peoples into the sounds of one people: Americans. In conjunction with the Smithsonian exhibition, the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Alabama Music Hall of Fame, the Muscle Shoals Music Association and Music Preservation Society have collaborated to develop additional exhibitions and educational programs that identify the cultural exchange that reshaped the musical traditions of our own community: traditions that produced artists whose “new harmonies” impacted music around the world including “The Muscle Shoals Sound” and W. C. Handy. Click here for full details... To download a Schedule of Shoals Area Studio Tours (including FAME, Muscle Shoals Sound, Cypress Moon, Noiseblock Recording, Wishbone Recording and The Nutt House, click here.

The 4th Annual Sam Phillips Music Celebration!
The Sam Phillips Music Celebration, The City of Florence, The Marriott Shoals Hotel and Conference Center and Big River Broadcasting are pleased to announce the dates and performances for the 4th Annual Celebration, January 5-10, 2009, honoring Florence, AL Native, Sun Records Founder and the Father of Rock and Roll, Sam Phillips. Click here to visit the
official Sam Phillips Music Celebration website.