Watch this video to discover Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, then read the transcription below to check how well you understood the video.
“If you really want an in-depth adventure through the history of country music, you’ve got to check out Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame. Their brand-new building is enormous and it contains many intriguing exhibits and artifacts from country music lore.
-I’m John Ramble, I’m a senior historian here at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. We look at our museum as, and country music, as an unbroken circle.
WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN? was the title of a very famous album by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, that came out in 1972 and was instrumental in spreading the popularity of traditional country music to a younger generation.
-If you notice, we’re in a cylindrical, circular area. Part of the museum, this big cylinder contains the Hall of Fame Rotunda, where we’re standing right now. We have represented here members of the Country Music Hall of Fame. If you’ll notice, the iron bars on which these plaques are mounted, there’s five of them, parallel to each other, they resemble a musical staff, and the plaques resemble musical notes.
Once you’ve admired the plaques of all the great country music stars in the Rotunda, make sure you head into the exhibit hall, where you’ll find priceless artifacts from country music’s past and present. You’ll see a lot of really cool things, from Grammy Awards to a Cadillac that belonged to Elvis, one of Johnny Cash’s guitars, and even a dress worn by Carrie Underwood.
-There’s so many wonderful things to see here. These were the costumes and instruments that were used by the performers, they’re not just photographs. You’ll get immersed in the grassroots of country music, and we’re going to have even more costumes, instruments and other artifacts as the years go by cause we continually refresh our exhibits, there’s always something new to see here.”