Speaker Sessions: Brandon Story on Gospel According to Bristol
Tue, Aug 13
|Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Time & Location
Aug 13, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Birthplace of Country Music Museum , 101 Country Music Wy, Bristol, VA 24201, USA
About the event
Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Time: 7:00 p.m. ET
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum (in-person); YouTube (virtual)
Cost: Free and open to the public
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Join us at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum on Tuesday, August 13, 7:00 p.m. for our monthly Speaker Sessions with Brandon Story on “Gospel According to Bristol.” Of the 76 sides recorded in Bristol in 1927, 31 were were gospel songs. This variety of solo, quartet, string-band, and full-choir gospel music allows us to sample the sacred music of the central Appalachian region in the 1920s. Brandon’s talk will focus on the recordings of Alfred Karnes, Ernest Phipps, The Alcoa and Stamps Quartets, and the Tennessee Mountaineers and consider how worship traditions and beliefs influenced song selections and performance styles.