The Mockingbird Sings
Wed, Sep 17
|Theatre Bristol
Time & Location
Sep 17, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Theatre Bristol, 506 State St, Bristol, TN 37620, USA
About the event
Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia, July 2024 – Theatre Bristol brings The Mockingbird Sings back to its ARTspace Stage September 6-8 & 11-12, leading into the 2024 Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion Festival with a special presentation of this uniquely Bristol recording sessions story with a uniquely Bristol-area cast. Tickets are on sale now for this limited engagement staged reading and live music presentation at www.theatrebristol.org/tickets.
The Mockingbird Sings weaves a story of love and the history of country music leading up to the recordings and discoveries of Jimmie Rodgers, Pops Stoneman, The Carter Family, and many others. The Mockingbird Sings was written by Dr. Nancy Hamblen Acuff, Terry Harkleroad, and Sharon Cort.
Our Eddie Snow, played by Reece Wheeler, is at a crossroads, influenced by generations of music through his grandmother Eula Mae Broome, played by Susan McNabb. The wishes of his mother, Lucy Snow played by Samantha Beaird, come up against…