Country music hall of fame

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is a place accumulated and preserving American vernacular music. Nashville, Tennessee, is the place where one of the world’s largest museum and research centres located, which dedicated to the conservation and interpretation of American local and ordinary everyday music. Chartered in 1964, the museum has accumulated the best and world’s most comprehensive musical collections.

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The Country Music Association (CMA) was founded in Nashville 1958, And It was the first trade organization formed to promote country music. Early in the 1960s, CMA Leaders understood that a new organization is very essential to operate a country music museum and to carry out research and education activities beyond CMA’s scope. CMF was chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964 to collect, preserve, and publicize information and artefacts relating to the history of country music. With the effort of Jo Walker-Meador, CMA Executive Director, industry leaders raised money to build the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, The museum was constructed on the site of a small Nashville city park. and it opened on April 1, 1967. a small library was begun and started to display artefacts relating to country music.

In the 1970s, Library expansion started when the basement of the museum building was complete partially, At the beginning, there were embracing recordings, books and periodicals, songbooks, photographs, business documents, and other materials. During building expansion in 1974,1977, and 1984 museum display starts to grow a collection of costumes, musical instruments, films, cars(historic) and other artefacts.
The highest honour, a country music professional can receive is Membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame, which extended to performers, songwriters, broadcasters, musicians, and executives in recognition of their contributions to the development of country music.
In 1961, The Country Music Hall of Fame honour was created by the CMA, the first inductees were Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, and Fred Rose. And Roy Acuff was elected in 1962 as the first living artist to join the Hall of Fame list. The most recent inductees are Dean Dillon, Marty Stuart, and Hank Williams Jr.in the year 2020.
List of Country Music Hall of Fame inductees is a list of the 142 inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum so far, as of 2020, groups are counting as a single inductee. Of these, 14 inductions are solo female performers. In this list, Roy Rogers was inducted twice: in 1980 and 1988 as a member of the Sons of the Pioneers and as a solo artist. Let’s see who are Country Music hall of fame
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country music hall of fame members
1961- Jimmie Rodgers, Fred Rose, Hank Williams
1962- Roy Acuff
1964- Tex Ritter
1965- Ernest Tubb
1966- Eddy Arnold, James R. “Jim” Denny, George D. Hay, Uncle Dave Macon
1967- Red Foley, J.L. (Joe) Frank, Jim Reeves, Stephen H. Sholes
1968- Bob Wills
1969- Gene Autry
1970- The Carter Family, Bill Monroe
1971- Art Satherley
1972- Jimmie Davis
1973- Chet Atkins, Patsy Cline
1974- Owen Bradley, Pee Wee King
1975- Minnie Pearl
1976- Paul Cohen, Kitty Wells
1977- Merle Travis
1978- Grandpa Jones
1979- Hubert Long, Hank Snow
1980- Johnny Cash, Connie B. Gay, Sons of the Pioneers
1981- Vernon Dalhart, Grant Turner
1982- Lefty Frizzell, Roy Horton, Marty Robbins
1983- Little Jimmy Dickens
1984- Ralph Peer, Floyd Tillman
1985- Flatt and Scruggs
1986- The Duke of Paducah , Wesley Rose
1987- Rod Brasfield
1988- Loretta Lynn, Roy Rogers
1989- Jack Stapp, Cliffie Stone, Hank Thompson
1990- Tennessee Ernie Ford
1991- Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
1992- George Jones, Frances Preston
1993- Willie Nelson
1994- Merle Haggard
1995- Roger Miller, Jo Walker-Meador
1996- Patsy Montana, Buck Owens, Ray Price
1997- Harlan Howard, Brenda Lee, Cindy Walker
1998- George Morgan, Elvis Presley, E.W. “Bud” Wendell, Tammy Wynette
1999- Johnny Bond, Dolly Parton, Conway Twitty
2000- Charley Pride, Faron Young
2001- The Delmore Brothers, Bill Anderson, The Everly Brothers, Don Gibson, Homer and Jethro, Waylon Jennings, The Jordanaires, Don Law, The Louvin Brothers, Sam Phillips, Ken Nelson, Webb Pierce
2002- Bill Carlisle, Porter Wagoner
2003- Floyd Cramer, Carl Smith
2004-Jim Foglesong, Kris Kristofferson
2005-Alabama, DeFord Bailey, Glen Campbell
2006-Harold Bradley, Sonny James, George Strait
2007- Ralph Emery, Vince Gill, Mel Tillis
2008-Tom T.Hall, Emmylou Harris, Ernest Stoneman, The Statler Brothers,
2009-Roy Clark, Barbara Mandrell, Charlie McCoy
2010-Jimmy Dean, Ferlin Husky, Billy Sherrill, Don Williams
2011- Bobby Braddock, Reba McEntire, Jean Shepard
2012- Garth Brooks, Hargus “Pig” Robbins, Connie Smith
2013- Kenny Rogers, Bobby Bare, “Cowboy” Jack Clement
2014-Hank Cochran, Mac Wiseman, Ronnie Milsap
2015- Jim Ed Brown and The Browns, The Oak Ridge Boys, Grady Martin
2016-Fred Foster, Charlie Daniels, Randy Travis
2017-Alan Jackson, Jerry Reed, Don Schlitz
2018- Ricky Skaggs, Dottie West, Johnny Gimble
2019-Brooks & Dunn, Ray Stevens, Jerry Bradley
2020-Dean Dillon, Marty Stuart, Hank Williams Jr.
Timeline of Country Music Hall of Fame Museum,
In 1961 The Country Music Hall of Fame established by The CMA
In 1964 CMA charters the non-profit Country Music Foundation (CMF) and which operates the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
On 1967 1st of April The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum opened on Music Row.
In 1972 Purchases the Bob Pinson Recorded Sound Collection by the museum, (nearly 200,000 sound recordings including an estimated 98 % of all pre-World War II country recordings released commercially)
In 1977 The Museum begins to operate RCA Studio B as a historic site and learning laboratory
In 1979 Launches Words & Music by The Museum, To help students develop language arts skills through songwriting
In 1987, The Museum earns accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums
In 1992, The Country Music Foundation received a Hatch show print by The Gaylord
In 1992, The Maddox Family Foundation donates Historic RCA Studio B to the Museum;
In 2000, In preparation starts move to downtown Nashville, therefore Museum closes its doors on Music Row on Dec. 31
In 2001, The Museum shifts to a new 140,000-square-foot area facility in downtown Nashville opens to the public on May 17
In 2003, The Artist in Residence program; Cowboy Jack Clement is the first artist to be recognized
In 2004, The Museum opens the exhibition Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm and Blues in March
In 2005, Country Music Hall of Fame member and Museum Board President Vince Gill establishes All for the Hall, a fundraising event that brings together the country music community in support of the museum’s educational programs
In 2006, The Museum introduces the Nashville Cats honour, recognizing the musicians and session singers who have played important roles in country music history
In 2006, The Museum opens the exhibit I Can’t Stop Loving You: Ray Charles and Country Music in March
In 2006, In partnership with the Kennedy Center, the Museum sponsors “Country: A Celebration of America’s Music,” a multi-day festival that ran March 20 – April 9
In 2007, The Museum begins to honour country music’s Poets and Prophets – those songwriters who have made their mark on country music
In 2007, The Museum hosts its first Louise Scruggs Memorial Forum, which honours a music industry leader who represents the legacy of pioneer Louise Scruggs
In 2008, March The Williams Family Legacy, The Museum opens the exhibition Family Tradition:
In 2012, The Museum opens the exhibit The Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and California Country in March
In 2013, Opens The Taylor Swift Education Center
In 2013, Hatch Show Print shifts to a new location(6th time) inside the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and opens to the public.
In 2013, The CMA Theater at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum hosts its first performance, Ricky Skaggs’s Artist in Residence, on Nov. 19
In 2014, The Museum buildings opens its expansion, more than doubling the size of the building,
In 2015, The Museum opens the exhibition Dylan, Cash and The Nashville Cats in March
In 2015, For the first time, the Museum welcomes more than one million visitors in a calendar year
In 2017, The Museum announces its Community Counts initiative, which provides free museum admission to local youth
In 2018, The Museum opens the exhibit Outlaws & Armadillos: Country’s Roaring ‘70s in May
In 2019, The Museum welcomes more than one million visitors for the fifth consecutive year
In 2019, The Museum receives the Governor’s Arts Leadership Award from the Tennessee Arts Commission