Live at the Hall: Panel Discussion: Suiting the Sound: The Rodeo Tailors Who Made Country Stars Shine Brighter

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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Live At The Hall: Panel Discussion: Suiting The Sound: The Rodeo Tailors Who Made Country Stars Shine Brighter

Drawing from the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s exhibit galleries and extensive collection of stage costumes and archival materials, Suiting the Sound: The Rodeo Tailors Who Made Country Stars Shine Brighter—an exhibition curated exclusively for online audiences and free-to-access here—examines the dazzling artistry of Western-wear designers whose couture fashions helped to create an indelible image for country music. In partnership with Nashville Fashion Week, the museum will host a program examining the emergence of this unique "rhinestone cowboy" look in the 1940s and 1950s, largely from the tailor shops of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, and how the style has inspired fashion far beyond the stages of barn dances and honky-tonks. Panelists include author, historian and filmmaker Holly George-Warren; modern-day "rodeo tailor" Jerry Lee Atwood, whose bespoke designs for his Union Western label have been commissioned by performers as varied as Americana artist Nikki Lane, Post Malone and genre-blending "Old Town Road" writer-performer, Lil Nas X; and singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Chris Scruggs, who currently plays bass in Marty Stuart’s Fabulous Superlatives band. The panel will be moderated by Brenda Colladay, vice president of museum services at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

Stream for free live on the Museum’s YouTube channel, Facebook page, and website on at 7 p.m. central.

Live at the Hall is underwritten in part by the Ford Motor Company Fund.