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Amiee Stubbs
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
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Amiee Stubbs
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
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Amiee Stubbs
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum hosted its forty-fourth annual celebration in honor of Words & Music, the museum’s flagship educational program.
School-aged participants and their families gathered in the museum’s Ford Theater, along with the evening’s host, Sony Music Nashville recording artist Tenille Townes, to hear a selection of thirteen songs written by students in Nashville and its surrounding areas.Throughout the night, students performed their Words & Music compositions alongside their professional songwriting partners and classmates. The program was recorded and will be shared on the museum’s website later this summer.
Designed for grades three through twelve, Words & Music allows students to tell their stories by writing original song lyrics, while developing language-arts skills. The program embraces and showcases country music’s legacy of songwriting and passes it down to the next generation of writers and thinkers. Through Words & Music, students interact with a professional songwriter, paired with their class, in an engaging performance workshop that transforms students’ lyrics into finished songs. More than 150,000 students have participated in the Words & Music program since its inception in 1979.