National Museum of African American Music honors black music history year-round

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — Black History Month may be wrapping up, but the National Museum of African American Music downtown showcases the community’s contributions to music all year long.

Music city where everyone knows where to go for the tunes. From Broadway to your local dive bar., it’s a treat for your ears.

“We’re not country music city, we’re music city,” said Dexter Evans, lead marking manager at the African American Music Museum Nashville.

A place where black history is celebrated every day. With multiple exhibits, rooms filled with history, and different highlights all the time you can’t help but feel the music.

There is a blast from the past of Fisk Jubilee singers as well as more recent artists like Shannon Sanders.

“To be able to see myself as a blip on this age line, or in the lineage, if you will, the timeline of black music is incredible,” said Sander.

Sanders got his music career started right here in Nashville at 15 years old. He’s won multiple Grammys and now shares his story right at the museum.

“I thought Nashville was just country music and it is so cool to see that a lot of black singers started right here in Nashville too, said Benevolenta Bryant, a visitor to the museum.

The museum will have its first traveling exhibit hosted by the National Museum of African American Music and it will highlight the Fisk Jubilee singers. That starts in May and will travel to at least 20 states.

For more information on the exhibit and showtimes, visit their website here.

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