The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum has revealed the pairings of musicians and historic instruments to be played and the legendary artists to whom tribute will be paid during the museum’s upcoming fundraiser, BIG NIGHT (At the Museum). The museum also announced that Brad Paisley, Dan Tyminski and Lucinda Williams have been added to the lineup for the event, which premieres at 8 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, exclusively on the museum’s official YouTube channel.
The pandemic created a unique set of circumstances that allowed museum staff to safely remove historic instruments from exhibit cases and be played. For BIG NIGHT (At the Museum), instruments, artists and songs were carefully matched to highlight personal and artistic connections. These include:
Alison Brown plays Earl Scruggs’s 1930 Gibson RB Granada banjo
Kane Brown sings a Randy Travis hit with accompaniment on Travis’s Gibson J-185KOA guitar
Carlene Carter plays the 1928 Gibson L-5 guitar that belonged to her grandmother Maybelle Carter
Rodney Crowell pays tribute to songwriters Guy Clark and Boudleaux and Felice Bryant
Country Music Hall of Fame member Emmylou Harris uses Boudleaux Bryant’s 1961 Martin guitar to partner with Crowell on a Bryant classic
Miranda Lambert plays John Prine’s David Russell Young custom-made guitar
Ashley McBryde plays Loretta Lynn’s 1956 Gibson J-50 guitar
Country Music Hall of Fame member Reba McEntire pays homage to Patsy Cline
Tim McGraw plays Keith Whitley’s C.W. Parsons acoustic guitar
Keb’ Mo’ plays the 1928 custom Weymann guitar that belonged to Jimmie Rodgers
Paisley plays Don Rich’s 1964 Fender Telecaster
Country Music Hall of Fame member Ricky Skaggs plays Bill Monroe’s 1923 Gibson F-5 mandolin
Country Music Hall of Fame member Marty Stuart plays Lester Flatt’s 1950 Martin D-28 guitar
The War and Treaty pays tribute to Ray Charles
Tyminski joins Paisley in performance, using Buck Owens’s red, white and blue American acoustic guitar
Williams plays Johnny Cash’s customized Martin D-35S guitar
Stuart will host BIG NIGHT (At the Museum), with audio supervision by Dave Cobb.
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