The ultimate section of Marty Stuart’s Congress of Nation Music is lastly shifting ahead, with a groundbreaking ceremony held final week (12-16) in downtown Philadelphia, Mississippi. Building set to begin within the first quarter of 2025.
The Congress of Nation Music in Marty Stuart’s hometown is a $30 million undertaking encompassing some 50,000 sq. ft of whole area that can embrace an expansive museum to show Marty Stuart’s huge assortment of over 22,000 particular person items of nation music memorabilia, in addition to internationally touring reveals.
Stuart’s assortment was the biggest personal assortment of nation music artifacts. In August, Stuart formally donated his complete assortment to the Nation Music Corridor of Fame whereas getting into right into a partnership with the Corridor of Fame in order that each establishments might alternate artifacts to populate shows. Stuart had been loaning objects to the Corridor of Fame for a few years earlier.
Together with a museum, the ultimate section of the Congress of Nation Music may also embrace an training middle the place classes, lectures, displays, and different occasions will likely be held. The undertaking has been endorsed by the Grammy Museum, the Smithsonian Nationwide Museum of American Historical past, and the Library of Congress.
The primary section of the Congress of Nation Music was the opening of the 500-seat Ellis Theater in 2022, which is at the moment internet hosting exhibits frequently. First opened in 1926, the Ellis Theater has been utterly renovated. John McEuen, Pam Tillis, and Frank Foster are all scheduled to play the theater in early 2024. A warehouse the place Marty Stuart’s artifacts are saved was additionally accomplished on the Congress property in 2016.
“It is a large day for the Congress of Nation Music,” Marty Stuart stated. “This has been an concept that’s lengthy been within the works. After all the Ellis Theater was Section 1, and it’s up and operating and doing nice. And now we begin to construct the remainder of it. So the primary quarter of subsequent 12 months, mud will fly. We’re gonna construct the remainder of this factor, after which there will likely be museum area, instructional area, and a neighborhood corridor. So will probably be a beacon for Philadelphia, for Mississippi, and for the nation.”
Serving to the ultimate section to maneuver ahead was a donation from the Cynthia Lake Charitable Belief out of Reno, Nevada. In recognition, the Congress of Nation Music will coin a portion of the property the “Cynthia Lake Inexperienced Room and Administration Constructing.”
“That is greater than only a museum undertaking,” says Marty Stuart. “It’s in regards to the preservation and furtherance of our musical historical past and tradition. With the assist of unimaginable companions, we’re creating an area that can encourage, educate and join generations by way of the tales of nation music.”
