Tag Archives: The Center for Popular Music

Bluegrass phenom Bryan Sutton on campus March 16

The Center for Popular Music’s next installment of the crowd-pleasing series The American Guitar kicks off with internationally renowned acoustic guitarist Bryan Sutton.

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Jerry Zolten

Jerry Zolten lecture features hillbilly to rockabilly

Music producer, historian and educator Jerry Zolten linked artists like Uncle Dave Macon and Bill Monroe to musicians like Elvis Presley and his contemporaries in his Nov. 21 lecture, “From Hillbilly to Rockabilly: The Country Roots of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” held in the Center for Popular Music.

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CPM exhibit honors George Jones’s legendary legacy

The memory of country music icon George Jones, who died last April, is honored in a new exhibit by The Center for Popular Music (CPM).

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