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Home > Exhibits > Photography by Ear

Vassar Clements, Mark O’Connor and Stéphane Grappelli. Backstage at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville, September 9, 1987

Fiddlers Three

Vassar Clements, Mark O’Connor and Stéphane Grappelli. Backstage at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville, September 9, 1987
  • Vassar Clements, Mark O’Connor and Stéphane Grappelli. Backstage at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville, September 9, 1987
  • Bluegrass at the Ryman Auditorium with Sam Bush and Peter Rowan, 1995
  • Nashville, 1988
  • Music Row, recording Béla Fleck’s album, "Drive", 1987
  • Doc and Merle Watson, Chico State College, Eureka, California, 1971
  • Bill Monroe during the filming of the Bluegrass movie "That High Lonesome Sound," Bill led a jam session with his devoted students, Goodlettsville, TN 1994
  • Summer Lights Festival, Nashville, June 2, 1989
  • Merlefest, April, 1998
  • Mark O’Connor Fiddling, Skating, Summer Lights Festival, Nashville, June, 1994
  • Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville
September 9, 1987
  • Santa Rosa, California, summer, 1972
  • Summer Lights Festival, Nashville, June, 1985
  • Nashville, 1973
  • Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, 1983
  • Tennessee Banjo Institute, Cedars of Lebanon State Park, Lebanon, 1988
  • Performing with the Flecktones, Nashville
  • Opening of the Bill Monroe Museum, Nashville 1984
  • Ryman Bluegrass Series, Nashville 1990s
  • The Mark O'Connor Fiddle Camp, Montgomery Bell Park, 1994
  • Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville, December 1, 1985
  • Banjo Institute, Cedars of Lebanon State Park, 1998
  • Grand Ole Opry performance at the old Ryman Auditorium, 1973
  • The band teamed up with The Nashville Bluegrass Band for a once-in-a-lifetime musical experience, a unique Nashville happening. 
This music will endure. January 6, 1992
Photography by Ear

Photographs by Charmaine Lanham on exhibit November 18, 2016–January 13, 2017

As one of the original owners of Nashville’s legendary Station Inn and photographer Charmaine Lanham honed her pen, ear and eye during the 1980s and ’90s as an insider to newly emerging Bluegrass and Country music circles. Her photos often feature candid on and offstage moments that capture a gesture, a tweak of a smile or a poignant moment shared between musicians. Read more…

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