Speaker Session - Ryan Nedrow: “Chords of Community”

Name: Speaker Session - Ryan Nedrow: “Chords of Community”
Start: 2025-08-12T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-12T20:30:00-04:00
Location: 101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United States, Virginia 24201

Schedule

Tue Aug 12 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

101 Country Music Way, Bristol, VA, United States, Virginia 24201 | Bristol, VA

Join us on Tuesday, August 12 for a Speaker Session with Ryan Nedrow. “Chords of Community” focuses on the importance and vitality of community-based music in small-town America. Whether through the parlor piano in the comfort of your home or in a crowd-fueled parade down Main Street, music finds a way into our hearts and minds becoming a staple of community life the world over. In small-town America, Jonesborough, Tennessee, is a case study for grassroots musical performance to the tune of an ever-changing national identity.
Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Time: 7 p.m. ET
Location: In-person at the Birthplace of Country Music, Performance Theatre and streamed on Radio Bristol’s YouTube Channel
Cost: Free and open to the public
REGISTER TO ATTEND IN PERSON: https://www.tixr.com/groups/bcm/events/speaker-session-ryan-nedrow-138015?_gl=1*e1obag*_gcl_au*MjA3MDI5MDQwMy4xNzQ1MjQyMTcy
Ryan Nedrow, Public Historian and Digital Humanist, is the Museum Manager for the Heritage Alliance of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, managing its collections, archives, and museums. In facilitating museum operations, Ryan recently created two exhibits: “Jonesborough Through the Lens” on Washington county’s photographic Culture and “Ashes to Ashes” on the Victorian Era origins of traditions surrounding death, memory, and mourning.
Ryan is a current graduate student at Middle Tennessee State University working towards a Masters of Arts in Public History with a concentration in Museum Studies and Digital History. As a scholar of the American Civil War Era, he focuses on military music studies. His Masters of Arts thesis will highlight the power of music for the common soldier. Ryan completed his undergraduate studies at Gettysburg College earning a Bachelor’s of Arts in History and Anthropology with minors in Civil War Era Studies and Public History.
Ryan is incredibly excited to work with the community, improve collections management, increase the museum’s public engagement, and plan some incredible events for a growing audience. Ryan has recently coordinated volunteer efforts encouraging local community members to become docents at the Chester Inn State Historic Site and Museum, work as archivists transcribing manuscripts in our written collection, conduct classes in the Oak Hill School, build town tours for the general public, and research any number of personal interest projects. Ryan also has plans for additional temporary and traveling exhibits to better utilize the Heritage Alliance’s collections. Ryan wants to connect people with their shared history and the vast and storied past of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.
For more information on Ryan and his work, check out his online portfolio at ryannedrowportfolio.wordpress.com.