ENDS JUNE 15, 2015 AT
COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME® AND MUSEUM
NASHVILLE,
Tenn. (June 1, 2015) – The spotlight exhibit devoted to multi-talented
legend Kenny Rogers will end its run at the Country Music Hall of Fame®
and Museum on June 15, 2015 giving CMA Music Fest fans one last
opportunity to see the exhibit before it closes. Incorporating awards,
costumes, sheet music, memorabilia, and more from Rogers’s personal
vault as well as from the collections of frequent collaborators, Kenny Rogers: Through the Years provides a comprehensive look at Rogers’s acclaimed musical phases and other artistic outlets.
Rogers has sold more than 120 million records worldwide. What’s more,
he has charted a single in each of the last seven decades—including 21 Billboard
#1 country hits. According to the RIAA, he has one diamond album, 19
platinum albums, and 31 gold albums. He has earned three Grammys, six
Country Music Association awards (including a 2013 Lifetime Achievement
Award), eight Academy of Country Music awards—including Entertainer of
the Year in 1978—and was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in
2013.
The exhibit features dozens of artifacts including:
- Costume pieces worn and used by Rogers in the five-part Gambler TV movie series, including a fedora and gun belt, a Western-cut jacket, shirt and brocade vest, and a cane with a brass knob
- A
Tony Alamo of Nashville denim outfit, embellished with rhinestones and
studs, worn by Rogers as the front man for Kenny Rogers and The First
Edition in the 1970s
- Dolly
Parton’s rhinestone-embellished velvet jacket and dress, which she wore
during a performance of “Islands in the Stream” with Rogers on her TV
show, Dolly
- Dottie West’s Bob Mackie outfit with bugle beading and Dolcis pumps, worn in performance with Rogers
- Assorted
cameras used by Rogers, including two Polaroid models; a Calument
Scientific Inc. 8″ x 10″ folding camera; and a Linhof Master Technika
Classic camera, used by Rogers to capture the fifty-eight studio
portraits of country artists in his third book of photos, Kenny Rogers: This Is My Country
- Numerous
awards, including the CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award;
Grammy statuettes; the Academy of Country Music’s Cliffie Stone Pioneer
Award; and the Honorary Master of Photography award presented to Rogers
by the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) at its annual
conference; and more