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For music fans, the hills, hollers, and theater halls of the Kentucky Music Trail are hallowed grounds. Load up your tour bus and head for wondrous landscapes that inspire some of the world’s most-memorable melodies.
The sites
All Around the Countryside
Today’s Kentucky Music Trail boasts big festivals, historical venues, and the most musical artists per capita. Explore countless landmarks sprinkled statewide across three distinct regions: Eastern, Central, and Western.
The Music
Play it loud Play it Proud
From modern rockers like Cage the Elephant and Chris Stapleton to country pioneers Loretta Lynn and Flatt & Scruggs, the Kentucky Music Trail marks a shared bond among the diverse artists and musical genres that call Kentucky home.
The Venues
Giving a Stage to Storytellers
The Kentucky Music Trail connects you to musical institutions both culturally significant and cutting-edge. From backroom blues bands, to arena-rocking country concerts, here you find heartache and happiness singing in stereo.
Where willThe Trail Take you?
All Venues
International Home of the Legends Thumbpicking Contest
Greenville
KY
42345
United States
John Prine Memorial at Rochester Dam
Drakesboro
KY
42337
United States
Festival Square
Central City
KY
42330
United States
Country Music Highway Crazy Quilt Mural
Ashland
KY
41101
United States
Country Music Highway Mural
Ashland
KY
41101
United States
Phone: 606-297-7823
US-23 Country Music Highway Museum
Staffordsville
KY
41256
United States
The Paramount Arts Center
Ashland
KY
41101
United States
Phone: 606-324-0007
The Little Loomhouse (Happy Birthday Song)
Louisville
KY
40214
United States
Phone: 502-367-4792
The Amp at Log Still
New Haven
KY
40051
United States
Phone: 502-917-0710
Rosine Barn Jamboree in Rosine
Rosine
KY
42370
United States
Phone: 270-256-0190
Rosemary Clooney House
Augusta
KY
41002
United States
Phone: 502-383-9911
Renfro Valley Entertainment Center
Mt. Vernon
KY
40456
United States
Phone: 606-256-0101
Red Foley Boyhood Home
KY
40403
United States
Poppy Mountain Music Festival
Morehead
KY
40351
United States
Phone: 606-784-2277
Pioneer Playhouse Outdoor Theater
Danville
KY
40422
United States
Phone: 859-236-2747
Paradise Park – Merle Travis Boyhood Home
Central City
KY
42330
United States
Phone: 270-338-2520
Old Joe Clark Monument
Mt Vernon
KY
40456
United States
Norton Center for the Arts in Danville
Danville
KY
40422
United States
Phone: 859-236-4692
My Old Kentucky Home
Bardstown
KY
40004
United States
Phone: 502 348-3502
Muhlenberg County Music Museum in Central City
Central City
KY
42330
United States
Phone: 270-754-2963
Mountain Arts Center
Prestonsburg
KY
41653
United States
Phone: 606-886-2623
Merle Travis Music Center
Greenville
KY
42345
United States
Phone: 270-377-0227
Manchester Music Hall
Lexington
KY
40508
United States
Phone: 859-537-7321
Lyric Theater
Lexington
KY
40508
United States
Phone: 859-280-2201
Louis “Grandpa” Jones Historic Marker
Robards
KY
42452
United States
Loretta Lynn’s Homeplace Butcher Holler
Van Lear
KY
41265
United States
Phone: 606-789-3397
Lincoln Jamboree
Hodgenville
KY
42748
United States
Phone: 270-358-3545
Lexington Opera House
Lexington
KY
40507
United States
Phone: 859-233-4567
Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Mount Vernon
KY
40456
United States
Phone: 606-256-1000
Keith Whitley Memorial Statue
Sandy Hook
KY
41171
United States
Jug Band Pioneer Earl McDonald in Louisville
Louisville
KY
40202
United States
Jonathan Spilman Historic Marker
Greenville
KY
42345
United States
Johnny Cash-Carter Wedding Historic Marker
Franklin
KY
42134
United States
John Jacob Niles Historic Marker
Lexington
KY
40509
United States
Jerusalem Ridge (Bill Monroe Homeplace)
Beaver Dam
KY
42320
United States
Phone: 270-298-0036
Jenny Wiley Theatre
Prestonsburg
KY
41653
United States
Phone: 606-886-2623
Highlands Museum & Discovery Center CMH Displays
Ashland
KY
41101
United States
Phone: 606-329-8888
Everly Brothers Monument
Central City
KY
42330
United States
Bradley Kincaid Home – Kentucky Mountain Boy – Historic Marker
Lancaster
KY
40461
United States
Homer C Ledford Historic Marker
Winchester
KY
40391
United States
Ernest Hogan – Father of Ragtime – Historic Marker
Bowling Green
KY
42101
United States
Bobby Mackey Honky Tonk
Florence
KY
41042
United States
Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum
Owensboro
KY
42301
United States
Phone: 270-926-7891
Birthplace of T.O. Chisholm Historic Marker
Franklin
KY
42134
United States
Bill Monroe Museum
Rosine
KY
42370
United States
Phone: 270-274-5012
Beaver Dam Amphitheater
Beaver Dam
KY
42320
United States
Phone: 270-274-7106
Austin City Saloon
Lexington
KY
40509
United States
Phone: 859-266-6891
Digital Passport
Rewarding YourLove of Music
Track your travels along the Kentucky Music Trail with the free passport app. Simply visit participating sites to collect “check-ins”—the more milestones you reach, the more giveaways you could qualify for including concert tickets and VIP merch.