Get Closer to the Music You Love. 🤍
🎸 Mount Vernon, KY 🪕 New Barn Theatre 🎻 OBT On November 4th, 1939, for the very first time the doors to Renfro Valley's Old Barn Theater swung open, the microphones went hot and the WLW announcer was heard to say - by those in attendance as well as well as those listening live on their radios from Canada to Cuba and all places in between. “And now friends, by way of the magic carpet of radio, we take you to the big Old Barn in Renfro Valley, Kentucky for The Renfro Valley Barn Dance”. What would come to be one of the most iconic, storied and historically significant live music venues in the United States, Renfro Valley, was born that day. Between that November night in 1939 and today, music has rang from the rafters of the Renfro Valley barns, and across this Valley nearly every weekend of every year in between. Making Renfro Valley one of the longest continuously operating music venues in America and one of the first places to introduce the world to country music. In the span of time between 1939 and today, thousands of singers and pickers have played Renfro Valleys stages. And millions of fans have been moved by the music they have heard come from Renfro Valley’s speakers and over the radio waves. Music icons including names like; George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Bill Monroe, Conway Twitty, Ralph Stanley, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Flatt and Scruggs, Coon Creek Girls, Marty Robbins, Patty Loveless, Ted Nugent, Keith Whitley, Brad Paisley, Keith Urban, Travis Tritt, Trace Adkins and many more. Dolly Parton who said during an interview for a PBS documentary -
“If you’re a country music singer like me - well you just ain’t nothing until you get asked to play at Renfro Valley, honey.”
The music and the show. That is the reason Renfro Valley was founded in 1939, and the reason we are all here in 2026.
