CHESTER Co, Tenn – Freed-Hardeman University Department of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Connections Series, is hosting “Tennessee Music Boxes: From the Tennessee River Valley”
The event will run through Oct. 1 in the Troy Plunk Art Gallery on the FHU campus.
The music boxes are on loan from Arts in McNairy.
Many of the handmade Tennessee music boxes were found in attics and haylofts of Middle and West Tennessee by Ellis Truett Jr. The folk instruments are primitive, rectangular “box-of-a-things” that “resemble a packing crate more than any known musical instrument,” Pitts said.
Most of the instruments were collected by Truett, a tireless advocate for the preservation of West Tennessee’s old-time music heritage. AiM acquired the instruments after his death in 2013.
