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New CMA Awards Display Celebrating Fifty Years of Promoting and Preserving Country Music

MIM recently unveiled a new display celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards, the longest-running annual music awards program on television. MIM worked closely with the CMA to create the exhibit, which features instruments on loan from several CMA Musician of the Year nominees and winners.

McAnally among MIAL winners in music, art and writing

Two renowned Mississippi artists — painter, muralist and lithographer William Baggett and ceramic artist and sculptor Ron Dale — will share the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters' prestigious Noel Polk Lifetime Achievement Award this year. Much-awarded country music stalwart Mac McAnally...

Mac McAnally Song "With A Straight Face" Looks Beyond Pain To Find Compassion

"The album's masterpiece, however, is 'With a Straight Face,' a deeply empathetic ballad about the struggles faced by children growing up gay in intolerant households or communities." - Rolling Stone