Part of the long-running PBS television series American Masters, the 2024 documentary Brenda Lee: Rockin’ Around explores Lee’s sixty-plus-year career, which transcends the boundaries of pop and country music. Lee was a professional singer by age six and a recording artist by age twelve, and her repertoire includes hits such as “Dynamite,” “I’m Sorry,” “I Want to Be Wanted,” “Sweet Nothin’s,” and the Christmas classic “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.” She is the first woman inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Following the screening, the Museum’s Jon Freeman will lead a discussion featuring Barbara Hall, the film’s director and producer; Robert K. Oermann, a writer and Lee’s biographer; and Alan Stoker, the Museum’s curator of recorded sound collections. Ford Theater. Included with Museum admission. Program ticket required. Free to Museum members.

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