Vanderbilt students help preserve Jefferson Street’s musical history
The Historical Achievement Award
The Metropolitan Nashville Davidson County Historical Commission
Community Service Award
Best Culture Specialty Museum Award
The Best of Nashville 2019, Nashville Scene.
My Music Matters Oral History and Project Recording Recognition
Lorenzo Washington Founder/Curator of the Jefferson Street Sound Museum is interviewed by Ron Hodges with American Dream about Historic Jefferson Street and the musical legacies created there in the
1940's - 1970's. The Historic Jefferson Street project will air in October on all major networks.
National Museum of African American Music, Nashville Public Library and Jefferson Street Sound Museum partnership.
This week on Tennessee Crossroads, Joe Elmore introduces us to Lorenzo Washington and his Jefferson Street Sound Museum. Join us on Nashville Public Television.
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Facing North
FACING NORTH: JEFFERSON STREET, NASHVILLE, an NPT original, explores the legacy of the North Nashville corridor, a historically Black neighborhood with three HBCUs and a large cultural footprint in civil rights, the arts and medicine. Like many African American centers, this one was forever changed by interstate construction and now struggles to balance rejuvenation with gentrification.