The number one draw to our Valley is today, as it has been for 61 years, the spirit and enthusiasm our Renfro Valley entertainers display as they do what they love to do best entertain you with great songs and wholesome family comedy.  We offer headliner concerts featuring such stars as Ray Stevens, Ronnie Milsap, Loretta Lynn, Bill Anderson, Charley Pride, Ricky Van Shelton, and Don Williams.

from Renfro Valley's founder  John Lair's Story

On Saturday night, November 4, 1939, Lair stepped to the microphone in his new barn and welcomed listeners to the Renfro Valley Barn Dance. After Slim Miller's fiddle played the opening number, "Chicken Reel," Lair continued: "Well, folks, if our telephone line across the mountain is working as well as we think it is, you are now listening to our first broadcast from the big barn in Renfro Valley, down in the hills of old Kentucky."

Business boomed in Renfro Valley. Thousands of people would come each weekend to the remote Kentucky valley, long before the days of interstate highways. There soon followed more tourist cabins, a huge log and stone museum, a country store, gift and craft shops. Lair started his own monthly newspaper, The Bugle, in 1945 and opened his own radio station, WRVK, in the early 1950s.

And the dream -- which seemed so impossible 20 years before on a Renfro Valley hilltop -- was well on its way to reality. For nearly sixty years now, the Renfro Valley Barn Dance has been a Kentucky tradition, and John Lair's dream has made Renfro Valley "Kentucky's Country Music Capital."

Visitors to Renfro Valley are now able to see one of the most popular attractions from the past: John Lair's life-size animated figure telling the story of Renfro Valley in his own words. Now located in the Fire House in Renfro Valley Village, the attraction allows visitors to learn the history of Renfro Valley in an unforgettable way. The Theater is open on show days throughout the season

NOTE FROM RON & ROSIE: Our Saturday Night Star June 9, 2001 is the great Don Williams. We've previously had the great pleasure of seeing his show in Branson in 1993 where he was filling in for Loretta Lynn while she tended to Conway Twitty who was dying in the Springfield Hospital. Apart from the very significant occasion, it was one of the best, warmest, friendliest music shows you'd ever want to experience. And it was the Aussie's who made it. 2001 will be no exception we're sure.

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