.:About Us -- Bio's

The Big South Fork Opry Presents (BSFOP) is an Opry style, playhouse quality stage production held the second Saturday of each month at the Palace theatre in beautiful historic downtown Crossville, Tennessee. The cast and volunteers consist of a group of talented individuals and celebrities combining their administrative skills, musical talents and artistic ideas and acting as a nonprofit organization in order to raise money to fund the Big South Fork Opry (BSFO) mission statement. With the proceeds from the Big South Fork Opry Presents shows, we primarily purchase, refurbish and redistribute musical instruments for use in primary and secondary public school music and art programs throughout the counties of the Tennessee Cumberland Plateau and Appalachian Mountains. We are also expanding to provide scholarships and internships to students in order to promote education in music and the performing arts. We aim to link with other education, art and music programs that will help the BSFO to grow our gift programs and we ask for your help. Everyone's gift is special to us.

The BSFO is partnered with schools, community organizations, and churches to provide under privileged children with musical instruments free of charge. Please see our mission statement within this web site. Anyone wishing to donate instruments to these children for school programs, please contact Rhonda Whiting (865)980-0655 or Rich Petersen (931) 484-2036 and the BSFO at 2247 Mentor Road, Louisville, TN 37777. You may e-mail the BSFO at this site info@bigsouthforkopry.com as shown in the contact information in the menu bar. The B.S.F.O. sincerely thanks you for your contributions of any kind and helping to make a child Smile!

Shows begin at 7:00 pm. Contributions for tickets are normally $10 and available at the Palace Theater, 72 South Main Street, Crossville, TN 38555. Seating reservations can be made by calling the Palace at (931) 484-6133. See our guest list and show schedules at this site.

Mission Statement- The Big South Fork Opry (BSFO) is a nonprofit organization established exclusively for soliciting funds and resources, charitable gifts, or volunteer support and other funded programs, such as the "Big South Fork Opry Presents" in order to promote the performing arts. The BSFO seeks to enable primary and secondary age students and or educational institutions to purchase musical instruments and/or provide music instruction and training scholarships to students qualifying for financial assistance. Through providing musical instruments and /or music instruction and training, the BSFO endeavors to lift students' personal vision for their lives and their future and increase student retention in educational settings as well as raising personal ethics to a higher standard.