Patsy Cline Exhibition Extended at Winchester’s Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
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he exhibition Becoming Patsy Cline is the story of local girl Virginia "Ginny" Patterson Hensley before she became music icon Patsy Cline, the Shenandoah Valley’s most globally recognized personality and an American music legend. The exhibit at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley has already proven to be so popular that museum officials recently announced it will be held over until July 6, 2014. Acknowledged by many as the most popular and influential female country singer in recording history, Patsy Cline (1932–1963) was the first female solo artist inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Despite a career that was cut short by her tragic death at the age of 30, Patsy Cline recorded 102 songs and three, fulllength albums. Her recordings have sold millions of copies worldwide; she has a star on Hollywood Boulevard and her own stamp with the U.S. Postal Service. Patsy Cline also has 22 • Bryce Resort
received numerous posthumous honors and has been the subject of biographies, musicals, plays, and a feature film. Fifty years after her death, the popularity of her hit recordings, such as “Crazy,” “Walkin’ After Midnight,” “I Fall to Pieces,” and “Sweet Dreams,” endures today. Though Patsy Cline lived only 30 years, she spent most of her life in the Shenandoah Valley. There she dreamed of becoming a professional singer and began to realize that dream. Organized by the MSV in partnership with Celebrating Patsy Cline, Inc. (CPC), Becoming Patsy Cline uses objects, rare photographs, video and audio recordings, and clothing -- much of which is on firsttime public display -- to illustrate Patsy Cline’s Shenandoah Valley story. The exhibition describes the singer’s family history, examines her early influences, and introduces the people whose support and guidance helped Patsy realize her dream. According to MSV Executive Northern Shenandoah Travel Guide