Sheryl Davis, Music Landmarks Specialist

07/21/2025

School of Rock! 🏫🎶 Four walls at a time, music landmarks teach us vital lessons about the history of our nation and We the People. 🗽 The American Music Landmarks Project is grateful to Made By Us for our fourth consecutive Civic Season connecting Gen Z with places like the Tina Turner Museum, adapted from the Queen of Rock’s historic childhood schoolhouse in Brownsville, Tennessee! 📚🍎🛎

Learn more ▶️ https://www.musiclandmarks.org/post/amlp-celebrates-another-civic-season-offers-gen-z-unique-opportunities-to-connect-with-us-music-lan

05/20/2025

Join the American Music Landmarks Project for National Preservation Month and connect with the pulse of our living music history, four walls at a time, through our latest initiative Blueprint Beats! 🎉🏠🎶 We’ll be sampling rhythms of activity at music landmarks across the country that offer unique opportunities to explore and experience the places that shaped our national soundtrack.

Get started at musiclandmarks.org! 📍

04/27/2025

Happy National Historic Marker Weekend! 🎉🪧 How are you celebrating? Join the party ▶️ Friends of the American Music Landmarks Project! 🥳

04/24/2025

National Historic Marker Weekend is only days away and participating is as easy as 1, 2, 3! 🪧🏠🎶 Check out the American Music Landmarks Project's infographic below and let us help you get connected to a music history related marker for this special occasion!

04/23/2025

Happy Earth Day! 🌎💚 Preserving and reusing the embodied energy, design intelligence and creative (and cultural) utility of music history’s architectural legacy is good for our planet!

Visit musiclandmarks.org/markerweekend and let the American Music Landmarks Project help you find an opportunity to highlight a music landmark (whether a site, structure or building) in your community for National Historic Marker Weekend April 25-27! 🪧🏠🎶

04/16/2025

National Historic Marker Weekend is April 25-27! 🪧🎉 Let's celebrate music landmarks together! -Sheryl

The American Music Landmarks Project is excited to participate in the fifth annual National Historic Marker Day, now National Historic Marker Weekend, taking place Friday, April 25th through Sunday, April 27, 2025! We are grateful to the William G. Pomeroy Foundation for establishing this special oc...

10/26/2024

On National Pumpkin Day consider supporting my sister Sherry’s work to preserve and ((((( amplify ))))) music history by purchasing something from her seasonal Pumpkin Hero online store! 🎃🎉🎶 https://musicopolis.creator-spring.com/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGKVnNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHVpcgfGUf36KkhUcrJFjTeVvATTLyPYl4ayCn6-Gxsb17Fr-zADqctChKw_aem_1kSuxi3pTNJNmCxnOx_C9A

It's National Pumpkin Day! 🎉🎃 Join the celebration and shop my original pumpkin hero merch at musicopolis.creator-spring.com to "Put The Musical Past On Blast!" 📣🎶

📸 Out and about on this beautiful autumn day 🍁🍂 with my organic cotton tote 👜 and soft-touch notebook 📒 in tow!

09/28/2024

Happy National Library Card Sign-Up Month! 🎉

It's National Library Card Sign-Up Month! 🎉📚 Do you have yours?

This library card for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Library + Archives in Cleveland, Ohio belongs to our founder Sheryl Davis,. She has completed research there on more than one occasion including as a Gladys Krieble Delmas Visiting Scholar in 2018. Learn more about the world’s most comprehensive repository of rock and roll history at https://rockhall.com/library/! 🏫🎶🎸

09/20/2024

Amadeus was released in US movie theaters 40 years ago today! 🎟🍿🎹 It was filmed in Prague including in the Old Town Square where this photo was taken during my first trip there with my twin sister Sherry Davis, the Modern-Day Mozartian! ✨💃🎼🎻 We walked in Mozart’s footsteps 👣 through three of Europe’s music capitals, Vienna, Salzburg and Prague, and that experience was very influential in lighting my path 🔦 to becoming a music landmarks specialist! 🏠🎶

08/23/2024

Hi, friends! I’m excited to share that I’ll be a contributing author in the first Oxford Handbook of Public Musicology by Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press)! ✍️📖🎉

Learn more about it in the American Music Landmarks Project blog: https://www.musiclandmarks.org/post/amlp-to-be-featured-in-first-book-on-public-musicology-by-oxford-university-press

07/08/2024

Happy National Day of Rock ’n’ Roll! 🎉🎙🎸🎶

Happy National Day of Rock ’n’ Roll! 🎉🎙❄🎶🎸