The Music Inn Archives website is an historical record of the legendary music venue and jazz school, it includes the most comprehensive annals of all three diverse and fascinating decades of the Music Inn, including The Music Barn, The Lenox School of Jazz, The Lenox Arts Center, Toad Hall Moviehouse, and The Great Riot Alley Memorial.  It is a permanent and ever growing public collection of stories, memorabilia, photos, videos, audio, and other memories contributed by the people who were there.  Music Inn Archives is intended to be a resource where any piece of it can be researched and developed into books, films, articles, etc. with permission from copyright holders. This website is also a place for community discussion, reconnecting,  and interaction with other friends of Music Inn.

These archives represent the collective memory of Music Inn and this website is a result of the passion, generosity, and support of many people who value it as a cultural treasure worthy of a lasting place in history.  Musicians, staff, neighbors, friends, audience, and anyone with an interest in the Music Inn are all invited to share and contribute to the content of this website.  Please check out  The Roundtable to connect and share stories with others.  You may also
submit  photos, stories, or other memorabilia.

"Music Inn was the last outpost of the counter-culture, which had evolved as a result of the groundbreaking evolution of Jazz as the first integrated music genre that ultimately paved the way for Rock 'n Roll."

Music Inn "was a real wellspring of counterculture, with everything about that that people love and hate, including the town fathers and all of our parents....Tanglewood was kind of the establishment; Music Inn was the renegade concert venue. Everybody's parents worried about what went on here. They would have probably been disappointed to find out how innocent it all was." ~ Nancy Fitzpatrick to Seth Rogovoy in 1995.