Big name acts perform at the Mountain Arts Center, including Dwight Yoakam and Chris Stapleton, among others. The facility contains an art gallery, the Ranier Racing Museum and the Coal Miner’s Exhibit. There is also space for music lessons and public and private events, as well as a state-of-the-art recording studio.

50 Hal Rogers Drive
Prestonsburg, KY 41653
(606) 886-2623

Billie Jean Osborne’s Kentucky Opry will keep your feet tapping and hands clapping on Saturday nights during the summer and the Christmas season at the Mountain Arts Center. For almost 30 years, audiences have enjoyed a musical variety show featuring familiar bluegrass, country, and gospel songs, and homespun, mountain-style comedy from a rotating cast of rising stars, all of whom hail from the mountains of eastern Kentucky. A retired music teacher, Billie Jean Osborne was known as a champion of mountain music. When the Opry formed in 1990, she made good on a promise of support to her former students and up-and-coming musicians of the area.

In addition to welcoming the top vocal performers in the world, the MAC also showcases the top visual artists to visitors of eastern Kentucky. Featured exhibits rotate bi-monthly and can range in subjects from deep Appalachian issues to chicken themed! The art gallery is complimented by the Cedar Coal Exhibit also located inside the MAC. Visitors have the unique opportunity to jump back in time to see artifacts and the impact of coal, as well as take in exhibits by artists that are changing the landscape of eastern Kentucky.