Like thousands of other tourists, Brenda Millett visited the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tenn., this year. When she saw Marty Robins’ boots, Chet Atkins’ guitar and the elaborate gowns worn by Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn, the Lincoln singer imagined similar displays celebrating the careers of Allan “Mac” McHale, Dick Curless, Hal “Lone Pine” Breau and Frances “Ginger Mae” Dyer back home in Maine.

Since returning from Nashville this spring, Millett has made the establishment of a permanent home for the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame her quest. The 50-year-old millworker and country music artist has organized an event in Springfield this weekend to raise awareness about the Hall of Fame as well as money so the Maine Country Music Association can build or purchase a site for a museum and performance space.

Curless, Breau and Ken MacKenzie were the first inductees into the MCMA’s Hall of Fame back in 1977. Since then, the group’s inducted two or three performers a year, displaying an honorary plaque, an 8-by-10-inch photo and a short biography inside its mobile Hall of Fame – a 32-foot long converted camper.

The mobile unit will be on display from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 14, at the Edith Lombard

Elementary School on Route 6 in Springfield. Hall of Famers Slim Andrews, Russ Adams, Elmer Larson, Charlie Brown and Dyer are expected to perform with Millett and other regular performers at the weekly Springfield Country Jamboree.

“I’m the young punk pushing for a building to honor the pioneers,” joked Millett in a phone interview last week. “I didn’t get involved in the Maine Country Music Association until last December, but I just jumped right from nobody to a big project. I want to make sure people in the north know about the Maine Hall of Fame and the organization, so I helped organize a northern Maine division. I’d really like to see them have a building of their own.”

Millett said that so far MCMA has raised about $100,000 for a permanent home. She said that the ultimate goal is to have a complex that is self-supporting and includes offices, a Hall of Fame museum, performance space and a campground.

The singer admitted that while she listens to new country music, she prefers to sing the traditional songs sung by the Hall of Famers.

“My mother was one of 16 kids,” said Millett. “When Loretta Lynn sang ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter,’ it was my mother’s family. It came straight from the heart. It’s important to keep this music alive and preserve the traditional music.”

Brenda Millett performs at 7 p.m. Thursdays with the Springfield Country Jamboree at the Edith Lombard Elementary School on Route 6 in Springfield. For more information on the MCMA or the Hall of Fame, call Millett at 794-3421.