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SoBro3rd & LindsleyOne of Nashville's steadiest mid-sized stages, just outside the Broadway crush, built for roots and Americana bills and the session players who fill them.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · The Mother Hips with Mike MizDowntownAcme Feed & SeedA river-end Broadway bar with panoramic rooftop views of the Cumberland and one of the best vantage points on the strip.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · Toppers LiteMidtownAnalog at Hutton HotelA polished West End listening hall attached to the Hutton Hotel, with seated shows and clean sound.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Colt Classic + Analog Present Colby T. Helms & The Virginia CreepersDowntownAscend AmphitheaterA downtown amphitheater on the riverfront, with reserved seats up front, a lawn behind them and the Cumberland at your back.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · ZZ Top w/ Cheap TrickThe GulchAviator Nation DreamlandA Gulch coffee and cocktail bar from the Aviator Nation label, with a monthly open mic and ticketed touring acts on top of it.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 7:00 PM · Open Mic Night - NashvilleDowntownBarstool NashvilleThe Barstool Sports building, south end of 2nd Avenue by the river. It books live music alongside the sports it is named for, which makes the schedule harder to read than a honky-tonk’s and worth checking before you walk down.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · DexOprylandBavarian BierhausA German beer hall at Opry Mills with long tables and an oompah bill. Almost everything here is a day show: five in the afternoon on Fridays and Saturdays, one o’clock on Sundays.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 5:00 PM · Karen & The Music MeisterFranklinBlack Dog Pub & Music LoungeA West Main pub in Franklin with a separate music lounge booking songwriters and Americana four to six nights a week.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · South MarginCentennial / West EndBlair School of MusicVanderbilt's music school, running near-daily faculty concerts, student recitals, and jazz and global ensembles that are mostly free and open to anyone.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · Vanderbilt Opera Theater: The Pirates of PenzanceDowntownBootleggers InnThree floors at the bottom of Broadway, near the river end where the strip is busiest. Music from early afternoon to close, no cover.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 2:00 PM · Rocky BottomDowntownBourbon Street Blues and Boogie BarPrinters Alley, two blocks north of Broadway, and blues rather than country. It is the closest thing downtown has to a stage that books one genre and sticks to it.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 12:00 PM · Kenneth Wright & FriendsDowntownBridgestone ArenaNashville's central arena, where the biggest touring acts come and the night usually extends into Broadway before and after.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:00 PM · WEEZER: The GatheringGermantownBrooklyn BowlA Germantown venue where national touring acts share a building with bowling, food, and enough logistical ease to make group-night planning simple.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · Public Image Ltd -This Is Not The Last TourThe GulchCannery HallA revived complex near the Gulch with several stages under one roof, enough scale to anchor serious touring bills and a calendar that uses all of it.Next: Thu Oct 15 · 8:00 PM · StryperDowntownCategory 10Luke Combs' four-story megabar in the old Wildhorse Saloon, named for his debut hit 'Hurricane.' Inside is Hurricane Hall, a genuine 1,500-cap ticketed stage.Next: Sat Oct 17 · 8:00 PM · Grief Sucks: a One Man Show by KevonstageDowntownChief'sEric Church's six-story bar on the corner of 2nd and Broadway; 'Chief' is his nickname. A ticketed concert hall and a Rodney Scott barbecue floor sit under a rooftop bar, all stacked inside the old Leslie Warner Building.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 2:00 PM · Michael LeathermanSoBroCity WineryA seated SoBro club where dinner service and live music share the same hours. Wine on the table, songwriter or roots act on the stage.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · One Funny Lisa MarieEast NashvilleCobraA Gallatin dive bar that stays late, plays loud and books rock, punk and metal most nights.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 6:00 PM · Front Bar: Christine Alice, Caitlin Cannon, Steel IvoryCentennial / West EndConrad NashvilleA West End hotel whose restaurant and lounge run weekend live music and a monthly writers round.Next: Sat Oct 31 · 5:00 PM · Murder Mystery DinnerSoBroCountry Music Hall of FameA museum complex whose performance spaces put whoever's on stage inside 150 years of American music history.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 12:00 PM · Songwriter Session: James T. SlaterMadisonDee's Country Cocktail LoungeAmy found a decaying old beer joint in then-undiscovered Madison: plywood floors, tucked in back behind a donut shop and a sex toy store. She kept everything that made it weird.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Doc Downs & The Next RoundEast NashvilleDRKMTTRKathryn Edwards launched it in 2015 via crowdfunding: all-ages, volunteer-run, and built on purpose for the punk and DIY scenes Nashville left with nowhere else to go.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · Sadness, Barbelth, Monterey, HopeisaprisonMadisonEastside BowlA Madison complex where the stage shares a roof with the bowling lanes and the bar. It became a real north-side anchor when Honky Tonk Tuesday Nights moved in.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · Rwake & DeadbirdMidtownExit/InOpened October 23, 1971. Jimmy Buffett auditioned on the half-finished stage and was hired on the spot. Steve Martin played here so often in the mid-70s that he credits those nights as making him 'really, really funny.'Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · Lauren Watkins - If I'm Being Honest TourFranklinFirstBank AmphitheaterA 6,800-capacity outdoor amphitheater in Franklin, and the metro's main shed for summer touring acts.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 6:45 PM · Five Finger Death PunchSoBroFogg Street Lawn ClubA rooftop lawn bowling club in SoBro that puts a standing concert series on the same deck. Shows are rain or shine and the greens stay open around them.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 5:00 PM · Ruston Kelly Presents DIRT EMO NIGHTFranklinFox & LockeA Leiper's Fork landmark: a 1947 country grocery now a restaurant with a small stage, running songwriter rounds and Americana sets for a crowd that actually listens.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 6:30 PM · Open Mic NightHermitageFull Moon CineplexA horror house in a Hermitage strip center that plays Universal monsters and 80s genre and nothing first-run. Friday and Saturday, a feature at seven and a second bill at nine.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 6:00 PM · A Nightmare on Elm Street (84)OprylandGrand Ole Opry HouseThe Opry left the Ryman on March 15, 1974. President Nixon played piano on opening night. Roy Acuff supervised the installation of the circle of wood cut from the Ryman stage.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Opry Country Classics with Pam Tillis, Twitty & Lynn, The Isaacs, and moreFranklinGRAYS on MainA 1940s pharmacy on Franklin’s Main Street, restored in 2014, with the music upstairs and the original soda fountain fittings still in the building.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 5:00 PM · Sarah GrossEast NashvilleGrimey's New & Preloved MusicMike Grimes founded it in 2000 in Berry Hill. The basement of the 8th Ave location became The Basement. Metallica played a secret in-store the night before Bonnaroo 2008 for an audience of record store clerks and fan club members.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 4:00 PM · Dana Malone - Everyone Begotten, Everything Holy Release Celebration with Jubal Lee YoungDowntownHard Rock Cafe NashvilleThe corner of Broadway and 1st, at the river end of the strip, open since 1994. It predates almost every artist-branded building further up the hill.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 12:00 PM · Colby DietzMadisonHarken HallA Madison listening hall with clean sound and a calendar that stays north of downtown. Roots bills and community showcases, plus destination concerts well outside the usual circuit.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 7:00 PM · Melissa ManchesterDowntownHit ParaderA rock and metal club two blocks off Broadway, open Wednesday through Sunday with tribute nights and weekly showcases.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 9:00 PM · The Wee-BeastiesDowntownLayla'sLayla Vartanian opened it in 1997, the only female-owned independent bar on Lower Broadway. While everything around it plays country radio, Layla's books bluegrass, hillbilly, rockabilly, and Americana.No upcoming events on the calendar.Marathon VillageMarathon Music WorksA large, open, industrial hall in Marathon Village for the tours that need more floor than a club and less ceremony than an arena.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · Artemas - LOVERCORE / GETTING UP TO NO GOOD TourBelmont / HillsboroMassey Performing Arts CenterBelmont's performing arts complex, running near-daily recitals and commercial, jazz, and rock ensembles that are mostly free.Next: Fri Oct 16 · 7:30 PM · Commercial Arranging ShowcaseDonelsonMcNamara's Irish PubAn Irish pub out in Donelson, near the airport, that has been booking traditional Irish music and country on the same stage for years.Next: Fri Oct 23 · 6:00 PM · The SternwheelersOprylandMusic City Bar & GrillThe Music Valley bar where local and working Opry-circuit musicians hang, a few minutes from the Opry House.No upcoming events on the calendar.East NashvilleMusic Makers StageA small spot on the Gallatin corridor where local bills, showcases, and community nights all stay close to the floor.Next: Fri Oct 23 · 7:30 PM · Nashville Pocket ComposersGermantownNashville Jazz WorkshopA nonprofit jazz school on Buchanan with a stage of its own, running tribute nights and faculty concerts plus a standing jam session.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:30 PM · Flip That Hit: Songs You Know, ReimaginedDowntownNashville Municipal AuditoriumA downtown auditorium built at old civic scale, with a calendar that flexes well beyond standard concerts.Next: Mon Nov 2 · 8:00 PM · Steve Lacy: Oh yeah? TourOprylandNashville PalaceOpened in 1977 across from Opryland. Randy Travis washed dishes here for four years before Warner Bros. signed him on the spot in 1985.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 6:00 PM · Dalton BushThe GulchNight We MetA Gulch bar where the styled cocktail outing comes first and live music turns up on the calendar second.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · LabyrinthDowntownNoelle NashvilleA downtown hotel with two bars, Trade Room and Rare Bird, running named performers and DJs on published afternoon and evening slots.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 4:00 PM · Ford CooperDowntownOle Red NashvilleBlake Shelton's name is on the door and one of his songs is the door. Ole Red takes its name from 'Ol' Red', the jailbreak ballad he cut in 2001, and the building is a joint venture with Ryman Hospitality, which also owns the Ryman and the Opry.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 12:00 PM · Haley Mae CampbellWest NashvilleOZ Arts NashvilleA former cigar warehouse on Cockrill Bend that presents contemporary dance and theater from outside the United States, which nothing else in Nashville does.Next: Fri Oct 23 · 8:00 PM · Leïla Ka (France): TriptycheDowntownPalm Tree ClubKygo put a dance club on a Broadway rooftop, which nobody had done. It sits at the top of the Chief’s building and books touring electronic acts on a street that otherwise books country covers.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:00 PM · XandraNolensville PikePlaza MariachiA Nolensville Pike market and music hall running salsa nights, regional Mexicano, cumbia, and folklorico several times a week.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Free Salsa Night!FranklinPuckett's GroceryA Franklin restaurant with a stage, booking songwriter sets while dinner service runs.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:30 PM · Steven Cade - 10.9.26Sylvan ParkRandom SampleA Charlotte Avenue stage for underground and experimental music, with noise and electronic bills alongside avant-folk several nights a week.Next: Thu Oct 15 · 7:30 PM · Random Sample Cinema ClubWest NashvilleRay Stevens CabaRay ShowroomRay Stevens built himself a seven-hundred-seat showroom out on River Road and headlines it. It opened in 2018, when he was seventy-nine.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · Country Roads USADowntownRedneck RivieraJohn Rich's bar, open since 2017, with a rooftop that looks straight down the strip. Rich named it after his own brand of whiskey and puts a share of the take toward veterans' charities.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 1:00 PM · Megan GoldenDowntownRobert's Western WorldThe Recession Special is a fried bologna sandwich, Lay's chips, a Moon Pie, and a PBR for six dollars. That tells you everything you need to know about where Robert's stands on Lower Broadway.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 3:00 PM · Sarah Gayle MeechThe GulchRudy's Jazz RoomThe closest thing Nashville has to a dedicated jazz club: table seating, close listening, and a Gulch address that feels apart from the Gulch.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 6:00 PM · Hot Club Gypsy Jazz Thursdays; Rudy’s French ConnectionDowntownRyman AuditoriumThe best-sounding hall in American music. A riverboat captain built it as a tabernacle in 1892, the pews are the originals, and artists talk about getting to play here the way athletes talk about a title.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · Tom JonesWedgewood-HoustonSanta's PubA doublewide trailer strung with Christmas lights year-round, cash only, and home to Santa's Ice Cold Pickers every Sunday night.Next: Sun Oct 11 · 7:00 PM · Santa's Ice Cold PickersSoBroSchermerhorn Symphony CenterNashville's purpose-built orchestral hall just off downtown. The acoustics were designed for unamplified music.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · A Close Encounter with the Music of John WilliamsEast NashvilleSkinny DennisNamed for Guy Clark's bass player, Skinny Dennis Sanchez: 6'11", 135 pounds, dead at 28 in 1975. The Brooklyn original opened in 2013; the Gallatin Pike bar arrived March 1, 2019 and was woven into East Nashville inside of a year.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 9:00 PM · Cajun NightCentennial / West EndSpringwater Supper ClubBuilt in 1896 to pour drinks for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, the same fair that built the Parthenon. The oldest continuously operating bar in Tennessee.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 9:00 PM · The Stephen Lear band, $10GermantownStar Rover SoundA small Adams Street club booking a different act most nights, heavy on blues and roots plus touring songwriters.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Mack Truck MinistriesThe GulchStation InnA cinder-block bar that has hosted bluegrass since 1974, while the Gulch built a luxury neighborhood around it and left it alone.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 9:00 PM · Shawn CampDowntownTennessee Performing Arts CenterThree stages off one lobby under the state office building, running touring Broadway, the opera, the ballet and the city's resident theater company on the same calendar.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · John Proctor Is the VillainMidtownThe 1865 ClubA Midtown bar off 21st with a small stage, running open mic, DJ nights, and local bills most of the week.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Speakeasy UnpluggedEast NashvilleThe 5 SpotA Five Points bar and venue since 2003. Motown Mondays have been running so long and hit so hard that GQ called it the most stylish party in America.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 6:00 PM · Big Guy's Very Big Residency w/ She Returns From War8th Ave SouthThe BasementThe smaller, original Basement: a low-ceiling cellar under what used to be Grimey's on 8th Avenue, where songwriter, roots, and rock bills feel thirty feet from the stage.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Joe Stamm BandEast NashvilleThe Basement EastMike Grimes of Grimey's opened it in April 2015 as the graduation from The Basement on 8th, with more floor space and a bigger calendar.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · SOLD OUT! Finn Wolfhard - The Common Side Effects Tour w/ MalcyBelmont / HillsboroThe Belcourt TheatreNashville's nonprofit movie house, on the same Hillsboro Village corner since 1925. Most of what plays here is playing nowhere else in town, and when it nearly closed in the 90s the neighborhood raised the money to keep it.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 3:40 PM · FilipiñAnaSoBroThe Blue RoomJack White opened the Nashville Third Man location in March 2009. The Blue Room has a 1953 Scully lathe, making it the only live music venue in the world with direct-to-acetate recording capability.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Squirrel Flower w/ Dari BayGreen HillsThe Bluebird CafeAmy Kurland opened it June 3, 1982, with money from her grandmother, in a strip mall five miles from downtown. Music was an afterthought. It became the most important songwriter stage in America.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 6:00 PM · In The Row with Lacy Green, Adam Wright & Thomm JutzEast NashvilleThe Bowery VaultA Gallatin-adjacent bar for local-forward bookings and club-scale shows that stay in one pocket of town.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 5:00 PM · In The Vault Open Mic ThursdaysBelmont / HillsboroThe ChloeA hotel bar off Acklen with a weekly live-music night and a lineup page that fills in the rest of the week with pop-ups and residencies.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 6:00 PM · Live Music ThursdaysEast NashvilleThe East RoomA small Gallatin club that books comedy as readily as indie bills, with local programming throughout the week.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · Moony / Colin Bracewell / Liam Bauman8th Ave SouthThe Eighth RoomA lounge on 8th South in Melrose with a weekly Tuesday residency, which is most of what it runs.Next: Tue Oct 13 · 7:00 PM · Hooked LiveMidtownThe EndThe smaller of the two Elliston Place clubs. Dark, close to the stage, and exactly the right scale for local and touring rock bills that don't need a production budget.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · David Stone w/Tuff Softies, Knuckle Dragger & Cumshot Wound -18+FranklinThe Factory at FranklinA restored stove factory in Franklin whose Turner Theater, Grand Hall, and Liberty Hall host concerts alongside a campus of shops and restaurants.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Studio Tenn presents: The Addams FamilyBelmont / HillsboroThe Fisher CenterA Belmont University performance hall with polished acoustics and a campus setting that keeps it separate from the city's bar and club circuit.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 7:00 PM · CMA Country ChristmasFranklinThe Franklin TheatreA restored 1937 Main Street theater and one of downtown Franklin's main stages.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Music City Dueling Pianos8th Ave SouthThe Lab at ZaniesA 100-seat second stage three doors from the main club, opened in 2024. Local headliners and produced series, usually one night rather than a full week.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Tommy PopeFranklinThe Legendary Kimbro's Pickin' ParlorA cluttered Franklin institution off the square with music every night and standing residencies most of the week.Next: Tue Oct 13 · 6:00 PM · The Legendary Kimbros Songwriters NightFranklinThe Mockingbird TheaterA 170-seat theater in Building 6 at The Factory at Franklin, running music, comedy, and matinees on the same stage.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Caleb Mills & FriendsEast NashvilleThe OfficeThe only place in East Nashville booking late electronic music with any regularity. House, techno and adjacent, on a strip otherwise given over to guitars.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 10:00 PM · EsseksThe GulchThe PinnacleThe new high-capacity hall at Nashville Yards, built for national tours that need scale without a seated theater.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · Kylie Cantrall Presents: The Valley Girl Problems TourFranklinThe PondA Franklin dive in a Hillsboro Road strip center booking bands most weekends.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · Reverent CavalierDowntownThe Stillery DowntownMoonshine cocktails and a stage, on 2nd Avenue a block off the strip. The music runs most nights and the cover is nothing.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 5:30 PM · Gabe MarshallMidtownThe Stillery MidtownThe Midtown Stillery, up Broadway past the interstate where the street stops being a tourist strip and starts being a neighborhood.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 12:00 PM · Luke KastenThe GulchThe TruthA bigger stage on the SoBro/Gulch edge where touring country and crossover bills land off the Broadway strip.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · Bleachers ForeverEast NashvilleThe UnderdogAn East Side bar where smaller-format shows and neighborhood regulars share the same floor.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Jesse David CortiSoBroThe Venue @ RocketownAn all-ages stage inside a SoBro youth center, booking Christian rock and writers rounds about once a month.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:00 PM · DiscipleDowntownTootsie's Orchid LoungeHattie Louise 'Tootsie' Bess bought a bar called Mom's in 1960. A painter used leftover orchid paint. She kept the name and turned the place into a credit union for broke songwriters.No upcoming events on the calendar.DonelsonTurk's Lounge at McNamara'sThe listening space attached to McNamara’s, with its own bill and its own door. Quieter and more seated than the pub in front of it.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 6:30 PM · NBS Live with Trey Bruce and Bill DiLuigiDonelsonTwo Rivers MansionAn 1859 mansion in Donelson running a Music at the Mansion series of mostly free afternoon and early-evening concerts.Next: Sat Oct 17 · 12:00 PM · Tennessee Beer, Bourbon, Wine, & Shine FestivalEast NashvilleVinyl TapAn Inglewood record shop and bar where the show is folded into beer, bins, and Greenwood Ave traffic.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Live Jazz: Parker James, Paul DeFiglia, & Anson HohneDowntownWhiskey Bent SaloonThe first set is at half past nine in the morning. Whiskey Bent runs more daytime music than anywhere else in the catalogue, and about half of what it books starts before five.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 2:00 PM · Tyler Stokes DuoFranklinWilliamson County Performing Arts CenterA county-run theater at Academy Park in Franklin booking tribute acts, concerts, and touring theatre a few times a month.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 7:00 PM · Resurrection A Tribute To Journey8th Ave SouthZanies Comedy Night ClubOn this block since 1983, and the only venue in the city that puts somebody on stage seven nights a week. A headliner takes the week, four or five shows Wednesday through Sunday.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Chico Bean