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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: Sat Oct 10 · 12:30 PM · BACKSTAGE NASHVILLE! DAYTIME HIT SONGWRITERS SHOW featuring Mike Reid , Aaron Raitiere , James LeBlanc & Mae Estes + Elliott PratherDowntownAcme Feed & SeedA river-end Broadway bar with panoramic rooftop views of the Cumberland and one of the best vantage points on the strip.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 3:00 PM · Nathan Kalish & His DerechosOprylandBavarian 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 MeisterDowntownBootleggers 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: Fri Oct 9 · 2:00 PM · Rocky BottomDowntownBridgestone ArenaNashville's central arena, where the biggest touring acts come and the night usually extends into Broadway before and after.Next: Thu Oct 22 · 6:30 PM · The Red Clay StraysGermantownBrooklyn BowlA Germantown venue where national touring acts share a building with bowling, food, and enough logistical ease to make group-night planning simple.Next: Tue Oct 13 · 8:00 PM · Waylon Wyatt - Dustpiles World TourDowntownChief'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 · 6:30 PM · Ultimate Eric Church Experience w/ Tennessee Whiskey- Chris Stapleton TributeSoBroCountry 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: Tue Oct 13 · 8:00 PM · Brody Price, Caylan Hays, & Trevor NikrantMadisonEastside 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: Tue Oct 13 · 7:00 PM · Rodeo JulietsMidtownExit/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 TourOprylandGrand 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: Sat Oct 17 · 2:00 PM · Jami GroomsMadisonHarken 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 Nov 14 · 7:00 PM · The #1 90's Country Experience in America! - The Jeremy McComb "Honky-Tonk Circus" TourDowntownHit ParaderA rock and metal club two blocks off Broadway, open Wednesday through Sunday with tribute nights and weekly showcases.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · The Asylum Radio Network Presents A Country & Southern Soul ShowcaseOprylandNashville 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 BushDowntownNoelle 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 23 · 4:00 PM · Brody KeanDowntownOle 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: Fri Oct 9 · 6:00 PM · Hudson ValleyDowntownPalm 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 23 · 7:00 PM · Country NightWest 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: Sun Oct 11 · 2:00 PM · Andrew MackDowntownRobert'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 · 7:00 PM · Kelley's HeroesDowntownRyman 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: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · Deana CarterWedgewood-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: Tue Dec 8 · 7:30 PM · Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder ChristmasEast 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: Sat Nov 21 · 9:00 PM · Country Death, $10East 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 · 9:00 PM · Justin Payne, The Constellations, Rico Del Oro8th 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: Wed Oct 21 · 7:00 PM · The SteppersEast 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: Mon Nov 16 · 8:00 PM · Bryan AndrewsSoBroThe 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: Fri Dec 4 · 7:00 PM · An Evening With Patterson HoodEast NashvilleThe Bowery VaultA Gallatin-adjacent bar for local-forward bookings and club-scale shows that stay in one pocket of town.Next: Fri Oct 16 · 7:30 PM · Caryn DixonMidtownThe 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: Sat Oct 24 · 8:00 PM · Chris Gantry Album Release Show w/Special Guests - 18+The GulchThe PinnacleThe new high-capacity hall at Nashville Yards, built for national tours that need scale without a seated theater.Next: Thu Oct 15 · 7:00 PM · Ole 60DowntownThe 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: Sun Oct 11 · 5:00 PM · Cody Joe HodgesThe GulchThe TruthA bigger stage on the SoBro/Gulch edge where touring country and crossover bills land off the Broadway strip.Next: Thu Oct 15 · 8:30 PM · The Chicks - Taking the Long WayEast NashvilleThe UnderdogAn East Side bar where smaller-format shows and neighborhood regulars share the same floor.Next: Thu Nov 12 · 7:00 PM · Miles To Go Tour with Holdyn Barder & Michael James