Folk / Americana venues
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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: Fri Oct 9 · 12:00 PM · WMOT Finally Friday featuring Levi Foster, Hiroya Tsukamoto & Jennie Hayes (of Brother & The Hayes)DowntownAcme Feed & SeedA river-end Broadway bar with panoramic rooftop views of the Cumberland and one of the best vantage points on the strip.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 8:00 PM · Bluegrass By The River ft. Addison SimmonsFranklinBlack 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: Wed Oct 14 · 7:00 PM · Nashville Spirit Round SongwritersGermantownBrooklyn BowlA Germantown venue where national touring acts share a building with bowling, food, and enough logistical ease to make group-night planning simple.Next: Sun Nov 1 · 8:00 PM · The Longest JohnsDowntownChief'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 Mar 18 · 6:00 PM · J2B2- John Jorgenson Bluegrass BandSoBroCountry 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: Mon Oct 12 · 6:00 PM · Bluegrass Mondays featuring Kyle TuttleMadisonEastside 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 · Honky Tonk Tuesday with The Cowpokes ft. Special GuestsMidtownExit/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: Tue Oct 20 · 8:00 PM · Shawn James "FLEW TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN TOUR"SoBroFogg 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 NightFranklinGRAYS 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: Fri Oct 30 · 8:30 PM · Smith & GoneMadisonHarken 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: Wed Oct 28 · 7:00 PM · Music City RootsSoBroSchermerhorn Symphony CenterNashville's purpose-built orchestral hall just off downtown. The acoustics were designed for unamplified music.Next: Sun May 16 · 3:00 PM · Heroes and VillainsEast 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 15 · 6:00 PM · Greg Owens, Stacey Antonel8th 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: Fri Oct 30 · 9:00 PM · John Francis O'Mara with Mando Saenz and Suzie BrownEast 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: Tue Nov 3 · 8:00 PM · the olllam w/ Rachael DavisSoBroThe 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 Dec 17 · 7:00 PM · Whitmer Thomas w/ with Comedy from Clay TatumEast 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 DixonBelmont / 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: Sun Oct 18 · 12:00 PM · O, BRUNCH, Where art thou? bluegrass brunchMidtownThe 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 10 · 8:00 PM · The Takes w/ Crooked Diehl - All AgesFranklinThe 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 NightThe GulchThe PinnacleThe new high-capacity hall at Nashville Yards, built for national tours that need scale without a seated theater.Next: Fri Oct 16 · 8:00 PM · Jesse WellesEast NashvilleThe UnderdogAn East Side bar where smaller-format shows and neighborhood regulars share the same floor.Next: Mon Oct 26 · 9:00 PM · World Class FolksEast 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 Hohne