The Read
Billy Strings has taken flatpicking and old-song discipline to arena scale without making either feel like a museum piece. Bridgestone is a blunt instrument, but the band's speed, dynamics, and appetite for long improvisations are built to reach the upper deck.
The Venue
Bridgestone Arena
501 Broadway
Nashville's central arena, where the biggest touring acts come and the night usually extends into Broadway before and after.
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Shape The Night
Before
The Standard at the Smith HouseDinner in an 1840s Italianate townhouse on Rosa L. Parks Boulevard. Prime steaks and seafood, Monday through Saturday from 5 PM. Reservations are worth making.
7:30 PM · Billy Strings
After
Layla'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, Americana. Vintage license plates on the ceiling. Better drink prices than anything near it.