Nashville’s new outdoor live concert venue, Ascend Amphitheater, officially opened its doors to the public this past weekend, kicking off opening season with four sold-out shows and a free open house for the community. With an official ribbon cutting that morning with Nashville’s Mayor Karl Dean in attendance, Eric Church kicked things off on Thursday night to a capacity house in the “sterling new facility overlooking the Cumberland River and the downtown skyline” (Rolling Stone) and continued the festivities on Friday night as he played to a second sold-out crowd.
Chicago and Earth, Wind and Fire played to the weekend’s third packed audience on Saturday. Nashville Scene, commenting on the night’s lineup, raved “it may be early in the amphitheater’s tenure…but if they keep booking things the way they have, we’re going to be best friends for a good long time.”
Sunday’s free open house for the community hosted “a steady stream of Nashvillians…riding their bikes, playing Frisbee, listening to live music, partaking in fitness demonstrations, taking photos in front of the sculpture and cooling off with guitar-shaped fans printed with a map of the park” (Tennessean).
Tuesday night closed out the opening celebrations with a sold-out Phish show at the new venue that Nashville Business Journal heralded “impressive, both in size and looks.” Tickets are on sale now for shows including Florence and the Machine, Peter Frampton and Cheap Trick, Widespread Panic, Lynyrd Skynyrd, with limited availability for My Morning Jacket and NEEDTOBREATHE. For more info visit: www.ascendamphitheater.com
Ascend Amphitheater Opening Season Lineup
8.5.15 Jill Scott with Lecrae and BJ The Chicago Kid
8.6.15 My Morning Jacket with Moon Taxi
8.7.15 Counting Crows with Citizen Cope and Hollis Brown
8.8.15 Steely Dan with Elvis Costello
8.9.15 The Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson
8.14.15 NEEDTOBREATHE with Switchfoot, Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors and Colony House
8.15.15 Idina Menzel
8.16.15 Peter Frampton and Cheap Trick
8.18.15 Sublime With Rome, Rebelution, Pepper and Mickey Avalon
8.22.15 Australian Pink Floyd with LedZeppelin2
8.28.15 Old Crow Medicine Show with The Devil Makes Three
8.29.15 Jack FM’s Playing What We Want Live with Uncle Kracker, Sugar Ray, Better Than Ezra and Eve6
9.1.15 ZZ Top with Blackberry Smoke
9.5.15 Widespread Panic
9.6.15 Widespread Panic
9.19.15 Americana Music Festival with Loretta Lynn, Steve Earle, Gillian Welsh and Special Guests
9.23.15 Daryl Hall and John Oates
9.27.15 Janet Jackson
10.2.15 Lynyrd Skynyrd
10.8.15 Chris Tomlin with Rend Collective
10.9.15 Florence and the Machine
10.10.15 Grace Potter with Lake Street Dive
10.11.15 Jackson Browne
10.13.15 All Time Low and Sleeping with Sirens with One OK Rock
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