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The City Winery Nashville Tasting Bar makes its debut with exclusive Nashville-inspired wines that have been blended, cellared, and bottled right here in SoBro. The City Winery winemakers have been diligently working for nearly a year to bring the winery to life and offer guests locally-crafted wines, the first of many being the “Roundabout Red” and “Two Rivers Chardonnay.”
Photo credit: Philip Macias
She first appeared on the scene like a supernova and now, just five years since her last singer-songwriter album, Jewel is returning to the deep, personal territory and folk sound that made her one of music’s most exciting young voices when she released the transcendent Pieces of You.
Sea Gayle Records/Arista Nashville hitmaker Jerrod Niemann set a new career benchmark today with the out-of-the-box success of his single, “Blue Bandana,” which celebrated its official country radio impact date with a tremendous 83 first-week Billboard and Country Aircheck monitored stations on board.
“Blue Bandana” not only marks the biggest impact week of Niemann’s career to date, but also earns top honors as Mediabase’s most-added new country song this week.
The lyric video for “Blue Bandana” is online here: http://smarturl.it/JNBlueBandanaLyric.
“Blue Bandana,” the first single from Niemann’s upcoming album, was produced by Jimmie Lee Sloas and Niemann and is currently available for sale here: http://smarturl.it/bluebandana.
Niemann’s previous career-high impact week was 72 first-week stations for his now-Platinum-certified multi-week #1 smash, “Drink to That All Night.”
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Wizard World, Inc. (OTCBB: WIZD) continues its 2015 schedule with its third visit to the Music City Center at Wizard World Comic Con Nashville, September 25-27. Jewel Staite (“Firefly,” “Stargate: Atlantis”), Lori Petty (“Orange is the New Black,” A League of Their Own), the “Dukes of Hazzard” trio of John Schneider (“Smallville”), Tom Wopat (Broadway hits “Guys and Dolls,” “Chicago”) and Catherine Bach (“The Young and the Restless”), the “CHiPs” tandem of Erik Estrada (“Sealab 2021”) and Larry Wilcox (“Lassie”) and Jim Cummings (“Winnie the Pooh,” “The Lion King”) headline the roster of celebrity guests scheduled to attend the pop culture extravaganza.
A dormant volcano, a mystical forest and an ancient prophecy… the adventure of Icarus begins when Varekai, Cirque du Soleil’s latest arena touring production, descends from the sky and into the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, for seven performances only – August 26-30, 2015! Ticket prices range from $35 – $90 (subject to change). Advance tickets for Varekai are available now online exclusively to Cirque Club members through March 26. Cirque Club membership is free and benefits includes access to advance tickets, special offers and exclusive behind the scenes information. To join, go to www.cirqueclub.com.
A dormant volcano, a mystical forest and an ancient prophecy… the adventure of Icarus begins when Varekai, Cirque du Soleil’s latest arena touring production, descends from the sky and into the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, for seven performances only – August 26-30, 2015! Ticket prices range from $35 – $90 (subject to change). Advance tickets for Varekai are available now online exclusively to Cirque Club members through March 26. Cirque Club membership is free and benefits includes access to advance tickets, special offers and exclusive behind the scenes information. To join, go to www.cirqueclub.com.
Photo credit: Allister Ann
For Kenny Chesney, playing “The Granddaddy of Them All” as ABC’s legendary sportscaster Keith Jackson deemed the Rose Bowl decades ago, was a bucket list item. And when he took the stage at the iconic venue built in 1922, he took it with all the intensity of every college football team that played there on New Year’s Day, the athletes at the ’84 Summer Olympics and the various teams at the many World Cup matches that have played there.
InDo Nashville, the coworking, creative hub for professionals in the entertainment industry is now open and accepting members. The three floor, 11,000 sq. ft., building is located at 632 Fogg St., between 7th Ave S. and Ewing Ave., near the City Winery and Third Man Records in SoBro. Features of InDo Nashville include: large open coworking spaces, songwriting rooms, conference rooms, phone booths, a hanging pod-chair room, a concierge, and a 1500 sq. ft. event space that is perfect for industry parties, product launches, networking events, and acoustic showcases.
Don Henley will release CASS COUNTY, his fifth studio album, and first solo album in 15 years, on September 25, 2015. Named for the northeastern Texas county in which Henley was raised, CASS COUNTY will be available as a 12-song standard CD and digital album, as well as a 16-track deluxe version, which will be available on CD, digitally, and a double disc, 180 gram Vinyl LP. A full track listing can be found below and a sneak peek of the album can be watched here.
Little Big Town member, Kimberly Schlapman, and her award-winning cooking show Kimberly’s Simply Southern will be coming to Cooking Channel beginning July 18th airing Saturdays at 3:30pm ET/12:30pm PT. See below for a description of the series and upcoming episode guide.
