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Charlie Daniels invited a few of his closest friends to jam at War Memorial Auditorium with him during a live-recording session for his Fire on the Mountain album. 40 years later, country and southern rock musicians still gather at the Charlie Daniels Volunteer Jam in Nashville to raise money for the Journey Home Project and The Predators Foundation. Continue Reading →
Music City Food + Wine Festival is pleased to announce the addition of Sunday Gospel Brunch, with a menu crafted by Matt Bolus (404 Kitchen) and a live performance by award-winning steel pedal guitarist Robert Randolph and the Nashville Friends Choir, book signing schedule and dynamic activations on festival grounds at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park (600 James Robertson Pkwy) during the third annual festival, Saturday, September 19 and Sunday, September 20, 2015: http://www.musiccityfoodandwinefestival.com/
Following the CMT exclusive premiere of the “fiery” music video for his “sexy, feel good” summertime single “Ray Bans,” as described by Rolling Stone Country, ACM-nominated artist JT Hodges will be performing at City WineryNashville, Tenn. Monday, September 7. The show is set to kick-off at 7:00 p.m. with Sony recording artist, Josh Dorr.
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Friday night, August 28th in Nashville, TN. was full of notable musicians playing major venues throughout the city, from the new Ascend Amphitheater hosting Old Crow Medicine Show, to Rob Thomas performing at The Ryman Auditorium. Our home for the evening, however, was the prestigious Schermerhorn Symphony Center as Keb’ Mo’ kicked off his 13-city fall tour. Continue Reading →
Within 30 minutes, fans eagerly snatched every ticket to Multi-Platinum entertainer Dierks Bentley’s 10th Annual “Miles & Music For Kids” celebrity motorcycle ride and concert. Kicking off CMA Awards week on Nov. 1 in Nashville, TN, the event will closeout the outdoor concert season at the new Ascend Amphitheater with a stellar concert lineup including Florida Georgia Line, Thomas Rhett, Cole Swindell, The Cadillac Three, Canaan Smith, Brooke Eden and emcee Storme Warren. All proceeds benefit Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
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“A change would do you good,” Sheryl Crow sang at the start of a huge event in Nashville Monday night celebrating Rolling Stone Films and Rolling Stone Country, and presented by Patrón. Her 1997 hit was a fitting choice to kick off the party in the town she has called home for a decade now, making the huge change from busy Los Angeles to a quiet Nashville ranch and also making the gutsy (and widely praised) leap from rock to country with 2013’s Feels Like Home album. Nashville has also become a second home to Rolling Stone, with last summer’s launch of our country vertical, and the city serves as the backdrop for the sixth installment of Rolling Stone Films’ “Mastering the Craft” series presented by Patrón, with the latest mini-documentary looking back on Crow’s extraordinary rise from shy Missouri music student to Michael Jackson’s backup singer to a rock & roll icon.
Music City Food + Wine Festival is pleased to announce the scheduled exhibitors for the Grand Tasting held at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park
(600 James Robertson Pkwy), on Saturday, September 19, and Sunday, September 20, 2015: http://www.musiccityfoodandwinefestival.com/.
Middle Tennessee’s Make-A-Wish® Foundation held its annual Wine and Wishes fundraising soirée inside Nashville’s aVenue. The dinner included a table of golden tinsel covered wine bottles which were all sold for $20 and were valued between $20-$200. The night featured an assortment of food, a live DJ, and an artist painting through out the night.
Charlie Daniels with Lynyrd Skynyrd. Photo credit: John Shearer
A sold-out crowd of concert-goers went wild Wednesday night at the 40th Anniversary celebration of the legendary Charlie Daniels Volunteer Jam, presented by Copperweld, at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena as seven-time GRAMMY-nominee country star Eric Church, iconic Southern rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Blackberry Smoke made bombshell, unannounced appearances to honor U.S. military members and veterans.
You’ve heard of poker runs for charities or as a general community event where participants run, cycle, or canoe their way along a certain route to complete their hand, and now powerboats are the newest craze for these fun community-driven runs. Powerboat clubs all over the country have been putting together these events to introduce fellow boat owners to each other, with poker runs frequently occurring in places such as Miami, Lake Lanier near Atlanta and Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri, and Nashville has recently been touted as a hotbed for powerboat gatherings.
