| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | American Bead ShowsPresented by American Bead Shows at Tennessee State Fairgrounds June 2-June 3, 2012 Meet exhibitors from all over the Country presenting a huge variety of beads, ready to wear jewelry, jewelry making supplies, craft making supplies, all types of beads for making necklaces amd bracelets to sell or wear, gift items, classes and more. | American Bead Shows | 06/02/12-
06/03/12 | Nashville |
Culinary Tours at Belle Meade PlantationPresented by Belle Meade Plantation at Belle Meade Plantation August 9, 2011 - Ongoing Brunch, Lunch, and Dinner at Belle Meade Plantation is unparalleled. From a bountiful Plantation Brunch, to Fried Chicken, Pork Loin, or London Broil Steak, your groups will thoroughly enjoy the fine Southern cuisine we have selected for you. So sit back, read on, and enjoy this tempting tour of tasty tantalizations! | Belle Meade Plantation | 08/09/11-
Ongoing | Nashville |
Lemonade and Lace Tour at Belle Meade PlantationPresented by Belle Meade Plantation at Belle Meade Plantation August 9, 2011 - Ongoing Nothing is as Southern as Homemade Lemonade on a warm summer day! After your guided tour of the Mansion, you can grab a seat out back, surrounded by gorgeous Magnolia Trees, and enjoy this traditional Southern drink with a variety of Homemade Mini Desserts. | Belle Meade Plantation | 08/09/11-
Ongoing | Nashville |
Holiday Wassail Tour at Belle Meade PlantationPresented by Belle Meade Plantation at Belle Meade Plantation August 9, 2011 - Ongoing Wassail is a drink that dates back many centuries. It was often associated with a blessing of the harvest. After your guided tour of the Mansion, the warm spiced fragrance of our Homemade Wassail will fill the air. Pineapple, orange, clove, and cinnamon are all a part of our very own mouth-watering Christmas recipe. | Belle Meade Plantation | 08/09/11-
Ongoing | Nashville |
Bryant Gallery 1st Birthday and All-StarsPresented by Bryant Gallery at Bryant Gallery May 12-June 30, 2012 Bryant Gallery All-Stars Show will feature 22 artists that have shown their work at the gallery during the past year. Participating artists:
Andee Rudloff, Beth Seiters, Bill Brimm, Donna Rizzo, Doug Stevenson,Gary White, Grant Garmezy, Green Daniel, Heather Lose, Hunt Adams, John Reed, Katie Gonzalez, Lena Lucas, Libby Byler, Lucian Nicholson, Lydia Wilson, Mary Sue Kern, Marty Yonts, Nola Jane & Hugh, Ruth Zelanski, and Stacey Irvin.
Also, part of Second Saturday at... | Bryant Gallery | 05/12/12-
06/30/12 | Nashville |
| Permanent Residents: Artists from Cheekwood’s Collection | Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art | 03/31/12-
12/31/12 | Nashville |
Permanent Exhibit: Hall of Fame RotundaPresented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing The Hall of Fame Rotunda is a special room designed to recognize Hall of Fame members in a style befitting the high honor of membership. Everyone recognized here is an equal. The members' plaques are placed randomly around the room - except for the newest members of the Hall of Fame, whose plaques can be found alongside Thomas Hart Benton's painting The Sources of Country Music. The room is round to ensure that every Hall of Fame... | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
Permanent Exhibit: Sing Me Back Home - A Journey Through Country MusicPresented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing Sing Me Back Home is the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum’s permanent exhibit, an exciting, multi-layered journey through the life of country music.
Through artifacts, photographs, original recordings, archival video, newly produced films, touchscreen interactive media and beautifully rendered text panels, Sing Me Back Home immerses visitors in the history and sounds of country music, its meanings and the lives and voices of many of its honored... | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
Historic RCA Studio B ToursPresented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum August 9, 2011 - Ongoing Historic RCA Studio B is one of the world's most important and successful recording studios. More than 35,000 songs were brought to life by the Studio B magic, including more than 1,000 American hits, 40 million-selling singles, and over 200 Elvis Presley recordings (by far more than any other studio). Step into the house of the hitmakers and discover the legend of this Music Row landmark.
Come enjoy a personally guided tour through this world-famous studio located on renowned Music... | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | 08/09/11-
Ongoing | Nashville |
The Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and California CountryPresented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum March 23, 2012-December 31, 2013 The Bakersfield Sound story begins during the Great Depression, when Bakersfield's cotton farms and oil fields attracted a mass migration of Dust Bowl refugees from Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas. Born in Texas in 1929, Buck Owens moved with his sharecropping parents to Arizona before heading to Bakersfield in 1951. Merle Haggard's family, driven to the area from their east-Oklahoma farm, lived in an old converted railroad boxcar when Haggard was born, in a Bakersfield... | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | 03/23/12-
12/31/13 | Nashville |
Metamorphoses: Drawings by Chris Scarborough, Kristi Hargrove, Mark Hosford, and Erin AnfinsonPresented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts at Frist Center for the Visual Arts June 8-October 28, 2012 Metamorphoses includes drawings by four area artists, whose tightly-controlled yet mysterious images suggest dissolution—of beliefs, information, even the body itself—and subsequent re-integration into novel forms that convey a sense of renewed possibility. The title was inspired by Ovid’s interpretations of bodily transformations in ancient mythology, but also connects to the Surrealists’ use of art to dissolve the veils of the world by imaginatively injecting... | Frist Center for the Visual Arts | 06/08/12-
10/28/12 | Nashville |
Brian Alfred: It's Already the End of the WorldPresented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts at Frist Center for the Visual Arts September 21, 2012-January 13, 2013 A Brooklyn-based video artist and painter, Brian Alfred employs seductive colors, abstract shapes and coolly detached photo-based imagery to address such themes as revolution, vulnerability and government surveillance in contemporary life. Exhibit on display from September 21, 2012 to January 13, 2013. | Frist Center for the Visual Arts | 09/21/12-
01/13/13 | Nashville |
Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and VideoPresented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts at Frist Center for the Visual Arts September 21, 2012-January 13, 2013 Carrie Mae Weems is a socially motivated artist whose works invite contemplation on issues surrounding race, gender and class. Increasingly, she has broadened her view to include global struggles for equality and justice. This retrospective, which is composed of more than 150 objects—primarily photographs but also written texts, audio recordings, fabric banners and videos—will provide an opportunity to trace the evolution of Weems’s career over the last 30 years. Although... | Frist Center for the Visual Arts | 09/21/12-
01/13/13 | Nashville |
German Expressionism: Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of ArtsPresented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts at Frist Center for the Visual Arts October 19, 2012-February 10, 2013 This exhibition features works from the Detroit Institute of Arts’ renowned collection of early twentieth-century German Expressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, by artists who belonged to the groups known as The Blue Rider (active in Munich) and The Bridge (active in Dresden and Berlin). The Detroit collection contains major works by Wassily Kandinsky, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Franz Marc and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
This exhibition was... | Frist Center for the Visual Arts | 10/19/12-
02/10/13 | Nashville |
Ghost and Haunt ToursPresented by Ghost and Haunt Tours at Sheraton Nashville Downtown April 3, 2008 - Ongoing Come join us on the original walking ghost tour of downtown Nashville. Take the original full season ghost tour and visit the most haunted and paranormal filled locations in all of Nashville. Nothing hokey - NO costumes, lanterns or people jumping out to scare you.
Find out why security guards at the State Capitol keep quitting on the night shift. Hear what happens at Ryman Auditorium, the original home of the Grand Ole Opry, when the lights go out, and just what keeps coming back.... | Ghost and Haunt Tours | 04/03/08-
Ongoing | Nashville |
Opry Backstage Pass ToursPresented by Grand Ole Opry at Grand Ole Opry House February 23, 2012 - Ongoing Take a tour of the Grand Ole Opry® House! Experience a behind the scenes look at the show that made country music famous.
NOTE: Daytime Tours are offered for purchase two weeks in advance. Post show tours are also available for purchase for you to enjoy after the conclusion of your Grand Ole Opry Show. Tours available seven days a week. Times are subject to change!
| Grand Ole Opry | 02/23/12-
Ongoing | Nashville |
Autumn ShowcasePresented by IADT Nashville at IADT Nashville October 26, 2012 IADT-Nashville's Autumn Showcase is a Halloween-themed event featuring a student and faculty art gallery, food, and live music! | IADT Nashville | 10/26/12 | Nashville |
| Artober 2012 | Metro Arts | 10/01/12-
10/31/12 | |
Nashville Internationals VI and Celebrate Nashville Presented by Metro Parks and Recreation's Centennial Art Center at Centennial Park October 5-October 24, 2012 Nashville's Internationals VI: artists from around the world who now call Nashville home. This gallery will take place in the Centennial Art Center which will be open during festival hours (10:00am-6:00pm)on Saturday, October 6 and during regular gallery hours for the remainder of the exhibit which runs from October 6 through October 24. There will... | Metro Parks and Recreation's Centennial Art Center | 10/05/12-
10/24/12 | Nashville |
The Nash Trash Murder Mystery TourPresented by Nash Trash Tours at Nash Trash Tours August 9, 2011 - Ongoing NashTrash Inc is proud to present our new series, The NashTrash Murder Mystery Dinner Tour! Climb aboard the Big Pink Bus for a rollicking adventure featuring a brand-new original show, "A Grand Ole Murder."
Join an all-new outrageous cast of characters as they try to find out who committed a dastardly murder that happened backstage in the hallowed halls of the Grand Ole Opry.
Spend an evening with Little Dickie Wiggins, Travis Brooks and Wanda Mae as they sing some... | Nash Trash Tours | 08/09/11-
Ongoing | Nashville |
Sherlock Holmes: The Final AdventurePresented by Nashville Children's Theatre at Nashville Children's Theatre September 13-October 7, 2012 By Steven Dietz
Based on the original 1899 play by William Gillette and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
*For families and children ages 10 and older
At the height of his powers, Sherlock Holmes has seemingly reached the end of his remarkable career when a case of blackmail pits the world's greatest detective and his brave friend, Dr. Watson, in a struggle to the death with Professor James Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime! This entertaining and thrilling theatrical... | Nashville Children's Theatre | 09/13/12-
10/07/12 | Nashville |
Haunted Tavern Tours
Avg. Event Rating(5.0 Stars): Presented by Nashville Ghost Tours April 2, 2008 - Ongoing Avg. Event Rating (5.0 Stars): From the people who brought you the critically acclaimed original Nashville Ghost Tours comes their newest creation, Haunted Tavern Tours.
This unique haunted tavern tour will get you up close with the "spirits" of Nashville. In the tradition of English Pub Crawls, your tour guide will lead to a few of Nashville's most haunted... | Nashville Ghost Tours | 04/02/08-
Ongoing | |
Haunted Downtown Nashville Tour
Avg. Event Rating(4.9 Stars):Presented by Nashville Ghost Tours January 1, 2011 - Ongoing Avg. Event Rating (4.9 Stars): Explore the shadow-filled streets of downtown Nashville. Learn about the historical, haunted heritage of Music City from professional story tellers and tour guides during the comfortably paced 90 minute walking ghost tour. Your lantern-bearing guide will lead you through the dark mysteries and supernatural experiences of some of Nashville's most recognizable landmarks such as Ryman Auditorium, Tennessee State Capitol, and Printer's Alley. During the 1/2 mile stroll discover a city that is... | Nashville Ghost Tours | 01/01/11-
Ongoing | |
Madame ButterflyPresented by Nashville Opera Association at TPAC - Andrew Jackson Hall October 11-October 13, 2012 Japanese geisha Cio-Cio San, “Butterfly,” abandons her faith and family for the dashing American sailor, Lieutenant Pinkerton. But Pinkerton's love is temporary and Butterfly’s happiness short-lived. In the end, Cio-Cio San pays the ultimate price for her selfless devotion. For more than a century, audiences have been thrilled by Giacamo Puccini's haunting, poignant music and touched by the lovely Butterfly, who sacrifices everything for love.
FEATURING THE... | Nashville Opera Association | 10/11/12-
10/13/12 | Nashville |
| KidZone | Nashville Public Library | 01/21/10-
Ongoing | Madison |
The Sound of EnlightenmentPresented by Nashville Symphony at Schermerhorn Symphony Center October 4-October 6, 2012 Nashville Symphony
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Haydn - Symphony No. 31 in D major, “Hornsignal”
Stephen Paulus - Three Places of Enlightenment - String Quartet Concerto
Stephen Paulus - The Veil of Tears, from To Be Certain of the Dawn
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C minor
Beethoven’s Fifth begins with the four most famous notes of music ever written and takes listeners on an epic journey from darkness to light. Expect to be... | Nashville Symphony | 10/04/12-
10/06/12 | Nashville |
Charlie Haden & Quartet WestPresented by Nashville Symphony at Schermerhorn Symphony Center October 12, 2012 Charlie Haden & Quartet West
concert presented without orchestra
Time magazine called him “one of the most restless, gifted, and intrepid players in all of jazz.” As a musician, bandleader, composer, producer and educator, Charlie Haden has made an indelible mark on American music. Having collaborated with such legends as Ornette Coleman, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny and John Coltrane over the course of his five-decade career, he brings his straight-ahead quartet... | Nashville Symphony | 10/12/12 | Nashville |
Halloween Movie Night - Featuring Nosferatu with organist Tom TrenneyPresented by Nashville Symphony at Schermerhorn Symphony Center October 29, 2012 Thrills and chills galore! Organ whiz Tom Trenney returns for this annual tradition at the Schermerhorn — a screening of a scary silent movie classic, accompanied by the seat-shaking sound of the Martin Foundation Concert Organ. This year, we’re featuring Murnau’s vampire thriller Nosferatu. Come in costume and get ready to hold on to your seat! | Nashville Symphony | 10/29/12 | Nashville |
| 31st Annual Native American Indian Association Pow Wow & Fall Festival | Native American Indian Association | 10/19/12-
10/21/12 | Hermitage |
SoundLand 2012Presented by Next Big Nashville at Downtown Nashville October 3-October 6, 2012 After six years of delivering a uniquely world-class multi-genre music festival, conference, and megaparty... SoundLand 2012 is gearing up to bring you our biggest and best event yet. Once again we'll pack four days and nights with a feast that you've come to love: Music, Arts, VIP Parties, Field Trips and more. BIG things are coming and we can't wait to share the details in the coming weeks. Stay seated during lift... | Next Big Nashville | 10/03/12-
10/06/12 | Nashville |
| Ryman Auditorium Tours | Ryman Auditorium | 08/09/11-
Ongoing | Nashville |
Wisdom House at Scarritt-Bennett's Essential Conversations SeriesPresented by Scarritt-Bennett Center at Scarritt-Bennett Center January 4-November 7, 2012 Wisdom House, the interfaith educational center of Scarritt-Bennett, will present Essential Conversations, an informal spiritual discussion and luncheon series, on the first and third Wednesday of the month from 11:30am-1:00pm. This increasingly popular series was first presented in the spring and fall of 2011. As a result of the popularity, the 2012 schedule includes additional dates.
Essential Conversations builds our spiritual vocabulary, with each luncheon focusing on a specific... | Scarritt-Bennett Center | 01/04/12-
11/07/12 | Nashville |
Vespers & All That JazzPresented by Scarritt-Bennett Center at Scarritt-Bennett Center January 1-December 30, 2012 Encounter the sacred in a new and unique way! Inspired by jazz as a process of making music and using the music to help us experience the spirit of God, Vespers & All That Jazz encourages compassion, peace, justice and wonder. Come with open minds, hearts and ears, and experience the spirit of God in a new way!
Vespers & All that Jazz will take place every Sunday evening at 6:30 p.m. in Wightman Chapel. The service serves as an opportunity to worship for... | Scarritt-Bennett Center | 01/01/12-
12/30/12 | Nashville |
| Tuesdays in the Chapel 2012 | Scarritt-Bennett Center | 01/03/12-
12/25/12 | Nashville |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydePresented by Tennessee Repertory Theatre at TPAC - Andrew Johnson Theater October 11-November 3, 2012 Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, based on the classic novella by Robert Louis Stevens.
Sex, drugs, violence... A psychological thriller that makes a familiar horror story scary again.
On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll experiments with exotic “powders and tinctures” have brought forth his other self—Edward Hyde, a sensualist and villain free to commit the sins Jekyll is too civilized to comprehend. As Jekyll himself falls prey to... | Tennessee Repertory Theatre | 10/11/12-
11/03/12 | Nashville |
The First TennesseansPresented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing Prehistoric Indian cultures existed in Tennessee through four evolving periods, beginning about 15,000 years ago, peaking between 800 and 1650 A.D. with the Mississippian people, and ending with the ascendancy of such modern tribes as the Cherokee and Chickasaw. Artifacts from the Paleolithic, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods are on exhibit. The museum even has a display of bones from a mastodon that roamed Tennessee 10,000 years ago. | Tennessee State Museum | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
The Age of JacksonPresented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing Between 1815 and 1850, Tennessee embodied the spirit of American expansion and politics, with President Andrew Jackson being the central character in the state's development. Displays on Jackson, David Crockett, Sam Houston, and President James K. Polk are included in this section of the museum. | Tennessee State Museum | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
AntebellumPresented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing The Antebellum period of 1840 to 1860 was a time of prosperity and cultural development for many Tennesseans. (Antebellum is from the Latin words ante, before, and bellum, war. It is used to signify the period before the Civil War.) Cities and towns became trade centers, as railroads and steamboats drew people closer together. The increasing prosperity manifested itself in several ways. Artists, whether trained or self-taught, found a ready market for their skills as the rising middle... | Tennessee State Museum | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
The Civil War and ReconstructionPresented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing By 1860 the issue of slavery had become a tinderbox; a moral, social and economic issue which slowly divided the northern and southern states. Tennessee found itself divided when the General Assembly voted to secede. Many people in East Tennessee supported the Union and even fought in the Union Army. Tennessee was the primary battlefield of the Civil War in the west, with more than 400 battles and skirmishes within its borders. Each of the major battles in Tennessee is highlighted with... | Tennessee State Museum | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
The New SouthPresented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing Between 1870 and the 1920's, Tennessee experienced great changes fueled by the post-Civil War industrial revolution. Exhibits on women's suffrage, Prohibition, and the Tennessee Centennial Exposition illustrate the state's involvement in social issues of the times. | Tennessee State Museum | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
The FrontierPresented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing Spanish conquistadors were the first Europeans to reach Tennessee, followed by the French and English explorers, and then by the first white settlers. Armor and weapons from the Europeans and Daniel Boone's musket highlight this era. A frontier cabin, 200-year-old dugout canoe, a grist mill, and a Conestoga wagon all give testimony to life on the frontier. Handmade furniture, a woodworking shop, and a working printing press show the skill of early Tennessee craftspeople. | Tennessee State Museum | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
Tulip Grove Mansion Guided TourPresented by The Hermitage at The Hermitage July 1, 2009 - Ongoing Originally the home of Jackson's protege, Andrew Jackson Donelson, Tulip Grove's private ownership was longer and more varied than the Hermitage mansion. Join a Hermitage interpreter for a tour of one of Tennessee's finest Greek Revival mansions and learn about cotton, cattle, and the Civil War. | The Hermitage | 07/01/09-
Ongoing | Nashville |
The Hermitage - Andrew JacksonPresented by The Hermitage at The Hermitage February 26, 2009 - Ongoing The Hermitage's new orientation film Andrew Jackson, narrated by Martin Sheen, is now playing on new state-of-the-art equipment in the Andrew Jackson Visitor Center theater. The film is one of the final components to a multi-year plan to enhance the guest experience throughout the site. In addition to the film, other enhancements include audio tours, informational signage, touch screen digital signage, on-site brochure, and an interactive website (coming soon!) This project was funded... | The Hermitage | 02/26/09-
Ongoing | Nashville |
Stories from the Hermitage Slave CommunityPresented by The Hermitage at The Hermitage July 1, 2007 - Ongoing The Hermitage story is not just about Andrew Jackson and his family. In fact, the Jackson family story cannot be told without the stories of the 150 enslaved Africans who lived and worked at The Hermitage. Whether house slave, skilled craftsmen, or field hand, each and every one made an important contribution to The Hermitage. From 1804 to 1865, slaves were born, purchased, lived, sold, and died on The Hermitage, but little is known about their story. Only recently through scant... | The Hermitage | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
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