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Nashville Public Library Foundation
The Nashville Public Library Foundation provides private funding for enhancements to library buildings, programs and collections.

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Upcoming Events
| 09/07/10 |
Concerts in the Courtyard with Jonell Mosser
Nashville Public Library - Main Library
Presented by Nashville Public Library Foundation
at Nashville Public Library - Main Library
September 7, 2010
Concerts in the Courtyard, the free outdoor music series sponsored by Nashville Public Library Foundation, is back for another hit season! Bring your brown-bag lunch to the shade of the courtyard at the downtown library and enjoy free music by top acts in many genres. This year, patrons can enter to win a weekly prize giveaway, and the chance to win an iPad*!
This week's live performance features rock, soul, and folk artist
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| 09/14/10 |
Concerts in the Courtyard with Three Tenors of Take 6
Nashville Public Library - Main Library
Presented by Nashville Public Library Foundation
at Nashville Public Library - Main Library
September 14, 2010
Concerts in the Courtyard, the free outdoor music series sponsored by Nashville Public Library Foundation, is back for another hit season! Bring your brown-bag lunch to the shade of the courtyard at the downtown library and enjoy free music by top acts in many genres. This year, patrons can enter to win a weekly prize giveaway, and the chance to win an iPad*!
This week's live performance features R&B, gospel, & jazz from the
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| 09/21/10 |
Concerts in the Courtyard with Serenatta
Nashville Public Library - Main Library
Presented by Nashville Public Library Foundation
at Nashville Public Library - Main Library
September 21, 2010
Concerts in the Courtyard, the free outdoor music series sponsored by Nashville Public Library Foundation, is back for another hit season! Bring your brown-bag lunch to the shade of the courtyard at the downtown library and enjoy free music by top acts in many genres. This year, patrons can enter to win a weekly prize giveaway, and the chance to win an iPad*!
This week's live performance features Latin romantic ensemble, Serenatta.
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| 09/28/10 |
Concerts in the Courtyard with Chris Casello Trio
Nashville Public Library - Main Library
Presented by Nashville Public Library Foundation
at Nashville Public Library - Main Library
September 28, 2010
Concerts in the Courtyard, the free outdoor music series sponsored by Nashville Public Library Foundation, is back for another hit season! Bring your brown-bag lunch to the shade of the courtyard at the downtown library and enjoy free music by top acts in many genres. This year, patrons can enter to win a weekly prize giveaway, and the chance to win an iPad*!
This week's live performance features rockabilly artists
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| 10/05/10 |
Concerts in the Courtyard with Radio Daze
Nashville Public Library - Main Library
Presented by Nashville Public Library Foundation
at Nashville Public Library - Main Library
October 5, 2010
Concerts in the Courtyard, the free outdoor music series sponsored by Nashville Public Library Foundation, is back for another hit season! Bring your brown-bag lunch to the shade of the courtyard at the downtown library and enjoy free music by top acts in many genres. This year, patrons can enter to win a weekly prize giveaway, and the chance to win an iPad*! The winner of the iPad will be announced at this show!
This week's live performance features big band...
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| 11/12/10 |
2010 Nashville Public Library Literary Award Patrons Party
Presented by Nashville Public Library Foundation
November 12, 2010
Patrons Party for the 2010 Nashville Public Library Literary Award. This year's award recipient is Billy Collins who has been praised as "The Most Popular Poet in America" by the New York Times. The Patrons Party is hosted by Mrs. Walter R. Robinson.
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| 11/13/10 |
Literary Award Gala
Nashville Public Library - Main Library
Presented by Nashville Public Library Foundation
at Nashville Public Library - Main Library
November 13, 2010
The Nashville Public Library Foundation hosts the 2010 Literary Award Gala in the Main Library. This year's recipient of the 2010 Literary Award is Billy Collins.
"Billy Collins writes lovely poems...Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides." -John Updike, 2006 Literary Award...
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Past Events
| 08/31/10 |
Concerts in the Courtyard with Sara Sant' Ambrogio
Nashville Public Library - Main Library
Presented by Nashville Public Library Foundation
at Nashville Public Library - Main Library
August 31, 2010
Concerts in the Courtyard, the free outdoor music series sponsored by Nashville Public Library Foundation, is back for another hit season! Bring your brown-bag lunch to the shade of the courtyard at the downtown library and enjoy free music by top acts in many genres. This year, patrons can enter to win a weekly prize giveaway, and the chance to win an iPad*!
This week's live performance features Grammy-winning classical cellist and member of the Eroica Trio,
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| 08/24/10 |
Concerts in the Courtyard with Nick Nixon
Nashville Public Library - Main Library
Presented by Nashville Public Library Foundation
at Nashville Public Library - Main Library
August 24, 2010
Concerts in the Courtyard, the free outdoor music series sponsored by Nashville Public Library Foundation, is back for another hit season! Bring your brown-bag lunch to the shade of the courtyard at the downtown library and enjoy free music by top acts in many genres. This year, patrons can enter to win a weekly prize giveaway, and the chance to win an iPad*!
This week's live performance features blues legend,
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| 08/17/10 |
Concerts in the Courtyard with Riders in the Sky
Nashville Public Library - Main Library
Presented by Nashville Public Library Foundation
at Nashville Public Library - Main Library
August 17, 2010
Concerts in the Courtyard, the free outdoor music series sponsored by Nashville Public Library Foundation, is back for another hit season! Bring your brown-bag lunch to the shade of the courtyard at the downtown library and enjoy free music by top acts in many genres. This year, patrons can enter to win a weekly prize giveaway, and the chance to win an iPad*!
This week's live performance features America's favorite cowboys,
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| 11/07/09 |
Nashville Public Library Literary Award Gala honoring Doris Kearns Goodwin
Nashville Public Library - Main Library
Presented by Nashville Public Library Foundation
at Nashville Public Library - Main Library
November 7, 2009
Annual Literary Award Gala honoring distinguished author Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize Winning author and Presidential historian. Proceeds benefit the many programs at the Nashville Public Library. Black Tie.
Pulitzer Prize Winning author and presidential historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin's professional life includes time as a Harvard professor, a position in President Lyndon Johnson's administration, and a...
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| 11/07/09 |
2009 Nashville Public Library Foundation Literary Award Public Lecture: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Nashville Public Library - Main Library
Presented by Nashville Public Library Foundation
at Nashville Public Library - Main Library
November 7, 2009
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and acclaimed presidential historian, will host a free public lecture at the downtown branch of the Nashville Public Library. Goodwin, who has authored books such as No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, and Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir, has written numerous articles on politics and baseball for leading national publications....
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| 11/06/09 |
Nashville Public Library Literary Award Patrons Party honoring Doris Kearns Goodwin
Private Residence-TBD
Presented by Nashville Public Library Foundation
at Private Residence-TBD
November 6, 2009
The Patrons Party takes place the Friday before the Nashville Public Library Literary Award Gala and will be held at a private home in Nashville. The Patrons Party will honor Doris Kearns Goodwin, the distinguished author to be awarded the 2009 Nashville Public Library Literary Award on Saturday, November 7, 2009. The evening includes a personal conversation with John Seigenthaler and the author.
Image: 2008 Parton Party by Peyton Hoge
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