Events
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Modernettes Social Club & Unity 62nd Annual Sweetheart Ball
Presented by Modernettes & Unity Social Club at The Music Valley Event Center February 11, 2012 Modernettes Social Club & Unity 62nd Annual Sweetheart Ball
You are invited to an elegant evening of glamour & entertainment. Free food, BYOB, music, prizes, business ads 1/4 page $25, 1/2 page $50, full page $100. Proceeds supports Modernettes Social Club & Unity Scholarship Fund.
$20 registration in advance, call (615) 752-2005 or (615) 973-3242. |
Modernettes & Unity Social Club |
02/11/12 |
The Music Valley Event Center, Nashville |
Black History Month at the Hermitage
Presented by The Hermitage at The Hermitage February 11, 2012 Please join us for our FREE Black History Month Events throughout February at The Hermitage, Home of President Andrew Jackson. The series is sponsored by The Cracker Barrel Foundation and The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority.
Saturday, Feb 11, 1pm – GENEALOGY. John Baker, author of The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation, will discuss his research into the genealogy of his family, dating back to enslavement at the Wessyngton Plantation, and give tips into tracing... |
The Hermitage |
02/11/12 |
The Hermitage, Nashville |
Songwriter Session: Jerry Vandiver and AJ Masters
Presented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum February 11, 2012 Jerry Vandiver wrote "Always in the Band" (Lonestar); "Athens Grease" (Phil Vassar); "For a Little While" (Tim McGraw); and "It Doesn't Get Any Countrier Than This" (Tim McGraw). AJ Masters wrote "Change My Mind" (John Berry), "Love Ain't Like That"(Faith Hill), and songs recorded by Diamond Rio, the Oak Ridge Boys, Randy Travis, and Gene Watson. Included with museum admission. Free to museum members. |
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum |
02/11/12 |
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville |
An Affair to Remember - Wine & Chocolate Tour
Presented by Nashville Wine Tour at Centennial Park February 11, 2012 Do something different this Valentine's Day...Make it "an affair to remember"!
Get away for this chic wine tour experience, featuring a champagne brunch, tour and wine tasting at 3 wineries, chocolate tasting with wine pairing, wine tasting tips, and relaxing roundtrip transportation so you can sit back, sip, and savor the day!
Valentine's Wine Tour Itinerary:
10:00am Boarding at Centennial Park
10:30am Brunch at Belle... |
Nashville Wine Tour |
02/11/12 |
Centennial Park, Nashville |
Free Visit
Presented by Buchanan Log House at Buchanan Log House February 11, 2012 The Buchanan Log House is pleased to continue it's FREE visits to the Buchanan Log House beginning in February, 2012. Our costumed docent is a member of the Grand Old Dulcimer Club and will welcome a group of students from the VSA/Blair Dulcimer Choir to play on Saturday mid-day. Come and visit this log home perched on Elm Hill Pike and hear the music of the mountain dulcimer. The Buchanan Log House is on the National Register of Historic Places and was built in the early 1800's. The home... |
Buchanan Log House |
02/11/12 |
Buchanan Log House, Nashville |
Banjo Demonstration: Pam Gadd
Presented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum February 12, 2012 Pam Gadd is the former lead vocalist and banjoist for Grammy-nominated country band Wild Rose. She also has worked closely with Patty Loveless, Porter Wagoner, and others. Gadd’s demonstration outlines the history of the banjo, from its African beginnings to becoming one of America's most treasured instruments. Included with museum admission. Free to museum members.
Made possible by Gibson Guitar Corporation. |
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum |
02/12/12 |
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville |
Valentine's Day Walk-In Weddings
Presented by Belmont Mansion at Belmont Mansion February 14, 2012 Belmont Mansion’s Director of Weddings & Rentals, Rev. Brandon Rich, will host our second annual Day of Walk-In Weddings on Valentine’s Day 2012. Couples will be able to walk-in with marriage license in hand, without making an appointment, and get married! Married couples will also be welcome to come and renew their wedding vows. Rev. Rich will provide ceremony vows and officiating services, plus our premier photographer, Ladak Productions, will be on-site with Rev. Rich... |
Belmont Mansion |
02/14/12 |
Belmont Mansion, Nashville |
Music City Roots: Dala, Angel Snow, Dave Gleason, Samantha Crain, Loves It!
Presented by Music City Roots at The Loveless Barn February 15, 2012 Music City Roots, Live From The Loveless Cafe is a weekly, two-hour radio show that revives the historic legacy of live musical production. Broadcast on Wednesday nights on Lightning 100 on Wednesday nights from 7:00pm to 9:00pm,CST, Music City Roots, Live From The Loveless Cafe showcases Nashville's astonishing music scene, from country and Americana to more progressive interpreters of tradition -- a... |
Music City Roots |
02/15/12 |
The Loveless Barn, Nashville |
Music City Soul Series featuring Herschel Bailey
Presented by Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau at Jazz & Jokes February 16, 2012 In celebration of Black History Month, Nashville brings you the Music City Soul Series, a concert series offering the best in soul, jazz, blues and R&B in February. The series will take place at Jazz & Jokes, located at 174 3rd Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37201.
The Feb. 16 show will feature Herschel Bailey. Nashville native and singer Herschel Bailey was born into the musically known, Bailey Family. The Bailey history of music makers began with his... |
Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau |
02/16/12 |
Jazz & Jokes, Nashville |
Black History Month at the Hermitage
Presented by The Hermitage at The Hermitage February 18, 2012 Please join us for our FREE Black History Month Events throughout February at The Hermitage, Home of President Andrew Jackson. The series is sponsored by The Cracker Barrel Foundation and The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority.
Saturday, Feb 18, 1pm – HONOR. Join us for a ceremony to honor the enslaved community at The Hermitage. This will take place at our at our Enslaved Memorial. |
The Hermitage |
02/18/12 |
The Hermitage, Nashville |
Beyond The Truth: Brown Tales of Innocence and Experience
Presented by Nashville Public Library at Nashville Public Library - Main Library February 18, 2012 Poets Paint Portraits with Words in Black History Month Events
Beyond the Truth: Brown Tales of Innocence and Experience directed by Tia Mitchell returns for its second year. The show packed East Branch Library’s basement last year so the show has been moved to Nashville Public Library’s main auditorium. Beyond the Truth features an intergenerational cast of writers performing coming-of-age pieces focused on issues that challenge youth today. Participating youth and... |
Nashville Public Library |
02/18/12 |
Nashville Public Library - Main Library, Nashville |
Songwriter Session: Billy Montana and Randy Montana
Presented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum February 18, 2012 Billy Montana wrote “Bring on the Rain” (Jo Dee Messina); “Gloryland” (BlackHawk); “More Than a Memory” (Garth Brooks); “Not Every Man Lives” (Jason Aldean); “Seven Days” (Kenny Chesney); “Stuck” (Ash Bowers); “Suds in the Bucket” (Sara Evans); and songs recorded by Tim McGraw, Collin Raye, Kenny Rogers, Blake Shelton, Lee Ann Womack, and others. Mercury Nashville recording artist and songwriter Randy Montana... |
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum |
02/18/12 |
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville |
Fingerstyle Guitar Demonstration: Jack Pearson
Presented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum February 19, 2012 Jack Pearson is a versatile guitarist who can demonstrate a variety of techniques. A personal friend of Chet Atkins, Pearson is a gifted fingerstyle player. He performed regularly with the Allman Brothers Band throughout the 1990s. His session and touring credits also include work with Rodney Atkins, Jimmy Buffett, Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Delbert McClinton, Ronnie Milsap, Lee Roy Parnell, Lee Ann Womack, and others. Presented in support of the exhibit Chet Atkins: Certified Guitar Player,... |
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum |
02/19/12 |
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville |
Music City Soul Series featuring Kirk Whalum
Presented by Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau at Jazz & Jokes February 21, 2012 In celebration of Black History Month, Nashville brings you the Music City Soul Series, a concert series offering the best in soul, jazz, blues and R&B in February. The series will take place at Jazz & Jokes, located at 174 3rd Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37201.
The Feb. 21 show will feature Kirk Whalum. Soulful, passionate, stirring...these are the words most often used to describe Kirk's music. He is the recipient of numerous awards and acknowledgements... |
Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau |
02/21/12 |
Jazz & Jokes, Nashville |
Music City Roots: FOLK ALLIANCE feat. Tiller's Folly, Susan Werner, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Rebecca Loebe, Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers & more
Presented by Music City Roots at The Loveless Barn February 22, 2012 Music City Roots, Live From The Loveless Cafe is a weekly, two-hour radio show that revives the historic legacy of live musical production. Broadcast on Wednesday nights on Lightning 100 on Wednesday nights from 7:00pm to 9:00pm,CST, Music City Roots, Live From The Loveless Cafe showcases Nashville's astonishing music scene, from country and Americana to more progressive interpreters of tradition -- a... |
Music City Roots |
02/22/12 |
The Loveless Barn, Nashville |
Nashville 101
Presented by Metropolitan Historical Commission at Fort Negley February 2-February 23, 2012 Davidson County Historian Carole Bucy will once again offer Nashville 101: Nashville History from its Beginnings to the Civil War, a series of four classes providing an introduction to the history of Davidson County and Nashville for local residents.
he course will begin on Thur, 02/02 and will meet for four consecutive weeks in February.
Space is limited, so reservations must be paid in advance. All proceeds for this series of “Nashville 101” will... |
Metropolitan Historical Commission |
02/02/12 -
02/23/12 |
Fort Negley, Nashville |
Music City Soul Series with the Ladies of Soul featuring Kim Fleming, Lo Carter & April Rucker
Presented by Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau at Jazz & Jokes February 23, 2012 In celebration of Black History Month, Nashville brings you the Music City Soul Series, a concert series offering the best in soul, jazz, blues and R&B in February. The series will take place at Jazz & Jokes, located at 174 3rd Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37201.
The Feb. 23 show will feature Ladies of Soul featuring Kim Fleming, Lo Carter & April Rucker. One of Kim Fleming's first monumental stage performances was at Carnegie Hall in... |
Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau |
02/23/12 |
Jazz & Jokes, Nashville |
Black History Month at the Hermitage
Presented by The Hermitage at The Hermitage February 25, 2012 Please join us for our FREE Black History Month Events throughout February at The Hermitage, Home of President Andrew Jackson. The series is sponsored by The Cracker Barrel Foundation and The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority.
Saturday, Feb 25, Noon – FREEDOM. Join us for a presentation with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. This event will be a tie-in with the NURFC as The Hermitage is named as a Freedom Station, and a discussion of the Underground... |
The Hermitage |
02/25/12 |
The Hermitage, Nashville |
Songwriter Session: Georgia Middleman and Dave Berg
Presented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum February 25, 2012 Georgia Middleman wrote “Dearly Beloved” (Faith Hill); “Don’t Ruin It for the Rest of Us” (Mark Chesnutt); “Do What You Do” (Martina McBride); and “I’m In” (Keith Urban). Dave Berg wrote “Don’t Make Me” (Blake Shelton); “If You’re Going Through Hell” (Rodney Atkins); “Innocence” (Sarah Buxton); “Moments” (Emerson Drive); “Somebody” (Reba McEntire); “Stupid... |
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum |
02/25/12 |
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville |
Poets and Prophets: Salute to Legendary Country Songwriter Sonny Curtis
Presented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum February 25, 2012 Crickets member Sonny Curtis began his career in Texas as the lead guitarist for Buddy Holly, for whom he wrote “Rock Around with Ollie Vee” in 1956. One year later Curtis scored his first chart hit as a songwriter with Webb Pierce’s “Someday.” Curtis toured with the Everly Brothers and wrote the duo’s 1961 classic “Walk Right Back” (later a hit for Anne Murray). A member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Curtis also penned “I... |
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum |
02/25/12 |
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville |
Film Screening: Chet Atkins: A Life in Music (2000)
Presented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum February 26, 2012 “To me, Chet Atkins is the guy in Nashville who did more good for more pickers, more artists, than any other human being,” said Willie Nelson in the documentary Chet Atkins: A Life in Music (2000). Nelson offers memories of Atkins, alongside some of Mr. Guitar’s closest friends, peers, and disciples, including Eddy Arnold, George Benson, June Carter Cash, Tommy Emmanuel, Don Everly, Peter Frampton, Waylon Jennings, Mark Knopfler, Dolly Parton, and Les Paul. Atkins is also... |
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum |
02/26/12 |
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville |
Old-Time String Band Demonstration: The Dust Busters
Presented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum February 26, 2012 The Dust Busters are a string band who preserve old-time songs, ballads, fiddle tunes, and jug band blues. The group draws influence and inspiration from the Scots-Irish and African music found in early Appalachian music and the South, from colonial times through World War II. Band members have performed with folk music legends John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers and Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders. Included with museum admission. Free to museum members.
Made possible by... |
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum |
02/26/12 |
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville |
Capers CME Church 180th Anniversary Celebration
Presented by Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcoopal Church at Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church February 25-February 26, 2012 Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church is the Oldest African American Church in the State of Tennessee.
Throughout the weekend of February 25-26, 2012, the historic congregation will celebrate its 180th Church Anniversary. Capers Church was organized out of the congregation of McKendree Methodist Episcopal Church as an African Mission, served as a military hospital after the Battle of Murfreesboro in 1863 and was a meeting place during the civil rights era.... |
Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcoopal Church |
02/25/12 -
02/26/12 |
Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Nashville |
Music City Roots: Artists TBD
Presented by Music City Roots at The Loveless Barn February 29, 2012 Music City Roots, Live From The Loveless Cafe is a weekly, two-hour radio show that revives the historic legacy of live musical production. Broadcast on Wednesday nights on Lightning 100 on Wednesday nights from 7:00pm to 9:00pm,CST, Music City Roots, Live From The Loveless Cafe showcases Nashville's astonishing music scene, from country and Americana to more progressive interpreters of tradition -- a... |
Music City Roots |
02/29/12 |
The Loveless Barn, Nashville |
Fort Donelson 150th Anniversary Celebration
Presented by National Park Service at Fort Donelson February 1-February 29, 2012 Fort Donelson NB Commemorates a Significant Anniversary
Fort Donelson National Battlefield is pleased to announce a variety of programs and learning opportunities to help visitors of all ages commemorate one of the most significant battles of the American Civil War. The legendary Battle of Fort Donelson, fought on both the Cumberland River and on land in and around the community of Dover, in Stewart County, Tennessee, was the first major victory in... |
National Park Service |
02/01/12 -
02/29/12 |
Fort Donelson, Dover |
Music City Roots: ORBO and The Longshots, David Olney, The Roys, The SteelDrivers, Humming House
Presented by Music City Roots at The Loveless Barn March 7, 2012 Music City Roots, Live From The Loveless Cafe is a weekly, two-hour radio show that revives the historic legacy of live musical production. Broadcast on Wednesday nights on Lightning 100 on Wednesday nights from 7:00pm to 9:00pm,CST, Music City Roots, Live From The Loveless Cafe showcases Nashville's astonishing music scene, from country and Americana to more progressive interpreters of tradition -- a... |
Music City Roots |
03/07/12 |
The Loveless Barn, Nashville |
Music City Roots: The McCrary Sisters, The Carter Brothers, Swing Street, Nash Street
Presented by Music City Roots at The Loveless Barn March 14, 2012 Music City Roots, Live From The Loveless Cafe is a weekly, two-hour radio show that revives the historic legacy of live musical production. Broadcast on Wednesday nights on Lightning 100 on Wednesday nights from 7:00pm to 9:00pm,CST, Music City Roots, Live From The Loveless Cafe showcases Nashville's astonishing music scene, from country and Americana to more progressive interpreters of tradition -- a... |
Music City Roots |
03/14/12 |
The Loveless Barn, Nashville |
President Jackson's 245th Birthday
Presented by The Hermitage at The Hermitage March 15, 2012 President Jackson's Birthday: Half-Price Admission ALL DAY! On Wednesday, March 15, 2012 The Hermitage, Home of President Andrew Jackson is proud and excited to celebrate the 245rh birthday of President Andrew Jackson. Admission is HALF PRICE all day.
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The Hermitage |
03/15/12 |
The Hermitage, Nashville |
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Presented by Fisk Jubilee Singers at TPAC - Andrew Jackson Hall March 28, 2012 The Fisk Jubilee Singers are vocal artists and students at Fisk University in Nashville, TN., who sing and travel worldwide.
The original Jubilee Singers introduced ‘slave songs’ to the world in 1871 and were instrumental in preserving this unique American musical tradition known today as Negro spirituals. They broke racial barriers in the US and abroad in the late 19th century and entertained Kings and Queens in Europe. At the same time, they raised money in... |
Fisk Jubilee Singers |
03/28/12 |
TPAC - Andrew Jackson Hall, Nashville |
Music City Roots: Audrey Auld, Jabe Beyer, The Driftwood Singers & more
Presented by Music City Roots at The Loveless Barn April 4, 2012 Music City Roots, Live From The Loveless Cafe is a weekly, two-hour radio show that revives the historic legacy of live musical production. Broadcast on Wednesday nights on Lightning 100 on Wednesday nights from 7:00pm to 9:00pm,CST, Music City Roots, Live From The Loveless Cafe showcases Nashville's astonishing music scene, from country and Americana to more progressive interpreters of tradition -- a... |
Music City Roots |
04/04/12 |
The Loveless Barn, Nashville |
