Month: August 2026

To Dolly

When my brothers and I were young, we had patterns, nothing obtrusive, just gentle patterns. They loved music. All kinds of music. They loved the gospel music of our blackRead More

There Goes My Hero 

When going to a concert, there’s an inherent expectation that you’re going to get something out of it that you couldn’t get from listening to a studio recording. Otherwise, what’s the point, right? You could just save yourself a couple hundred bucksRead More

From the 2026 Kindling Arts Festival:

Jeremy Smith’s Faith Brings Fire and Brimstone

Sitting atop the bill for the 2026 Kindling Arts Festival was Jeremy Smith’s Faith, a newly completed opera that blends the southern gothic aesthetic with the sounds of Appalachian folkRead More

From the 2026 Kindling Arts Festival:

Surviving the Apocalypse with Elisabeth Donaldson!

For almost a decade now, Kindling Arts Festival has been showcasing local artists across Nashville in a four-day event. This Festival presents over twenty shows in eight venues and setsRead More

Coming Soon: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” Magic, mischief, and moonlight fill the Athenian forest in this joyful tangle of love, laughter, and theatrical mayhem. When mischievous fairiesRead More

Another Wonderful East Nashville Facebook Page Musical

East Nashville Facebook Page: The Musical is an annual musical revue based on actual posts to the eponymous Facebook page which has entered its fourth year. Each year it isRead More

The Art of Seeing the World Through Glass

Versión en español Through kiln-formed glass and stained glass, Martha Morales Purucker has found in transparency a way to transform ideas, memories, and experiences into color, texture, and light. HerRead More

El Arte de Mirar El Mundo A Través del Vidrio

Version in English A través de la vitrofusión y los vitrales, Martha Morales Purucker ha encontrado en la transparencia una vía para transformar ideas, recuerdos y experiencias en color, texturaRead More

An Excellent Objects in the Mirror Closes Kindling Arts

Nashville’s independent dance community is arguably one of the finest in the country, and nowhere is that more evident than on the experimental stages of Kindling Arts. In Sunday’s ObjectsRead More

From the 2026 Kindling Arts Festival:

Fairy Floss

Leave it to a turn-of-the-century Nashville dentist and a local candymaker to invent cotton candy—a treat so delightfully mystifying they gave it the original name, “Fairy Floss.” (They still callRead More