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Upcoming Performance

Chatterbird to Perform Improvisational Concert Using Footage from Nashville Metro Archives

Chatterbird, a Nashville-based chamber ensemble, has announced further details for their next performance, Historic Nashville: A Celebration in Music and Film. The concert is free and open to the public and will take place June 21 at Nashville Public Library’s downtown location (615 Church Street). Additional info can be found here. Chatterbird and Metro Archives Audiovisual Conservation Center have partnered once again to present a new live performance combining music and archival film footage. Working alongside Metro Archives Staff, chatterbird selected unseen and endangered footage from the collection for preservation, including film from the James Kilgore and Thomas Mayhew Collections.Read More

Valentine’s Day with Patti LaBelle and the Nashville Symphony

“Where my background singers, whoo?!” The viral video of Patti LaBelle finding a way to make her live performance work at the 1996 National Tree Lighting amidst a series ofRead More

In the Blue Room...

White Lodge: An Evening with Music of Twin Peaks

It’s hard to believe that the original television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991) was aired and canceled a year later, over thirty years ago. However, the White Lodge: Evening with MusicRead More

At the Frist

A Brief Intro to Nōhgaku: Ancient Japanese Drama

Some years ago, I witnessed traditional Japanese theater live in Japan. After years of teaching world and Asian music courses that featured the rich traditions of Japanese theater, a fellowshipRead More

5th Annual Kindling Arts Festival

Across the last four days of July and featuring 160 artists in 19 projects at 5 different venues the annual Kindling Arts Festival, Nashville’s “radically unique arts incubator,” continued itsRead More

We’re Live….. Again!

  Oz Arts of Nashville is back to live performances! Starting March 12th, Oz Arts will be performing PRISM to a live, socially distanced audience. PRISM was conceived and choreographedRead More

Presenting Attitude

Attitude: A Two-Part Virtual Series Preview

Nashville Ballet is bringing back performances in early March this year. From March 5th through March 7th and April 2ndthrough April 4th they will be performing a virtual presentation ofRead More

The Newest Jewel in the Music City

The National Museum of African American Music

The National Museum of African American Music in Nashville is dedicated to spreading awareness and knowledge of what the African American culture has done for music through time. Located atRead More

Premieres in Music City:

chatterbird to Premiere Leila Adu’s ‘Mahakala Oratorio’

Originally scheduled as a live performance in March, the project has been reimagined as a one-of-a-kind video project with contributions from interactive media artist Aaron Sherwood and will take placeRead More

On the Internets

Live Music in the Time of COVID-19

As Shelter in Place orders have been enacted in the majority of the United States over the last few weeks, musicians and entertainers of all kinds have suddenly found theirRead More

Horror in Music City:

Frankenstein Comes to OZ

Looking for something a little spooky to get in the spirit of the Season? OZ is bringing Manual Cinema’s reboot of Frankenstein to town October 24th-26th. “If I cannot inspire love,Read More