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The Jazz Beat: March 2024

Hello, all, and welcome back to this regular column here at Music City Review. Here, we will update you with the most can’t-miss jazz events happening in Music City, so you can be sure to catch all your favorites, as well as discover new ones along the way. Get out there and support your local musicians and keep Music City thriving! This Month’s Highlights I’d like to begin by highlighting right up top some of the more unique events happening this month that I think you’ll be interested in. These include shows and acts that you won’t find as regularRead More

At the Scarritt Bennett Center

SONUS CHOIR’S “MOTHER NATURE”

As part of their eleventh season, SONUS Choir presented “Mother Nature: a Celebration of Female Composers and Nature,” on May 16th at 7:30 p.m. in Wightman Chapel at the ScarrittRead More

Rent is Due!

Circle Players, Nashville’s oldest non-profit volunteer arts organization, is performing Rent as the last show of their 75th season. No longer on Broadway and with no current touring production, thisRead More

The Jazz Beat — May 2025

This Month’s Highlights Here are the performances this month that I have picked out as really special, ones you won’t be able to catch any day of the week. TheyRead More

The Nashville Rep

Sunday in the Park with George

Inspired by Georges Seurat’s famous painting, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s masterpiece Sunday in the Park with George is aRead More

Coming to Nashville

Kimberly Akimbo

Kimberly is about to turn 16 and recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. Kim is forced to navigate family dysfunction, a rare geneticRead More

Spiritual Festival Concert to Honor TSU Prof. Darryl Nettles and Lorenzo Washington, founder of the Jefferson Street Sound Museum.

From the event’s press release: On April 14th, the Ninth Annual Harry T. Burleigh Spirituals Festival Scholarship Concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Laura Turner Concert HallRead More

A Review of ‘Human Resources’ presented by Nashville Story Garden and OZ Arts Nashville

As a trailblazer that continues its commitment in supporting the out-of-the-box local and international theatrical expression, OZ Arts Nashville doesn’t seem to shy away from transforming itself to accommodate theRead More

Tiny Beautiful Things This Weekend

Based on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed (author of the memoir Wild), Tiny Beautiful Things is a celebration of the simple beauty of being human. This funny and deeplyRead More

The MCR Interview

Soprano Rainelle Krause on Nashville’s Lucia di Lammermoor, the Queen of the Night, and other things!

Ahead of her upcoming appearance in Nashville Opera’s production of Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor on April 3rd and 5th, Journalist Sarah Featherston speaks with Soprano Rainelle Krause on theRead More

From Our Far-flung Correspondents Series:

Norma and the Reinvention of Tragedy: Reflections from Florence 

Versión en español aquí  In the cradle of humanism, every dimension of being erects in a fascinating balance between the past and contemporaneity. Spiritual introspection resonates within acoustic spheres infused withRead More