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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

Michelle Eistrup’s Dikenga: Four Faces of the Sun at Fisk

Prior to the sunset premiere of Dikenga: Four Faces of the Sun, Fisk University Galleries (Jameel Sheats, curator) hosted a panel and reception indoors on the John Hope and AureliaRead More

Coming to Darkhorse Theater: The African Company Presents Richard III

This play, written by Carlyle Brown, is about an actual historic event: In 1821, forty years before Lincoln ended slavery, and fifty years before black Americans earned the right toRead More

from Cheekwood's Winter Concert Series:

Salsa Night in Cheekwood Gardens with the Music City Latin Orchestra

(Versión en español aquí: https://wp.me/pabEmc-2Ky) As part of Cheekwood’s Winter Concert Series, on Saturday, February 24th at 7:00 pm, the authentic flavors of salsa will be savored in the MasseyRead More

de la serie de conciertos de invierno de Cheekwood:

Noche de salsa en los jardines de Cheekwood con la Music City Latin Orchestra

(English Version here:  https://wp.me/pabEmc-2Kz) Como parte de la Serie de Conciertos de Invierno de Cheekwood, el próximo sábado 24 de febrero a las 7:00 pm, en el Auditorio Massey seRead More

The Lunar New Year with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra

Lunar New Year is the most important Chinese holiday, celebrated throughout the diaspora including in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and more. The Nashville Symphony—underRead More

The MCR Interview:

The African Company Presents Richard III: Interview with Director Lawrence James

Dr Lawrence James is directing a staged reading of The African Company Presents Richard III with the Nashville Shakespeare Festival at the Darkhorse Theatre February 22-24. This is a slightlyRead More

Prokofiev, Shostakovich, & the Nashville Chamber Music Society at the Steinway Gallery

There’s something particularly compelling about Prokofiev’s F Minor Violin Sonata, Op. 80. It’s got this devastation and gloom about it that are impossible to miss and harder to shake. ProgramRead More

From the Annals of Activism

A Conversation on Art and Activism

Last week, an exhilarating yet casual, interactive community conversation around art and activism took place at Tennessee Justice Center, a nonprofit public interest law & advocacy firm serving families inRead More

OZ Arts Presents

Mazelfreten’s Rave Lucid

Ten years after its founding by Cano Ozgener, the 2023-2024 artistic season of OZ Arts welcomes a new era of Brave New Art to Nashville, paying homage to those “artists,Read More

Tina: The Tina Turner Musical Coming to Nashville

Tina–The Tina Turner Musical is the inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock n’ Roll. One of the world’s best-selling artists of allRead More