Nashville

CMA Music Festival

CMA Music Festival delivers the full range of concert experiences with equal parts nighttime fireworks and daytime sizzle. While the evening concerts at LP Field provide full-tilt excitement, the Daytime Stages offer a more intimate setting for daylong, non-stop music from your favorite hitmakers in Downtown Nashville. Tickets for the...

Algebra and Britten w/ special guest poet: London Bridgez

The writer and performer London Bridgez pushes the expectations of spoken word. "London" is her name. "Bridgez" represents what she does. She builds creative bridges between spoken word and music. Her stage performance creates a new wave of entertainment that can be expressed in multiple formats, she crosses over into many genres and can...

Cardinals: Ryan Adams, Neal Casal, Chris Feinstein, Jon Graboff and Brad Pemberton

Ryan Adams is an American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Raised by his mother and grandmother, Adams dropped out of school at age 16 and performed with several local bands before moving to Raleigh and forming the band Whiskeytown. Three albums and five years later Adams went solo, releasing...

Songwriter Session: Billy Kirsch

Made Possible by Ford Motor Company Fund. Enjoy a performance by songwriter Billy Kirsch. Billy Kirsch wrote "Come Some Rainy Day" (Wynonna); "Every Little Whisper" (Steve Wariner); "Holes in the Floor of Heaven" (Steve Wariner); "Is It Over Yet" (Wynonna); "My Heart Will Never Know" (Clay Walker); "Of Course I'm Alright" (Alabama): "...

Americana Music Association Presents: An Evening With Darrell Scott

With his genes and his genius, Darrell Scott has earned the awards and praise he has received as a songwriter, session player, band member, and solo artist.. Born on a Kentucky tobacco farm, he joined his father and brothers as a teenager on the stages of roadhouses and taverns. His abilities on guitar and banjo honed and road-tested, he...

The Harlem Globetrotters

The "Ambassadors of Goodwill"® have dunked thier way into the hearts of basketball fans both young and old. The Harlem Globetrotters is an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism and comedy.

Ben Franklin and "The Magic of Reading"

Come learn the secrets of one of the world's most famous readers, Benjamin Franklin, as he discusses his life and achievements & explain how to improve reading habits. "The Magic of Reading" is an educational program designed to enlighten and inspire children and adults to acquire a love of knowledge & reading that will last...

Bryan Adams

 Bryan Adams From the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s, Canadian singer/songwriter and guitarist Bryan Adams was one of the most successful recording artists in popular music worldwide. Usually dressed in blue jeans, sneakers, and white T-shirts, the energetic performer stalked stages around the globe, electric guitar in hand, singing his own...

Lynyrd Skynyrd and Trace Adkins New Year's Eve 2008

Lynyrd Skynyrd was the definitive Southern rock band, fusing the overdriven power of blues-rock with a rebellious Southern image and a hard rock swagger. Skynyrd never relied on the jazzy improvisations of the Allman Brothers. Instead, they were a hard-living, hard-driving rock & roll band. Trace Adkins helped keep country's...

SEC & Big East Invitational: Vanderbilt vs. South Florida, Marquette vs. Tennessee

  The second annual meeting between the two conferences will be carried by ESPN and ESPN2. USF plays Vanderbilt at 7 p.m. followed by Marquette versus Tennessee.

Old Fashion Christmas Open House

Come join us at The Hermitage Home of President Andrew Jackson, for an Old Fashion Christmas Saturday December13th from 4pm to 8pm. We will have many surprises to offer this year including holiday shopping, special tours of the mansion, as well as a candlelight dinner at The Cabin by the Spring or the Garden Gate Café.

Carrie Underwood's Carnival Ride Tour

The first country American Idol, Carrie Underwood grew up in the small town of Checotah, OK, and began singing with her church at the tender age of three. Throughout her childhood, she also performed at functions for the Lion's Club and Old Settlers Day, and eventually at festivals in several states. Price: $32.50 - $52.50

Shorts

LIPSCOMB THEATRE PRESENTS SHORTS SHAMBLIN HALL SAT DEC 6 2008 07:30PM

Toby Mac Winter Wonder Slam

  Relient K  Canton, OH's Relient K formed in 1998 and joined the parade of Christian punk-pop artists (MxPx, Ghoti Hook, Slick Shoes, etc.) with their self-titled 2000 debut, mixing catchy melodies and snotty attitude with spiritual concerns.

The Reverend Horton Heat And Special Guest Nashville Pussy & Backyard Tire Fire Wednesday, Dec 3 9:00p

Reverend Horton Heat The Reverend Horton Heat is perhaps the most popular psychobilly artist of all time, really rivaled only by genre founders the Cramps. The Reverend (as both the three-man band and its guitar-playing frontman were known) built a strong cult following during the '90s through constant touring, manic showmanship......