Metro Arts staffers need time to come up with a new grant scoring policy and to figure out how to manage the Thrive program for independent artists.
Beavers, cardinals and cicadas are the session players on this Nashville album recorded in Shelby Bottoms
The most serene place in Nashville just might be a park bench at dusk in Shelby Bottoms. And now, you can be there whenever you want thanks to Camille Faulkner.
No drinking and only Christian music during Sunday Gospel Hour at Nashville’s most iconic honky tonk
Robert’s Western World is Nashville’s most iconic honky tonk and practically synonymous with country music. But for an hour on Sunday mornings no one can drink alcohol and they can only listen to Christian music.
Orville Peck makes queer country for everyone. On ‘Stampede,’ stars like Willie Nelson join the fun.
It is not easy to be an outsider in country music, but Orville Peck has made a career out of it.
For Nashville’s Kurdish community, clothing and culture are interwoven
For Nashville’s Kurdish community — a people whose culture has historically come under fire — clothing is a tangible way of preserving their traditions.
30 years later, the evangelical purity movement still impacts sex education
It was a breakout moment in the evangelical purity movement — a movement that impacts sex education in the United States to this day. Jill Dender was one of the first teens to sign the pledge while traveling with her youth group from Tulip Grove Baptist in Nashville
How Madison’s Harken Hall venue plans to fulfill a grand — but delayed — vision
Harken Hall is now open — but with lingering questions as to what exactly will take place inside the grand space in Madison.
Nashvillians can now borrow art from seven local libraries
The Lending Library began in 2021 to support Nashville artists who lost work during COVID. This summer, the program doubled its collection and expanded to five more library branches.
This songwriting camp offers inspiration and exposure for Nashville girls
Campers share how this program has helped them come out of their shells and learn to collaborate with other young writers.
What it meant for Denitia to make it onto the Grand Ole Opry stage: ‘Looking forward to this day for so long’
Tradition looms large in country music. But not every artist has the luxury of simply following the old, familiar paths to acceptance and success.
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