Must-see entertainment in Downtown & the Gulch

  • Station Inn

    Downtown & the Gulch

    Sit at one of the small cocktail tables, squeezed together on the worn wood floor in this beer-only dive, and behold the lightning fingers of bluegrass…

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    Ryman Auditorium

    Downtown & the Gulch

    The so-called 'Mother Church of Country Music' has hosted a laundry list of performers, from Martha Graham to Elvis, and from Katharine Hepburn to Bob…

  • 500px Photo ID: 130830891 - Perhaps the most famous of the honky tonk bars in downtown Nashville. Live bluegrass music every night, on Broadway.

    Robert's Western World

    Downtown & the Gulch

    A dozen bars wouldn’t get you halfway down Lower Broadway, and this is a cut above all the other joints. It pulls out all the stops for folks making a…

  • Bourbon Street Blues & Boogie Bar

    Downtown & the Gulch

    Bourbon Street bills itself as a little taste of New Orleans in Nashville, but with the best live blues in the city, it stands on its own. There are two…

  • Mercy Lounge

    Downtown & the Gulch

    Housed in an old brick flour mill and cannery just south of Broadway, the Mercy Lounge is a staple of Nashville's live rock scene for all the right…

  • Tootsie's Orchid Lounge

    Downtown & the Gulch

    The most venerated of the downtown honky-tonks, with music on three levels at any given moment, Tootsie's is a blessed dive oozing boot-stomping,…

  • Ascend Amphitheater

    Downtown & the Gulch

    Situated in the middle of the city in Riverfront Park, Nashville’s newest major music venue certainly does impress. The space-age stage structure and…

  • High Watt

    Downtown & the Gulch

    The newest and smallest of three concert venues inside former mill and factory Cannery Row, the 2nd-floor High Watt spotlights local and up-and-coming…

  • 3rd & Lindsley

    Downtown & the Gulch

    A mainstay of Nashville’s local and independent music scene, 3rd & Lindsley hosts acts ranging from country to alternative rock to funk. Performers hit…

  • First Tennessee Park

    Downtown & the Gulch

    In 2015, baseball returned to the Sulphur Dell area of Nashville, where it had been played from the 1850s to the 1960s. Today the Triple-A Nashville…

  • Bridgestone Arena

    Downtown & the Gulch

    With seating for 20,000, this massive venue on Lower Broadway snags the world's biggest music acts. Adele, Pink, Cher and Garth Brooks have all headlined…

  • Nissan Stadium

    Downtown & the Gulch

    Home of Nashville's own Tennessee Titans, part of the National Football League, this 69,000-seat arena also plays host to stadium-sized concerts and the…

  • Cannery Ballroom

    Downtown & the Gulch

    With a standing-room capacity of 1000, the Cannery is the largest of three live-music venues inside a one-time flour mill and canning factory. Bang your…

  • Nashville Symphony

    Downtown & the Gulch

    Hosts maestros, the local symphony and major pop stars from Randy Travis to Smokey Robinson in the stunning, and beautifully old-fashioned, Schermerhorn…

  • Tennessee Performing Arts Center

    Downtown & the Gulch

    With three great stages, this center is home to the Nashville Ballet, the Nashville Opera and the Tennessee Repertory Theatre. The main draws are Broadway…

  • Stage on Broadway

    Downtown & the Gulch

    Rockin’ and rowdy, the crowd here comes for the whiskey and three levels of dance floors. A huge wall mural depicting some of country’s legends fills one…

  • BB King's Blues Club

    Downtown & the Gulch

    Watch live jazz and blues in this downtown cathedral of sound, complete with stained-glass windows and folk-art portraits of the 'saints': Johnny Cash,…

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