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Graff: To me, it’s a piece of the de-profession alization of teaching, which is rooted in antiintellectualism, classism and misogyny. To tell a field that’s largely working-class women that they are the dumbest people to come out of their college …
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“This is not Metro-bashing,” says Adams. “This is just coming from educators who are passionate about what we do. Because if we didn’t care, if we didn’t love our district, we just wouldn’t be here.”
[Arnn] has a vested interest in the de-pro fessionalization of education. He’s opening up charter schools that he wants to staff with the cheapest staff possible. In this situation, it’s to make it as streamlined, as cheap as possible. They want schools to look like that in Tennes see, where they can do and say whatever they want and have no community accountability. It’s scary to me, it feels like private schools in the desegregation era.
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Vadas: And then when you’re told you’re go ing to get your raise on July 1, people change their place of living. They may change their retirement allotment. And now they tell us it
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The list of major obstacles for teachers is daunting: global pandemic, remote learning, the skyrocketing cost of living, a confidant of the governor assailing their education, Uvalde and school security issues, crushing poverty for some students, unfilled teaching positions, high turnover, and burnout. Toss in a payroll snafu by Metro Nashville Public Schools, in which many teachers were either not paid or underpaid at the beginning of the school year, and you begin to understand the incredible amount of stress teachers are under today. We invited three educators to talk about their experiences in detail: Quanita Adams, a math teacher at Pearl Cohn High School (17 years of experience); Kelly Ann Graff, an English language arts teacher at Thurgood Marshall Middle School (three years); and Natalie Vadas, a special education English teacher at Murrell School (14 years). And in spite of their candor about the problems they face, all three emphasized how much they love their jobs and schools.
was supposed to happen this check or the next check, or maybe they don’t have answers. So now people are overdrawn on their accounts, taking on credit card debt, extra jobs. So like, on top of that. They can’t tell us when we’re gonna get paid? So to start July 1, we did this [personal development course], we should get paid on that. And for some of us, that’s thou sands of dollars difference between our steps.
Adams: ... There’s not affordable housing — I’m hanging on by a thread. So every time Metro says they’re gonna give a raise, and then you’re like, “Whoa, there’s some relief,” and then they wait. And you don’t know, and you don’t know what it’s gonna look like on your check. Because you don’t know if they’re going to raise insurance. And that is hard, to make everyday-living decisions when my check doesn’t match. It’s really hard.
Vadas: It’s more than just the state, it’s the nation at this point. It’s so underfunded. And it’s been for years. And now they’re like, “Oh, no!” What do you think has been happening?
Graff: One of my co-workers worked in Nashville schools before, but is new to our building, new to the public school system. Teaching eighth grade, which we know is a challenge. He didn’t have a laptop, he didn’t have curriculum. He had no resources on his first day of teaching. And he didn’t get paid for a whole month.These are things that push teachers out. These are the reasons why teachers leave during the school year, because their basic needs are not being met.
Adams: They’re not talking about the craft of education, right, talking about the state’s investment in education. That’s how I looked at [Arnn’s comments].
But to the point of where are we educating teachers? I think to some degree, that’s not incorrect.Butwhen you look at policy as a whole, like teacher colleges, for years, were pushing the readers-and-writers workshop framework, you have this whole way of teaching reading and balanced literacy. It was pushed every where. And this goes with Pearson, this goes with all the big publishers that get into the schools and push this narrative. And then the pendulum swings the other way. Now we’re in the “science of reading,” which is teaching them the spelling patterns, discreetly and distinctly teaching them, “This is the spelling patterns. This is the phonics behind it.” This is why you have to teach them how, where I actu ally picked up on it as a kid, you guys might as well. But if you’re not that natural person that will pick up on it as you go. You need to be taught in patterns.
Adams: We have high turnover rates. We’re in 37208. And so whatever the news articles say about 37208 [editor’s note: the ZIP code has one of the highest incarceration rates in the country], there’s an inequity in our school, like we probably have a 60 percent new staff. We have young, inexperienced, Teach for America teachers, and our school, in the dis trict, we’re in the bottom. Our students are slated to be “below basic” on all of their tests.
Vadas: I’ve never been in a school [like Mur rell] with so many people that have multiple master’s degrees and doctorates.
And we say affordable housing … afford able for who? What does that mean? How do you protect the citizens of Nashville? Be cause what I see happening is we say, “Metro teachers are the highest paid.” But if you’re pushing out the people who are already here, then who are you giving this money to now, who’s getting the highest pay? It’s not going to be me, because I can’t afford to live here. If something were to happen to my kid, or my car would break down, it would not be a great situation for me.
Vadas: I can’t even afford to have my own children if I wanted them. I mean, that’s the reality check that I’ve had to have myself. It’s exactly what you said. It’s hard that you have to choose between something you’re so good at and passionate about, and trying to afford to live.Because half of your paycheck, and then utilities and electric and food, is going to just the place you’re living in. And you’re just try ing to take care of, you know, helping other kids. Our school is all these kids full of trauma. I got a job offer from a company, and they were ready to hire me on the spot. But then I think of my kids that come from huge trauma backgrounds, with these kids at Murrell. And it was like it was the first week of school. I just bonded with some of these kids, some of them come out of residential care. Some of them come out of such horrific experiences, and it’s like, I can’t walk out on them. Right now, I can’t be another person to walk out on them. I can’t do it.
All three: No.
GOV. BILL LEE AND HILLSDALE PRESIDENT LARRY ARNN WERE CAUGHT ON VIDEO AND RECEIVED A LOT OF CRITICISM FOR ARNN’S STATEMENT THAT “TEACHERS COME FROM THE DUMBEST PARTS OF COLLEGES.” DO YOU FEEL LIKE THE GOVERNOR SUPPORTS TEACHERS?
Graff: If you make it five years, you get to your next step raise, the economy has moved way past 2.4 percent [inflation].
Graff: I’m dipping into savings every single month. I’m in the red every month.
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And so I am concerned that I serve this community, I provide a service to our stu dents. I stay after school for games, I get to school early to watch other people’s children, I don’t have time to watch my own children. But I cannot afford to live in the city, even though you’re asking me to take care of the children of this city.
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alk with a Nashville public school teacher for five min utes, and the first thing that strikes you is the amount of commitment it must take to do the job right now.
IN A RELATIVELY SHORT TIME, NASHVILLE HAS GONE FROM BEING ONE OF THE MOST AFFORD ABLE MAJOR CITIES TO BEING A RELATIVELY UNAFFORDABLE PLACE TO LIVE. DO YOU RENT OR OWN? WHERE DO YOU LIVE? COULD YOU AF FORD TO BUY A HOUSE IN THIS MARKET? DOES THAT HAVE AN EFFECT ON HIRING TEACHERS AND ON YOUR PROFESSIONAL PATH?
Adams: We spend all of our money giving it to schools. We spend money to do our craft, that’s, you know, if I want to make a decent living, I get to take out a lot of student loans. I won Teacherpreneur [a program from the Nashville Public Education Foundation], and it was like $10,000. And I’m so sad to say, you know, that just provided a couple of months of relief.
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I’ve worked in lots of schools before in dif ferent counties. And when I came into Metro, it’s really heartbreaking to see the lack of care for our school and our students. They’re mar ginalized. Probably 98 percent African Ameri can. We don’t have an experienced staff. I am one of the most experienced people in the building. In terms of teaching in classrooms, we probably have three or four teachers that have 15-plus years. Everybody else, two to three years of teaching. And our students are supposed to do well on tests?
Vadas: That’s why I did Promising Scholars [a summer program].
Vadas: The cost-of-living [adjustment] needs to be at least 10 [percent]. At the end of it, our insurance has gone up nine.
Vadas: Isn’t Bill Lee’s wife a teacher? Did I read that somewhere? [Editor’s note: Maria Lee was a third- and fourth-grade teacher and studied elementary education at the Univer sity of Maryland.] So I don’t know what’s up with her when she sits next to him still. But I would love to invite Larry Arnn into my room and see if he thinks anyone can teach.
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iz Nix is an avid kayaker. On weekend mornings, she and her husband often paddle to the islands on Percy Priest Lake to share a coffee on the beach. “It’s such a unique op portunity, to be able to paddle out there, sit on that little spit of land, and really just enjoy the whole lake,” she says.
Mary Clark, the head of outreach for Friends of Cook, has lived in the Nashville area her whole life. She grew up camping at Cook during the summer, and she still lives close by. She’s decisive and passionate. When we meet on Zoom, she shares photos of rede veloped areas of Percy Priest Lake that have a public-private partnership with the corps. In aerial shots of Nashville Shores and Elm Hill Marina, she points out loss of tree cover and habitat, paid entrances and pavement where grass once “Everyonegrew.said, ‘Don’t bother, you can’t go up against the corps,’ ” says Clark. But Friends of Cook persisted: They assembled a steering committee and held public forums, eventually getting Mayor John Cooper and the Metro government involved.
While plans for a public-private partnership have been scrapped, there are still concerns about who gets to enjoy this part of Percy Priest Lake
Accessibility is admittedly more complex than an entrance fee or a gate. But at Cook Recreation Area, it’s still possible to simply pull up to the lakeside park to swim, hike and walk — all for free.
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On Feb. 17, the Army Corps of Engineers released a statement saying it would no longer be accepting proposals for leasing the area.
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Greg Thomas, Percy Priest Lake’s resource manager, says several organizations had contacted the corps with proposals. But many included “significant environmental impact … so those did not make the cut.”
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Soon after the announcement, a group of citizens started organizing to keep the area public. Many were concerned with protecting the unique environmental features of Cook, like the cedar groves and small mammal habitats. Others wanted to maintain equitable, free access to green spaces. The group wrote letters to the corps and gathered 1,500 petition
The corps’ situation is unique because its budget is determined by the federal govern ment, and it doesn’t keep any revenue from paid recreation areas. That’s where partner ships can be useful: In areas like Long Hunter State Park, the corps can still own the land but
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signatures. Nix, a former city planner, became a member of the board. This group now calls itself Friends of Cook Recreation Area.
“The housing that will be built out there — if our market is any indication, it’s going to be incredibly expensive housing,” she says.
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Since the land will remain public, remov ing barriers to access is a large part of Clark’s plan for Friends of Cook. “Cook is a place that does not discriminate,” she says. “To be able to coexist peacefully in nature is so precious, and it’s so important for our mental health. To be able to provide equitable access to that type of place, I think it’s just fundamental for any area. But particularly for Nashville.”
But behind the conversations around Cook’s future, a larger, pressing question looms. As
The debate around Cook — and the corps’ proposal for private-public partnership — comes in response to a trend of increased visitation at the lake. According to data shared by the corps, Percy Priest Lake had 4,327,111 recorded visitors in 2021. That’s about 200,000 more than in 2019.
Thomas says that of the lakeside parks, Cook Recreation Area and Anderson Road Campground saw the largest traffic increases. At Anderson Road, “most every weekend in the summertime we actually turn people away. We’ve always had to do that, but it’s increased, so we’re turning more people away. When our parking lots get full, then our rang ers will go out to the front and literally start turning traffic. We’ve had to turn traffic for three, four, sometimes five hours a day.”
pass on its management to another entity (in Long Hunter’s case, the Tennessee State Parks system).Though
So if these spaces experience increased visitation, couldn’t the corps just build bigger parking lots? Well, not exactly. “We’ve got that in our budget,” says Thomas. “But our recre ation dollars have pretty much been flatlined over the past several years.”
there isn’t data on what’s causing increased lake visitation, Thomas and others suggest that it’s a combination of two factors: COVID-19 encouraging outdoor hobbies, and new development bringing more people to the city — and to the areas near Cook. Within three miles of Cook Recreation Area, there are several new residential developments, including Edison of Riverwood and Story Her mitage. These two residences alone include 672Metrounits.Councilmember
Roughly two years ago, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — the governing body that manages Percy Priest Lake — circulated a notice listing Cook’s land for private-public partnership. The corps has similar lease ar rangements on other nearby parts of the lake, like Nashville Shores (leased by Premier Parks LLC) and Elm Hill Marina.
Erin Evans repre sents District 12, where Cook is located. She says the new development “adds a layer of complexity” to preservation efforts. New con struction will “draw interest to the property,” she says. “You’ll really have people who can walk there — it’ll feel like an extension of their backyard.”Evanssays
Increased rental prices in Hermitage could make places like Cook “a lot more accessible to people with means rather than people who [Friends of Cook] were maybe striving to keep it available for,” says Evans. Edison of River wood lists its 734-square-foot, one-bedroom apartments for $1,514 per month. The Ar bours of Hermitage, another nearby complex, lists its 770-foot, one-bedroom units for $1,357 to $1,746 per month. Those prices are slightly beneath the city average for one-bedroom apartments, but still far from the most afford able in the city.
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“Well, none of them made the cut,” says Thomas.Whenthe corps resolved to keep Cook pub lic, Friends of Cook were thrilled. “The corps heard the people, and the people won,” one or ganizer told Tennessee Lookout in February.
housing development near Cook makes equitable access more complex too.
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Nix has lived near Percy Priest for 12 years. She usually starts her kayak trips from Cook Recreation Area, a public section of the lake a few miles from her home. Since 1968, the 300-acre parcel of government-owned land has been open to the public.
A study conducted by parks, NDOT and Metro Legal followed in an effort to determine safety considerations related to the operation of e-bikes on greenways. The Greenways for Nashville Commission then recommended that no changes be made to local regulations regarding e-bikes, saying, “There is not cur rently sufficient information to determine that e-bike usage on greenways is unsafe.”
“However, e-bikes being allowed in parks and on greenways and the issues with BCycle, a private, for-profit, revenue-generating busi ness, are two entirely different matters. …
A study released in August found that, of 50 major U.S. cities surveyed, Nashville was the fourth-worst city for cyclists. Parker points to the city’s lack of a “low-stress bike network,” which is essentially places where cyclists can ride without fear of getting hit by a car.
“We’re working to make the rest of our streets better and lower-stress, but for right now, some folks are only comfortable riding in the greenways,” says Parker.
Per Tennessee state law, class 1 and 2 ebikes are allowed in all of the same places normal bikes are, and a clarification in sum mer 2021 determined that Metro Parks’ rule prohibiting motorized vehicles did not apply to e-bikes.Inthepast year, there has been a back-andforth between the parks department, NDOT and Metro councilmembers over e-bike us age, culminating in last week’s developments.
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“I tell you, it has an impact for the upcom ing East Bank legislation,” At-Large Metro Councilmember Bob Mendes tells the Scene, adding that until Metro Parks changes its po sition on e-bikes, he will never vote on a plan giving them any control over space on the East“AsBank.long as the parks department has key personnel that are resisting e-bikes, then they shouldn’t be in charge of a single shred of new greenway or park space on [the] East Bank,” Mendes says. “I’m not personally go ing to vote for something that I can’t ride my e-bikeMendesthrough.”callsthe situation “ridiculous” and a result of “the mayor’s office letting there be two different departments with different visions.”“Themayor’s office has never taken a posi tion, ever, about this, and that lack of leader ship is showing in the dysfunction that’s going on,” Mendes says.
superintendent of community affairs for the Metro Board of Parks and Recreation.
The reason the BCycle bikes have been re moved is that there is no contract with Metro Parks for this operation.
When asked for comment, a mayor’s office spokesperson directed the Scene to Metro Parks.“Several BCycle stands are being relo cated from Parks to other locations across the city, as Metro works towards a long-term solution that will increase access to bike share for all residents,” the parks spokesper son says. “We are excited about the potential to work with our partners at NDOT to offer a great program to residents of Nashville/ Davidson County. We wholeheartedly believe a bike share program would be a great asset to this city.”
And while the only way e-bikes could be banned from greenways is through a Metro Council ordinance, Mendes says Metro Parks has not shifted its position on the popular mode of transportation.
“Nashville feels like it’s made for cars,” says Adam Devries, a Nashville resident who says that the inconsistency of bike lanes makes his e-bike commute “so dangerous.”
Says Councilmember Bob Mendes, ‘ridiculous’ situation can be blamed on inaction by mayor’s office
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“Having the bikes available for rental on park property without approval presents a significant liability for taxpayers and the department,” Jones continues. “Please know we believe a Metro-wide bike share program would be a great asset to our city. We are excited about the potential to participate in developing an RFP and helping to select a vendor(s) to offer a great bike share program to the city.”
On Friday afternoon, after the initial version of this story ran online, the Scene received a statement from Jackie Jones,
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“Greenways are linear parks that provide opportunities for recreation and alternative transportation for our citizens,” says Jones.
“It’s hugely disappointing,” says Metro Councilmember Sean Parker, one of the 15 councilmembers who signed on to Mendes’ letter last year. “It’s a big loss for mobility in Nashville.”Withoutthe e-bike stations on greenways, Parker says, it will now be more difficult for older people and people with disabilities to “experience more of the parks.” Aside from this more recreational use, Parker says that e-bike usage on greenways is important for those who use bikes for transit.
etro Parks earlier this month moved to shut down nine e-bike stations operated by BCycle on Nashville greenways, an escalation in an ongoing battle over e-bike usage in the city.
In July 2021, Mendes wrote a letter to the Board of Parks and Recreation, co-signed by 15 other councilmembers, encouraging Metro Parks to support the use of e-bikes on greenways. In the letter, Mendes states that allowing e-bikes on greenways “will improve our transportation system and give Nashville residents the same opportunities that citizens in most other cities already enjoy.”
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Devries says a lack of bike lanes makes the use of greenways for transit even more important.“Rather than constrict where people can ride their bike, maybe make bike riding more available in other places,” he says.
BCycle general manager Elese Daniel says the company was working with the Nashville Department of Transportation to find new locations for the stations.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21: MIRROR HOUSE, FEATURING DREAM CHAMBERS, KATILYN RAITZ, LOIE RAWDING AND MAXWELL PUTNAM, 7 p.m. at Tempo, 2179 Nolensville Pike
TUESDAY, NOV. 8: ROSS GAY, author of Inciting Joy, in coversation with Adam Ross, 6:30 p.m. at Parnassus Books
For our annual Fall Guide, we at the Scene have gathered details on some of most promising visual arts, performing arts, books, music, food, film and community events set to take place this season — not to mention some Bell Witch-related spooky-season happenings up in Adams, Tenn. Dive in, and keep an eye on event websites as the season progresses. Schedules for events listed in this issue are subject to change.
SATURDAY, NOV. 5: SARAJANE CASE, author of The Enneagram Letters: A Poetic Exploration of Who You Thought You Had to Be, 4 p.m. at The Bookshop, 1043 W. Eastland Ave.
THURSDAY, OCT. 20: THE BOOKSHOP’S SPOOKY BOOKS AND BEER: A BOOK FAIR FOR GROWNUPS, 6-9 p.m. at East Nashville Beer Works, 320 E. Trinity Lane
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MONDAY, NOV. 21: SONGS & STORIES WITH PATTI SMITH, author of A Book of Days, 7 p.m. at OZ Arts, 6172 Cockrill Bend Circle ■
The temperature is dropping. The leaves are falling. Spirit Halloween stores have sprung back to life all across the land, and the scent of pumpkin spice fills the air.
MONDAY, OCT. 10: ELIZABETH McCRACKEN, author of The Hero of This Book, in conversation with Ann Patchett, 6:30 p.m. at Parnassus Books
he 34th annual Southern Festival of Books will take place Oct. 14 through 16 — live and in person for the first time since 2019! Stay tuned for our extensive coverage of the fest in the Oct. 6 issue of the Scene. Standouts in the author lineup include Joshua Cohen, Imani Perry, Jami Attenberg and my personal journalism heartthrob, Patrick Radden Keefe.
The Southern Festival of Books and a veritable smorgasbord of author events will stock your to-be-read stack sky-high this season
SUNDAY, OCT. 23: JON MEACHAM, author of And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle, 2 p.m. at Montgomery Bell Academy, Paschall Theater, 4001 Harding Pike
THURSDAY, SEPT. 22: MALAKA GHARIB, author of It Won’t Always Be Like This, in conversation with Yurina Yoshikawa, 6:30 p.m. at Parnassus Books
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FROM FESTIVALS AND MARKETS TO CONCERTS, THEATER, FILMS AND MORE, HERE ARE SOME OF AUTUMN’SHAPPENINGSBEST GuideFall
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12: MAGGIE O’FARRELL, author of The Marriage Portrait, in conversation with Ann Patchett, 7 p.m. at Parnassus Books
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9: BIRTHING THE BOOK: A CONVERSATION WITH ADRIA BERNARDI, 7 p.m. at The Porch Writers’ Collective, 2811 Dogwood Place
Following that, our local shops and lit groups have packed the calendar with author events and reasons to add to your to-be-read shelf, all culminating in Songs & Stories With Patti Smith in November. Here’s a list of some of the fall’s best literary events. Some Parnassus Books events are ticketed and require preregistration, so be sure to check out the calendar at parnassusbooks.net first.
The drive to Adams from Nashville is one of the region’s loveliest, as you wind through hills and past weathered tobacco barns. Leave enough time to skip the interstate and take the scenic route.
SEPT. 16-17: NASHVILLE COCKTAIL FESTIVAL, Centennial Park, 2500 West End Ave., northwest corner
OCT. 6-9: NASHVILLE OKTOBERFEST, Bicentennial Mall, 600 James Robertson Parkway
OCT. 7-9: FALL TENNESSEE CRAFT FAIR, Centennial Park, 2500 West End Ave.
OCT. 14-30: BOO AT THE ZOO, 5-9 p.m. at the Nashville Zoo, 3777 Nolensville Pike
SEPT. 29-OCT. 1: NASHVILLE WHISKEY FESTIVAL, Omni Hotel Nashville, 250 Rep. John Lewis Way S.
hy spend the upcoming spooky season being entertained by manufactured spirits when you can learn about — and maybe even experience — one who once lived in Middle Tennessee?
OCT. 8: TOUCH OF BREWS, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. at Sevier Park, 3021 Lealand Lane
OCT. 15: NASHVILLE DOG DAY FESTIVAL, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Centennial Park, 2500 West End Ave.
NOV. 3: HARVEST TABLE: A FARM TO TABLE EXPERIENCE, 6 p.m. at The Bridge Building Event Space, 2 Victory Ave.
SEPT. 18 & OCT. 16: JAZZ ON THE CUMBERLAND, 5:30-8 p.m. at Nashville Cumberland Park, 592 S. First St.
important events that took place in the area. The monthlong festival kicks off with Red River Tales, a one-day free event with live music, storytelling about Robertson County and more. Red River Tales starts at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 25. Next up is the acclaimed bluegrass musical Smoke, which focuses on the tobacco wars of the early 1900s. That will run Sept. 29 through Oct. 8.
OCT. 15: JOSH BLACK’S GOOD VIBEZ FESTIVAL, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Buchanan Street
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A roundup of this season’s coming food, vendor and cultural fairs, markets and festivals
Fall Festival — a festival of theater, not one with rides and games — is performed on the grounds of the former Bell property. “Doing a show on Bell family property means you are really immersed in creepiness,” Veglio says. “You learn so much history, and being there and hearing this true story really makes you feel like you are part of it.”
programming, such as hayrides, both regular and haunted. The tours cover the history of the Bell family. Hayrides go by a Native American burial ground and recount some of the history of the Indigenous communities of the area. You can also book special evening tours for your group.
OCT. 4: TASTE OF WEST NASHVILLE, 5:308:30 p.m., Fat Bottom Brewing Co., 800 44th Ave. N.
OCT. 15, 22 & 29: 12SOUTH JAMBOREE, Sevier Park, 3021 Lealand Lane
OCT.15: NASHVILLE LIGHT THE NATIONS, 2-10 p.m. at 51st Ave. N.
OCT. 7: NASHVILLE BLACK MARKET’S FIRST FRIDAY MARKET, 6-10 p.m. at the Nashville Farmers’ Market, 900 Rosa L. Parks Blvd.
OCT. 29: PUMPKIN FEST, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at Downtown Franklin, Main St.
Veglio encourages festivalgoers to come early and take a cave tour and then stay for the show, buying tickets in advance for each event separately. The festival performances are in an open-air setting, so dress appropriately, with layers for weather
SEPT. 24: FALL GODDESS CRAFT MARKET, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at Riverside Revival, 1600 Riverside Drive
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OCT. 15: NASHVILLE SCENE’S BEST OF NASHVILLE FESTIVAL, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at Walk of Fame Park, 121 Fourth Ave. S.
NOV. 5-6: CRAFTY BASTARDS ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIR, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at OneC1ty, 8 City Blvd.
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Also on the property but unaffiliated with the festival are the Historic Bell Witch Cave and John Bell Cabin tours, which are offered year-round. (Note that during or after heavy rains the cave may flood, and therefore tours may not take place.) In honor of the spooky season, for the whole month of October the site offers expanded hours (an 11 p.m. Saturday lantern cave tour for the brave, for example) and additional
It’s autumn, and that means it’s time to revisit the legend of the Bell Witch. In the early 1800s, legend goes, a woman named Kate Batts lived in Adams, Tenn., and she believed her neighbor, John Bell, cheated her in a land deal. She vowed to haunt him and his descendants from then on. According to lore, her ghost did just that, haunting the Bell family even after they moved away. Some believe the ghost, called the Bell Witch, even killed John Bell. She was never seen, but stories abound about her throwing objects, pulling hair and more. She was so feared that Andrew Jackson reportedly refused to stay with his troops on the Bell Farm.
NOV. 4: YAZOO COMEDY HOUR, 8 p.m. at Yazoo Brewing Co., 900 River Bluff Drive
NOV. 5: WINE DOWN MAIN STREET, 7-10 p.m. at Downtown Franklin Association, 207 E. Main St., Franklin
SEPT. 17: NASHVILLE FOOD FAIRE, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at OneC1ty, 8 City Blvd.
The monthlong Bell Witch Fall Festival returns to Adams as the haunting season arrives
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SEPT. 17: BE GOOD MARKET FOR ABORTION CARE TENNESSEE, 3-9 p.m. at Hearts Nashville, 914 Gallatin Ave.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the mounting of the play Spirit: The Authentic History of the Bell Witch, which will run Oct. 13 through 22. The show, written by playwright (and Adams native) David Alford, is based on the journal of Richard Williams Bell, which is believed to be the only eyewitness account of the 19thcenturyFestivalhauntings.producer
The town of Adams has kept the lore of the Bell Witch alive. This autumn, Adams will host its Bell Witch Fall Festival after a two-year pandemic hiatus. Between Sept. 25 and Oct. 22, Adams — which is 40 miles northwest of downtown Nashville — will mount three separate productions commemorating the Bell Witch and other
Katie Veglio didn’t grow up in Adams, but she’s been working on the festival for eight years. While she admits she was initially cynical about the veracity of the Bell Witch story, she was captivated by the people of Adams. After she had her first experience with the Bell Witch (which, she says, included lights going off to prevent furniture from being moved), she says, “I felt like I was part of thisThecommunity.”BellWitch
… or in case you get a chill down your spine. (Alcohol is not permitted at the festival.)
Buy festival tickets online at bellwitchfallfestival.com for $25-$30 each. Find cave tour times and other information at bellwitchcave.com. Prices for daytime hayrides are $8, and $20 for nighttime haunted rides. Cave tours cost $15-$23.■
OCT. 6: WHISKEY, WINE AND CIDER FESTIVAL, 5:30-9 p.m. at The Bedford Nashville Event Venue, 4319 Sidco Drive
OCT. 15: TENNESSEE BEER, WINE AND SHINE FESTIVAL, noon-5 p.m. at Two Rivers Mansion, 3130 McGavock Pike
NOV. 11-13: CHRISTMAS VILLAGE, The Fairgrounds Nashville, 500 Wedgewood Ave.
SEPT. 24: TENNESSEE HONEY FESTIVAL, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, 600 James Robertson Parkway
OCT. 21-23: NASHVILLE GREEK FESTIVAL, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 4905 Franklin Pike, South Nashville
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Megan Murphy Chambers, Matthew Rose, Melinda Sewak, Tamara Todres, Inez VegaRomero, Jennifer Whitcomb-Oliva and Ayla Williams.“There’s so much talent and heart in this group,” Kays says. “It’s been wonderful to see the different generations connect — rec ognizing one another and inviting each other in. And it’s also interesting to see how much of themselves and their own experiences these actors are bringing to the work.”
Ensemble’s When We Were Young and Unafraid, Nov. 4-13 at Actors Bridge Studio
“I really like the fact that this is a com munity space with a history all its own,” she says. “After all, the play is largely set in a public space or meeting hall, so I feel like this venue has the potential to lift up and re ally support the story. And my hope is that having the audience there, with us in that space, will make them feel like part of the conversation.”■
Live in Studio A, Nov. 4-13 at The Martin Center for Nashville Ballet
cclaimed British playwright Lucy Kirkwood (Chimerica, The ) is known for writing about big issues and big ideas. So it’s particularly satisfying to have her hard-hitting play The Welkin receive its U.S. Nashvillecourtesypremiereof
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Hadestown, Nov. 1-6 at TPAC’s Andrew Jackson Hall
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Kays says she is happy to be back in Nashville, having directed NSG’s excellent Love Song
Bone Hill, Dec. 2-3 at OZ Arts (ozartsnashville.org)
experience The Welkin at Riverside Revival — a former church that has been reimag ined as a state-of-the-art event space.
Nashville Rep’s The Cake, Oct. 21-30 at TPAC’s An drew Johnson Theater (nashvillerep.org)
Nashville Opera’s The Medium, Oct. 28-30 at the Noah Liff Opera Center (nashvilleopera.org)
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Nashville Opera’s La Bohème, Sept. 22-24 at TPAC’s Jackson Hall (nashvilleopera.org)
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“[Kirkwood] gets into the minutia of these women’s day-to-day lives, and it’s through that lens that she’s able to ask these really big questions about what makes us human,” Kays continues. “It’s not just a female story — it’s a very human story. And it might seem heavy at first, but there’s such lightness in the way these women connect and interact. There’s such specificity in these characters that you in stantly recognize them. It’s like, ‘Oh yeah, these are definitely people I know.’ ”
Nashville Ballet’s Cinderella, Oct. 6-9 at TPAC’s James K. Polk Theater (nashvilleballet.com)
“The play may be set in 1759, but it’s not homework,” says director Halena Kays, citing the work’s darkly compelling humor and surprisingly modern themes. “I really don’t see it as a historical piece. To me, it’s more of a thriller — a page-turner. There’s so much insight into what has and hasn’t changed for women over these many years. And it takes a tough look at the way society sees and values the work that we do.
That cast feels a bit like a who’s-who of local talent, including Rachel Agee, Jessica Anderson, Lauren Berst, Rona Carter, Diego Gomez, Destinee Monét Johnson, CandaceOmnira LaFayette, Melodie Madden Adams,
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“I’ve always been so impressed by the wealth of acting talent here in Nashville,” says Kays, a Chicago-based director, de viser, performer and educator. She served as an assistant professor of directing at MTSU before becoming an assistant pro fessor of graduate directing and acting at Northwestern University in 2018. “Nashville Story Garden has built a real community of actors, and we’re fortunate to have such an incredible cast.”
Nashville Story Garden presents the U.S. premiere of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin
Set in 18th-century England, The Welkin centers on Sally Poppy, a young woman who has been sentenced to die for the grisly murder of a child. But when she claims to be pregnant, a “jury of matrons” is taken from their household duties to determine whether Poppy is telling the truth, or simply looking to save her own skin. It’s an ambitious tale, to be sure. And as always, Kirkwood is eager to dig into larger issues of truth, power and
A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham’s An Untitled Love, Oct. 2022 at OZ Arts (ozartsnashville.org)
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OCT. 7-12: YOU GOT GOLD — A CELEBRATION OF JOHN PRINE
OCT. 1: LIL NAS X AT MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM
NOV. 16: ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND EMMA SWIFT AT THE BASEMENT
musicians across a broad spectrum of traditions, including Ivory Coast-born and Nashville-residing country-folk songsmith Peter One, New Orleans singer-songwritercomposer Leyla McCalla, Cuban funk maestro Cimafunk (who has his own show at Exit/In on Oct. 22) and more.
It feels like an eternity since “Old Town Road” dominated the world in 2019. COVID lockdown scrapped any chance of 2020 being the year in which Atlanta rapper Lil Nas X — whose country-trap megahit lit a fire under the discourse about Black artists’ vital contributions to country music — put on a triumphant arena tour. Reports suggest he’s making up for it now, with a massive production presented as a three-act play.
Since 2015, widely loved U.K.-born folkpsych-rock songsmith Robyn Hitchcock has lived at least part time in Nashville with musical and life partner — and excellent singer-songwriter — Emma Swift. In October, the pair’s homegrown label Tiny Ghost will release Hitchcock’s latest LP Shufflemania!, which reflects on embracing chaos and features contributions from heaps of friends. Hitchcock and Swift return to their adopted hometown for individual shows on the same night at The Basement; Swift plays at 7 p.m. and Hitchcock at 9.
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The infernal pandemic robbed fans, friends and family of songwriter’s songwriter and singular human John Prine, as well as an opportunity to mourn him together. The You Got Gold event series — organized last year by Prine’s family and his independent label Oh Boy, benefiting the new nonprofit Hello in There Foundation — was postponed thanks to the Delta variant. But finally, there will be five days of picking and singing, at venues ranging from the Ryman to Brown’s Diner. Many in-person events are sold out already, but livestream options are available; see yougotgold.johnprine.com.
OCT. 28: THE JUDDS: THE FINAL TOUR FEATURING WYNONNA AT BRIDGESTONE ARENA
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The family-friendly Franklin fest is back with outstanding singer-songwriters Chris Stapleton and Brandi Carlile topping the bill. Other standouts in the broad country-’grassAmericana spectrum include Brittney Spencer, Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway, and Rosie Flores. There’s plenty more to intrigue you, including New Orleans-born multihyphenate Jon Batiste, blues queen Adia Victoria, fingerstyle guitar master Yasmin Williams and Tex-Mex accordion hero Santiago Jiménez Jr. — among many more.
From Lizzo to Jason Isbell and beyond, the fall concert calendar is overflowing
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One of the finest traditions established in Nashville in the past decade returns with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s residency at the Mother Church, extended this year to eight nights. Not only does the group make the hallowed hall sorta like their living room, but they also push back against the lack of support that nonwhite people often face in the music business. In addition to superb songsmith Amanda Shires, this year’s opening acts are Black and brown
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Back in 2019, when Lizzo took her rightful place as a household name with her inclusive brand of powerfully danceable pop, the singer-songwriter-rapper-flautist graced Nashville with three shows. She would have been the first woman to headline Bonnaroo, were it not for the pandemic in 2020 and Hurricane Ida in 2021. The tour following her hit LP Special brings her back to Music City to unleash her talent at full arena scale.
SEPT. 24 AND 25: PILGRIMAGE MUSIC AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL AT THE PARK AT HARLINSDALE FARM
Word came in March that revered Elliston Place club Exit/In, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in business last year, was holding off on booking shows after Thanksgiving. Proprietors Chris and Telisha Cobb, who’ve been involved with the venue since the Aughts, cited uncertainty about whether new property owner AJ Capital Partners would renew their lease. Neither party has released a further statement, but the November calendar is packed with outstanding shows, including Government Cheese and Jason Ringenberg’s Nov. 11 date, billed as a farewell to the venue. The final three dates listed are headlined by local rock bands that became internationally renowned after selling out Exit/In multiple times along the way. Tickets for JEFF the Brotherhood’s Nov. 21 gig were still available at press time, while Diarrhea Planet’s Nov. 22 and 23 shows — their first headlining appearances since their 2018 series of farewell shows at Exit/In — have sold out.
Chicago has historically been home to a wide variety of wildly creative musicians like singer-rapper-producer NNAMDÏ, whose work runs the gamut from hip-hop to dance music to jazz — often as not, in the same song. He’s said that his forthcoming LP Please Have a Seat is inspired by making time to take stock of his musical goals. Hear it for yourself when he wraps up his tour with a stop at Drkmttr.
NOV. 21-23: JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD AND DIARRHEA PLANET AT EXIT/IN
Country star Maren Morris’ music is reason enough to catch the homecoming show on her tour following her latest LP Humble Quest. If you needed another reason to go, Morris has been in the news recently for saying something that should be a given, but definitely isn’t: Black and brown people and members of the LGBTQ community belong at the big table that country music ought to be — despite transphobic posts from Brittany Aldean, wife of Morris’ fellow country singer Jason Aldean. ■
OCT. 23: LIZZO AT BRIDGESTONE ARENA
The Shindellas, rockers Nordista Freeze, country singer Valerie Ponzio and more. A fall market is planned for Oct. 22 and 23; no word yet on whether there will be music.
If you went to at least a few noise shows at Betty’s or at houses around the Midstate in the Aughts, Wolf Eyes might not seem completely alien to you. Even so, the often-chaotic and ominous sounds of the venerable Detroit experimental rock outfit may still feel a bit confusing or even offputting; however, it’s all part of the plan. They’ll return to Third Man slimmed down to a duo with all-new methods of sonic mayhem.
NPR listeners have probably heard of Los Angeles singer, songwriter and violinist Sudan Archives. Here’s a great opportunity to see her work her magic in person, with bold, rich songs and sounds inspired by traditions from several different regions of Africa, American R&B and more.
OCT. 19: SUDAN ARCHIVES AT THE BASEMENT EAST
Fans, friends and family were devastated to learn that Naomi Judd, who was half of one of the best and most influential duos in country music, died by suicide in April. At a jam-packed and star-studded memorial event at the Ryman, Judd’s daughter and longtime singing partner Wynonna announced that she’d perform the farewell tour that was already on the books. Trisha Yearwood will be Wynonna’s partner for this hometown show.
DEC. 2: MAREN MORRIS AT BRIDGESTONE ARENA
OCT. 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22 AND 23: JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT AT THE RYMAN
SEPT. 16, 17, 23 AND 30: MUSICIANS CORNER’S SEPTEMBER SUNDOWN AT CENTENNIAL PARK
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side from a wave of cancellations and postponements tied to the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in January, it feels like the liveentertainment world has been operating at full tilt this year. In Music City, the trend continues right through the fall. Among the hundreds of concerts and festivals you have to choose from, here are a baker’s dozen that caught our eye.
Three weekends remain in the 2022 run of this excellent free concert series. Friday and Saturday’s installments are programmed in conjunction with AmericanaFest and feature talents like Lilli Lewis and Josh Rouse. Sept. 23, look out for stellar singer-songwriter Erin Rae and popsmith Julia Gomez, among others, and Sept. 30, catch superb R&B girl group
OCT. 14: WOLF EYES AT THE BLUE ROOM AT THIRD MAN RECORDS
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Wendy Walker Silverman’s latest exhibition, The Hive Mind Dreams of Sleep, debuts at Tinney Contemporary on Oct. 15 and runs through Nov. 26. Silverman’s latest is a collection of smalland medium-size acrylic-on-canvas works that vary from chunky geometric abstracts to dense, somewhat biomorphic patterns built of layers of repetitive mark-making. This variety of work reads like Silverman’s been experimenting with new ideas since her last solo show at Tinney back in 2020, and I’m always down for a show full of risks from an established artist who’d rather take her chances growing in the spotlight than simply coasting.
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Black promises more than 100 vendors selling art, clothing and jewelry at the event, and Elephant will host a silent auction to benefit the political organizing of the
YANIRA VISSEPO: IN BETWEEN FLOATING WORLDS OPENING IN OCTOBER AT ELECTRIC SHED, 254 MORTON AVE.
OCT. 15-NOV. 26 AT TINNEY CONTEMPORARY, 237 REP. JOHN LEWIS WAY N.
YOUNIQUE: SOLE STUDIES OPENING IN NOVEMBER AT NKA GALLERY, 915 BUCHANAN ST.
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OCT. 1-29 AT ZEITGEIST, 516 HAGAN ST.
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CYBELLE ELENA: BEACHES OF PURGATORY OPENING OCT. 1 AT COOP GALLERY, 507 HAGAN ST. Coop Gallery wasted no time making use of the new space it took over at The Packing Plant this year. The gallery’s been hosting large group shows, spacious video screenings, and even dance performances at its new digs, and its October program features an immersive installation by local designer and creative director Cybelle Elena. Elena’s Beaches of Purgatory is a cruise down the River Styx through an immersive exhibition that transforms visions of a spiritual afterlife into the nightmare of an eternity spent in a gallery
EAST NASHVILLE PAUL COLLINS: BE STILL AND GIVE YOUR SHADOW A BREAK OPENING IN OCTOBER AT THE RED ARROW GALLERY, 919 GALLATIN AVE
NORTH NASHVILLE GOOD VIBEZ FESTIVAL OCT. 15 ON BUCHANAN STREET; SILENT AUCTION HOSTED AT ELEPHANT GALLERY, 1411 BUCHANAN ST.
TYLER SHIELDS: INDULGENT THROUGH DECEMBER AT BOBBY HOTEL, 230 FOURTH AVE. N.
Tinney’s latest installment of its The Collection at Bobby by Tinney Contemporary series will be hanging around all through the fall until the end of 2022. Tyler Shields’ Indulgent features a selection of the photographer’s sleek and sly images, which combine cinema and fashion photography aesthetics with irreverent narratives to comment on our mediated hyperreality.
THE FUTURE IS FEMALE THROUGH AUGUST 2023 AT 21C MUSEUM HOTEL, 221 SECOND AVE. N.
OCT. 8-JAN. 8 AT CHEEKWOOD, 1200 FORREST PARK
Nashville’s autumn art calendar features gallery happenings across the city
LESLIE HOLT: AN INTIMATE GRAMMAR OPENING OCT. 4 AT DAVID LUSK GALLERY, 516 HAGAN ST.
Leslie Holt brings An Intimate Grammar to David Lusk Gallery on Oct. 4. These conceptual multimedia paintings deploy acrylics, screenprinting, cutouts and embroidery on raw canvas to illuminate and expand upon the colorful brain-scan images that inspire them. This is a show about mental health and medical imaging, but I’m all-in for Holt’s gorgeous stained materials and her two-sided tapestries with embroidered images — the messages appear lucid and clearly stated on one side, but abstracted and fractured on the other.
Nka kicked off the fall season with its September show of Joseph Patrick II’s sleek sexy portraiture, the well-titled Body of Work. Another highlight at Nka will be a show by Nashville-based artist Younique in November. Sole Studies will include a variety of works, including sculpture and film. I’m a big fan of the recent trading card project Younique designed in honor of Nashville hip-hop MC Ron Obasi, and I’m always up for mixed-media exhibitions that demonstrate a discipline unbound by material restraints.
Elephant Gallery and its neighbors will be celebrating all things North Nashville during comedian Josh Black’s Good Vibez Festival on Buchanan Street on Oct. 15.
The biggest show on Nashville’s fall gallery calendar is the resurrection of Art of the South at Zeitgeist, an exhibition series with deep roots and a storied history. Artists Robert McGowan, Don Estes and Cory Dugan founded the art journal Number in Memphis in 1987. The journal grew with help from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, becoming a quarterly edition that covered the entire region — from Arkansas to Florida, Maryland to Texas. Number was a ubiquitous presence in Nashville galleries in the 1990s and early 2000s, but it struggled to outgrow its print model in the digital age, and its academic voice became increasingly less fashionable.Now,Number has moved to Nashville and flipped the script, remaking itself as a digital platform that prints occasional collectible editions under the leadership of interim editor Jon Sewell. Art of the South is an annual regional exhibition and benefit for Number that was organized from 2014-19 before it was derailed by the pandemic. Art of the South has featured a top-notch roster of jurors over the years, including 21c Museum director and chief curator Alice Stites, artist Wayne White, Frist Art Museum chief curator Mark Scala and TriStar Arts director Brian Jobe. This year, 82 artists were chosen by Frist curator Katie Delmez. Middle Tennessee artists on display include Cesar Pita, Dooby Tompkins, Omari Booker, Amelia Briggs, Sai Clayton, Paul Collins, Lindsy Davis, Elise Drake, DaShawn Lewis — and yours truly. The show runs Oct. 1-29. Follow @numberinc on Instagram for special event announcements during the exhibition’s welcome-back tenure at Zeitgeist.
Black Nashville Assembly. Bring the whole family and get in on the act with a pumpkinpainting contest and the creation of a community street mural. The event will take place from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.
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The Red Arrow Gallery hosts Paul Collins’ Be Still and Give Your Shadow a Break for October. This exhibition of monumental book forms, along with a selection of sculptures and paintings, offers the kind of diaristic documentation we’ve come to expect from Collins’ sliceof-life sketches of the everyday. I’m always intrigued by displays that span the borders of sculpture and painting, and Collins’ book displays recontextualize the way exhibited works converse with each other, giving viewers an interactive experience that turns traditional gallery visits into a Choose Your Own Adventure story.
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gift shop. Expect wild sets, props, costumed characters and lots of weird merch. The portal to this late-capitalist limbo opens Oct. 1. For more information, call 615-486-HELL.
Nashville’s art museums and university galleries are filled with impressive, ambitious shows this season
I lucked into an impromptu studio visit with Yanira Vissepo this spring. It was the first time I’d seen the artist’s signature tapestries, which land somewhere in the soft overlapping of painting, printing and textile art. Since then, the artist’s work has been shown in an elevator at 21c Museum and Hotel, and in the main club space at Soho House. In October, Vissepo will open her first show at Electric Shed. The artist’s unique multimedia practice is on brand with the venue’s eclectic programming, and I’m anxious to see how Vissepo will bring her prints into another nontraditional display space. ■
The greatest place to see contemporary art this season is inside a hotel. That’s no surprise to anyone already familiar with 21c Museum Hotels, the boutique chain with outposts throughout an area that, in times before the dismantling of regional hegemony in the art world, was known as flyover states. Thankfully that time is well in the rearview — which is in keeping with the forward-looking view of the exhibition, titled The Future Is Female. An exhibition of contemporary feminist art from across the world — including stellar offerings from Nashvillebased artists Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Jessica Ingram, Jodi Hays, Vadis Turner and Raheleh Filsoofi — the exhibit is broad and inclusive. Curator Alice Stites says as much in her curatorial statement, which references the works of both nonbinary and gender-nonconforming artists. “The use of the self as subject and the prevalence of craft-based practices such as sewing, weaving, embroidery, and appliqué in 21st-century art are central to this legacy [of feminist art].” The show opened in July, and will remain on view at the downtown space through August 2023.
VIRGINIA OVERTON: SAVED OCT. 7-DEC. 31 AT THE FRIST ART MUSEUM, 919 NashvilleBROADWAYnative Virginia Overton makes site-specific work that utilizes reclaimed plywood, refrigerator parts and farm utensils — but her work commands attention from institutions far from her Middle Tennessee farmland home. She has work in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and earlier this year she had an exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA in London, installed a permanent site-specific installation at LaGuardia Airport in New York, and was included in the 59th Venice Biennale. To learn more about the artist, her practice and this show, mark your calendars for Oct. 22, when there will be a conversation between Overton and the director of the Yale Center for British Art Courtney J. Martin.
DependingDRIVE on your age, you were likely introduced to The Addams Family through either the 1960s TV show or the 1990s movies, but the famously morbid and macabre family has origins in the 1930s — that’s when illustrator Charles Addams first began making the single-panel cartoons depicting the darkly comic lives of his titular family. Addams has an outsized influence — Edward Gorey and Tim Burton are among those whose style shows direct inspiration from Addams — and this exhibit of approximately 80 works of ink, gouache and watercolor on paper is sure to delight fans of all things creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky — and just in time for Halloween.
Sept. 29 through Oct. 5, the 53rd installment of the Nashville Film Festival will take place at the Belcourt, TPAC’s Andrew Johnson Theater and the Franklin Theater. Some of this year’s highlights include Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny, which won the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival; the Dolly Partonled documentary Still Working 9 to 5; the LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow doc Butterfly in the Sky; Cannes hit Aftersun; the family drama Acidman starring Thomas Haden Church and Dianna Agron; and well-received Sundance music doc Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011. The festival will be bookended with two music docs. The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile is the opening-night film, set to screen Sept. 29 at 6:30 p.m., and Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues will close things out Oct. 5 at 6 p.m. Both of those screenings are set for the Belcourt. Also: Don’t be surprised if a handful of unexpected screenings pop up on the NaFF schedule out of the fall-festival circuit. The full list of more than 150 films — along with passes for in-person screenings and virtual screenings, as well as details on panels and more — is available at nashvillefilmfestival.org.OverlappingwithNaFF will be this year’s International Black Film Festival, set to take place Sept. 29 through Oct. 2 at
Originally slated for an exhibition in Mexico City earlier this year, Morgan Ogilvie’s False Flags will be on display at Lipscomb University through Oct. 4. The show consists of multiple 4-by-4-foot canvases of a single image taken from a television still of the long-running crime drama Columbo. The still is a close-up of actress Suzanne Pleshette, who plays a woman who has — or perhaps hasn’t — witnessed a murder. Each painting conveys a very specific combination of self-doubt, paranoia and TV reruns that should feel very familiar to anyone who remembers the isolation of 2020. It’s not surprising that that’s when Ogilvie began this project, secluded in her home studio in Franklin.
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ThisBROADWAYambitious immersive exhibition from renowned transmedia artist Matthew Ritchie has all the makings of an epic sensation. A Garden in the Flood will include not only paintings and architectural structures, but also sweeping diagrams and AI-created hallucinatory animations. In the curatorial statement, it’s clear that this work will build on the museum’s continuing explorations of the sublime and technology: “This exhibition’s interweaving of paradise and chaos offers a meditation on art’s capacity to help overcome our current social fragmentation — to be a connective tissue that is healing and beautiful.” Of particular note is the inclusion of a new video work that the Frist commissioned from composer Hanna Benn in collaboration with the celebrated Fisk Jubilee Singers. The piece, titled “Telmun,” is named for a site near the Persian Gulf that was once believed to have been the site of the Garden of Eden, and the visual elements include images of the Fisk Jubilee Singers as well as abstract diagrams from W.E.B. Du Bois’ data portraits.
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THROUGH OCT. 27 AT TSU’S HIRAM VAN GORDON GALLERY, 3500 JOHN A. MERRITT BLVD. When a designer shifts into a fine-art environment, the results are often incendiary. That might be because working designers think about how things look all day, and they’ll instead let emotion and intuition steer their ships while they’re creating. That definitely seems to be the case with Rick Griffith, a fantastic designer and creative director whose installation of 30 collaged panels is one of the highlights of Tennessee State University’s recent slate of exhibitions. For his source material, Griffith used a single issue of Sepia magazine from December 1971. The resulting works remind me a little of the collages of Lorraine O’Grady — who has called her minimalist cutouts “haiku diptychs” — or even John Baldessari. Come through TSU on Friday, Sept. 23, to meet Griffith and listen to him lecture about his work — follow his Instagram (@rickgriffith) for details on the exact time and location.
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Speaking of fright nights, indie outpost Full Moon Cineplex in Hermitage has some great spooky-season repertory screenings lined up, including Evil Dead 2, John Carpenter’s The Fog, The Shining and Rosemary’s Baby, among others. Visit fullmooncineplex.com for more on what you can catch in that relatively intimate screening room.
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icking off with a cavalcade of international film festivals and concluding with December’s reliable onslaught of big-budget releases, fall is always a wild time at the movies. Here’s what Nashville moviegoers can expect to hit screens in the coming months.
overnight marathon 12 Hours of Terror — the lineup of which always remains closely guarded until the last minute — will hit the Belcourt in mid-October. Of course, that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the theater’s offerings. Visit belcourt.org for more or to become a Belcourt member.
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As far as what can be expected at the megaplexes in the coming weeks and months, it’s a scattershot collection of anticipated prestige flicks, big-budget blockbusters and curiosity-piquing outliers. Among them are Olivia Wilde’s gossipbesieged Florence Pugh- and Harry Stylesstarring thriller Don’t Worry Darling (Sept. 23); Billy Eichner’s queer rom-com Bros (Sept. 30); David Gordon Green’s Halloween Ends (Oct. 14), the 13th installment in the Halloween horror franchise; the Rockstarring DC Extended Universe installment Black Adam (Oct. 21); the Marvel Cinematic Universe installment Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Nov. 11); Steven Spielberg’s semiautobiographical coming-of-age tearjerker The Fabelmans (Nov. 11); horror road flick Bones and All (Nov. 23), which stars Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet as cannibals in love; and Darren Aronofsky’s long-awaited Brendan Fraser comeback effort The Whale (Dec. 9). Those release dates are subject to change, so keep your eyes on local listings.
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Belmont University’s R. Milton and Denice Johnson Center and the Z. Alexander Looby Center Theater. Among this year’s IBFF titles are Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story, a biopic about the titular legendary gospel singer; documentaries Bonnie Blue: James Cotton’s Life in the Blues, Class of COVID 19 and Raised Up West Side, and a number of narrative and documentary shorts. Attendees can also expect a slate of panels and workshops, including Taking Advantage of Film and TV Incentives and It’s a Deal: Getting Distribution in 2022 and Beyond Visit ibffevents.com for festival passes, screening tickets and further details.
As ever, Nashville film buffs can expect a promising fall lineup at the Belcourt Theatre. Kicking off later this month will be the Hillsboro Village arthouse’s Bowie on Film series, beginning with director Brett Morgen’s experimental documentary Moonage Daydream, which opens Sept. 23. The series will continue into October with a slate of films featuring Bowie as actor, including The Hunger; The Man Who Fell to Earth; Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence; The Prestige; The Last Temptation of Christ and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Among the new films coming to the Belcourt this season are: Pearl, director Ti West’s prequel to this year’s celebrated slasher flick X; French director François Ozon’s Peter Von Kant; Lena Dunham’s period piece Catherine Called Birdy; and the Palme d’Or-winning satire Triangle of Sadness. Ongoing repertory series at the nonprofit film center include Weekend Classics (currently amid a run of animated Disney classics), Midnight Movies (with Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vols. 1 & 2 upcoming on Sept. 23 and 24) and the ever-popular Music City Mondays. And not that local horror freaks need the reminder, but the annual
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This expansive four-part exhibition is the first major traveling exhibition to examine the complex connections between African artists and American patrons, artists and cultural organizations in the mid-20th century. The exhibition is drawn primarily from Fisk’s collection, and features more than 70 artworks by 50 artists, revealing a transcontinental network of artists, curators and scholars who challenged assumptions about African art in the United States. It’s sure to be a fascinating experience full of new discoveries — works from Ibrahim El-Salahi (Sudan) and Skunder Boghossian (Ethiopia), as well as a new commission by sculptor Ndidi Dike (Nigeria), look especially compelling. ■
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also includes Florence Price’s vibrant Piano Concerto in One Movement, featuring pianist (and longtime champion of Price’s music) Karen Walwyn; plus Joan Tower’s powerful 1920/2019. As part of the premiere, the symphony also is hosting a curated sculpture exhibit from Nashville-based sculptor Carolyn Boutwell, titled She Speaks, and the World Listens. Be sure to stop by the lobby before or after the performance to check it out. Sept. 15-17 at the Schermerhorn, 1 Symphony Place
Once again, AmericanaFest has brought thousands of fans — and hundreds of musicians whose work falls somewhere in a Venn diagram with rock, country, folk, blues and bluegrass, among other things — to Music City for panel discussions and shows at venues all over town. The party started Tuesday and continues through Saturday, so here’s a very brief rundown of top picks among the massive array of events. Thursday, check out Ishkōké Records’ afternoon showcase of Indigenous artists including Amanda Rheume and Aysanabee at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge, a special installment of The Black Opry Revue — the touring show that fosters vital connections for Black country and roots musicians — taking over the Station Inn, and Color Me Country host Rissi Palmer and bluegrass aces Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway at The Basement East. Friday, see Emily Scott Robinson, Lilli Lewis and more in Centennial Park for a special installment of the September Sundown free concert series, and head over to Exit/In for country phenoms like the venerable Jim Lauderdale and rising star Jaime Wyatt. Saturday, Queer Roots’ party takes over The Groove in the afternoon with sets from Adeem the Artist, Austin Lucas, Cindy Emch and more, while 3rd and Lindsley has a fantastic bill including folk maestro Peter One, blues champion Adia Victoria and country troubadour extraordinaire Joshua Hedley, and Luke Schneider and Friends will expand the horizons of the pedal steel at The 5 Spot Expect plenty of cool unofficial events to pop up as well, like Normaltown Records’ party at The 5 Spot with Emily Nenni and many more, and Appalachia Record Co.’s showcase at Vinyl Tap with Loney Hutchins, Teddy and the Rough Riders, Mya Byrne and others on Friday evening — keep your eyes on social media for details. You can find a full schedule and ticketing information at americanamusic.org and the AmericanaFest app, and the Scene’s Sept. 8 cover story includes a thorough guide to our must-see shows throughout the fest.
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You may not want to, but if you think back to the beginning of the pandemic, Dr. Alex Jahangir probably comes to mind. Jahangir was named chair of the Metro Nashville Coronavirus Task Force at the onset of the pandemic by Mayor John Cooper, and he led Nashville’s response, serving as the public’s primary source for information. In a state led by a governor who, at best, seemed ambivalent about keeping people safe by mitigating the spread of the virus, Jahangir was a masked breath of fresh air, going on local and national news programs to speak out about what he believed were the right courses of action to protect health and safety. Jahangir has written a book about his experience, Hot Spot: A Doctor’s Diary From the Pandemic. To celebrate, the Nashville Public Library is hosting a launch event and panel discussion about how Nashville weathered the storm. The discussion will be moderated by acclaimed second-generation journalist John Seigenthaler. Panel participants include Mayor Cooper, Metro Director of Schools Adrienne Battle and Metro Fire Chief William Swann. Tickets are $27.95 and include a copy of Jahangir’s book. Find more info and RSVP at
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Corinth, Miss.-raised, Memphis-based musician-producer Ben Ricketts puts a new spin on the one-man band. An industrious, prolific songwriter whose Bandcamp release page currently includes 36 offerings, Ricketts makes work that is at once eccentric and anthemic, influenced in part by Athens, Ga., in the late ’90s and New York in the early 2000s, but with a naturalistic acoustic-electronic backbone and a soulfulness all his own. He’s known among his small but fervent following for never playing the same show twice. 9 p.m. at Springwater, 115 27th Ave. N. CHARLIE ZAILLIAN
Peter Von Kant, a game riff on the late cinematic polymath Rainer Werner Fassbinder essayed by Denis Ménochet (who, depending on the light, can look like Danny McBride, Jonathan Frakes or Robb Wells from Trailer Park Boys), is a director caught up in kinky power games and desperate for inspiration. He finds that inspiration in a chaos twink with stars in his eyes and an appetite for symbolic retribution. It’s a spry remake/remodel of Fassbinder’s 1972 The Bitter Tears of Petra OF THINGS TO DO
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The Nashville Symphony has an extraordinary concert event planned for this weekend, with a dynamic program that celebrates trailblazing women and includes the world premiere of Her Story, by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe. Created to “commemorate the history of women’s fight for equality in America and the ongoing struggle for equal rights,” Her Story incorporates the words of historic figures such as Abigail Adams and Sojourner Truth and features the full orchestra, along with the celebrated women’s vocal group the Lorelei Ensemble. The Nashville Symphony co-commissioned the work with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony. As lead commissioner of Her Story, the Nashville Symphony not only has the honor of presenting the world premiere, but also will be recording this weekend’s performances for future release. (Read more on Julia Wolfe in our feature on p. 42.) The evening
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the way. Or perhaps stop by the Pumpkin Village and check out one of the festive pumpkin houses. You can catch a special performance at Cheekwood’s Beer Garden, or maybe extend the fun during a Thursday Night Out. (Sept. 15 is actually a Thirsty Third Thursday — a fun evening featuring live music, along with samples of specialty cocktails.) And it’s never too early to start planning for other upcoming fall events, such as the Japanese Moon Viewing (Oct. 9), the Halloween Pooch Party (Oct. 22-23) and El Día de los Muertos (Oct. 29-30). Sept. 17-Oct. 30 at Cheekwood, 1200 Forrest Park Drive AMY STUMPFL
Von Kant, which is also screening during the new film’s engagement. That film also explores similar thematic ground with an all-women cast, and you feel writer-director François Ozon’s respect and affection for Fassbinder’s work in every visual facet. Probably best appreciated by those with a familiarity with Fassbinder’s work, but absolutely recommended for enthusiasts of ’70s design, power dynamics, meticulous cruelty and the way that desire is one of those sharp weapons that can’t be handled without drawing blood. The outfits are as sharp as every withering line. Peter Von Kant opens Sept. 16; The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant 4:50 p.m. Sept. 17-18 at the Belcourt, 2102 Belcourt Ave. JASON SHAWHAN [LA VIE BOHÈME!]
years — the current tour commemorates the band’s 11th LP Gigaton, which had the misfortune of a March 2020 release date — but since their peak mid-’90s rock-radio days, the live show has been the quintet’s bedrock. Marathon two- to three-hour performances that pull from all corners of the catalog, rife with covers, commentary and dedications, Eddie Vedder & Co.’s concerts bridge the band-audience gap like few groups of their stature can. Besides the frontman’s beloved, star-crossed Chicago Cubs finally winning it all in 2016, a few things have happened in the world since the band’s triumphant Bonnaroo main-stage set that same year — it will be nice to catch up. Opening the show is Pluralone, the side project of ex-Red Hot Chili Pepper and, as of this tour, full-time Pearl Jam member, the multi-instrumentalist Josh Klinghoffer. 7:30 p.m. at Bridgestone Arena, 501 Broadway
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photo booth. Bar sales from the Nashville Food Faire will benefit Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, which will also have a food drive on site — clean out your pantry to bring along some donations. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at OneC1ty, 8 City Blvd.
I mean, sure, there will be that, but the curated list of vendors includes some really cool artisan producers, like the creative Japanese barbecue concept Kisser, the delicious meat-pie pros at Upstate Pierogi Co., tropical delights from The Salty Cubana, toothsome treats from Catapano Pasta Co. and dozens more local food and beverage producers. In addition to all that, there will also be food to purchase from interesting food trucks such as Bondi Bowls, The Mac Shack, Nash Dogs and Bubbled Up Waffles and Milkshakes. If that’s not enough food for you, there will also be a fun option called the Biscuits + Bloody Mary Garden, sponsored by Acme Feed & Seed, The Southern Steak and Oyster and Nashville Jam Co. Cafe. For just $29 in advance or $35 the day of, you’ll have access to a bloody mary bar stocked with all the accouterments to create your own bespoke morning cocktail. There will also be beer, spirits and cocktails to sample, sweet and savory foods to snack on, live music and a
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Autumn may not officially arrive until Sept. 22, but if you’re like me, you’re already dreaming of cozy sweaters and the changing of the leaves. And beginning Saturday, you can get into the spirit of the season with the always-popular Cheekwood Harvest. This six-week celebration features plenty of entertainment and activities for all ages. Grab the kids and stroll the gardens, enjoying the fall colors, beautiful mums and maybe even a few scarecrows along
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Nashville Repertory Theatre kicks off its 38th season with Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking musical Rent. Inspired by Puccini’s La Bohème, Rent follows a group of young artists as they struggle to follow their dreams in the face of poverty, drugs and HIV/AIDS. The original production premiered off Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop in 1996, and quickly transferred to Broadway, earning the Tony Award for Best Musical, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Featuring songs such as “La Vie Bohème,” “Light My Candle,” “Take Me or Leave Me” and “Seasons of Love,” Rent remains a cultural phenomenon more than 25 years later. Micah-Shane Brewer directs a terrific cast, including Wood Van Meter, Mike Sallee Jr., Marena Lucero, Natalie Rankin, Lando Hawkins, Deonté L. Warren, Carli Hardon and Justin Marriel Boyd, along with Delaney Amatrudo, Molly Brown, Dustin Davis, Piper Jones, Dustin Lafleur, Calvin Malone, Rachel Meinhart and Gregor Patti. The production will be presented in the Polk Theater, and the creative team includes musical director Randy Kraft and choreographer Tosha Marie. Sept. 16-25 at TPAC’s Polk Theater, 505 Deaderick St.
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Long live Nashville, long live Fran’s. 7 p.m. at Fran’s East Side, 2504 Dickerson Pike D. PATRICK RODGERS
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While their sound has certainly evolved over the years, one element of Haim’s music that has remained consistent since the sibling trio’s 2013 debut is its inherent sunniness. Even on darker tracks — Days Are Gone’s gritty “My Song 5,” for example, or last year’s slinky Women in Music Pt. III track “Summer Girl” — some of that California sheen comes across, and makes for glossy pop rock especially suited to outdoor shows. Don’t miss the sister act — recently featured in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-nominated Licorice Pizza — when they headline Ascend Amphitheater, which should prove a pretty perfect place to kick back and enjoy the vibes. This show is a makeup date — the band was initially slated to play in May but canceled due to COVID cases. 7:30 p.m. at Ascend Amphitheater, 310 First Ave. S. BRITTNEY MCKENNA
sophomore album Comfort to Me. Taylor delivers these words in a coarse yet melodic yell that never wavers over the LP’s 35 minutes, while the band’s raucous, uptempo attack — Motörhead-like in its power and simplicity — matches up perfectly. In Australia, the foursome is a bona fide sensation, with Comfort topping out at No. 2 on the charts. Their tourmates Bob Vylan, a duo from East London, have also gotten their home country’s attention with an incendiary sound of their own, rooted in — but not limited by — crust, thrash and the experimental English hip-hop style known as grime. Filling out the three-band bill: rising local post-punks Snooper, who later in the week will be making their way to Memphis to represent Nashville at Gonerfest 19. 8 p.m. at Brooklyn Bowl, 925 Third Ave. N. CHARLIE ZAILLIAN
A virtuoso guitarist who has famously been uncomfortable in recording studios, Leo Kottke first came to prominence in the early 1970s. On albums like 1969’s 6- and 12-String Guitar and 1972’s
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Opening is Johnny Marr, the guitarist and creative force behind The Smiths — without whom the headliner likely wouldn’t exist. 8 p.m. at Bridgestone Arena, 501 Broadway CHARLIE ZAILLIAN
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Florence and the Machine play the kind of music that makes you move like an animal. You don’t have a choice. Whether or not you start shaking is not up to you, or your brain — it’s your body’s turn to take over. Known for songs that crescendo to catharsis, Florence Welch & Co. have a live set that projects the frontwoman’s fiery emotions onto a crowd. She’s currently on tour for her fifth album, Dance Fever, which music scholars will undoubtedly look back on as one of the top five pandemic records. Given Welch’s themes of devils and angels, it’ll be no surprise if Mother Nature herself is summoned via a lightning storm to give the show extra drama. Tickets are still available as of this writing, so go ahead and grab a seat. But you sure as hell won’t be sitting in it. Playing with Brooklyn’s King Princess. 7:30 p.m. at Ascend Amphitheater, 310 First Ave. S. TOBY LOWENFELS
Plaza Mariachi is celebrating Mexico’s independence and Latin American independence at Fiestas Patrias on Sunday. The festival falls during National Hispanic Heritage Month, which is observed Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, and is worth checking out for the dancing alone — there will be modern dance throughout the day, and folkloric dancing set to fireworks in the evening. The celebration also includes plenty of food and activities for children, and it all ends with a ringing of Mexico’s Independence Bell, Campana de Dolores, which was given to Plaza Mariachi in replica form in 2016 by the City of Puebla, Mexico. The ringing of the bell represents the call that launched the war that gave Mexico its independence from Spain. Come for the dancing, stay for the revolution. Noon-10 p.m. at Plaza Mariachi, 3955 Nolensville Pike AMANDA HAGGARD
bottle to the beat of his 2015 hit “Ultimate.”
AmericanaFest always brings a host of wide-ranging acts to town, all of whom fit under that broad and elusive “Americana” umbrella. But the hometown homies often like to get in on the action too, hosting unofficial one-off shows and showcases during AmericanaFest week to make the most of a town besieged by fans and industry types alike. On Saturday, longtime rock ’n’ rollers Justin and the Cosmics will do just that when they host a party at East Side karaoke dive Fran’s. (No, locals, your eyes do not deceive you — beloved grimy watering hole Fran’s is alive and well, having relocated to a new home on Dickerson Pike after being squeezed out of their longtime location further east nearly a year back.) In addition to Justin and the Cosmics, the bill will also feature fellow raucous rockers The Smoking Flowers and Chrome Pony, poet Ben Burr, and songsters Corey Parsons, Alicia Gail and Air & Rain.
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A deceptively upbeat song of heartbreak, the tune — which Scene colleague Adam Gold once aptly described as splitting the difference between Joy Division and the Backstreet Boys — made instant stars of the Las Vegas group, and remains an enduring hit of its era. I wouldn’t have necessarily bet on The Killers to have remained on top this many years and albums onward — yet here they are, a marquee arena-rock act in an era when that concept often feels anachronistic.
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“Get on my level, or get out of my way” instructs Amyl and the Sniffers frontwoman Amy Taylor on “Freaks to the Front,” the second track off the Melburnians’ 2021
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And while glimpses of his DMX-inspired cadence and flows still come through on tracks like “Walkin” or “The Smell of Death,” Curry’s latest album Melt My Eyez See Your Future sees the Florida rapper coming into his own as an artist over far more laid-back, jazz-heavy production. Finding an artist who can successfully work with Robert Glasper, T-Pain and Key Glock all in the same year while staying true to their sound doesn’t seem possible. And yet somehow Curry does it with ease, sounding just as hungry on the Glasper-accompanied “Melt Session #1” as he did on his debut back in 2015. Curry is famous for his highenergy live shows, where his reverence for the late, great DMX really shines through, and it will be interesting to see how his new sound transfers over when he stops in Nashville for the Melt My Eyez Tour. 7 p.m. at Marathon Music Works, 1402 Clinton St.
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“Brightside” is just the tip of the iceberg in a catalog teeming with similarly bittersweet, triumphant tunes. With most of the original lineup still intact — frontman Brandon Flowers and drummer Ronnie Vannucci are both world-class at what they do — Killers concerts are irrepressibly energetic, unapologetically sincere, and Vegas AF.
It’s hard to believe celebrated Frenchmen Phoenix have been issuing impossibly ear-wormy indie pop for more than two decades. But indeed, since 2000’s United, the fellas from Versailles have built a pretty unimpeachable catalog of bright and catchy synth-buoyed pop rock — most notably with 2009’s breakthrough Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. If recent set lists are any indication, folks who attend Phoenix’s upcoming return to the Mother Church of Country Music can expect all the bangers from that record (“Lisztomania,” “Girlfriend,” “1901,” “Rome”) alongside a smattering of songs from the band’s other five studio LPs and this year’s single “Alpha Zulu” — the title track from the group’s next album, out in November. That new tune proves that the band, which has featured the same four core members since back in the ’90s, knows better than to mess with a winning formula: blooping synthesizers and understated guitars set to a dancy rhythm and topped with insouciant frontman Thomas Mars’ punchy, quirky vocals. Drummers and fans of drummers, keep your eyes trained on longtime hired gun Thomas Hedlund — one of the most rocksolid and fun-to-watch pop drummers in the game. NYC popsters Porches will open. 7:30 p.m. at the Ryman, 116 Rep. John Lewis Way N. D. PATRICK RODGERS
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The Killers hit the jackpot on the very first try in 2004 with “Mr. Brightside.”
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Greenhouse, Kottke invented a style of solo guitar that stands apart from, say, John Fahey’s or Robbie Basho’s. Kottke’s guitar work is immediately recognizable for its percussiveness and what you might call its vehement sense of humor. As the arc of his later career illustrates, Kottke has never fit into the broad categories beloved by record label executives and record producers. He recorded part of his 1971 album Mudlark at Cinderella Sound Studio in Madison, Tenn., with drummer Kenny Buttrey and studio owner and bassist Wayne Moss, and he collaborated with producer and orchestrator Jack Nitzsche on 1976’s fine Leo Kottke. Now 76, Kottke sounds as original as ever, as you can hear on 2020’s Noon, cut with Phish bassist Mike Gordon. Kottke gets into The Byrds’ “Eight Miles High” and does a superb version of “Ants” — a tune he’s been playing live for years. Some observers might consider Kottke a New Age artist, but his music is too gnarly and conflicted — and funny — to fit into that rather sappy category. He’s a great picker, and an American original. 8 p.m. at City Winery, 609 Lafayette St. EDD HURT
Singer Jane Fitzsimmons and guitarist Ian Jones, the duo at the core of rock outfit Twen, quickly developed a winning combination: sounds you might associate with bands from the ’80s and early ’90s that they’ve made their own, deployed in support of insightful, heartfelt, offbeat songs that touch on trying to find your place in the weird world we live in. They toured heavily even before releasing their excellent first full-length Awestruck in 2019, and though COVID lockdown put a bit of a kink in things, their second LP One Stop Shop came in July. It’s got plenty of familiar elements — including Jones’ electric 12-string guitar chops and Fitzsimmons’ distinctive off-kilter vocal delivery — with a slightly crisper feel to the production. They’ve sharpened their lyrical focus too, responding to the ways that the major upheavals of the past couple years have made big social and political issues — from income inequality to climate change and beyond — feel closer to home than ever before. Wednesday, they’ll stop in at Grimey’s for a belated release celebration — swing by and grab a vinyl copy of the LP while you’re at it. 5 p.m. at Grimey’s, 1060 E.
Released in the summer of 1991 — right smack dab in the middle of a year when young Black filmmakers were all the rage in Hollywood — Boyz n the Hood was the debut film from John Singleton, and it gave audiences an idea of what living in gangand gun-riddled South Central Los Angeles was like. The then-baby-faced trio of Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube and Morris Chestnut play young guys trying to survive in a neighborhood where dudes like them don’t always make it to see 21. The movie was such an eye-opener for whites that Singleton ended up getting Oscar nominations for Best Director (at 24, the youngest to ever get one) and Best Original Screenplay. While
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he didn’t win those trophies, he did continue to tell stories about Black Angeleno men trying to break out of the inner city. He did this right up to his 2019 death, when he was co-creator/executive producer of the FX drug drama Snowfall. The screening is part of the Pizza and a Movie series, co-hosted by Black-owned local restaurant empire Slim & Husky’s Pizza Beeria. 8 p.m. at the Belcourt, 2102 Belcourt Ave. CRAIG D. LINDSEY
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As one of the largest food bank programs in the country, Second Harvest is an ac knowledged leader in the logistics of collect ing and distributing food — but their efforts go even further. While much of the produce and meat products the organization pur chases or accepts as donations from grocery stores and distributors is turned around quickly and delivered to client agencies while still usable, Second Harvest saw the need to find a way to preserve and prolong the life of these valuable commodities so they could serve the community throughout theAsyear.part of a building expansion in 2003, Second Harvest installed a production kitchen, known in the industry as a “cook/ chill facility,” that would allow them to con vert donated meats and vegetables into a menu of meal kits that could be frozen and distributed to partner agencies.
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Most importantly, Kim has developed recipes that are usable by a wide variety of clients. “To get reimbursement credit from the federal government, nutritional programs require specific menu plans,” he explains. “The meal patterns call for a specific weight of protein plus a vegetable, whole grain and milk to qualify for school programs, for example.”
In addition to satisfying federal require ments, Kim has developed menu items that cater to the specific needs of some of Sec ond Harvest’s clients.
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about every food box distributed by Second Harvest, and the one-year shelf life extends the usefulness of the donated produce.
Extending the life of tomatoes was the im petus behind the entire program. FreshPoint is a Nashville-based produce distributor and a division of food behemoth Sysco. Five years ago, FreshPoint’s regional president and Second Harvest board member Troy Edwards reached out about donating sur plus tomatoes. The distributor has a massive facility for tomatoes off of Elm Hill Pike, and keeps an excess inventory of 1 percent
“Because we control the production and the ingredients, we can use low-sodium salt solutions or lower-calorie fat options,” says Kim. “Some programs request menus de signed for diabetic patients or low-sodium/ low-calorie options for nursing homes. We can also provide gluten-free and paleo alter natives on request.”
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“We had a member of our board back then who was involved in cook/chill, and he con vinced us that it was the future,” recalls Sec ond Harvest COO Kim Molnar. “It was very cutting-edge at the time, and we’re still the only food bank in the country with a USDAcertified production plant.”
available for partner agencies to order from a menu of 20 beef and 20 pork options; agencies can also request complete meals in compartmentalized plastic trays that can be reheated like a TV dinner.
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In 2021, by collecting and distributing donated food through partner agencies in 46 counties in Middle and West Tennessee, Second Harvest rescued 7 million pounds of food from area grocery stores and used it to deliver more than 42.5 million meals. These meals were distributed through after-school programs, soup kitchens, mobile pantries, senior meal delivery programs and other nonprofit organizations that focus on feed ing the hungry.
makes him a stickler for food safety, and he constantly tests his products to ensure the shelf stability of everything Second Harvest distributes.Thehero of the cook/chill program is undoubtedly Second Harvest’s spaghetti sauce initiative, and the entire facility was designed around two steam-jacketed cook ing kettles that allow the operation to pro duce 9,000 pounds of vegetarian marinara sauce in a single day. Packed in 13-ounce pouches under the Project Preserve brand, the spaghetti sauce finds its way into just
Second Harvest goes beyond collecting and distributing food in its fight against food insecurity
The operation is run by Dr. NK Kim, a food service industry veteran with decades of experience as a food scientist working for companies like Burger King in research and development. Members of Kim’s Nashville church approached Second Harvest to con sider a partnership at just about the same time they were planning to enter the world of production. When Kim heard what they were planning, he came out of retirement to join the operation.
ince 1978, Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennes see has been an invaluable asset in the efforts to fight food insecurity. Roughly 1 in 8 peo ple in the region faces issues of hunger on a daily basis.
Kim helped plan the specs of the new cook/chill facility, purchase the equipment and develop the recipes that are still being produced today, including boil-in-bag meals portioned into 4-pound packages that are ideal for soup kitchens without extensive cooking facilities to feed large groups of people. These meals are fully cooked and then frozen (hence “cook/chill”), and are
All of this happens in basically a single room at Second Harvest with four full-time staff members (including production man ager and certified chef Stephen Belin), plus a small group of part-timers that can range from two to 15, depending on the season. The team runs a tight ship, which is particu larly important, as the operation is subject to daily inspection by the USDA when in production. Kim’s food-science background
calls “the spaghetti robot,” a packaging machine that had created pouches filled with daiquiri and margarita mixes during its previous life in California. Kim notes that when a former operator of that machine saw that it had been sold to Second Harvest in an online auction, he flew from California to help with the setup and teach them how to operate it for free.
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“It’s cheaper and better than purchased sauce,” says Kim. “We’re keeping food out of the landfill and offering a service to our clients. We could just dump product in a box, but we understand the dignity of our clients.”Second Harvest COO Molnar sums it up this way: “We’re taking waste and creating highly desirable, healthy food for the people weThat’sserve.”Second Harvest’s secret sauce.
of its product in stock to provide for surges in customers’ orders. If that surge never comes, FreshPoint finds itself with inven tory that is near expiry.
The efficient operation allows the sauce to go from boiling to chilled below 40 de grees in less than 30 minutes, far exceeding any food safety requirements. Best of all, Second Harvest’s clients love the sauce. They can’t get enough of it.
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That’s where Kim and Second Harvest en ter the picture. “We were useful because we could process them quickly and put them to good use,” Kim says proudly. He developed a recipe that was vegetarian to eliminate the need for the USDA approval that would have been necessary if he used meat. He took it a step further by creating a delicious sauce that was low in fat, sodium and sugar. “We use applesauce to replace the sugar, and it also adds to the mouth feel without having to use other additives,” he says. The cook/chill plant receives 20-pound boxes of tomatoes from FreshPoint and then sorts, sanitizes and grinds them into a pulp. The culinary staff adds the apple sauce, black pepper, salt, olive oil and Italian seasoning to the slurry and pumps it into the cooking kettles, which have impellers and scrapers inside to ensure even cooking of theAftersauce.cooking, the sauce can either be pumped into 4-pound bags or into what Kim
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Manscaping’ I liked because when studying landscape, gender trouble always made me wanna barf; anything earth mother, any rolling boob and butt hills, any envirogendering of our ‘assaulted’ female earth.”
Previous large-scale works, like the Christmas-tree-size “Smokestack,” which was a highlight of her 2019 show at Elephant Gallery, were both cumbersome to install and expensive to transport. The 2022 work “Ghost,” at 36-by-27 inches, is a comparative
ardens might not be the first things that come to mind when considering the recent work of Amelia Briggs, but once you consider the similarities between her puffed-up sculptural paintings and, say, the winding topiary landscapes of Mt. Doi Inthanon in Thailand, or a city fountain lit up by neon at night, the connection is hard to shake.
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It’s that unexpected but undeniable link that makes Briggs’ work at home in Manscaping, a major exhibition of more than 60 artists that’s currently hanging in New York and L.A. spaces as part of The Hole Gallery’s yearly “thematic group extravaganza.”
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Two paintings by Briggs are in the group show Manscaping , on view through Oct. 23 at The Hole
The show posits that the landscape is still alive and well in contemporary art — it’s just that, as Grayson writes, “the idea of raw and rugged untouched nature is an anachronism.” We’re simply thinking of landscape incorrectly — these gardens are less J.M.W. Turner and more Edward Scissorhands.That’saperfect entry point for Briggs, whose most recent works have evolved in the past year to incorporate sewing skills that have made her previous practice of working within a traditional panel structure nonessential.“Panelshave a lot of limitations,” Briggs explains. “Before I knew how to sew, I had a hard time making shapes that weren’t beholden to the panel. This new process has opened up so many possibilities — and also gives me the ability to work really large.”
new process has also freed her up to make more complex shapes that include painterly elements. It’s these painted surfaces that separate Briggs’ works from the shaped-canvas paintings of Lauren Clay, or the post-Koons sculptures of Hole Gallery mainstay Adam Parker-Smith. With “Oven,” tendrils of hunter green reach up from a fat, amorphous shape. Without the context of the exhibition’s concept, it might seem more like a cartoon sea creature, but through the lens of contemporary landscape, “Oven” is wild and silly, beast and bush. The panel at its center, which acts sort of like an oven’s window, has fiery orange elements, but also carnival-colored worms making their way through a rotting apple slice. This is the psychedelia that is literally happening underground — right where contemporary landscape painting has been hiding.
The Hole’s owner Kathy Grayson is irreverent and insightful in her curatorial statement. “Landscape today may not be the most snazzy genre,” she says. “Landscape is the slow burn, where our contemporary world is reflected but with less flash.
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Fishell has recorded with the likes of Dolly Parton, John Prine and Emmylou Harris, and he brings a musician’s knowledge to the subject. You don’t have to recognize an ascending 13th chord or C6 tuning, but it might help at times. Mostly, though, he gives us Buddy Emmons, a human being with quirks and flaws who happened to have preternatural talent and an almost preposterous drive for divining new and more expressive sounds from his instrument.
arly in Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon, Steve Fishell’s deft and lively biography, we meet the future legend as a skinny, high school-hating 14-year-old boy on his bike, hanging around outside a bar, fascinated by what’s taking place inside.
The bar was the Majorette Tavern in Buddy’s bandMishawaka,nativeInd.ThewasBobReedand Choctaw Cowboys. A year later, at 15, Emmons was in the band, playing a blond triple-neck Fender Custom “Stringmaster” console steel guitar. As he wrote in the unpublished memoirs that Fishell weaves effectively into this bio, “I was ready to play music for a living.”
We see young Buddy, already hooked on music but coming reluctantly to the steel
His playing was lights out in every sense. Fishell puts us on the road, in the studio and in the jam sessions that Emmons especially loved, showing the impact of his playing on fellow musicians. Time and again, they were awed by his inventiveness. Or merely by his presence: “I was intimidated,” country superstar Vince Gill said of working in the studio with Emmons in 2005. We also see Emmons the man, with his “rough edges and idiosyncrasies,” as Fishell writes. We see his temper, which he tried, not always successfully, to control. We see the drinking, the pills, the domestic tumult — but also the long, happy third and final marriage to Peggy Hix, who “rescued Buddy from his darkNoside.”doubt, it was often difficult to be Buddy Emmons, steel guitar icon. If it wasn’t the self-imposed pressure of driving himself to perfection, it was the fawning of admirers telling him how great he was. But Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon is an uplifting book, filled with inspiring music and inspired innovations. That’s the legacy of Emmons, who died in 2015 of heart failure at age 78. He was a musician who didn’t just master an instrument, but made it speak new languages, whether the music was country, jazz, folk or Western swing.
As Fishell — a pedal-steel guitarist, producer and educator — writes in the preface: Buddy Emmons was that rare genius whose right brain’s creative talents matched his left brain’s critical thinking. He could play solos so achingly beautiful that listeners wept, then shift gears and imagine unparalleled improvements to the instrument’s pitchbending system, for which he received a U.S. patent in 1969.
“Once I got into it, I started figuring out how to find my way without looking,” Emmons said. “I liked the feeling of what went on in my head when the lights were out.”
Still in his early teens, Emmons struck upon maybe the most fascinating musical self-improvement method this side of Robert Johnson’s mythical trip to the crossroads: He practiced in the dark
guitar, his dad’s favorite instrument. We see him clashing with his music teacher on his way to becoming a self-taught player. He learned through repetition and by listening to records. He listened not just to his steel-guitar heroes like Joaquin Murphey of Spade Cooley’s Western swing band, but also jazz greats like saxophonist Charlie Parker.
“As the club door swung open,” Fishell writes, “he ignored the loud barroom crowd, the thick clouds of cigarette smoke, the clinking sounds of beer bottles and shot glasses, and the waitresses yelling their drink orders. Instead, he laser-focused on the stomping country band blaring from the bar’s stage.”
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If you’re looking for an example of Emmons’ playing, try his bluesy swirl on Ray Price’s 1963 version of the Willie Nelson classic “Night Life.” Linda Ronstadt, interviewed by the author, talks about hearing the record for the first time, in the company of a pedal steel player she was dating. The boyfriend identified Emmons’ playing and called him “the best one.”
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Said Ronstadt: “It was voicings and a texture I’d never heard before on the pedal steel. I was completely smitten.” Or consider what Brenda Lee said: “I think Buddy Emmons made the steel guitar sexy.”
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Kind of makes you want to hear some of that man-of-steel magic, huh? So go ahead. Start exploring. And let this fine biography be your guide.
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What a living. What a life. Over the next half-century, Emmons became a pedal-steel virtuoso while playing with everyone from Little Jimmy Dickens to Linda Ronstadt, George Jones to George Strait, Ray Charles to the Everly Brothers. He was also an innovator, improving the mechanisms of the instrument and designing his “Emmons Original” model.
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Have you given any thought to album number five, or is that something for down the road a bit? It’s been really lovely to be able to tour Screen Violence and see how those songs have resonated with people — especially since we weren’t even sure when we were making that record whether we’d get to tour it at all. So we’re really just in that head space at the moment.
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I’m very interested in how you keep that sort of energy and feel when you’re all working from different parts of the world. This album was definitely the strangest recording process we’ve had, because everyone was separate for so much of 2020. I think in a way, though, that was a good writing exercise and gave everyone space to experiment and then come back to the group. Lyrically, I think that separation was helpful so I could really take the time to think about the stories and the narrative.
After triumphant shows over the years at Exit/In, Marathon Music Works and the Ryman — and multiple appearances at Bonnaroo, including one following their lat est LP Screen Violence — the band heads back to Nashville to headline the sixth an nual OutLoud Music Festival. If you’ve seen the show Heartstopper on Netflix, you’ve already felt the tremulous majesty that CHVRCHES craft, and in the service of queer PDA. It’s awesome, and indicative of the arena-size synth pop that they’ve been perfecting over the past decade. The Scene spoke with frontwoman Lauren Mayberry recently via Zoom about her band’s upcom ing Music City return.
like that I can hear everyone’s personality on this album.
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I respect that completely — especially looking at your schedule before you head back for the U.K.-European leg of the tour. Which brings up an observation about the fascinating people the band has worked with and appeared with: Hideo Kojima, Robert Smith, John Carpenter — and in just a couple weeks, opening for Grace Jones?! This era really has been blessed by the legends. It was really incredible to work with all those people — artists we really admire and who have really informed the work we make. The Grace Jones show will be really special. I just have to make sure not to act like a weirdo backstage because she doesn’t need my fangirling in her life.
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agic happens when Mac Gayden starts talking. Portals open up and time unwinds as his octogenar ian Southern drawl connects the golden era of Nashville country to its psychedelic age and beyond, all the way up to his show on Tuesday at 3rd and Lindsley — a friends-andfamily affair called Friends Over. The Nashville native and pioneering multihyphenate, known equally for his talents as a singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer, saw what Nashville was during its first heyday and was around to influ ence its second.
nyone who truly loves the sound and potential of the synthesizer has doubtless encountered the sound of CHVRCHES by now. The Scottish trio, coming up on the 10th anniversary of its first album The Bones of What You Believe, has been making highquality electronic pop that has conquered the most rockist of charts and fans with sincerity and sophistication. They have that very rare gift: an ability to play you something you’ve never heard before that hits with the impact of a lifelong fave.
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No band will just come out and say, “We want to make a better record than New Order or Depeche Mode.” But y’all have kind of done that — several times, consecutively. You’ve created a body of work over these four albums that feels timeless, which is not something you can say about a lot of the past decade of popular music. How do you find and evolve that vibe? That’s very kind of you. We obviously love both of those bands and take a lot of inspiration from that time period in general, but I guess it’s always been about merging those sounds with the rest of each person’s musical tastes also. On Screen Vio lence, the guys were talking as much about The Prodigy as they were about Brian Eno or My Bloody Valentine. A lot of this album sonically was informed by horror scores, which is a different space of the ’70s-’80s landscape that we hadn’t dipped into too much before.
In the late 1960s, Gayden was in his mid-20s; along with players like Charlie McCoy, he helped lay the groundwork for Nashville becoming a re cording mecca for musicians outside the country world. Around the same time, with his friend Buzz Cason, he co-wrote “Everlasting Love,” one of soul music’s most enduring hits. By the end of the decade, he was cutting instrumental sides with session-player supergroup Area Code 615 that became part of the hip-hop lexicon and supplied the iconic theme for the BBC’s music TV program The Old Grey Whistle Test
There’s tension, certainly, but those elements play nice together, which is most appreciated. Y’all did some tracks with Eurythmics co-founder and sometime Nashvillian David A. Stewart that didn’t make it onto your 2018 album Love Is Dead. Civic pride demands that I ask whether those are going to turn up in some capacity. Working with Dave was so great. He’s been incredibly kind to us, and obviously a band like ours owes a huge debt to Eurythmics. I don’t think we would have made an album like this one if we hadn’t had that experience with Dave. For me especially, he was so encouraging and really pushed me to think about the whole process of making an album and a concept and advocating for a vision. You find the emotions in the electronics, and that makes songs just shine when they pop up in TV or film, like “Clearest Blue” does in Heartstop per. Do you find that when you’re creating your music, you’re thinking about how there could be other paths for it outside of an album? Is there a little voice lurking around, asking, “How might this become part of something else in the future?” It’s always really fun to see your creativity be used to tell a story inside someone else’s cre ative vision, and we’ve been so lucky with certain syncs in recent years. It’s amazing that songs can get this whole other life now, outside of album cycles or campaigns.
CHVRCHES seeks out the soul and the beating heart of electronic music
Nashville is definitely a music supervisor town. I could absolutely see “We Sink” and “Asking for a Friend” turning up in something majestic and haunting in the future, changing a few lives in the process. That would be fantastic. A girl can dream!
Having seen both of y’all in concert before, that’s an inspired bill. There are sounds through out your work, and most specifically on Screen Violence, that seem to be engaging in a dialogue with a lot of music history. It’s a bridge that ad dresses those shared stories of going out, going to big-room dance clubs, but also more intimate goth or shoegaze spaces as well. And that’s not really a question, but it’s rare that one gets the chance to let someone who’s made a work of art that you treasure know the specific ways in which it works for them, and continues to do so. Thank you. I feel like Screen Violence really did marry together all the influences we all have in a way that feels really cohesive. I
“I look at music from a different [angle] than most people,” he says. “I got into meditation a few years ago, [and it’s] been really good for me — for my per sonality and for my vibe, you know? I started looking at music differently when I got into Eastern music, to see where they’re coming from. They look at music as a life’s journey, you know? It changed the way I looked at Thoughthings.”hisstory isn’t over yet, Gayden seems keenly aware of how much history he’s witnessed and partici pated in; to borrow a phrase from Harper Lee, enough years have gone by for him to look back on them. Tues day’s show will bring lots of friends, lots of songs and a sense of urgency that underscores the importance of his legacy. Guests include old pals Cason and McCoy; Gayden’s son Mac Gayden Jr. and daughter Oceana Gayden Sheehan; R&B vocal group The Valentines, for whom Gayden wrote and produced “Gotta Get Yourself Together”; an array of superb singer-songwriters like Tracy Nelson, Dianne Davidson and Tommy Womack; historian and pedal-steel wiz Pete Finney; and many more. It’s a great representation of Gayden’s journey, even if the 30 or so songs slated for the set list only skim the surface of his outsized catalog.
“[My friends] know that my time is limited as a player. So they’re just trying to kinda gimme a sendoff. … The joy of putting this thing together has been incredible.”
Nearly a quarter-century after the 200-capacity punk refuge locked its doors for the final time, Lucy’s is still revered by those who were there firsthand. A broad array of kids who learned what an arts scene can be during the time they spent there have let that spirit guide their lives in one way or another. That includes musicians like Thomas and Shepherd; medical pros like neurologist Dr. James Noble, multidis ciplinary artists like Christine Hall and phi losophy professors like Dr. Corey Kittrell, who are all among the podcast interviewees; and activist-artists like Fahmi Reza — an internationally known antifacist artist from Malaysia who illustrated flyers for Lucy’s while he studied at Vanderbilt. Mancini herself went on to lead the Tennessee Demo cratic Party for a time.
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The anniversary celebration continues on Sunday with an all-day extravaganza at all-ages space Drkmttr, a spiritual heir to Lucy’s whose building Mancini co-owns with several other Lucy’s alums. The bill is loaded with reunited bands who appeared regularly on Lucy’s calendar, like 12v Nega tive Earth and Spider Virus. There are also newer projects from musicians who found Lucy’s at formative times in their lives,
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Shortly thereafter, as a solo artist and producer, he was blazing a trail through the singer-songwriter traditions that would one day come to be known as Americana. Now he connects them all with the casual familiarity of your grandpa relaying church gossip.
“So I started [playing] about 13, and of course everybody around here put me down,” Gayden says. “Parents thought I was the devil, and yeah, they wouldn’t [let us] just come through the front door. When I was playing music at their house, they would say, ‘You gotta go in the back door.’ It’s funny — really weird growing up around here.”
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like Black Bra, Hans Condor and Electric Python. The bill is rounded out with newer arrivals to Nashville who are sympathetic to the cause, like Total Wife, and local young folks like Amira the Weirdo and Dru the Drifter.“Ican’t really think of a place or time period that was more influential to my life than the years Lucy’s Record Shop was open,” says Dallas Thomas. “By going to shows there, it made me realize it was possible to get in a van and play music all over the world.” The 44-year-old has a long career with much-loved bands on the heavy end of the spectrum, like Asschapel and Pelican, which have taken him all over the country. He played his first show with a band called Blend, later renamed Finger hutt, at Lucy’s in 1992. His latest project, a Chicago hardcore outfit called Ready for Death, will play on Sunday.
While being mostly free from rules, Lucy’s had one strict, defining policy: “No racist, sexist, or homophobic shit toler ated!” It seems like common sense in 2022, but it was unusual at the time, something not lost on the folks running the show.
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platters that matter to the likes of Patsy Cline. With various rock and R&B bands, he played some of the same clubs as Jimi Hendrix and Curtis Mayfield, before joining up with McCoy & Co. Among other achievements, Gayden wrote “She Shot a Hole in My Soul,” first made a hit by Clifford Curry and covered well by the late, great Alex Chilton’s soul-stomping proto-punks The Box Tops. And Gayden was hip to the Murfreesboro house-show scene — back in the Bare foot Jerry days, decades before Spongebath Records
“Chet Atkins would come down to music stores and play for us all the time,” Gayden tells me. “I just got so fired up about it, watching him play. The first thing he taught us was how to make mistakes and not have anyone know it.”
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“One of the things I’m most proud of is that Lucy’s really impacted an entire gen eration of artists, musicians, activists and youth-culture offspring in Nashville,” Man cini says. “You run into them, or read about something they’re creating now, or see them with their kids on social media, and the con nection becomes even stronger.”
drew lots of eyes and ears to the home of MTSU.
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to 1998. As well as being a haven for locals, Lucy’s hosted Bikini Kill, Jawbreaker, They Might Be Giants, Yo La Tengo, Nashville’s own Lambchop, and legions of other bands touring the Southeast in used Econolines. In the run-up to the 30th anniversary of the store’s opening, Mancini launched the Lucy’s Record Shop podcast, in which she speaks with a broad spec trum of people, from musicians to doctors to community organizers and beyond, for whom the shop’s relatively brief existence was critical.
Gayden would soon find himself behind the coun ter at Ernie’s Record Mart, the legendary downtown store that served as a home and/or a key distribution point for labels like Excello and Nashboro, selling
You can hear a little spark of boyish glee around the edges of Gayden’s tone as he starts talking about music. The magic of listening, the rush of early ad ventures in sound — the thrill of it all — permeate his stories. Here’s a guy who played on Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde, and he still has the enthusiasm of a teenager who’s bought a record of their own for the first time.
n the summer of 1997, I moved to Nashville, ready to enter college and fully engrossed in fringe mu sics. One of my first priorities was to find a place to meet like-minded peers. I found myself wandering around Dancin’ in the District, the weekly outdoor concert series that seemed to be the only thing drawing people to the ghost town of Lower Broadway. I spied a kid about my age, toting a skateboard and wearing a pin with the logo of British Oi! luminaries The Business. I told him I had just moved to town and wondered where punk shows happened.“Thepunks all hang out at Lucy’s,” he said. That was the sum total of the inter action, but few events in my life stand out as paradigm shifts on par with finding out about Lucy’s Record Shop. Before the web emerged as a way to create connections within and around underground scenes, chance encounters like this were crucial to youth cultures on the periphery of main stream society — in which young people, fed up with getting told they don’t belong and don’t count, can find community and prac tice expressing themselves.
“We took a chance when we intertwined the business with the motto,” Mancini tells me. She opened Lucy’s not long after mov ing to Nashville from New York. “But it was the right thing to do. My partners Don and April Kendall were from here and probably knew more than me there could be conse quences. But they didn’t blink an eye.” As the podcast’s first episode explains, the Ken dalls and their DIY show-booking enterprise House O’ Pain were instrumental in con necting Lucy’s with the audience who would come to call it home.
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“First time I ran into house concerts [was in] Mur freesboro,” Gayden says. “The people in Murfreesboro kept us going ’cause they were so hip. You know, really, they were more hip than the other people around here.”
Another Lucy’s habitué who has contin ued to make great music is Mike Shepherd. You’ll know him from Nashville postpunk bands like Apollo Up! and Tower Defense. He’ll be at Drkmttr on Sun day too, playing in the gnarly, grungy Schtucket. The band debuted at Lucy’s in 1995, on his 18th birthday.
Here, Gayden’s voice stumbles a little. He explains that sometimes words trip him up, “Murfreesboro” in cluded. He has Parkinson’s disease, and isn’t playing guitar like he used to — no chords, just slide. That’d be the distinctive wah-slide technique he developed,
Lucy’s Record Shop left a deep impact on Nashville
That’s the legacy of Lucy’s. The record shop and accidental cultural center, named for owner Mary Mancini’s gentle Weimara ner, operated at 1707 Church St. from 1992
Moss to start Barefoot Jerry. Arguably the greatest country-rock band east of the Mississippi in the ’70s, they brought jazz proclivities and mountain harmo nies to progressive Nashville rock, and helped define the influential country-hippie aesthetic of the period.
which you’ll recognize from songs like J.J. Cale’s “Crazy Mama.” The peace returns to his voice as he talks about playing music, the solace of sound push ing aside other concerns.
“We had the honor of playing that stage 10 times in three years, and we absolutely would not be still making music today if it hadn’t been for the space Lucy’s provided,” Shepherd says.
This weekend’s concert program, titled “Trailblazing Women,” consists entirely of music by women composers. Of special note will be a performance of the Piano Concerto in One Movement by Florence Price, an early-20th-century composer who was the first African American woman to have a symphonic work performed by a major American orchestra. And the program is no one-off. Equity and inclusion are themes throughout the season, with the Nashville Symphony performing major works by composers including Kaija Saariaho, Lera Auerbach, Chen Yi, Gabriela Lena Frank and Hannibal Lokumbe.
MVP Larissa Maestro — who among many other gigs, tours with Allison Russell — took home Instrumentalist of the Year
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2019, she composed a substantial work for girls choir and orchestra called Fire in My Mouth, which recounts the 1911 fire at New York City’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory that killed 146 women. Piecing together disparate texts from contemporary protest chants, courtroom testimonials and Yiddish
Allison Russell, Billy Strings, more take top Americana honors
“In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors,” she wrote to Adams, who was in Philadelphia with Thomas Jefferson, Ben jamin Franklin and the rest of the exclusive men’s club then debating independence. “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion.”Adams’words resonated with the Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Julia Wolfe, whose new work Her Story receives its world premiere performances this week end courtesy of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and the women’s vocal group Lorelei Ensemble. Inspiration for the piece came from a phone conversation Wolfe had a few years ago with Beth Willer, Lorelei’s artistic director.
Composer Julia Wolfe tells the ongoing tale of the struggle for women’s equality
and Italian folk songs, Wolfe created a genre she now refers to as “documentary oratorio.” Her Story is a similar kind of piece. Con sisting of two movements and lasting about 40 minutes, the work uses portions of Abi gail Adams’ letter, excerpts from a speech attributed to 19th-century women’s rights
One might argue that this weekend’s program represents progress in the seem ingly hidebound world of classical music. As recently as a decade ago, major orchestras across America would often present entire seasons without performing a single work by a woman composer or composer of color. Those days, hopefully, are behind us.
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in the wake of her excellent genre-busting Rounder debut Long Time Coming, won Emerging Artist of the Year
“Right on Time,” the opener of Brandi Carlile’s In These Silent Days — a piano-driven ballad about forgiveness that draws on the dramatic prowess of
activist Sojourner Truth and other texts to document the centuries-long quest for women’s equality. The first movement, ti tled “Foment,” sets the stage as the vocalists intone Adams’ plea not to “put such unlim ited power into the hands of the husbands.” Wolfe says the second movement, called “Raise,” is at times more playful, even funky, with the vocalists spoofing an old anti-war song with the words “I didn’t raise my girl to be a Thisvoter.”weekend’s staging promises to be theatrical. The 10 women vocalists of the Lorelei Ensemble will join the Nashville Symphony and artistic director Giancarlo Guerrero to give a semi-staged perfor mance. Director Anne Kauffman col laborated with the singers on blocking and dramatic presentation. Designer Márion Talán de la Rosa, meanwhile, created an as sortment of costumes to provide the perfor mance with color and a touch of realism.
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Queen and the songcraft of Elton John — won Song of the Year. Soulful duo and married couple The War and Treaty followed up their 2019 Emerging Artist of the Year nod with a Duo/Group of the Year win this time. Rounding out the member-voted categories, longtime Nashville multi-instrumental
ednesday night, the Americana Honors and Awards ceremony — the keystone event of AmericanaFest — returned to take over the Ryman. Emerging from a crowded field of nominees, the winners exemplified a broad spectrum of sounds and styles that fit under the big tent that is NashvilliansAmericana.wererecognized in three of the top categories. Billy Strings, a guitar wizard who blurs the boundaries between bluegrass and jammy rock, added to his Grammy and International Bluegrass Music Association awards with an Artist of the Year win. Album of the Year went to Allison Russell’s powerful, sophisticated LP Outside Child, while Sierra Ferrell, who has been touring like mad
“Orchestras are finally coming of age,” says Wolfe. “They understand that art needs to re flect who we are as a people and as a nation.”
Also honored during the ceremony were the previously announced lifetime-achievement award winners. The Legacy of Americana Award went to the legendary gospel group The Fairfield Four, whose first iteration began in Nashville in 1921. Amy Ray and Emily Saliers’ beloved folk duo Indigo Girls received the Spirit of Americana award. David Lynchapproved rockabilly ace Chris Isaak was given the Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance, while songwriter, producer, radio DJ and onetime Stax Records co-owner Al Bell received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Executive. Late country champion Don Williams, known to many fans as The Gentle Giant, was recognized with the President’s Award
n March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote one of her typi cally long, literate letters to her husband John. The fate of women in the emerging American republic was very much on her mind.
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“Beth wanted to collaborate on something to mark the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage,” Wolfe tells the Scene. “It seemed to me, though, that the struggle for equal rights had been going on for the entire his tory of our country. In fact, it’s still going on. So I suggested we do something more expansive.”Wolfealready had a format in mind. In
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In this cause it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendant is a non resident of the State of Tennessee, therefore the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon ROMAINE DONVON GARDNER. It is ordered that said Defendant enter HIS appearance herein with thirty (30) days after OCTOBER 6, same being the date of the last publication of this notice to be held at the Metropolitan Circuit Court located at 1 Public Square, Room 302, Nashville, Tennessee, and defend or default will be taken on NOVEMBER 7, 2022
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In this cause it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendant is a non resident of the State of Tennessee, therefore the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon DAVID JAMES WATSON. It is ordered that said Defendant enter HIS appearance herein with thirty (30) days after OCTOBER 6, same being the date of the last publication of this notice to be held at the Metropolitan Circuit Court located at 1 Public Square, Room 302, Nashville, Tennessee, and defend or default will be taken on NOVEMBER 7, 2022
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In this cause it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendant is a non resident of the State of Tennessee, therefore the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon RUSSELL LENOX HAMBLIN. It is ordered that said Defendant enter HIS appearance herein with thirty (30) days after OCTOBER 6, same being the date of the last publication of this notice to be held at the Metropolitan Circuit Court located at 1 Public Square, Room 302, Nashville, Tennessee, and defend or default will be taken on NOVEMBER 7, 2022
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In this cause it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendant is a non resident of the State of Tennessee, therefore the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon DAVID JAMES WATSON. It is ordered that said Defendant enter HIS appearance herein with thirty (30) days after OCTOBER 6, same being the date of the last publication of this notice to be held at the Metropolitan Circuit Court located at 1 Public Square, Room 302, Nashville, Tennessee, and defend or default will be taken on NOVEMBER 7, 2022
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Upon the Petition of Timothy Wayne O’Donnell, Petitioner, and Ashley Marie O’Donnell (Laney) (Fredericksen), Petitioner.
WATSON DAVIDvs. JAMES WATSON
To: Stephenie Renne Raymer and William Lamont Drake, Senior: You are hereby notified that a Petition for Adoption and Termin ation of Parental Rights has been filed against you in the Circuit Court for Davidson County, Tennessee, 1 Public Square, Suite 302, Nashville, TN 37201 (mailing address: P.O. Box 196303, Nashville, TN 37219 6303), and your defense must be made within thir ty (30) days from the last date of publication of this notice. You are directed to file your defense with the clerk of court and send a copy to the Petitioners’ attorney, Sarah Reist Digby, at Digby Family Law, PLC, 5123 Virginia Way, Suite C 22, Brentwood, TN 37027, and show cause why this termination and adoption should not be granted. In case of your failure to defend this action by the above date, a judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the judgment.
ROMAINEvs. DONVON GARDNER
It is therefore ordered that a copy of this Order be published for four (4) weeks succession in the Nashville Scene, a newspaper published in Nashville.
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Date: September 7, 2022
10/06/22
Richard R. Rooker, Clerk M. De Jesus, Deputy Clerk Date: September 7, 2022
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