Concert Venues

Most individuals who enjoy seeing live music acts take for granted that live entertainment don’t come cheap. Music festivals a lot of the time have a high price tag, but are generally well value the cost. If you attend Regional shows at performance venues the ticket price may be twice as much as one would pay for say, dinner and a movie. Even clubs that specialize in Regional or Regional acts have cover charges. You would expect large tourist towns prefer Branson, Missouri to charge a hefty price for name acts and elaborate shows, and they do. Entertainment is something all of us all expect to pay a price for. Free live music isn’t a common experience.

One place where you might go see major national acts in performance for a price and furthermore see much free entertainment as well is Nashville Tennessee. Nashville has an advantage over many other music oriented tourist towns. It’s a working music city. Folks go there to make it ample in the music business. The place is full of artists. And,since there is so much competition in town, many of them are quite nice at their craft.

On Broadway street downtown Nashville, you’ll find club after club with the sound of live music pouring from their interiors. All you got to do is step in, have a drink or two, enjoy the show, and then mosey on down to the next bar. You might do this all day if you want because a lot of of these clubs have live acts starting early in the day.

With so much recording being done in town and so many artists making their home there, Nashville is one place where al most anybody you pass on the street might be a musical star of some kind. Also,even though Country music is what the town is known for, many other styles are practiced all around town as well. There’s a heavy Americana scene as well as Bluegrass clubs and even Blues bars.

Nashville is a center of music production, management, and business in general. This offers many potential opportunities for folks to catch excellent live music. I’llgive an example of something that happened to me that proves that the the majority unexpected things can happen in a city so centered in the music industry.

During the time of a recent Americana Music Conference I has been hanging around town for a couple of days. I has been checking out as many venues as I may and had tickets to the awards show on Saturday night. On Friday following noon I has been looking for compact disc’s in a south 8th a Club record store called Grimey’s. I saw a poster on the wall saying that Tony Joe White has been going to be there the next following noon. I’d been a extensive fan of the Swamp Fox for many years and thought it would be great to get him to sign his latest disc for me. I has been there early the next day.

The record retailer has been full of folks as I expected. They’d pushed some of the compact disc  bins back a bit to make some room. I has been surprised to see a drum kit performance up. There were some amps too. Some guys wandered in and started giving out free beers. Somebody said they were part of his crew. Tony Joe walked in with his guitar, and sat down about ten feet from me and plugged in. He did an hour performance. I has been amazed. I’d have been glad to part with a hundred large ones to get a occasion to see the Swamp Blues King. Here he has been, close enough to touch, playing for free and he bought me a beer as well. This never happens where I come from.

The whole story was that Tony Joe had offices in the same building and was companions with the retailer owner. That is just Nashville, folks. That type of thing is possible in a town overflowing with music. can be you won’t have the same type of luck but when you’re in Nashville, the possibilities are always there.