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7 Jefferson Street Faces Wave of Property Sales, Investment and City Improvements For decades, commercial bustle has eluded the historic heart of Black Nashville — now change is coming quickly BY ELI MOTYCKA
7 In an Ever-Changing Nashville, The District Wants to Preserve Downtown History The nonprofit will celebrate its 40th Annual Progressive Party Fundraiser on Sept. 16 BY HANNAH HERNER
11 COVER PACKAGE: AMERICANAFEST 2026 11 The Whimsical World of Brennan Wedl Talking with the Nashville artist about her self-titled ANTI- debut, ‘grungetry’ and sexy vampires BY ANNIE PARNELL
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14 War Stories She Returns From War keeps stretching in pursuit of country excellence
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JEFFERSON STREET FACES WAVE OF PROPERTY SALES, INVESTMENT AND CITY IMPROVEMENTS For decades, commercial bustle has eluded the historic heart of Black Nashville — now change is coming quickly
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names and big money have gotten behind two more mixed-use projects that will bring retail, offices and residences to the street’s central intersection with Dr. D.B. Todd Jr. Boulevard. When construction is complete, one of these buildings will house the new headquarters for Citizens Bank, a Black-owned local lender since 1904. Like much of the street, Kingdom Cafe is under construction. Jones collaborated with the Civic Design Center, the Cumberland River Compact and prolific local contractor R.C. Mathews to depave his restaurant’s parking lot. A “parklet” will replace asphalt with soil, trees and a patio, helping Jones fulfill a vision for his restaurant as a community space. Its official unveiling is scheduled for Sept. 19. “I want us to be an example — someone has to do it first, because Jefferson Street is going to flourish, and this is just the beginning,” says Jones, who is 39. “Right now, I call it the hidden
corridor, but I give it five years to change. Maybe less. I see that as inevitable — just look at us on a map. We can’t stop individuals from buying the properties, but we can influence the culture, what Jefferson Street looks like, what it means for generations beyond us.” Jones’ family history goes back generations in the neighborhood. He takes particular pride in owning Kingdom Cafe because his grandfather — Howard “B.O.” Jones, who saw Jefferson Street in its heyday — always wanted property here. The street thrived with Black-owned businesses supported by a middle-class neighborhood until I-40 construction bisected the area, expropriated property and decimated the fabric of North Nashville. While other commercial districts — including nearby Buchanan Street — rise with Nashville’s boom, Jefferson Street has not recovered. “I personally feel that any progress is good
progress at this point,” Jones continues. “We could talk about it for another four years, or we can get started working and making decisions.” Legacies of Black ownership and Black history have long been a third rail for the street. Former Mayor John Cooper briefly pushed a highway overpass project, the Jefferson Street Cap, that failed after being met by residents’ wariness about being made the next real estate gold rush. Decision-makers diverted the National Museum of African American Music from Jefferson Street to Broadway, the kind of public spurning that left behind “what ifs” about bringing North Nashville into the city’s tourism economy. (For years, the Jefferson Street Sound Museum has told the street’s central role in music history more than capably.) In 2018, Bob Bernstein, the entrepreneur behind Bongo Java and Fido, was recruited by a Black investor to open Jefferson Street Cafe. The cafe was met with backlash after being renamed “The Sit-In” in a nod to the street’s civil rights history that some locals found tone-deaf. Black-owned businesses, too, have struggled in the area, though ambitious concepts still bet on North Nashville. The fundamentals — a historic strip convenient to downtown with a residential base and three nearby universities — are just too strong. Black-owned pizza empire Slim & Husky’s helped bring commerce back to Buchanan Street, where new retail and offices have cultivated and served a vibrant community. Jefferson Street is just around the corner. ▼
WHEN MICHELE TRUEBA thinks of her past living in downtown Nashville, an old Barbara Mandrell hit comes to mind. “I was downtown when downtown wasn’t cool,” she tells the Scene. Trueba, a real estate agent and chair of nonprofit The District, remembers a time when there were 400 families living downtown, where she resided from 1997 to 2007. Today, there are more than 22,000 residents in the area. “It just used to be a core group, and when you went out, you just saw the same people all the time,” Trueba says. “It was the downtown employees who would hang out for happy hour, and the downtown residents. There was very little tourism back then.” The District seeks to preserve and promote the history
and culture of the area, which includes Lower Broadway, Second Avenue and Printers Alley. On Sept. 16, the nonprofit is throwing its 40th annual Progressive Party fundraiser. The party will progress along three locations: The Stage, Jelly Roll’s Goodnight Nashville and Hampton Social — each representing a different side of downtown. The nonprofit’s regular projects include yearly downtown holiday decorations and a monthly meeting for area business owners and stakeholders to discuss safety, events and development updates. In the past, The District also funded efforts including a downtown trash study (which examined how better to collect and manage the area’s huge garbage output) and gave funds to repair alleys and sidewalks, among other beautification efforts.
The District’s work also includes contracting artists to create pieces on boards covering damage from the Christmas Day 2020 bombing on Second Avenue. While the street reopened in December, the mural effort is still underway as a handful of buildings stand damaged and in limbo. Michelle Scopel works as the urban development senior project manager for the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency, which restores the street and its underpinnings. She’s set to receive the Judy Steele Bayer Service Award at next week’s event. Cumberland Hospitality Group restaurateur Barrett Hobbs is set to receive the Spirit of the District Award. “I personally have seen a lot more traffic on Second Avenue, which makes me smile and happy, because
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HOWARD JONES III keeps coming back to one word: fulfillment. It’s a personal motivator for the owner and operator of Kingdom Cafe & Grill — a favorite soul-food spot on Jefferson Street — and a blessing on the corridor. Jefferson Street is the historic center of Black life in Nashville, which has struggled to recover commercial success after decades of structural obstacles, many the result of racist city planning. Sandy lots and neglected storefronts have recently begun changing hands. “For Sale” signs advertise property along the street, from its border with Germantown all the way to Tennessee State University. The city opened Kossie Gardner Sr. Park in 2020 and is planning a comprehensive street infrastructure project to reengineer the roadway, map a new greenway next to the highway and boost retail with on-street parking. Two major churches launched big housing initiatives on and near Jefferson Street this year; big
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back when I first moved here to Tennessee, that was where we hung out,” says The District board member Kelly Kaplan. “Second Avenue was where it was — it wasn’t Broadway necessarily. So it’s exciting to see that it is being activated and used.” While downtown Nashville is now a symbol of changing times to many locals, Trueba points out that there are still many independent businesses worth supporting in the area. Preserving locally owned venues like Layla’s, Robert’s Western World, The Stage and Legends Corner is important, and even the bars with big country names on them still have local owners and staff. Trueba says people who say nothing’s the same anymore haven’t been to Printers Alley, Second Avenue or even Lower Broadway lately. There are still through-lines to when she moved to Nashville in the ’90s.
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BRENNAN WEDL DESCRIBES her bowling technique this way: “Low and slow. I won’t elaborate.” It’s an interesting vibe midday on a weekday at Donelson Strike and Spare, the local gem of a bowling alley that Wedl calls “severely underrated.” It’s where she suggested meet-
SINCE THE Americana Music Association was founded in 1999, the genre organized to market hard-to-classify music that might draw on country, folk, blues, rock and lots of other traditions has become a global phenomenon. And since the association’s inaugural festival and conference in 2000, what’s known as AmericanaFest (officially styled “AMERICANAFEST”) has been a local phenomenon in Nashville. AmericanaFest returns to town Sept. 15 through 19, spreading across myriad venues. We start our preview with an in-depth conversation with Brennan Wedl, a Nashvillian and a rising star in the genre who’ll perform at The Blue Room at Third Man Records during the fest. In August, she released her noisy, rocking self-titled album on ANTI-, and she talks about the mission she sees herself and many other artists undertaking — to
get beneath the layers of our world, which is so dominated by superficial portrayals and interpretations in the age of social media. We also catch up with Hunter Park, aka She Returns From War, who will play at Centennial Park as part of free concert series Musicians Corner’s annual weekend event presented in partnership with AmericanaFest. Like Wedl, Park is a Nashville musician on the rise, but her sound includes a much more pronounced influence from traditional country, something she explains is at the core of her artistic identity. We also share our top picks among the hundreds of performances you can check out during the week. And we have our annual play with the folksy nomenclature common to Americana and professional baseball — our Americana Artist or Baseball Player quiz. Pull up a chair and dig in. ▼
ing with the Scene for an interview over a round of bowling and a mean game of air hockey. Around us, a kid is darting into the arcade and some serious bowling regulars are filing in, chatting with the employees and setting up for solo daytime practices. Wedl’s ripped black-andorange striped tights are perfect for the last days before Halloween season, and they make for a great look with Strike and Spare’s flame-print bowling shoes. “I like to have my birthday party here,” she says. Wedl brings a refreshing sense of play to the
often gloomy intersection of noise rock and Americana. On her August self-titled album, her debut release for ANTI-, she revels in latenight outings and whimsical imagery. The music video for single “Let’s Be Models” finds her running around between a backyard stage and a shopping mall. She dresses in turns as a Nosferatu with leopard-print gloves and one of a trio of witches, accompanied by Salt Water Baby’s Yasmeen Abu Nada and the Belcourt’s Quinn Hills. “Let’s Be Models” was released jointly with “Two Dollar Pistol,” and both songs are odes to friendship. While “Models” is exuberant,
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though, Wedl says “Pistol” is about “encouraging your friends to go for what you know they’re capable of.” It’s a soft-spoken rally against self-doubt, and an ode to being proud of a friend’s accomplishments — even when they don’t see them. To communicate that pride, Wedl employs a series of quirky metaphors, almost designed to make a listener crack a smile. One of these, the line “you got vampire eyes coming out of the sockets,” takes inspiration from the cultural phenomenon of sexy vampires. “They got that face card,” she explains. “Like, ‘You’re hot, girl! Go for it!’” She counts Twilight among her top four favorite movies — alongside It Follows, The Polar Express and Jim Carrey’s The Grinch. She likes horror, but avoids anything “too fucked up,” preferring the crass comedy of Freddy Krueger and classics like Black Christmas. There’s an occult current there, and a religious one too. Wedl grew up in a Catholic family in Minnesota, visiting her aunts in a convent. These days, “nun” is one of her go-to Halloween costumes — “you just need a really big black shirt, a really big white shirt, and then another black shirt, and then a skirt” — and syncretic spiritual imagery looms large in her work. Brennan Wedl opens with “Scorpio,” a mixed-signals lament with a bewitching subject at its center. “High Priestess,” a play on words with her current favorite tarot card, considers heartbreak and selfhood over the course of a stoned drive. “Tasmanian Devil,” a largely spoken-word track that echoes Sonic Youth and Liz Phair, spins out into the alternating refrains “supervoid” and “Where’d you go, Jesus?” “If I’m not practicing spirituality … it’s like I’m disconnected from the internet,” she says, listing tarot, prayer and “reflection through magic” as components of her spiritual practice. “[It] helps me move through life as authentically as possible.” The noisy, avant-garde “Tasmanian Devil” reflects some of her previous work. Before Brennan Wedl, there was Dazey and the Scouts, a queercore punk band that Wedl and fellow Berklee College of Music students Otto Klammer and Lea Jaffe formed in Boston. The group released its sole album Maggot in 2017 — a raucous surf-punk record that has had an interesting afterlife ever since the song “Wet” picked up viral steam on TikTok during the pandemic. The band’s work became anthemic for a massive online community of queer kids figuring themselves out. “To meet young people all over the world who have heard these songs — it blows me away,” says Wedl. Maggot celebrates its 10th anniversary next year. “We’ve been revving up the group chat. It’s really fun to dream together again.” For her solo work, she sought to incorporate the kind of music she grew up with: acoustic guitar-driven solo songwriting. “I wanted to find a way to stay true to both
avenues,” she says. She landed on the term “grungetry,” which she traces back to L.A. band Dolly Creamer. It’s a popular intersection: “A lot of people are twanging up their electric guitars right now.” Wedl attributes this trend to the storytelling tradition in roots music, which she thinks people are turning to in response to a chronically online world. “Living in the time of social media, it’s a lot of showing, not necessarily telling. So I think it’s a challenge now that a lot of artists are undertaking to just really elaborate on what’s below the surface.” Her primary influences are Tom Petty and Lucinda Williams — two artists known for effortless, subtle complexities. She announced her signing to ANTI- by celebrating another hero: Kathleen Edwards, whose song “Six O’Clock News” Wedl describes as a “childhood soundtrack.” She recorded a cover with Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield that was released in March. “Katie and I share a few key musical heroes,” Wedl says of Crutchfield, who also co-produced Brennan Wedl and sings harmonies across the record. “It was just such a beautiful full circle to sing that song with her, and to venture into making my own music with her.” The city of Nashville shows up on the album as well, with a few loving send-ups of its particular quirks. “Two-Dollar Pistol” asks: “Is it that Southern silly? Is it that Nashville nonsense?” “Fake Cowboy” could be about half of the guys in town, but she points to a telltale sign of “pretending to be country.” Her love for the city is practical on one level — “It’s a great home base to drive out of” for tours — and deeper-rooted, too. “The people who live here take care of each other,” she says. A onetime Belcourt employee, she says the theater “totally supported” her tour schedule, and she still picks up the occasional shift. She describes the local queer community, which she’s proud to be part of, as “inspirational” for its compassion and hardworking ethos. After a busy season of touring with Crutchfield and MJ Lenderman, and before a fall run with Snail Mail and Soccer Mommy, she has two local shows coming up during AmericanaFest: a set scheduled for 7 p.m. Sept. 18 at The Blue Room at Third Man Records, and another at 1 p.m. on Sept. 19 during Paste’s Live on Broadway party at Ole Red. Songs from Brennan Wedl are sure to be on her Blue Room set list, along with “some old rockers.” But she teases the potential for some surprises too. “Katie and [Lenderman], on the Waxahatchee-MJ Lenderman tour, they were experimenting with some covers, and it inspired me. ‘Crash Into Me’ by Dave Matthews Band, I’ve been practicing that one. Maybe it’ll make a goofy little appearance.” ▼
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WHEN HUNTER PARK was 15, her mom took her to the Grand Ole Opry to see Crystal Gayle. Those few moments of watching Gayle perform, standing on the sacred circle of staging preserved from the show’s days at the Ryman, changed Park’s life. “She wanted to come to Nashville [in the way] you take your kid on a spring break to Disney World,” Park tells the Scene. “She wanted to eat barbecue. She wanted to listen to Patsy Cline. Then I kind of threw her for a loop by being like: ‘All right, this is the rest of my life. I want to give myself to this thing, which is country music.’ And I really have. I mean, it’s all I have.” Park describes her mom as eccentric, larger than life
and eerily similar to Parker Posey in Season 3 of The White Lotus — “If you’ve seen that, you’ve met my mother,” she says. She was incredibly supportive of her daughter’s dreams. “For the next two years, during the summertime, my mom would let me stay at the Holiday Inn on West End by myself,” says Park. “I’m sure there’s some legal loophole there. I was posting on Craigslist saying I want to be a singer-songwriter. This is incredibly dangerous, by the way. I met [some] people who are scam artists, but at the same time I met some of the most talented women that I know.” Among those women were two who became her vocal coaches. One is Shelby Rollins, who currently serves as live vocal performance director for Megan Moroney. The other is Leigh Nash, the singer-songwriter who rose to fame as lead singer of Sixpence None the Richer. “I’m so extremely proud of both of those women for keeping tolerable of my bullshit,” Park says. “They’re the ones who really taught me how to start this project.” That project is She Returns From War. Park chose a stage name (which is also the name of Lee Collins’ 2013 dark fantasy novel) to better represent her musical mission. “The name keeps me going, because I feel like every day is kind of like you’re fighting a battle,” she says. “I don’t go by my own individual name because I want people to know that I’m standing with them with the songs I’m singing. We’re all in this together. It’s a unifying thing, even though it’s one woman’s journey.” Park grew up in Charleston, S.C., with her aforementioned mom — “It was a little Grey Gardens,” she quips — and released her debut album Oh, What a Love in 2015. Over time, she built on the country-folk framework of that album and added more elements. She released two more records: 2018’s more rocking Mirrored Moon Dance Hall, featuring her fan-favorite song “Swamp Witch,” and 2023’s Ruthless, which has more dance-pop elements. Then Park made the move to Nashville in 2024. She’d spent several years building a community of like-minded artists, including honky-tonk queen Kristina Murray, country-pop singer-songwriter Fancy Hagood, and Meredith Watson, founder of The Nashville School of Traditional Country Music. In her writing, Park draws on her experiences as a trans woman growing up in the South. “I wanted to paint this big world,” she explains.
“When I was growing up, I wanted people to really understand that the complexity of transness is flying closer to God in a way. There’s not something inherently evil about it. You’re just literally being yourself and being in your own body.” Park is set to take the stage during the Queer Roots party at The Lipstick Lounge on Thursday, Sept. 17 (the event runs noon to 7 p.m., but set times haven’t been announced as of this writing) and Sept. 18, in Centennial Park, as part of free concert series Musicians Corner’s annual partnership with AmericanaFest. She’s also gearing up to release her fourth album Dinner Music, slated for 2027. “Nashville wanted a country record out of me and I said, ‘I will give you the golden standard,’” says Park, who describes the album as a “classic-sounding country record that you can put on when you’re making dinner.” “I think the art of nourishing your person or being in this world that you create for yourselves at home is one of the only virtues that we fucking have left,” she adds. In addition to Dinner Music, Park says she’s working on two other records, noting, “I’m on a bit of a roll right now.” One is an acoustic-forward album called Blue Opaline, and the other is an as-yet-untitled pop-country project in the vein of Shania Twain. “I have specific goals that I want in the realm of country music,” Park says. “I have this big, deepseated desire to be in the stream of history when it comes to country music as a whole.” Along the way, Park is writing and singing her own anthems. Case in point: the rousing “Dramatic Entrance.” “I wrote [‘Dramatic Entrance’] about being confident and in a world that’s so sticky right now. How people are being told to perceive people is so silly. Everyone is so conditioned to watch 15-second videos that tell you that trans people are terrorists. Everyone’s so conditioned to not think outside of their little box that makes them feel safe. Maybe they’ll put me out for being outspoken about that, or maybe they won’t because I think I’m coy. But I think people have gotten really lazy at developing their own … attitude towards making the world what they need it to be. I think ‘Dramatic Entrance’ is the anthem for the person who knows what they’re doing, but knows what they’re up against.” ▼
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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF AMERICANA AND PRO BASEBALL, TWO DISCIPLINES KNOWN FOR FOLKSY NOMENCLATURE, WITH OUR QUIZ COMPILED BY STEPHEN TRAGESER
AMERICANAFEST IS COMIN’ to town, bringing an absolute shedload of musicians to venues all over town from Sept. 15 through 19. As you peruse the lineups, you’re bound to notice lots of (real or stage) names with a certain kind of folksiness that is also prevalent in the world of professional baseball. With that in mind, we’re proud to present our annual quiz in which we challenge you, dear reader, to separate the songsmiths and troubadours from the pitchers, catchers and fielders. (Maybe I’m biased since I’ve gone informally by “Goose” for more than two decades, but I’m fond of nicknames, and “Extra Innings” has a nice ring to it. So we’ll keep it.)
Among our list of 30 names, 15 belong to artists performing at AmericanaFest 2026, and the other 15 belong to ball players — some currently on an MLB roster, some from the annals of history. We’ll give special thanks as always to Nashville music-scene booster Tyler Glaser, a lifelong baseball fan who also runs the appropriately named Instagram account @baseballplayerswithgreatnames, for his help rounding up the primo player handles.
GEORGIA HARMER
DUCKY SCHOFIELD
LAMONT LANDERS
POKEY REESE
JONNY FRITZ
SMOKY BURGESS
MIKO MARKS
BOLTON SERUNJOGI
MADISON CUNNINGHAM
NICK SHOULDERS
AL ALBURQUERQUE
BOOTS POFFENBERGER
OIL CAN BOYD
ELLERY HARPER
SHAKEY GRAVES
VIRGIL “FIRE” TRUCKS
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CANDI JENKINS
HOOKS DAUSS
JACK BLOCKER
CANDY LACHANCE
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Ranger Suarez, Candy LaChance, Smoky Burgess, Boots Poffenberger, Nook Logan, Hooks Dauss, Cool Papa Bell Baseball players: Pokey Reese, Oil Can Boyd, Virgil “Fire” Trucks, Brooks Pounders, Rabbit Maranville, Ducky Schofield, Al Alburquerque, Ping Bodie, Hunter Metts, Lamont Landers, Madison Cunningham, Shakey Graves, Dee White, Mattie Schell Americana artists: Georgia Harmer, Miko Marks, Nick Shoulders, Wells Ferrari, Jack Blocker, Jonny Fritz, Bolton Serunjogi, Ellery Harper, Candi Jenkins, ANSWER KEY:
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WE RUN DOWN OUR FAVORITE SHOWS OF THE WEEK, FROM JOY OLADOKUN TO KATHLEEN EDWARDS TO AARON LEE TASJAN AND BEYOND BY STEPHEN TRAGESER AMERICANAFEST CAN BE intimidating to navigate with so many shows at so many venues spread over nearly a week. To help you make a game plan, here are our picks for can’t-miss happenings throughout the festival. Before you immerse yourself, it’s a good idea to download the official AmericanaFest app, which includes the most up-to-date scheduling information. This information lives on the AmericanaFest website too. On the schedule, you can see when (starting 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 15) and where (depending on the day and time, City Winery or Embassy Suites by Hilton Downtown Nashville) to pick up your credentials. By the time you read this you’ve likely purchased your wristband already, but at the time of writing they were still available via the website, which lays out all the details about passes. The short version: The standard Festival Wristband gets you general-admission, first-come-first-served access to the majority of shows, and ones that require a different credential or a separate ticket are clearly noted. A few events are also free and open to the public, with no pass at all required. If you’d like to attend panel discussions, you’ll need a Silver Wristband (or add on one or more Conference Day Passes to your Festival band), and for a heap of extras there’s a Gold Circle Pass.
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MELISSA ETHERIDGE The party gets started right away on Tuesday. Bobby’s Idle Hour hosts Adam Chaffins’ Idle Happy Hour (4 p.m.), featuring the top-notch rising country singer and pals in and around the genre including Brit Taylor and Dee White. The National Museum of African American Music, aka NMAAM, hosts events throughout the week starting with a kickoff party called Shared Roots (4 p.m.) that includes a set from musical polymath Kenny Sharp. Legendary performers abound this day, including the Judy Collins & Friends showcase at City Winery (7 p.m.), Kathleen Edwards at The Chloe (8:30 p.m.) and Melissa Etheridge at 3rd and Lindsley (10 p.m., atop a fantastic bill that also includes Maggie
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Rose, Amy Grant and Aubrie Sellers). If that’s not enough, there’s a separately ticketed special event at the Schermerhorn (7:30 p.m.) called The Fiddle and the Drum, a collaboration between revered soprano Renée Fleming and banjo maestro Béla Fleck with his ace band My Bluegrass Heart (including mandolin queen Sierra Hull).
WEDNESDAY
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Wednesday, Sept. 16, gets going early for those interested in panels. There are some great ones on the books including Nashville Public Radio senior music writer Jewly Hight moderating a talk called Lean In With Amy Grant: Creating Conversation Through Songwriting (10 a.m in Embassy Suites Meadow A&B) and Leslie Fram speaking with Black Opry’s Tanner Davenport and others in a talk called Whose Roots? Expanding the Americana Music Narrative (10 a.m. in Embassy Suites Riverbed C&D). Brandi Carlile, who counts Sir Elton John as a supporter and mentor, and Bernie Taupin, John’s longtime writing partner, will have the Keynote Conversation (noon in Embassy Suites Meadow A&B). And the music gets kicking plenty early too: At noon, you can choose between shows like the AmericanaFest Day Stage, bringing Grace Potter, Meels and others to Eastside Bowl, and the Sun Label Group Day Party at American Legion Post 82 with Nicole Atkins, Ruthie Foster and more. The keystone event of the whole festival is the Americana Music Honors and Awards show, 6:30 p.m. at the Ryman. Separately ticketed, it includes Lifetime Achievement Awards for Robert Plant and the late, great Dolly Parton, presentation of awards in the annual member-voted categories and a killer house band backing up performances from Brandi Carlile, Molly Tuttle, Mon Rovîa, Margo Price and many, many more. There are loads of other official nighttime shows, including bluegrass great Bronwyn (9 p.m. at The 5 Spot), rising roots ace Sabine McCalla (8 p.m. at 3rd and Lindsley) and “singing professor of country and Western” Joshua Hedley (8 p.m. at Skinny Dennis). And here’s your annual reminder that all kinds of cool unofficial events are likely to pop up — like the Second Annual Americana Outsiders Party, 7:30 p.m. at Vinyl Tap, with Chris Gantry and several others — so keep your eyes peeled.
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Hope you’re pacing yourself, because Thursday, Sept. 17, is jampacked too. From Classroom to Community: Who’s Building the Next Generation of Americana? is one standout panel, featuring educators from TSU, MTSU and Belmont University as well as the Country Music Association’s Liliana Manyara (10:30 a.m. in Embassy Suites Riverbed A&B). Music gets rolling quickly as well, with the Queer Roots party returning to The Lipstick Lounge starting at noon and featuring greats like She Returns From War (read more in our interview with her in this issue), Jaime Wyatt, Melody Walker and Denitia. As evening comes on, you may want to seek out rocking soul from Billy Allen and the Pollies (7 p.m. at Exit/In) or Dualtone Records’ 25th Anniversary shindig, with Langhorne Slim, Shakey Graves and others (7 p.m. at The Basement East). Phenomenal vocal trio Rainbow Girls headlines The East Room (10 p.m.) while The Blue Room at Third Man Records hosts thoughtful roots-oriented rock from Madison Cunningham (8 p.m.), Hiss Golden Messenger (10 p.m.) and more. If the country-rock side is what calls to you, Skinny Dennis has your answer on Thursday with Emily Nenni (8 p.m.), Teddy and the Rough Riders (10 p.m.) and more.
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There’s no slowing down on Friday, Sept. 18. One among several intriguing panels: NPR Music’s Ann Powers leads a discussion called The Body Electric: Women of Americana on the Alchemy of Instrument and Song with Valerie June, Mary Bragg and more (10:30 a.m. at InDo Nashville). And there’s
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KATIE PRUITT music as early as 11:30 a.m., when the Bluegrass Day Stage kicks off at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge, with artists including stellar picker and Bluegrass Women project leader Lindsay Lou. Both of the artists interviewed in our cover package perform on Friday. Brennan Wedl plays The Blue Room at 7 p.m., alongside greats like Katie Pruitt (playing at 10 p.m., Pruitt is also celebrating her new album Fools for the Fleeting). Meanwhile, you have a second chance to see She Returns From War, at Centennial Park at 6:25 p.m. as part of free concert series Musicians Corner’s annual AmericanaFest partnership. It’s also release day for Nicole Atkins’ latest LP Drama, and you’ve got your second chance of the week to see her (10 p.m. at Analog at Hutton Hotel). There’s a stout lineup of songsmiths at 3rd and Lindsley including the legendary Jim Lauderdale (8 p.m.), Courtney Marie Andrews (9 p.m.) and Nick Shoulders (11 p.m.). On the heels of his knockout newest album Get Over It, Underdog, Aaron Lee Tasjan tops a rocking bill at Exit/In (11 p.m.) that also includes Morgan Wade (10 p.m.), while rocking folk-pop champ Jeremy Ivey gets the night
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started at The 5 Spot (7 p.m.). Uganda-born, Dallas-residing singer-songwriter Bolton Serunjogi (10 p.m.) is just one highlight of a lineup at the Station Inn that’s topped by banjo wiz Kyle Tuttle’s band featuring fiddle king Darol Anger (11 p.m.).
If you’ve got one more day of festing in you, Saturday, Sept. 19, has plenty to offer. Elizabeth Cook and many more are slated for the 14th Annual Thirty Tigers Gospel Brunch (11 a.m. at City Winery), while Western swing rounders Eddie Slide and His Cowtown Dozen host a hootenanny that includes the great Chuck Mead at The Basement East (2 p.m.; free and open to the public, but space is limited and an RSVP is required via The Basement East website). A week before the release of her new record Hope Is a Heavy Thing, champion folk-pop songsmith Joy Oladokun will join in a talk and performance at NMAAM called Joy Oladokun: Music, Story & Legacy (2 p.m.). Acme Feed & Seed’s Acme Fam Jam kicks off at 3 p.m. with the likes of Tristen, Joelton Mayfield and the delightfully named Big Guy and the Very Large Men. As night falls, great songsmiths will head to the Station Inn, including Ashley Monroe (8 p.m.) and Erin Enderlin (9 p.m.), and heroes will head to 3rd and Lindsey, like Buddy Miller, fresh off his self-titled album and first solo release since 2011 (9 p.m.) and Miko Marks (10 p.m.). At 11 p.m., Julia Barfield tops a helluva lineup at The Basement East that also includes Parker Millsap (10 p.m.) and Lilly Hiatt (9 p.m.); at some point in the evening you can also catch Barfield at Fran’s Eastside during an unofficial rager called the Ripper Convention. And over at The Blue Room, performances from Nathan Evans Fox (8 p.m.), Swamp Dogg (10 p.m.) and The Sways (11 p.m.) offer a great exclamation point to end your AmericanaFest on. ▼
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JENNIFER HASTON: SEASONS OF THE SUN
Fiber arts are often dismissed among fine-art types, but that’s a mistake — there’s a wild world of textures and ingenuity to explore. If you’re in Nashville, checking out Jennifer Haston’s quilts should be a priority. Elephant Gallery’s exhibition of her work, Seasons of the Sun, includes several of her quilts, which are dizzyingly complex yet somehow harmonious. She combines the overwhelming colors and patterns of a glitchy computer screen — it reminds me a little bit of those hallucinogenic Google DeepDream images, but with a Gee’s Bend authenticity. Other highlights include scale replicas of chard leaves, which look lacy and prehistoric. Haston also works as an instructor at the nonprofit Friends Life Community, a local spot that provides support, education and community for adults with disabilities. In Elephant’s hallway gallery, she curated a selection of works made by her students. This is a great chance to see the full range of a working artist’s life. LAURA HUTSON HUNTER OPENING RECEPTION 6-9 P.M.; THROUGH OCT. 31 AT ELEPHANT GALLERY 1411 BUCHANAN ST.
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Memphis hip-hop should need no introduction; it’s one of the genre’s stalwart cities. Nashville hip-hop meanwhile has seen a steady if not always nationally recognized output since Young Buck showed up 20-plus years ago. But did you know Chattanooga has a vibrant underground hip-hop scene? The Scenic City’s best-known hip-hop product is undoubtedly Top Dawg Entertainment signee Isaiah Rashad. In May, Rashad released his
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third album, It’s Been Awful, to another round of critical acclaim. The introspective storyteller delves deep on the new record with a raw look at the past five years since his previous album, The House Is Burning. Tracks like lead single “Same Shit” and “Nuthin 2 Hide” are confessional and precise without losing any of his trademark wooziness on the mic. Rashad brings his Lil Sunny’s Awful Road Trip tour to Nashville on Thursday. Alt-pop artist Alemeda opens. LOGAN BUTTS 8 P.M. AT MARATHON MUSIC WORKS 1402 CLINTON ST.
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ARTIST’S PERSPECTIVE: RAVEN CHACON
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One of the most intriguing works in the Frist Art Museum exhibition An Indigenous Present is “American Ledger No. 1,” artist and composer Raven Chacon’s screenprint on a wool-and-synthetic blanket. The piece is both full of information and minimal, as if every mark was created with extreme intentionality. In it, Chacon relies on the structure of a U.S. flag, but swaps its stars and stripes for musical notation. When the notation is played, a kind of narrative unfolds, which the artist describes as “moments of contact, enactment of laws, events of violence, the building of cities, and erasure of land and worldview.” Chacon, who is the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music, will be at the Frist Thursday to talk about this piece, and provide insight into his extraordinary process. LAURA HUTSON HUNTER 6:30 P.M. AT THE FRIST 919 BROADWAY
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ANGELA AUTUMN W/MAISY OWEN
Here’s a bill featuring two Nashville singersongwriters who explore different aspects of post-folk music. For Angela Autumn — who grew up in Fombell, Pa., and moved to Nashville in 2019 — folk and country provide the backdrop for the indie Americana of her 2026 album Believer. I hear similarities to, say, Sierra Ferrell’s work, and you might discern the influence of Gillian Welch or Lilly Hiatt. Believer peaks with “Electric Lizard,” in which she sings: “Off the walls of this honky-tonk, my disguise / Is only as good as my fucking lies.” Autumn’s music contains plenty of hooks, and something titled “Heavy Tobacco” lines out her slightly oblique take on the vicissitudes of romance as it’s experienced by a traveling singer-songwriter. Meanwhile, Maisy Owen grew up in Nashville with a songwriting father, Gwil Owen, and her music leans to the folk side. If you added some 1960s-style production and arrangement touches to her 2026 debut album Dark on a Sunny Day, you might compare her to Vashti Bunyan. The music on Dark on a Sunny Day is as melancholic as the title suggests, and Owen sings in a subdued tone. File Owen’s album with Margaret Glaspy’s new full-length I Am Both, another release that takes the post-folk aesthetic into new areas. EDD HURT 8 P.M. AT THE BLUE ROOM AT THIRD MAN RECORDS 627 SEVENTH AVE. S.
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I got into Little Feat backwards, which means I was already a fan of their 1975 fulllength The Last Record Album before I discovered 1972’s Sailin’ Shoes. Sailin’ Shoes skirted power pop with “Easy to Slip,” which should have been a hit, while The Last Record Album was a bit artier, as if The Meters — a key influence on the band — had taken Los Angeles ennui as their subject and played the songs like they were reading their charts upside down. For me, the later albums by the 1970s Little Feat, which include The Last Record Album and 1977’s Time Loves a Hero, might be my favorites, since they combine jazz-rock fusion with the New Orleans-style R&B they’d perfected on 1973’s Dixie Chicken. Another reason to listen to the band is Lowell George’s slide-guitar work — George, who died in 1979, could say more with two notes than many other players could in 10 minutes of jamming. I couldn’t put together a ’70s playlist without including, say, 1975’s “All That You Dream” and 1977’s “Time Loves a Hero.” Little Feat has continued to tour and record, and the current band includes former Gregg Allman Band singer Scott Sharrard and original keyboardist Bill Payne. Maggie Rose opens Thursday at the Ryman. EDD HURT 7:30 P.M. AT THE RYMAN 116 REP. JOHN LEWIS WAY N.
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NASHVILLE SYMPHONY: AN AMERICAN CELEBRATION
Nashville Symphony opens its new season this weekend with An American Celebration — an impressive concert event designed to honor “the rich sonic kaleidoscope of American composers past and present.” Music director Leonard Slatkin has put together an expansive program, including American masterworks like Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings,” Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms (featuring the Nashville Symphony Chorus) and George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture. Audiences can look forward to experiencing Joan Tower’s evocative “Made in America” (the work for which the Nashville Symphony’s recording received its first Grammy Award in 2008), Cristina Spinei’s lively “Strut” and Aaron Copland’s Old American Songs. The evening also promises an incredible lineup of guest soloists — from country legends Kathy Mattea and Suzy Bogguss to opera and Broadway luminary Sylvia McNair, plus Storm Large (of Pink Martini fame) and singer-songwriter Baxter Hall. Marked by sweeping beauty and vibrant energy, An American Celebration offers an exciting season opener, while also serving to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, along with the symphony’s 80th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. AMY STUMPFL SEPT. 11-13 AT THE SCHERMERHORN 1 SYMPHONY PLACE
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Twelfth Night might be one of Shakespeare’s queerest plays. Hinging on drag and a bisexual love triangle — the true kind, where all three points touch — it’s a delightful romantic comedy about upending gender and social norms that’s seen reinterpretations, from a 1996 film adaptation starring Helena Bonham Carter to the 2006 teen comedy She’s the Man. The September second-stage production of the show from Lackland Arts Collective makes that queerness explicit, and sets it in present-day Nashville to the music of indie-rock artist Indigo de Souza. Performances run from Sept. 11 to 20, and tickets are reasonably priced for a night of debaucherous community fun. ANNIE PARNELL SEPT. 11-20 AT EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE 1310 ORDWAY PLACE
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THE LONG PLAYERS: THE SONGS & SOUNDS OF THE BRITISH INVASION
World’s greatest tribute band The Long Players returns to the 3rd and Lindsley stage Saturday for a theme night celebrating the music of the 1960s British Invasion. “We’re going to try to hit
the high points,” group ringleader/guitarist Bill Lloyd tells the Scene. “The Kinks, The Who, The Dave Clark Five, Petula Clark, The Animals, The Zombies, The Yardbirds, The Hollies, Peter and Gordon, Herman’s Hermits. There will be Beatles and Stones songs too.” Founding bassist Garry Tallent of E Street Band fame will join Long Players regulars Lloyd, guitarist Steve Allen and drummer Steve Ebe for the performance. The group’s current bassist Brad Jones will be among the guest vocalists, as will Seth Timbs, who also will be playing keyboards. Other guest singers include Robyn Hitchcock, The Rembrandts’ Phil Solem, Webb Wilder, Mike Delevante, The Shazam’s Hans Rotenberry, Kristi Rose, The Don Juans (Don Henry and Jon Vezner), Tommy Lee James, Heath Haynes, Jace Everett and Chris Church. Usually when the group performs a classic album, they follow it with a set of other material by the spotlighted artist, but Saturday’s theme show will feature one long set. “There will be some acoustic [numbers] in the middle to break things up a little bit,” Lloyd says.
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Audiences will also get a first look at The Picture of Dorian Gray, an intriguing new work from Nashville Ballet rehearsal director Travis Bradley, inspired by Oscar Wilde’s timeless novel. (Billed as “a preview of what’s to come,” this marks an important step in the development of a piece that Nashville Ballet hopes to expand into a fulllength production in the future.) The evening also features new works choreographed by Nashville Ballet company artists Maia Montgomery, Garritt McCabe and Anneliese Guerin — offering an important platform for emerging voices and perspectives from within the organization. It’s an ambitious lineup, and a perfect way for Nashville Ballet to open its 41st season. AMY STUMPFL SEPT. 11-20 AT THE MARTIN CENTER FOR NASHVILLE BALLET 3630 REDMON ST.
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MIDDLE TENNESSEE HIGHLAND GAMES AND CELTIC FESTIVAL
By the bonny, bonny banks where the Cumberland meets Old Hickory Lake, the annual Middle Tennessee Highland Games and Celtic Festival returns with two packed days celebrating Scots and Celtic heritage. If you aren’t deeply versed in or connected to these cultures, the weekend’s events are a great entry point to their expansive history. You’ll find an array of vendors selling goods, food and drink. There are two stages featuring traditional and contemporary music — groups like SYR and Tuatha Dea bring the heavy rock end of the spectrum, while venerable Nashville group The Secret Commonwealth showcases Celtic music’s connections to string-band music — plus competitions in piping, drumming and traditional dance. There’s also a kids’ area, a haggis toss and a Bonniest Knees competition. And there’s a full slate of traditional athletic competitions to watch as well. They’re astonishing feats of strength that also sound kinda metal, including the caber toss, in which competitors throw a 20-foot wooden pole as far as they can with bare hands; the sheaf toss (using a pitchfork, they must chuck a huge sack of straw over a high bar); and weighted throwing sports including the hammer toss and open stone throw. STEPHEN TRAGESER
SEPT. 12-13 AT SANDERS FERRY PARK 513 SANDERS FERRY ROAD, HENDERSONVILLE
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TENNESSEE TITANS 2026 SEASON OPENER
It’s that time again — time to don your finest twotone blue and believe. It’s been a rough few years for Titans fans. Hell, it’s been a rough few decades for Titans fans. You’d think this would lead to a deeply ingrained level of cynicism, and that’s usually where I lie, but I’m feeling dangerously optimistic heading into the 2026 season. Cam Ward has the tools to be The Guy. The offensive line should, theoretically, be better. Carnell Tate is hot off the Ohio State star wide receiver assembly
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line. The defense, behind new head coach Robert Saleh and star lineman Jeffery Simmons, looks pretty ferocious on paper. A season opener — the last one ever in the “old” Nissan Stadium — against fellow putrid franchise the New York Jets could be a great jumping-off point. Or it could be the start of another disastrous campaign as the new stadium looms in the background. Either way, I’ll be watching. Legendary Titans running back Chris Johnson — who revealed he had been diagnosed with ALS during an interview with Good Morning America this summer — will be inducted into the team’s Ring of Honor at halftime. CJ2K forever. LOGAN BUTTS NOON AT NISSAN STADIUM 1 TITANS WAY
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The War and Treaty — the Nashville-based husband-and-wife duo featuring vocalists Tanya Blount and Michael Trotter Jr. — has been on one hell of a creative streak. In June, the group debuted The Story of Michael and Tanya, a 10song album that captures The War and Treaty’s penchant for blurring the lines between showstopping soul music, country twang and roots rock. The album features collaborations with Valerie June and Wynonna Judd (on the crooning country song “Reclaim All of Your Time”) and continues to build on the group’s catalog of repeat-worthy tunes (like standout album cut “Don’t Say Goodbye”). But wait — there’s more. Trotter and Blount doubled down on new music in 2026 with Country Baptism, a seven-song EP that debuted Sept. 4. And where better to celebrate a release called Country Baptism than the Mother Church of Country Music? Support on the bill comes from Grammy Award-winning R&B artist AverySunshine and Buddy Miller, a celebrated songwriter and producer in the Americana scene. Miller also plays the Ryman in support of a new album called Buddy Miller, debuting Sept. 11 on New West Records. The 12song album is his first solo full-length studio effort in 15 years. MATTHEW LEIMKUEHLER 7:30 P.M. AT THE RYMAN 116 REP. JOHN LEWIS WAY N.
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Eastside Bowl will host a one-of-a-kind event Sept. 14 in The ’58: Which Side? A Protest Music Teach-Out. The event is the brainchild of Boston Globe music journalist James Sullivan and based on his book, Which Side Are You On?: 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs. Sullivan, who has helmed more than a year’s worth of monthly Which Side? nights in Boston, will co-host the event with Nashville activist Greg O’Loughlin. “My book is named after the classic protest song,” Sullivan tells the Scene. “We’re all in this together as far as I’m concerned … against the AI oligarchs, the tech bros and the mega billionaires who don’t pay taxes at the expense of all of us. That’s the job of protest music — to show how all justice-loving Americans should feel like we’re in this together.” Which Side? will feature six announced songwriters — Rissi Palmer, Mary Gauthier, Keshia Bailey, Jon Latham, Anne McCue and Rachel Rodriquez — and a few mystery guests. Each artist will perform two protest songs — one traditional and one original — with accompaniment by the house band, The 2020hz. The night will also include a special guest speaker, New York Times bestselling author and songwriter Alice Randall, and will spotlight the Nashville nonprofit Brooklyn Heights Community Garden. DARYL SANDERS 7 P.M. AT THE ’58 AT EASTSIDE BOWL 1508A GALLATIN PIKE S., MADISON [TALK ABOUT IT]
BEN HARPER AND THE INNOCENT CRIMINALS
In case you were wondering, I’ve never been a blues purist. The blues albums I value the most — Sonny Boy Williamson’s 1967 More Real Folk Blues and Taj Mahal’s 1992 Taj’s Blues come to mind — tend to be compilations. More Real Folk Blues includes tracks cut between 1957 and 1964, and it isn’t even titled correctly,
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because it’s a collection of hardcore blues tunes. For singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Ben Harper, blues has been one starting point in a career that’s seen him win three Grammys and collaborate with the likes of Charlie Musselwhite, Mavis Staples and the aforementioned Taj Mahal. What I hear in Harper’s work — he’s been releasing albums for more than 30 years — is a willingness to recast blues as pop music. Like, say, Robert Cray, Harper is as much a soul singer as he is a blues avatar. On Harper’s 2022 album Bloodline Maintenance, he gets into post-Staple Singers funk on “We Need to Talk About It” and sounds like a less ornate Al Green on “Problem Child” and “Honey, Honey.” Harper is a blues-soul-rock eclectic, and he’s good at it. Starting Sept. 14, he settles into a two-night run at The Basement East with his band, the Innocent Criminals. The Sept. 15 show was sold out at press time. EDD HURT SEPT. 14-15 AT THE BASEMENT EAST 917 WOODLAND ST.
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Grace Shaw, known on stage as Mallrat, keeps showing up in the best places. The Brisbanite’s upbeat electro-pop has fit soundtracks for youthful series Heartstopper and School Spirits with a distinctly Gen-Z cocktail of dizzying emotion and everyday monotony. Rhythmic standouts “Charlie” and “Rockstar” are convincing invitations to the dance floor — a strength at The Pinnacle, a newish downtown venue still finding its identity. Go ahead and set up there for the whole concert, which centers on Swedish pop star Tove Lo, whose hits “Habits (Stay High)” and “Talking Body” defined sweaty 2010s party music. Still, show up early on Tuesday for opener Shaw, who is taking the genre’s mantle into a new decade. ELI MOTYCKA 8 P.M. AT THE PINNACLE 910 EXCHANGE LANE
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Ember & Oak aims to draw locals and visitors alike back to Whites Creek BY MARGARET LITTMAN
PHOTOS: ERIC ENGLAND
ALLISON LANQUIST AND STEVE SWAYNE
THE BIG OAK BURGER WHITES CREEK IS one of those little Nashville gems, a pastoral neighborhood with color-saturated sunsets, quiet nights and a quick 10-mile drive to downtown. And this month, Whites Creek residents are about to get a new restaurant — this time, one designed for them as well as for visitors. “We really know and want to attract the good people of Whites Creek,” says Steve Swayne, managing partner and executive chef for Ember & Oak, a restaurant opening in the bucolic setting. “We have people come by every day to shake our hands and peek in the windows. There’s a lot of community interest. It’s kind of a food desert out here, and we really want to appeal to them.”
Nashvillian Allison Lanquist has built what Swayne calls “an urban resort” in Whites Creek, adjacent to the Whites Creek Greenway and the old Fontanel Mansion. In March, Lanquist opened The Grove at Whites Creek, which includes a luxury inn and a 220-seat event center. The existing hotel had been closed for six years, and she spent a year remodeling its six suites before reopening its doors. Lanquist has an extensive Nashville résumé, having launched East Nashville childcare space Music City Kids Club, owned and worked as general contractor for Castleridge Home Builders, and handled communications for Gaylord Hotels, the Metro Nashville Airport Authority, and Service Merchandise. Those last two jobs
included some crisis communications — at the airport after 9/11 and Service Merchandise during Chapter 11 — so she feels prepared for anything. But she has a considerably more relaxing vibe planned for Whites Creek. Case in point, she notes the small pond stocked with koi from a neighbor and the “choir of frogs” that sings as dusk falls. “I began hiking these trails with my dogs nearly a decade before purchasing the property and was always drawn to its beauty and serenity,” Lanquist tells the Scene. Lanquist isn’t the first person to build a business in this section of Whites Creek. Even Nashvillians who don’t specifically remember 1970s and ’80s country music icon Barbara Mandrell may recall lines to some of her most famous songs, including: “I was country when country wasn’t cool.” In 1988, the star — who had a variety TV show with her sisters — built a log cabin for her family on this land. With 27,000 square feet, a swimming pool, its own soda fountain, an indoor shooting range and five fireplaces, it was thought to be the largest log cabin home in the nation at the time. Eventually Mandrell wanted to downsize, and she sold Fontanel Mansion (named for the soft spot on a baby’s head because she wanted a soft spot for her family to land). Between 2010 and 2019, Fontanel was run by music executives as a tourist attraction, with, at times, a live music amphitheater, a restaurant, ziplining and tours of the celebrity mansion (sometimes led by Mandrell’s daughter Jamie Dudney). Artists filmed music videos on the grounds and in the mansion — the great room still boasts many signatures on its columns. A number of things led to Fontanel being shuttered. After Ascend
Amphitheater opened downtown in 2015, the similarly sized Woods Amphitheater at the site was less of a draw. The restaurant Café Fontanella closed, and by 2019 the main attraction was the 1.8-mile Trails at Fontanel, shaded, petfriendly walking and hiking trails that connect to the paved 1.5-mile Whites Creek Greenway. Metro Parks has an agreement with the owners that allows use of the greenway and maintains its trails. Metro Parks hopes to expand the greenway to connect Hartman Community Center to Buena Vista Pike in the future. Locals continued to flock to the greenway even as the hotel and mansion closed. The inn, mansion, restaurant and surrounding acreage went through several sales, mostly sitting vacant and unimproved for years, particularly during the pandemic. Lanquist bought the property on the west side of Whites Creek — including the inn, the former restaurant and private event space — and eventually developed her vision for an easy getaway on 16 acres. Once the inn was up and running — and yoga classes, sound baths and other events were taking place in the great hall event space — Lanquist turned her attention to the restaurant, located in the space that used to house Café Fontanella. Swayne and Lanquist met through Swayne’s wife. He had retired from a career working in restaurants, which he began doing at age 14, and developing cooking appliances for Electrolux. After he met with Lanquist, he took just a few days to decide to come out of retirement. “I’m back in my element,” he says. Later this month the duo will open Ember & Oak, a 128-seat restaurant with an outdoor patio and bar seating. It will serve dinner Wednesday through Sunday and brunch on the weekends.
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The menu is “upscale Southern with a twist,” Swayne says, with bison meatloaf and short ribs and gluten-free spaghetti squash and grain bowls. The starter menu includes an 11-inch, 2-pound burger, dressed tableside, that is a nod to a shareable burger Swayne and his friends ate in his youth. That burger was $5 four decades ago — this one is $39. That one was in a dive bar in Lewiston, Idaho, and this one uses high-end ingredients, but the idea to share a favorite food together remains the same. Seasonal desserts, including cobbler, are on the lineup. Swayne is planning an extensive full bar, with consultations from a sommelier who will offer wine education classes, plus mocktails and other nonalcoholic drinks. Service and safety are important to Swayne. If guests have leftovers to take home (which might be the case with that 11-inch burger), they’ll be kept in the walk-in cooler for the duration of the meal, and then guests can request them using a valet-type ticket. The team doesn’t intend to stop at Ember & Oak. In October, they plan to open Whites Creek Mercantile, a coffee shop next to Ember & Oak. The coffee shop will offer baked goods, coffee and grab-and-go sandwiches, perfect for taking out for a hike, walk or picnic on the adjacent greenway. The Mercantile may also carry local produce and meats, giving residents an easy way to pick up local groceries, Lanquist says. They’ve already started hosting a farmers mar-
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ket on the third Thursday of the month to help connect locals to area farmers. In a separate transaction, real estate developer Clinton Holcomb bought 118 acres on the east side of Whites Creek, which includes the former Woods Amphitheater and the mansion. Holcomb moved to Nashville from Buffalo, N.Y., and — as a fan of historic properties — he wanted to clean it up and reopen the mansion for weddings, corporate events and to the public. He started with Bridgerton-themed afternoon teas, which offered the opportunity to add on a tour of the mansion. He then expanded to stand-alone tours and plans themed mysterydinner-type offerings in the future. While the two projects are unrelated, together they help demonstrate the owners’ vision for Whites Creek as a place to get away from it all, without going very far. “We’re really excited to see it come back to life,” Lanquist says. ▼
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The Vespucci Red sauce, pepperoni, goat cheese, pepperoncini peppers and hot honey.
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Lamb Merguez & Sweet Summer Corn Pizza Spiced lamb merguez, sweet corn, rich leek cream, salty Kefalotyri cheese and buttery Castelvetrano olives.
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Southern Hitman Mozzarella, onions, peaches, arugula, gorgonzola cheese and choice of balsamic drizzle.
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Deep Dish Ultimate Pepperoni Our ultimate pepperoni pizza is loaded with traditional, bold and shredded pepperoni, premium mozzarella shredded in-house, handcrafted sauce and fresh, made-from-scratch deep-dish dough.
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Mango di Parma A sweet and savory flatbread with prosciutto, fresh mangos and caramelized red onions. Topped with arugula and balsamic.
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Rustic Alfredo Pizza Wood fired pizza with caramelized onions, mozzarella di bufala and crispy pancetta topped off with an alfredo sauce drizzle and basil.
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The French Dip Flatbread pizza topped with provolone and mozzarella cheese, carmelized onions, creamy horseradish and roast beef with a side aus jus for dipping!
Oxtail Remix Smoked oxtail, garlic cream, mozzarella, oxtail reduction, parmigiano, pickled scallion and crispy shallots.
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Nashville Hot Chicken Pizza Nashville hot chicken, ‘Bama white sauce and chopped pickle.
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Side Piece Made from scratch 72-hour fermentation dough, calabrian chili cream sauce, house mozzarella blend, chorizo pepperoni, crumbled bacon, roasted garlic, parsley, balsamic glaze and fresh basil leaf.
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Tennessee Tornado A smoky Neapolitan style pizza featuring a sourdough crust, Memphis cream sauce, sharp cheddar and mozzarella cheeses, our famous smoked beef brisket, mushrooms, caramelized onions, sun-dried peppers and topped with crispy potato “tornado” threads dusted with a smoky Tennessee BBQ rub.
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ASAP Husky (Asiago, Sausage And Pepperoni) Asiago cream sauce, sausage and pepperoni pizza drizzled with peach infused hot honey and topped with red onions and fresh basil.
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Potato Sfincione Potato cream, lemon, pecorino and bread crumbs.
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Molli’s Bama BBQ Blackened Chicken Smoked Pizza Molli’s Pizza sauce topped with blackened chicken, mozzarella cheese and fresh basil from Molli’s garden. Smoked and finished off with a drizzle of Hot Honey BBQ and Molli’s Alabama White BBQ Sauce.
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The Bachelorette White pizza quesadilla with spinach, artichoke, candied chilis, crispy onions and basil ranch.
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LESLIE JONES EMMY-WINNING COMEDIENNE, actress, voiceover artist, TV hostess and voice/incarnation of enthusiastic realness Leslie Jones is an icon for the wild and weird moment we’re all living in. The Tennessee native is coming to Nashville following the triumphant launch of her new weekly HGTV program Roast My Rental, a pragmatic show built around knowing exactly how much criticism people need to hear to get their homes and business plans in order. As funny and acerbic as you might expect, it also allows Jones to be an emotionally complex reality TV host, which isn’t an archetype the genre tends to uplift. You see it in her stand-up specials (the most recent, Life Part 2, dropped in October of last year on Peacock) and the characters she brought forth during her time at Saturday Night Live. But it’s in her work covering the Olympics, recapping Game of Thrones back in the day on Twitter and as a Daily Show correspondent that you get what makes her such a dynamic presence: Jones is real. She doesn’t fake enthusiasm, she doesn’t pull punches, and she’ll tell you the truth, even if it hurts a little. The Scene spoke with Jones by phone in
advance of her Sept. 12 performance at TPAC’s Polk Theater. Have you ever walked into a rental property for the show and then had to turn right back around and leave just because it was unsafe? Yes. Actually, the episode that just came out is the one that almost broke me. That’s horrible! I love what you do on that show, because not only do you go into these places and rightfully tell the folks who are running things about themselves, but you help them. They’re better off when it’s over than when they started, but the essential part of the process is that they needed somebody to tell them the truth about themselves. Exactly. I think it’s just that a lot of people, they see their homes and their spaces all the time, and they become blinded to what is going on right there. A lot of people don’t smell their homes — they don’t smell the mildew, or see the dust or the crooked curtain. Because of habit. You would be so surprised. People can get used to anything. But you and the show’s designer Jasmine Roth are doing good things for people — really helping them. And we try to do it in a very affordable
way. There’s so many things you can do, so many touches that you can do. We try and give them Leslie’s Tips, because there’s a lot of little things that they can do that don’t cost that much money. And there’s a lot that people haven’t tried because they don’t know about it. Something else that I really like about what you and Jasmine do in transforming these places is that when you reveal what’s been done, you show how much it costs. And reality TV doesn’t usually do that, because they’re trying to keep that secret, like with who actually owns the space. Right. We’re trying to speak to and help people who have homes and want to better them. We want to help people, middle-class people who just want to have something generational to keep going for their families; we’re talking to them. Honest people who work all day and who sometimes don’t necessarily keep up in the way that you have to with these places. Some of the stories and places we’ve shared have been very touching and emotional, and these aren’t grifters. They’re just in need of a little bit of help. It just takes that little bit of guidance. And that’s what I dig about your comedy as well,
because it’s also built on that little bit of guidance behind the laughs. And shame on me for not realizing this, but when I was researching for our talk, I didn’t realize you were from Tennessee. Memphis, Tennessee. Absolutely. And I know as a military family, y’all moved around a lot, but do you have any kind of special Tennessee feeling? Memphis is actually where we also ended up living after my father’s time in the military. I was born there, but also ended up back there. But I will always remember Memphis — playing football on the street, riding my bike to the community center, running through the sprinklers, eating ice cream, just being out and doing things. We didn’t stay inside, because that was a punishment. I have so many of those kinds of childhood memories of Tennessee. As a performer, is it more fun for you to just throw down onstage, or when you do voice work, like for animated projects and such? Definitely onstage. Definitely. I need that instant gratification, to hear someone laugh out loud or to put a smile on their face. That will always be my go-to. If I don’t do anything else in this business, I will always be a stand-up comedian. ▼
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Christopher Nolan’s go-to casting director John Papsidera on his career and adopted hometown BY LOGAN BUTTS
JOHN PAPSIDERA A LITTLE MORE than a decade ago, John Papsidera saw a Bruce Springsteen show in Nashville. Papsidera’s visit to Music City confirmed something he had always thought: Middle Tennessee was a great place to put down roots. He and his wife had a house built in College Grove, just a short drive south of Nashville. Papsidera, who has worked as a casting director for nearly 30 years, splits his time between Middle Tennessee and Los Angeles. His offices are still located in L.A., but unless he’s needed in person for specific aspects of the job — callbacks, final readings, meetings with specific directors — Papsidera spends most of his time around Nashville. Before a stint in the restaurant business, he actually started his career as an actor. “I remember leaving [an] audition and going, ‘I don’t have the confidence to let a camera study me.’” When Papsidera made the move back to the entertainment business, a friend who worked in casting pointed him toward the field. After seven years of balancing casting gigs during the week with restaurant work on the weekend, he was hired as the casting director for Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. “I thought it was a great blend of not only working with actors and still being able to be creative in that sense, but also a real sense of
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business, which kind of came easier to me,” says the two-time Emmy winner. Now Papsidera has a firm foot in both film (the work of Christopher Nolan, Superman, Twisters) and TV (Wednesday, Westworld, the Taylor Sheridan-verse). And with Best Casting finally a category at the Academy Awards, Papsidera’s work on Nolan’s uber-successful adaptation of The Odyssey could send him to the Oscars in the spring. Ahead of Papsidera’s appearance at the Nashville Film Festival later this month, the Scene spoke with him about his career and his adopted hometown. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Could you tell us about the logistics of being a casting director? It is a blending of creativity and dramaturgy and business. Casting directors probably work with more department heads, next to the director, than anybody else … so it’s an incredibly interesting vantage point from which to see films come together. We’re usually on preproduction to the time they start shooting. Some films I’m on through shooting, but rarely. Usually by the time they start shooting, we’re done, and I’m off onto something else. I read with every actor. Back in the day, I used to read with everybody. Now it’s more and more tapes, but callbacks I certainly do [in person].
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And then you start to whittle away. I firmly believe that if you believe in the process, the right person shows up. What is the process of working with a director like? My job is to get inside a director’s head and see what they want, and then fulfill those dreams. First, understanding how I view the role, and we discuss whether we see it the same way. It’s a service position. We’re definitely trying to fulfill everybody’s needs. Recently, the Nashville area has seen upward movement for its film industry. What do you think the future holds for the city? It’s such a great city and such a great location for film. I know it’s trying to get its sea legs under it. I’ve certainly heard about it more than I’ve participated. I did do [current Amazon Prime series] Scarpetta, the first season that shot in Nashville, and was glad that they had found that production there, thanks to Nicole [Kidman] by and large. It’d be a great location for other projects to shoot in, and I’d love to see the industry take off in a bigger way in Nashville. How did your partnership with Christopher Nolan form? The producers on Austin Powers, the Todd sisters, called me and said, “We have this small film; would you be interested in reading it?” I was like, sure. And they sent over the script to Memento. I had to read it three times
because I didn’t know if I had read that page before. I was blown away by the structure of the film, the writing of those characters. So I met with Chris, and it was probably one of the easier casting jobs that I’ve had because Chris didn’t know anybody in the States, really. He honored me with giving me the trust of [bringing in my favorite people], and I did. He made decisions fairly quickly, and it was some of my favorite actors out there, so it was a great experience. Chris and I have worked together ever since, barring Insomnia, which was a kerfuffle at a studio, but he promised me that he would be back. He kept his word. I think he wants to know what to expect out of people, and once you find it, I think it’s hard to let go when you find that. I’ve always really valued his loyalty and his trust in me, and I think we’ve done each other a fair job working together. What was it like casting The Odyssey? It was a little bit of everything. The idea that we had coming out of Oppenheimer, where we felt it was important to cast actors that were recognizable to pay tribute to those people that they were portraying, because those people were the rock stars of that day, scientists on the cutting edge from around the world coming together to have a common cause. It felt like the stakes just got raised on The Odyssey, in that these people were the superheroes of their time. They’re gods and mythic-sized characters. I think the feeling was they need to be almost mythic-sized actors to fill those shoes and to serve that place in the history of literature, or in the oral tradition of storytelling. … People’s imaginations embraced those characters, and they lived with them in a very personal way. Because of the history of this story, they live in a mythic-sized place in people’s imaginations, so we tried to do service to that with getting the superstars of acting to represent those characters. ▼
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Across 1 Singer Braxton 5 Like some winter windshields 9 ___ Bauer (brand of outdoor gear) 14 Soon 15 “Me, too” 16 Stable job 17 Spirit of the Caribbean 19 Haggard 20 Creamy dish made with arborio rice 21 Angela on “The Office,” e.g. 22 “Bring it on!” 23 Four-time N.B.A. M.V.P. 28 Nick, e.g. 30 Collected 31 Evil computer of classic film 32 Kind of seeds found in a basket in King Tutankhamen’s tomb 35 Alternate nickname for the “Hollywood of the South” 37 Group with a coat of arms 38 Unspecified ones 40 Wednesday a.k.a. ___ day 41 Like some fat 43 Purposely wrongs 45 “What’s more …” 46 Joan known for his “dream paintings” 47 Make out, perhaps? 48 Pillow fight setting 51 Juicer’s “juice”
55 Determination 56 Shade provider along Central Park’s Literary Walk 58 A-tier 60 Chock-full ... like three squares (and foods) in this puzzle 62 Touch-and-go 63 Force felt on Earth, for short 64 Goddess whose name is an anagram of her mother’s 65 Feelings of getting older 66 Volcano seen on HBO’s “The White Lotus” 67 Port in 50-Down Down 1 Fruity pastry 2 Live 3 Like the jungle at daybreak 4 At the helm 5 “___ that right?” 6 Number for December 7 Bird with noted calf muscles 8 Short blue person? 9 Chả giò, on a Vietnamese menu 10 Enervate 11 Temptation for Homer Simpson 12 Na+ or Cl13 Real lifesaver, for short 18 Starting group
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