Events for the Week of August 3rd
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Hello 👋🏻 from inside your trusted Pamphleteer events calendar! My name is Camelia, and I have been collecting all the best events for you since 2023. I have a penchant for bluegrass, post-punk, and 90's country and do my best to find a little something for everyone each day of the week here in Nashville.
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Here are some highlights from the upcoming week:
Bloomington, Indiana shoegaze trio Just Penelope play The East Room on Monday.
On Tuesday, we have some high quality Canadian indie rock music with Metric, Broken Social Scene and Stars at Ryman Auditorium. "All The Feelings Tour" wants us to know these bands grew up together and are lifelong friends... which is a little suspicious if you ask me. (No one has!) I once spent a considerable amount of time likening the early 00's Toronto indie band invasion to that of Laurel Canyon in the 60's after falling down a David McGowan rabbit hole. Now I just assume any music I like is CIA funded, and things are much simpler that way.
Psychedelic music project Tame Impala are scheduled to play two sold-out shows at Bridgestone on Tuesday and Wednesday. Blues rock duo The Black Keys are headlining The Pinnacle on Thursday and Friday, and Vince Gill continues his residency at Ryman Auditorium Thursday through Saturday.
Nordista Freeze’s ‘The Cool Off’ is happening at The Blue Room on Saturday. Billed as a dressed-up, dance-ready night packed with vintage pop, psychedelic sounds and the kind of wildly energetic live show Freeze is known for.
The Beach Boys are NOT playing Ryman Auditorium on Sunday. This concert was postponed until October 11th. Did you know the late Brian Wilson's daughter Wendy Wilson was on an episode of Supernanny in 2008. I know this because Supernanny and Judge Judy are the only television I've watched for the past five years. You can glean a lot about basic human nature by watching people lie to a Judge or fail to successfully persuade a 2 year old child.
If you're now looking for something to fill The Beach Boys sized hole in your heart on Sunday, synth pop pioneer Howard Jones will be at Ascend Amphitheater.
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Monday, 8/3
🎹 Daniel Kuk Quartet @ Rudy's Jazz Room, 6p, $12, Info
+ up-and-coming Nashville pianist
🎸 Just Penelope @ The East Room, 8p, $13.36, Info
+ indie rock band from Bloomington, Indiana
🪕 Bluegrass Mondays with Kyle Tuttle @ Dee's Lounge, 6p, $10, Info
🪕 Charlie Worsham @ Station Inn, 8p, $25, Info
💀 Grateful Monday @ Acme Feed & Seed, 7p, Free, Info
🕺 Motown Monday @ The 5 Spot, 9p, $5, Info
Tuesday, 8/4
🎸 Tame Impala @ Bridgestone Arena, 7p, $127, Info
🎸 Metric, Broken Social Scene and Stars @ Ryman Auditorium, 7p, $67, Info
🎸 Steel Guitar Jam @ Eastside Bowl, 4p, Free, Info
🪕 Troubadour Blue @ Station Inn, 8p, Info
🎸 Twang Tuesday @ Acme Feed & Seed, 7p, Free, Info
🎸 Honky Tonk Tuesday @ Eastside Bowl, 8p, $10, Info
+ two-step lessons @ 7p, The Cowpokes @ 8p
Wednesday, 8/5
🎸 Tame Impala @ Bridgestone Arena, 7p, $127, Info
🪕 Songs & Stories by Larry Cordle & Friends @ Station Inn, 8p, $20, Info
💀 Tennessee Dead @ Tennessee Brew Works, 6p, Info
🎸 Kelley's Heroes @ Robert's Western World, 6:30p, Free, Info
🎸 The Cowpokes @ Robert's Western World, 10:30p, Free, Info
🪕 Bluegrass Night @ The American Legion Post 82, 7p, Free, Info
Thursday, 8/6
🎸 Waylon Payne @ Skinny Dennis, 7p, No Cover, Info
+ country singer-songwriter
🎸 POND @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville, 8p, $34, Info
+ psych rock
🎸 King Lazy Eye @ The Basement East, 8p, $24.75, Info
+ middle TN southern punk rock
🎸 The Black Keys @ The Pinnacle, 8p, $96+, Info
🎸 Lawndry @ The East Room, 8p, $13.36, Info
+ "Like Enya meets Pink Floyd"
🪕 Vince Gill @ Ryman Auditorium, 7p, $137, Info
🎙️ Open Mic @ Fox and Locke, 6:30p, Free, Info
🎸 Kelley's Heroes @ Robert's Western World, 6:30p, Free, Info
Friday, 8/7
🎸 Elijah Wyatt & Dustin Bothwell @ Skinny Dennis, 7p, $10, Info
+ twangy country
🎸 The Black Keys @ The Pinnacle, 8p, $96+, Info
🪕 Vince Gill @ Ryman Auditorium, 7p, $137, Info
🎸 Country Club Day ft. The Cowpokes @ Acme Feed & Seed, 12:30p, Free, Info
🎸 Kelley's Heroes @ Robert's Western World, 6:30p, Free, Info
Saturday, 8/8
🪩 Nordista Freeze @ The Blue Room, 7p, $25,34, Info
+ Step back into the 1960s for Nordista Freeze’s ‘The Cool Off’, a dressed-up, dance-ready night packed with vintage pop, psychedelic sounds
🎸 Cat Rose Smith @ Skinny Dennis, 7p, $10, Info
🪕 Vince Gill @ Ryman Auditorium, 7p, $137, Info
🎸 Koe Wetzel @ Bridgestone Arena, 6p, $35.25, Info
🛥️ Monsters of Yacht - America's Premier Tribute to 70s and 80s Yacht Rock @ 3rd and Lindsley, 8p, $24.61, Info
🪕 Pam Setser @ Station Inn, 9p, $25 Info
🎸 Kelley's Heroes @ Robert's Western World, 6:30p, Free, Info
Sunday, 8/9
🎙️ Howard Jones w/ Wang Chung @ Ascend Amphitheater, 6p, $35+, Info
🪕 Bluegrass Jam @ Station Inn, 7p, Free, Info
+ a night for musicians and singers from all over the world to gather and enjoy making music together
🪕 Sundays Between with Easy Green @ Tennessee Brew Works, 1p, Info
+ a fusion of two beloved musical genres – Bluegrass and the iconic sounds of the Grateful Dead!