Celebrate Music City: FREE Americana Music Festival

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Music Neighbors

Celebrate Music City: FREE Americana Music Festival, Thursday, May 23 featuring music from Slice, Amber Ais, Sarah Hardwig, Lori Rayne, & Mark Robert Cash

Celebrate Music City is a 3-part, weekly, family-friendly, free festival series that showcases and embraces the diversity of our city's music scene and communities. This event will be outdoors on a beautiful green space close to downtown Nashville at New Heights Brewery.

Thursday, May 23 will showcase underrepresented musicians from the Americana and country music communities and was curated in partnership with Shoes Off Entertainment which spotlights diversity and promotes safe spaces for artists and audience members alike with a focus on BIPOC, women, queer, and disabled acts.

Agenda for May 23 is as follows

5p: Festival Area Opens

6-7p: Two-Step Dance Lesson from STEP Country Dance

7-7:45p: Writers Round ft Sarah Hardwig, Lori Rayne, & Mark Robert Cash

8:15-9p: Amber Ais (Full Band)

9:30-10:15p: Slice (Full Band)

The festival is free and open to the general public. Each event will encourage dancing, cultural learning experiences, relaxing and soaking up the good vibes in the green space, and of course amazing live music! We are also curating local retail and food vendors to support the diversity of Nashville’s local businesses which is important to our communities!

We believe music can bridge different communities together to build a more equitable and inclusive Nashville. Each festival day is themed by genre, including Latinx Music with a salsa dancing lesson, Urban Music with a street-style dancing lesson, and Americana Music with a country swing dancing lesson.

Music Neighbors, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, believes that supporting and sustaining Nashville’s local music ecosystem is vital to Music City’s identity and culture. That's why we've allied with underrepresented music artists and organizations to curate this amazing festival series to celebrate all the sounds and vibrant culture of Nashville!

This series is made possible with funding from:

Tennessee Arts Commission and the Robert K. and Anne H. Zelle Fund for Fine and Performing Arts of Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee

Special thanks to New Heights Brewing and Shoes Off Entertainment for partnering with us for this event! Also thank you to STEP Country Dance for providing a community dance lesson to kick off the event!