Nashville for Free

Monday

Rock’n'Roll Trivia and 8 off 8th at the Mercy Lounge – 7pm & 9pm
Show off your mad trivia skills in an attempt to win prizes from The Groove and the bar, then stick around for some rock. This week’s 8 off 8th features The New Protestants, The Lake, Goldroom, Cobra Cheetah Tiger Viper, The Kingston Springs, Downtown Handshake, My Tyger, and Hanzelle. Brought to you by We Own This Town.

Who’s on 3rd at 3rd and Lindsley – 9pm
Free show with Bryan Sackenheim, Paige Bainbridge, Heather Wiggins, Stacey Donahue, Greg Walters, Kevin Masch, Jer Gregg, Cat Beach, Risa Binder.

A Chopin Celebration at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music – 7pm
Chopin will be 200 this year so go celebrate his awesome tunes.

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Monday

Rock’n'Roll Trivia and 8 Off 8th at the Mercy Lounge – 7 & 9pm
It’s the second week of Rock’n'Roll Trivia being back, so get ready for a drop in your self-esteem. Who knows, you might even see a N4F team! Also, the Groove is now a sponsor so winners will get some sweet Groove prizes too. Anyway, after trivia finished up around 9 o’clock 8 Off 8th will begin. This week’s performers are Julia The Menace, Defense Wins Championships, Oblio, Jordan Hull, Telecommunicators, Rae Hering, What Bird.., and Theif.

Commercial Music Showcase at Belmont University’s MPAC – 5pm
Do you want to see the best in commercial music Belmont has to offer? Then come and check out this event, which will feature Noel Barefoot, John Flanagan, Joshua Eric Wright, and Aashely Morgan. It’s only an hour long, so don’t be late!

Eclectic Chamber Players Explores the String Quartet at First Presbyterian Church – 7:30pm
Eclectic Chamber Players explores the String Quartet featuring works by Arensky, Barber, Mackey, and Mozart. Eclectic Chamber Players is an ever-evolving group of artists whose main connection is their passion for interesting, innovative, and irreplaceable chamber music.

Various Storytime Events
So today is apparently storytime day. Here are places and times for three of those events

• The Frist, book TBA – 10:30am
• Barnes & Nobel in Cool Springs, Thomas the Tank Engine – 11am
• Barnes & Nobel in Hendersonville, book TBA, but there will be snacks and stuff – 11am

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Monday

Greenpeace 8 off 8^th at the Mercy Lounge – 9pm

This week the lineup at 8 off 8th is pretty sweet. It’s hosted by NotEnefPromotions and brings us Nashville favorites like Oblio, Parachute Musical, Vermicious K’nids, Justin Kalk Orchestra, H-Beam, Minor Kings, Slow Dither, and Slow Claw. Also, I guess there are some Greenpeace-y things going on as well. Man, I have been stopped on the street so many times in the past 2 weeks by Greenpeacers. Not that I mind, but wow, they’re really working hard.

Full Moon Hike with Team Green at Edwin Warner Park Pavilion #9 – 7:30
For the werewolves out there. We know you exist! Directions:  Take West End to Highway 100. Turn Left on Old Hickory Blvd then a Right on Vaughn Road at the light. Turn at the second park entrance where the shelters are located and drive to the end to shelter #9. Beware of the moors. Stick to the road.

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Monday

Belmont Camerata Musicale at the Belmont Mansion – 7:30pm

Belmont faculty, guest artists and artistic director, Elisabeth Small present the 21st season of Belmont Camerata Musicale’s chamber music series in the historic Belmont Mansion. On September 28, they will present a program of Bach and Mendelssohn works featuring Erbarme dich from Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Mendelssohn’s String Quartet Op. 80 and Concertpiece No.2 in D minor for piano, clarinet and bassoon.

8 off 8^th at the Mercy Lounge – 9pm

This week everyone’s favorite weekly showcase with 8 bands is hosted by Brenn, and the lineup includes Brenn, The Worsties, RT Gentlemen, Kink Ador,The Effects, Mona, Bravo Max and Daniel Ellsworth.

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Monday

8 off 8th at the Mercy Lounge – 9pm

It’s Ashley Spurgeon and Caligula’s birthday, so The Mercy Lounge is gonna get DOWN. Here’s the lineup: The Minor Keys (funky soul jams), Electric Mayhem (Matt Friction from Pink Spiders, Dave Paulson from The Privates, and an all-star backing group play hits from The Muppets), Twee’s Nuts (Music Journalist, DJ and former Young Livers singer Sean Maloney returns to the stage — with what? we have no idea), Powerbrrrd (formerly known as Shit Sandwich, noisy East Bay-style 90′s style punk feat. members of Tigers Con Queso and The Armed Forces) Denney and the Jets (members of Meemaw AND Jeff), Daniel Pujole and Some Beaus (former Meemaw frontman goes solo) Max and the Wild Things (reezy Jonathan Richman-with-a-banjo approach to rock, known to us at Nashville for Free as the guys who tried to convince us that KOL was playing the other week, but we still love them), and Gunslinger (proggy classic rock on the jammy tip)

Tuesday

Bows and Arrows in-store at Grimey’s – 6pm

Bows and Arrows is one of the most talked about reverb-soaked indie-pop outfits in Nashville. They’ve opened for Au Revoir Simone and the Brunnettes, and on Tuesday at Grimey’s they’re releasing their new EP – The Perils of The Polkadotapotamus, which is free at this instore, by the way. Suh-weet!

Catlin Rose plays the early show at The Basement – 7pm

I’m pretty sure that Lance is in love with Ms. Rose, and for good reason: she’s pretty friggin awesome. You should go check her out then stick around afterwards for New Faces Nite, which will feature Technology VS Horse, Edgehill Ave, Englishman, What Bird, Brandon McGuinness and Aaron Cox.

Wednesday

International Lens Series Presents The Visitor at the Sarratt Cinema on Vanderbilt’s campus – 7pm

Vanderbilt did this last year too, and while I unfortunately never got around to going to one I think it sounds great. I don’t really want to get into a whole synopsis of the movie, so I’ll just point you to the ILS website: International Lens Series

Tunesmithing on Music Row at Edgehill Studio Cafe – 7-9pm
They say it so well on Now Playing Nashville, so I’ll just have to quote them there:

Tunesmithing on Music Row will spotlight hit and emerging songwriters on Thursday, September 3 at the Edgehill Studios Cafe. The songwriting celebration will feature a closing performance by the acclaimed country group The Alvarado Road Show. Also performing will be songwriters Brittany Hamilton, Jeff Jacob and Angel Pontier. Chuck Whiting and Kimberly Maiers Shaw will emcee the show.

Thursday

NAAD Presents Art After Hours – 5-8

It’s the first Thursday of the month, which means that a bunch of the art galleries are going to be open late, handing out wine and cheese and whatnot. Click here for a map of participating galleries.

International Lens Series presents Planet B-Boy – 7pm

I’ve already posted the link for the ILS above, but I just thought I’d let you know that if you stick around after this film (about New York street dancers) you can catch a Hip Hop Dance Demo! If you go I expect to see pictures.

Shakespeare in the Park presents The Complete Works of Shakespeare – 6:30 pre-show, 7:30 curtains.

I promise that this night will not be as long as it sounds. Lance wrote about this in an earlier post, but the Complete Works of Shakespeare isn’t actually his complete works, and it wasn’t written by him. In 90 the actors will attempt to briefly cover all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays. It sounds hysterical.
Friday

Team Green Full Moon Hike at Edwin Warner Park Pavillion #9 – 7:30

Better enjoy this while it’s still warm enough to hike at night. It actually sounds really cool to me, but I just like full moons.

Shakespeare in the Park is tonight, as well.

Saturday

Shakespeare Allowed presents Romeo & Juliet at the Downtown Public Library – 1-4pm

I’ve talked about this before, so some of you probably know what this is about, but Nashville Shakespeare Company does this every first Saturday. They’re working through the entire Shakespeare catalog, reading through every play as a group. Come if you want to impress everyone with your reading ability or if you just want to listen. Everyone is welcome!

First Saturday Art Crawl – 6-10pm

This is a lot like the Thursday Art Crawl except it’s Saturday so you don’t have to go to work the next morning, so you can stay out longer, enjoy more art, and drink more wine (but please, not too much, don’t be that asshole who got drunk off the free wine at the art crawl. Lame). Also, there’s a shuttle, the route of which you can view here.

Can you handle THIS?

Monday

8 off 8th at the Mercy Lounge – 9pm
Music that will make you CREAM presents 90s night. Bring your worst 90s clothes, be it your flannel and acid wash jeans or your Spice Girls tour t-shirt.

Ginger Rue reads from and signs Brand New Emily at Davis-Kidd – 7pm
Brand New Emily is the story about a girl who makes enemies with the most popular girl in school, then undergoes a complete makeover with the help of a publicist, becoming Brand Em, then learns the limits of brand loyalty.

Tuesday

Ga’an at Grimey’s – 6pm
If you don’t know who Ga’an is, it’s Lindsay from Cake Bake Betty’s new band. If you’ve never heard of Cake Bake Betty you should go anyway.

Team Green Birthday Adventure Mixer at Downtown YMCA – 6-8pm, 21+
Info from Now Playing Nashville:
“Team Green is turning 13 and to celebrate our teen year’s we’re throwing a huge birthday bash downtown! Head over to the brand new Dowtown YMCA building for a scavenger hunt for giveaway tickets as you visit different facility features of the building, then walk a block to The Standard, a historic downtown house converted into a beautiful restaurant and ballroom where the real party begins! The Standard is located at 167 Rosa Parks Blvd.”

New Faces Nite at the Basement – 8pm
Free show featuring artists you probably haven’t heard of yet. Who knows, you could discover your new favorite local band.

Wednesday

Paolo Nutini at Grimey’s – 6pm
Catch Paolo before his show at the Cannery Ballroom. I can’t promise he’ll play “New Shoes,” but you never know. Also, if you have tickets to his show at the Cannery you should get there early (7pm), because that ticket will get you free admission to Five for Five at the Mercy Lounge, which will feature Gates of Graceland (formerly The Shoals, they’re really cool dudes), Rhean Boyer (Carolina Rain), Mike Willis, Clay Evans, and Anthony Snape.

Arby’s Freebie
Free Fruitea with any sandwich purchase.

Dave Peterson and 1946 at 12 South Taproom – 9pm
He’s “a savvy independent recording artist and a bluegrass singer who cherishes tradition.” Also, he’s awesome, so that helps.

ASCAP Rocks the Basement – 8pm
Come and catch some cool new acts. I’m going to recommend Natalie Warner because I saw her live awhile back and she was pretty damn good.

THOR’s-Day

Spike and The Impalers: A Classic Rock Tribute at Exit/In – 9pm
Seattle’s greatest classic rock tribute band comes to Nashville in an attempt to rock us like we haven’t been rocked in a very long time. Expect serious AC/DC, The Who, Bruce, and Van Halen, among others.

Eric Barnes reads and signs The Shimmer at Davis-Kidd – 7pm
A story about a CEO and his discovery that his company is built on a lie. Corporate Ponzi scheme, ho!

Bobby Bare, The Henningstons & Dixie’s Finest at 12th & Porter – 6pm
Well, we all know that Bobby Bare is awesome. Why wouldn’t you want to catch him and two other great bands for free? Seriously.

Friday

GINO: The Greatest Funk show in Nashville at Music City Bar – 9pm
Funk. Music. Could be good, could be not so good.

Shelby Bottom String Band at French Quarter Café – 6pm
From their bio:
“Shelby Bottom String Band plays quirky Americana and old songs that have current relevance along with originals — all delivered with charm and humor.”

Saturday

Ugly Tomato Festival at Nashville Farmers’ Market – 11am
Come on down and taste a variety of tomatos, check out some cooking demos, listen to some music, and more!

Shakespeare Allowed presents King John at the Main Public Library – 1-4pm
Come down and enjoy/participate in a reading of Shakespeare’s King John. This event happens with a different play every first Saturday of the month.

First Saturday Art Crawl at various art galleries – 6-10pm
Enjoy some great art, drink some free wine, and meet some cool people at the First Saturday Art Crawl. I’d personally avoid any free food that’s sitting out. I had a bad experience last time I ate the food at an art gallery opening…bleh
Here’s a link for the free shuttle map: http://artatthearcade.com/first-saturday/