Country Music or Pop – It’s the Biggest Week of the Year in Nashville… with Music & Stars Galore

This is the week that is in Nashville. With major music shows and festivals going on all over. The biggies are the CMA Music Festival, formerly Fan Fair, and Bonnaroo. Each brings in upwards of 100,000 music fans.

The major one for Country Music, of course, is the CMA Music Festival, going on all over the city as we write this. For rock, Bonnaroo, off I-24, 50 miles or so SE of Nashville is the one. Both are the biggest of their kind. Read the rest of this entry »

CMA Music Festival: The Biggest Music Event Dedicated to a Genre, Anywhere. It’s Almost Here

While the CMA Music Festival officially starts June 10 and runs through the 13th, many of the side events are already up and running. You see, the big event at LP Field, otherwise known as Titan Stadium, is only part of the whole thing. Smaller side shows go on all around Nashville, in so many venues it’s hard to find out about them all, much less list them. You almost have to be here and find out about them one by one. But there is more below. Read the rest of this entry »