Month: February 2024

Coming this Month:

The Jazz Beat: March 2024

Hello, all, and welcome back to this regular column here at Music City Review. Here, we will update you with the most can’t-miss jazz events happening in Music City, soRead More

The African Company Presents Richard III: Unbelievably True

  For their Spring Shakespeare presentation, the Nashville Shakespeare Festival did a staged reading of Carlyle Brown’s play The African Company Presents Richard III. Based on true events, the playRead More

Jagged Little Pill Comes to Nashville

Jagged Little Pill is a musical based on Alanis Morissette’s world-changing music which premiered on Broadway in 2019 and received 15 Tony nominations.  Directed by Tony Award winner Diane PaulusRead More

The Show Must Go On: Aspinall Steps in at the Schermerhorn

“The show must go on” were the first words spoken to the Nashville Symphony audience on Thursday February 22nd by Alan Valentine, CEO and President of the Symphony. Valentine explainedRead More

Michelle Eistrup’s Dikenga: Four Faces of the Sun at Fisk

Prior to the sunset premiere of Dikenga: Four Faces of the Sun, Fisk University Galleries (Jameel Sheats, curator) hosted a panel and reception indoors on the John Hope and AureliaRead More

from the National Museum of African American Music:

A Review of Gospel: Panel & Watch Party

On Monday, February 12th, I had the pleasure of attending an engrossing and stimulating panel discussion at the National Museum of African American Music, sponsored, and curated by WPLN, Nashville’sRead More

From Belmont's Department of Theater and Dance

Blue Stockings

Tuesday evening, February 20th, I saw the Belmont Department of Theatre and Dance performance of Blue Stockings. It was a very enjoyable evening: the play is fantastic. It is aboutRead More

Thoughts of a Colored Man: Town and Gown Triumph

The first morality play in Western culture was written in 12th-century Germany by a woman for women. Of its many characters, only one, the devil, was male. The most recentRead More

Coming to Darkhorse Theater: The African Company Presents Richard III

This play, written by Carlyle Brown, is about an actual historic event: In 1821, forty years before Lincoln ended slavery, and fifty years before black Americans earned the right toRead More

from Cheekwood's Winter Concert Series:

Salsa Night in Cheekwood Gardens with the Music City Latin Orchestra

(Versión en español aquí: https://wp.me/pabEmc-2Ky) As part of Cheekwood’s Winter Concert Series, on Saturday, February 24th at 7:00 pm, the authentic flavors of salsa will be savored in the MasseyRead More