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Nashville
KNOWLEDGE OF Nashville
Nashville is the self-styled Music City USA – with Dolly Parton, the Grand Ole Opry, Robert Altman’s Oscar-winning movie Nashville (1975) and the Country Music Hall of Fame. It is often a surprise to the first-time visitor to find a stylish American city, high profile skyscrapers, and a healthy financial community, embracing new commerce, publishing houses and other offshoots of the music industry. On the other side of the picture, reflected in these skyscrapers are the legendary bars where Hank Williams drank and where country singers still perform, ever-hopeful of becoming the next Willie Nelson or Loretta Lynn.
Located in the centre of Middle Tennessee, Nashville is the booming city of the upper South, where gracious Southern hospitality mixes with a genuine friendliness. Its population is rapidly expanding as it attracts citizens escaping the brutal northern winters, or leaving New York and Los Angeles for a more easy-going lifestyle. Its climate and scenic hills are a refreshing combination for many, while others come to work in the music and entertainment business. The city has long attracted singers and songwriters, ever since the Grand Ole Opry started its weekly radio broadcast in 1925. First established to rival Chicago’s ‘National Barn Dance’ radio show, the Opry remains so popular today that it is always Nashville that springs to mind when one thinks of America’s ‘Country Capital’.
Performing arts in this city run the gamut from the glitz and guitars of Broadway through world-renowned theatre presentations. Arenas of talent don’t just run to the visual arts of ballet, symphony or the academic excellence of universities such as Vanderbilt, which has been ranked among the nation’s best in its schools of education, medicine, business and law. Professional sports have huge followings, and both the NHL Predators hockey team and the NFL Tennessee Titans call Nashville home. In their first season here, the Titans went all the way to the Super Bowl, generating a fiercely dedicated following.
The city’s roots go back a long way. It was first home to bison and deer, which attracted the hunters who settled here. In the late 18th century, French fur trappers and traders arrived at this area along the Cumberland River, the most famous one being Daniel Boone. Immigrants from the Appalachians began to settle soon after and established the beginnings of a sizeable community until, in 1843, Nashville became Tennessee’s state capital. Today the city is strategically located at the convergence of three major interstate systems and the centre of national transportation crossroads.
Nashville’s Downtown is currently undergoing significant change. The new Schermerhorn Symphony Centre is planned to debut in September 2006 as a state-of-the-art versatile concert hall and convention centre, and anchor the future development of the Music Mile (south of Broadway). This will tie in closely with the US$100 million development in the Division Street/12th Avenue South area of The Gulch, turning an old area of Nashville into trendy, urban loft-style homes, residential units and retail space in a new 12-storey glass-encased tower. New businesses are already relocating to this erstwhile-undeveloped part of town, with a vision for more upscale dining, bakeries, bistros, cafés and markets.
Located in the centre of Middle Tennessee, Nashville is the booming city of the upper South, where gracious Southern hospitality mixes with a genuine friendliness. Its population is rapidly expanding as it attracts citizens escaping the brutal northern winters, or leaving New York and Los Angeles for a more easy-going lifestyle. Its climate and scenic hills are a refreshing combination for many, while others come to work in the music and entertainment business. The city has long attracted singers and songwriters, ever since the Grand Ole Opry started its weekly radio broadcast in 1925. First established to rival Chicago’s ‘National Barn Dance’ radio show, the Opry remains so popular today that it is always Nashville that springs to mind when one thinks of America’s ‘Country Capital’.
Performing arts in this city run the gamut from the glitz and guitars of Broadway through world-renowned theatre presentations. Arenas of talent don’t just run to the visual arts of ballet, symphony or the academic excellence of universities such as Vanderbilt, which has been ranked among the nation’s best in its schools of education, medicine, business and law. Professional sports have huge followings, and both the NHL Predators hockey team and the NFL Tennessee Titans call Nashville home. In their first season here, the Titans went all the way to the Super Bowl, generating a fiercely dedicated following.
The city’s roots go back a long way. It was first home to bison and deer, which attracted the hunters who settled here. In the late 18th century, French fur trappers and traders arrived at this area along the Cumberland River, the most famous one being Daniel Boone. Immigrants from the Appalachians began to settle soon after and established the beginnings of a sizeable community until, in 1843, Nashville became Tennessee’s state capital. Today the city is strategically located at the convergence of three major interstate systems and the centre of national transportation crossroads.
Nashville’s Downtown is currently undergoing significant change. The new Schermerhorn Symphony Centre is planned to debut in September 2006 as a state-of-the-art versatile concert hall and convention centre, and anchor the future development of the Music Mile (south of Broadway). This will tie in closely with the US$100 million development in the Division Street/12th Avenue South area of The Gulch, turning an old area of Nashville into trendy, urban loft-style homes, residential units and retail space in a new 12-storey glass-encased tower. New businesses are already relocating to this erstwhile-undeveloped part of town, with a vision for more upscale dining, bakeries, bistros, cafés and markets.
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