Raise a Glass

Celebrating the best parties of 2022

As the world tentatively reopened last year, Nashville did what we have always done:We gathered together. At events throughout the city, we have watched old friends embrace — some for the rst time in two years. Champagne was passed through ballrooms, halls, and lobbies of beautifully adorned venues; countless glasses were raised in celebration; and the music and rhythm of events picked up its proverbial tempo.

In this issue, we celebrate the return of events that paused as our world was blanketed in isolation. In 2022, invitations were finally sent, and Nashville showed up and showed out. Further on are the results of our Best Parties Readers’ Poll, and historian and friend of Nfocus David Ewing illumi- nates some of the historic African American events of Nashville. Nan Parrish tells the story of the allfemale-attended birthday party she threw for her husband Neil in 30 Years of Nfocus, and Whitney Clay guides us on an exploration of Franklin’s newly opened Southall Farm & Inn.

Time, like the beat of a drum, marches on. While the New Year’s bell has rung, we eagerly await the events for which Nashville is known. We look forward to standing alongside you in support of the important causes that make Music City strike a harmonious chord, and we raise our glasses to you, our readers and friends, for your tremendous support in the past 30 years. To the future! We look forward to celebrating with you.

BY JANET KURTZ

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