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Contents

Letter to the editor

septemBer 21, 2017

this week on the web:

Books Coal Miners’ Hero

Holly Gleason brings together an all-star cast of writers for Woman Walk the Line

City Limits The Death of Madison Bailee Deal A year after an inmate’s death in a CoreCivic prison, her family is still reeling — and wants answers By Cari Wade Gervin

headLine homes

By SaraH Carter and CHapter 16

musiC The Styles Council ................................... 51

By aSHley SpurGeon

Embracing the Strange........................... 51 Melvins keep evolving, just the way we like it

The dog days find a lot of expensive homes, but not necessarily a lot of mansions

By p.J. Kinzer

By amanda HaGGard

How the members of *repeat repeat launched an East Nashville band wise beyond its years

Cover story: FaLL Guide From film to music to art, dance, books and theater, here’s what’s happening this autumn Food ......................................................... 13 Music........................................................ 14 Books ....................................................... 18 Classical, Dance and Opera ................... 20 Film .......................................................... 22 Theater..................................................... 24 Art ............................................................ 26

CritiCs’ piCks Jerry Reed Celebration, Sam Hunt, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nashville Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty, Rhiannon Giddens, Adam Ant, Father John Misty, Kesha and more

Why LEAD CEO Chris Reynolds Really Left His Post

Harry Styles’ evolution proves there’s more than one direction for post-boy-banders

August 2017

Artist and Former Those Darlins Frontwoman Jessi Zazu Dies at 28

Former Lockeland Table Chef Danny Bua Prepares to Open New Food Truck

History Repeats ...................................... 52

By Jon GuGala

on the Cover:

Cover design by Liz Loewenstein

The Spin ................................................... 54 The Scene’s live-review column checks out Amanda Shires, Hiss Golden Messenger, Angaleena Presley and more at AmericanaFest

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Noir on the Nile Set amid the Arab Spring, The Nile Hilton Incident is a crime thriller full of high stakes and paranoia By Steve eriCKSon

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Food and drink Sugar Shock: Shake Believe .................. 45 I promise not to make any Kelis references in this story about over-the-top milkshakes By meGan SelinG

Bites ......................................................... 46 This week on our food blog, we recap the Music City Food + Wine Festival

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The game teaches. It is a saying with many iterations used in many languages about the game of football, or soccer as we call it in the U.S. As a country we have plenty that we can learn from the beautiful game. Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, and a unifying force globally. A full 20 percent of the world’s population plays soccer, and 3.2 billion people watched the 2014 World Cup. Humanity, to some extent, stops what it is doing every four years to watch our nations compete. Soccer is a communal experience that brings people together unlike any other pastime on the planet. Soccer is a sport that can bring out the best in people. The game relies simultaneously on human instinct and teamwork. The greatest players direct a match with creativity and personality, not just athleticism. Soccer also appeals to both genders. While men are predominant in the sport professionally, the women’s side of the game has made amazing strides. The U.S. Women’s National Team has become a global symbol of empowerment and accomplishment for young women everywhere. Here in Nashville, we have a once-in-alifetime opportunity to bring our city together with the sport of soccer. A group of civic, business and sports leaders are spearheading a bid to win Nashville one of the final four Major League Soccer expansion teams. Nashville has a very real shot at being chosen for a team, and the implications go far beyond just the pitch. According to the Mayor’s Office of New Americans, as of 2012, Nashville had the fastest-growing immigrant population of any American city. Almost 12 percent of Nashville’s population is now foreign-born. Nashville has become a place where New Americans come to start businesses, raise families and join our democracy. They have brought their love of soccer with them. As a city, we have the opportunity to further cement our sense of community and to extend our welcoming atmosphere by embracing Major League Soccer. Attend any of the international soccer matches held in Nissan Stadium to see the possibilities. The crowd is a diverse, rich mix of all races and both genders — white, black, Latino and more. Bringing a Major League Soccer team to Nashville will allow us to come together more frequently as one community on the world stage, playing the world’s game. Nashville is riding a high, enjoying unparalleled growth. Can we do more? Can we become more? Can we take our place among truly global cities? We can, and we should. At a time in American history when so many people are divided, soccer can be a unifying force here at home. Major League Soccer can be the next major step for Nashville as a city. I encourage our leaders in Metro government to support this movement.

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city limits

The DeATh of MADison BAilee DeAl by Cari Wade Gervin

round lunchtime on Monday, Aug. 15, 2016, Madison Bailee Deal called her mother, Lee Anne, from Silverdale Detention Facility in Chattanooga. Deal, a 26-year-old former high school cheerleader and softball player, had turned herself in the previous Wednesday after a bench warrant had been issued for a probation violation — she had failed to complete the required community service after shoplifting a dog collar for her pet chihuahua at Walmart. “My chest is hurting,” Deal told her mother in a three-and-a-half minute phone call. “I’m dehydrated. I can’t walk because my kidneys are fucked up. I can barely breathe because my chest is inflamed. It’s really fucking bad. Really bad. I don’t know what to do. … “I need to go to the fucking hospital and nobody’s listening to me here,” Deal sobbed. “OK, OK, I’ll see what I can do,” an emotional Lee Anne responded. “Just please keep trying to drink something.” Twenty-four hours later, Madison Bailee Deal collapsed, unconscious. Two days later she was dead.

••• Growing up, Bailee Deal was the kind of girl everyone wanted to be friends with, according to her family. “She was a very kindhearted person,” says her grandmother, Norma O’Neal. “She never talked bad about people. She could always find something good about somebody.” But Deal also had a strong sense of justice, once chasing down much older neighborhood bike thieves in her bare feet. “She took care of things,” Lee Anne says. Deal also reinvented herself more than once. When she transferred to public school after attending a private Christian elementary school, Bailee decided she now wanted to be called Madison (although her family still calls her Bailee). Deal played softball for years and made the cheerleading squad at East Ridge High School before deciding she wanted to focus more on her art and outdoors activities like hiking and climbing. By the time she died, Deal’s blond hair had been twisted and plaited into dreadlocks down to her waist. Deal never drank much, not growing up nor once she reached legal age. She started smoking pot in high school; her parents aren’t quite sure when. But they are sure that when her rival for homecoming court planted a pipe in Deal’s locker in eighth grade and told the principal to get Deal disqualified, Deal was not using marijuana then. Likewise, her parents don’t know when

Deal started taking pills. They say she never abused pot, but then something changed, after one of her best friends died in fall 2013. By April 2014 Deal moved in with O’Neal to try to break free from her oxycodone addiction. She couldn’t afford rehab and didn’t have health insurance, but she did start getting suboxone from a clinic and going to counseling. “She wanted to get clean,” Lee Anne says. “She wanted to get away from it all,” her father Bruce adds. But sobriety didn’t stick, and Deal eventually turned to heroin, like so many others, because it was cheaper and more available than pills. She kept the habit hidden from her family and kept working part-time jobs in the restaurant industry, sometimes traveling to music festivals to sell jewelry she had crafted. And she kept trying to quit drugs, only to start up again. But by August 2016, her family says, Deal was ready for a fresh start. All she had to do was get her probation violation sorted out, and she’d get sober, for good. “The last time I saw her alive was that Tuesday night,” says O’Neal. “We went to Walmart and she got ice cream and all this stuff, and she asked me if she could have it, and I said yeah. And I just remember her running around Walmart — seeing her little face and buying her stuff. And that was the last time I saw her alive.”

••• Deal’s parents have filed a federal wrongful-death lawsuit against Nashvillebased CoreCivic, alleging “they knowingly and with deliberate indifference to her constitutional rights denied her reasonable medical treatment for serious and obvious medical conditions, which were actually and constructively known by them as well as lay witnesses, thereby causing her extensive physical and emotional pain, suffering and death.” Correct Care Solutions, the contractor responsible for the prison’s medical care, is also named as a defendant, as are Hamilton County and several nurses, guards and staff who allegedly ignored or incorrectly treated Deal’s symptoms during the week she was in custody. The details of Deal’s rapid decline, as described in the lawsuit, make for difficult and gruesome reading. The filing also includes excerpts of phone conversations between Deal and her mother, the full recordings of which were provided to the Scene. According to the lawsuit, when Deal turned herself in that Wednesday, she was perfectly healthy, except for her heroin problem. By the next day, her chills and

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photo courtesy of deal’s mother

A year after an inmate’s death in a CoreCivic prison, her family is still reeling — and wants answers

Madison Bailee deal

“i’ve been throwing up for six days straight, and oh my god, i think my blood sugar is about to bottom out, i can’t even stand up.” —madison bailee deal nausea from withdrawal were constant, exacerbated by spending 18 hours on a mat on the floor in a holding cell with seven other women before being assigned to a specific “pod” in the prison. On Friday, Deal told prison staff that she was sick and that she couldn’t stop throwing up. However, the medical intake form completed that morning shows no evidence of her being ill. “It was a bad mistake to even come here,” Deal tells her mother in a phone call. “I should’ve just ran to the hills. At least I’m in a room with the sun.” Later Friday night, Deal was attacked by three inmates who mistakenly thought she had tobacco. A medical examination afterward noted bruising and abrasions but still had no mention of Deal’s withdrawal symptoms. By Saturday Deal was pale and and too weak to eat. A dozen inmates allegedly told prison staff that Deal needed treatment. A nurse finally examined her that afternoon and prescribed Phenergan injections, a drug that decreases nausea; however, Deal told her mother Sunday morning that she had not yet been given any drugs. At some point on Sunday, Deal was finally given Phenergan. But by that point, Deal couldn’t stop vomiting what inmates described as “black bile” that “smelled like feces.” On Sunday night, she called her mother and said she couldn’t keep anything

down, not even Kool-Aid. Whatever shots they were giving her, she said, were not helping. “It’s not fucking helping at all,” a weak-sounding Deal tells her mother. “I’ve been throwing up for six days straight, and oh my God, I think my blood sugar is about to bottom out, I can’t even stand up.” That night, Deal was too weak to climb on to the top bunk. On Monday, her skin was ashen, with one inmate describing her as looking like “a zombie.” By the afternoon, she was having trouble breathing. But when one inmate tried to get help, she was allegedly told by a nurse, “If she can shoot up by herself, then she can walk by herself.” By Tuesday morning, Deal’s skin had turned blue. She told other inmates that she felt like she was dying. Two inmates allegedly had to carry her to the morning pill call at 10:15, yet one nurse wrote up the encounter, “[Deal] stated that she was feeling better and wanted to try to eat lunch. [Inmate] received Phenergan and returned to her dorm to wait on lunch no further complaints or distress.” An hour later, Deal collapsed. The prison records say emergency personnel were called promptly and that oxygen was administered. Inmates who witnessed the scene say otherwise, according to the lawsuit — that there was a delay before anyone was called, that no treatment was administered, that Deal just lay on a stretcher dying as one inmate shouted at the staff to help her. Eventually Deal was transferred to Erlanger Hospital. Hospital staff had to cut off all Deal’s beloved dreadlocks — they were encrusted in vomit, with no way to be cleaned. Deal’s family says doctors told them Deal was already brain-dead by this point from lack of oxygen. She died two days later, on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016. Although the prison’s medical records state that Deal had “unlabored breathing” and that her lungs sounded “clear” at the time of her collapse, an autopsy shows Deal died of pneumonia contracted from inhaling her own vomit. There were no drugs in her system. “She always said she would take care of me, she would be the one to take care of me when I got old,” O’Neal says. “She was just a sweet little girl.”

••• In a response to the lawsuit, CoreCivic denies all allegations of wrongdoing. Amanda Gilchrist, the public affairs manager for the company, also commented in an email, “While we don’t comment on ongoing litigation and medical privacy laws preclude us from providing details concerning the medical treatment of an inmate, we are committed to the safety and well-being of every inmate entrusted to our care at Silverdale and all facilities we manage.” The lawsuit is seeking $20 million in damages. A trial date has been set for January 2019. email editor@NashvillesceNe.com

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headline homes

August 2017

The dog days find a lot of expensive homes, but not necessarily a lot of mansions By AmAndA HAggArd

1. 2323 Woodmont Blvd., nashville 37215 Buyer: Locale Lilly Family Trust sale price: $3.4 million seller: Roger S. Baskin seller’s agent: Laura Baugh, Worth Properties Buyer’s agent: Janice Hulen, Keller Williams Realty This 10,000-square-foot “elegant family home” sits on 1.5 acres and has five bedrooms, five full bathrooms and three half-bathrooms. It includes walnut flooring, a marble tile entry, coffered ceilings, a walnut-paneled study with a fireplace, a

Photos: daniel meigs

n August, every house on the Headline Homes list sold for more than $2 million. For most of us, that’s obviously a lot of money, but the average square footage wasn’t what you might expect for a figure that high. Square footage of 7,000 is pretty normal for Headline Homes, but in August, many houses on the list didn’t break that number. Below are August’s top 10 home sales in Nashville and the surrounding counties, ranked by sale price.

2323 Woodmont Blvd. custom “chef’s kitchen” and a recreation room with a wet bar over the garage. Though it doesn’t have one yet, there’s “room for a pool,” according to the listing.

2. 14 Carmel lane, BrentWood, 37027 Buyer: Full Circle Properties Trust sale price: $2,990,000

sellers: Glen and Kimberly A. Marconcini sellers’ agents: Gary Ashton and

Angela Durr, The Ashton Real Estate Group of RE/MAX Advantage Buyer’s agent: Norma J. Drake, Coldwell Banker Barnes This home is on the larger side — even among the typically-larger-than-average

Headline Homes — at a whopping 15,225 square feet. It offers “unparalleled luxury in the guard-gated Governor’s Club” in Brentwood. It includes an infinity pool overlooking the ninth fairway of the Arnold Palmer Golf Course and an elevator that goes to all four floors of the home. It has a full gym, a wine

Congratulations to our Top Agents in Sales for August TOP TEAM Ken Nelson, Jr. $2,109,900

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The Kirby Team

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headline homes room, a media room, a sunroom and seven fireplaces. It was sold by Glen Marconcini, the former CEO of Precedent Health Inc., and his wife Kimberly.

3. 1101 Lynnwood BLvd., nashviLLe 37215 Buyers: Allen F. and Candace A. Anderson sale price: $2,377,000 seller: Cynthia P. Radcliff seller’s agent: Tommy Patterson,

Seller Justin DeWitte is the president of Detroit-based Residential Hospice.

7. 4440 sheppard pLace, nashviLLe 37205 Buyers: Robert E. and Jody B. Hull sale price: $2,225,000 seller: Richard M. Miller Jr., trustee seller’s agent: Margaret H. Taylor,

Christianson, Patterson, Courtney & Associates Buyers’ agent: Starling Davis, Fridrich & Clark Realty This Cape Cod in “stunning Forest Hills” is on a “plush, professional landscaped lot!” It has an open floor plan and kitchen with brick floors and a Sub-Zero refrigerator and wet bar. The 6,800-square-foot home was purchased by physician Allen F. Anderson and his wife Candace.

Fridrich & Clark Realty Buyers’ agent: Jody Hull, Bainbridge Realty Group Robert Hull, the executive vice president of investments at Healthcare Realty Trust, and Jody Hull, real estate agent and cochair of the annual Swan Ball, purchased this home. It includes an 800-square-foot guesthouse and features “gorgeous original architectural features with beautiful additions for [a] stunning blend of old and new!” It also has a screened porch that overlooks “gardens and sweeping lawns.”

4. 5323 stanford drive, nashviLLe 37215 Buyer: Paul F. Edwards, trustee sale price: $2.35 million sellers: Josh Henderson and

8. 15 Bancroft pLace, nashviLLe 37215 Buyer: Roochita Jaju Mathur sale price: $2.2 million sellers: Gregory L. and

Susan Henderson Tyler

sellers’ agent: Richard B. French, French King Fine Properties

5. 9 Lynnwood Lane, nashviLLe 37205 Buyers: Robert A. and Elizabeth Milton sale price: $2.35 million seller: Katie G. Steele seller’s agent: Steve G. Fridrich, Fridrich & Clark Realty

Buyers’ agent: Katelyn Hamby, Keller Williams Realty This home is full of “refined luxury” and is “very private on wonderful dead end street.” It has banquet-sized rooms with huge windows for natural light. It includes an elevator, heated pool and master baths with heated floors.

6. 1 LitchfieLd way Lot 1, nashviLLe 37215 Buyer: Unknown sale price: $2,338,860 sellers: Justin E. and Dione M. DeWitte sellers’ agent: Candie Worsham, Nashville Area Homes

Buyer’s agent: Unknown This 7,000-square-foot home has four bedrooms and eight bathrooms.

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sellers’ agent: Janis J. Martin, Keller Williams Realty

Buyer’s agent: Unknown Designed by architect 3444 woodmont Blvd. Nick Dryden — whose grandfather studied under Frank Lloyd Wright— this home has a “reverse” floor plan. The midcentury-modern home includes several glass walls, a pool and an outdoor grilling station. It’s small for a Headline Home at just 3,800 square feet. One of the sellers, Susan Henderson Tyler, was quoted in a February 2017 Allure piece on “hair tourism,” saying she hops on a plane to New York six times a year to get her hair done by stylist Harry Josh, who’s known for styling Gisele Bündchen and Gwyneth Paltrow.

2129 BERNARD AVENUE

Nashville, TN 37212 | 4 Beds | 2 Baths | 2,135 Sq. Ft. | $715,000

Buyer’s agent: Unknown This 8,000-squarefoot home in “retreat like setting” offers an open floor plan “designed to provide views from all directions.” It includes four bedrooms, nine bathrooms, two studies and a private outdoor entertainment space.

9. 3444 woodmont BLvd., nashviLLe tn 37215 Buyer: A. Wilson Sisk Jr. sale price: $2,115,000 seller: 3500 Woodmont LLC seller’s agent: Anna Moran, Fridrich & Clark Realty

Buyer’s agent: Ravi Sachan, Benchmark Realty This newly constructed home in Green Hills sits on more than an acre. It has 6,400 square feet and a large backyard that, like the other home on Woodmont in this month’s list, is “ideal for a pool!” It also has a four-car garage and a covered porch.

10. 1211 round Grove court, Lot 107, Brentwood 37027 Buyer: Tammy Williams sale price: $2,100,981 seller: Trace Construction Inc. seller’s agent: John Spoon and Matt Burhart, PARKS Realty Buyer’s agent: Chris Grimes, The Lipman Group Sotheby’s International Realty This custom home with 5,800 square feet includes five bedrooms and seven bathrooms in one of Brentwood’s new gated communities, Cartwright Close. It has a custom pool, and every bedroom has a large walk-in closet. emaiL editor@nashviLLescene.com

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Fall d e u Gi

From film to music to art, dance, books and theater, here’s what’s happening this autumn

ummer may be the best time for getting buff and drinking fancy poolside cocktails, and we can all agree that winter has the presents-and-holiday-cheer thing on lock, but we at the Scene are here to tell you that fall is the best season for events. Into food? Fall is the perfect time for al fresco dining, patio beers and spiced cider. movies more your speed? Check out Doctober, the belcourt’s monthlong documentary series, or the free screenings at Vanderbilt courtesy of International Lens. still not convinced? We’ve got puccini, a contemporary dance pop-up, a play about a rock-star American president, an exhibit of fluffy costumes that respond to racial violence, and a Jay-Z concert. plus eddie Vedder and Justin timberlake at pilgrimage music Festival in Franklin, just to sweeten the deal. read on, lucky Nashvillian, for a comprehensive guide to the best events fall has to offer.

Food sept. 27: FarmhaNd diNNer at the Nashville Farmers’ market

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oct. 5-8: Nashville oktoBerFest iN GermaNtowN

oct. 21: James Beard FouNdatioN celeBrity cheF tour diNNer

Oktoberfest is the quintessential fall festival, and the folks behind Nashville’s version say it’s the second-biggest in the U.S. The fest spans 10 blocks in Germantown, one of the city’s hottest neighborhoods for food — Von Elrod’s, a much-anticipated new Germantown beer garden/restaurant from chef Jason Brumm and restaurateur Austin Ray, has promised to be open in time for the fest.

A lot of heavy hitters are in on this dinner, to be served on the field at the Nashville Sounds’ First Tennessee Park. Hosted by chef Ryan Poli of The Catbird Seat, joined by his brother Matthew Poli, Catbird’s

Two of the most influential figures in Nashville’s restaurant evolution, chefs Margot McCormack and Tandy oktoberfest Wilson, top the culinary roster at this year’s Farmhand Dinner at the Nashville Farmers’ Market. More than a dozen other chefs will pitch in for this casual, family-style five-course meal; the event benefits the market and honors the agricultural heroes who produce the ingredients.

sept. 29: BacoN & Barrel Festival at the Nashville Farmers’ market If you love cocktails, fall is the time to bring brown spirits — rich and barrel-aged — back to their place of honor. That’s one reason why the Bacon & Barrel Festival is so popular. Stroll the Farmers’ Market and sip samples of bourbon while chatting with distillers about their products; the beverages are complemented by bacon-studded creations from a passel of popular restaurants.

beverage director, the tour is an event from the prestigious James Beard Foundation. Other chefs taking part include Nashville’s Tony Galzin (Nicky’s Coal Fired) and Julia Sullivan (Henrietta Red) and several Beard Award winners from around the country.

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From top food events to exciting new restaurants, there’s a lot to explore in Nashville this fall by DANA Kopp FrANKLIN

ot only is the bounty of the fall harvest entering kitchens all over town, Nashville’s weather is also finally cooperating — temperate days and golden sunlight enhance patios and outdoor festivals. We’ve rounded up some ideas for food events and outings to investigate this autumn, including two recent openings. If you haven’t checked it out yet, a must-visit this fall is plaza mariachi, the colorful new mini-mall on Nolensville Road that features shops, music, cultural events, and lots and lots of food. Not only are there multiple restaurants and a food court on the premises, the complex is anchored by Maz Fresco, a full-service grocery store that specializes in Mexican and Latin American products. It’s easier to tuck into hearty fare when summer’s swelter eases, so now is a good time to head over to hugh-Baby’s, barbecue master Pat Martin’s salute to the burger shacks of his youth in West Tennessee. The burgers and fries at this Charlotte Avenue eatery are so good that I’m tempted to try the quirkiest thing on the menu: the Slugburger, available Fridays only, which is a Depression-era specialty featuring a patty of ground pork mixed with soymeal that is deep-fried and served with onions and mustard. Good gravy! The menu of milkshakes, made to order, is less exotic but plenty delightful if a Slugburger sounds too adventurous. And speaking of new places to eat, autumn is peak time for restaurant openings, as entrepreneurs rush to launch in time for the lucrative holiday season (and before the traditionally dead days of January). Nashville’s pace of restaurant openings keeps speeding along, so keep an eye on the Scene for coverage of other new eateries.

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Music

oct. 29: the WeekNd at bRidgestoNe aReNa The alt-R&B ace and 21st-century bad boy rolls in on the tour behind his multi-platinum LP Starboy. If his Bonnaroo set was any indication, it’ll be a no-filler blast of dark and sexy jams. STEPHEN TRAGESER

Nov. 9: gobliN at exit/iN The legendary Italian prog group, known for their work on the soundtracks of films by horror auteur Dario Argento, passed us by on their first U.S. tour in 2013. Though they’re a couple months late for the Belcourt’s Italo Shock! film series (which included a special extended cut of Argento’s Suspiria), it’s well worth the wait. STEPHEN

oct. 9-11, 13-15: JasoN isbell at the RymaN It’s October, which almost always means a bunch of Jason Isbell shows at the Ryman. The King of Americana’s nearly annual residency at the Mother Church has grown to six nights this year, befitting the release of his outstanding album The Nashville Sound. On the record, Isbell shows that — despite the traditional roots of his music — he is unabashedly an artist of the moment, who addresses sexism and racism in nuanced ways. Amanda Shires, The McCrary Sisters, Julien Baker, Bettye LaVette, The Secret Sisters and Lydia Loveless will each open a night of the run. STEVEN HALE

TRAGESER

Nov. 9: couRtNey baRNett aNd kuRt vile at the RymaN Well, here’s a perfect match-up: Two of the most interesting writers in the cadre of left-field guitar-centric pop have recorded a collaborative LP. Due in October via Merge and titled Lotta Sea Lice (a reference to The Sea Lice, their all-star band featuring members of Quasi, Sleater-Kinney, Vile’s own band The Violators, Warpaint and others), early tracks like “Over Everything” show off the exact kind of elevated stream-of-consciousness riffing you’d hope for. STEPHEN

oct. 13: mike Floss at exit/iN One of the finest MCs yet to emerge from Music City — and that’s not damning by faint praise, because we’ve been fortunate to have quite a few — is throwing down in celebration of his new album Tennessee Daydreams. The record’s production features the fruits of a partnership with SykSense, a fellow Nashvillian whose résumé includes work for Drake and Travis Scott, as well as the superb storytelling he’s known for. STEPHEN TRAGESER

oct. 13-14: chRis stapletoN at bRidgestoNe aReNa How do you get to headline Bridgestone Arena twice in a row? Practice. ... Practice, and have a show-stopping televised performance with Justin Timberlake. … OK — do

A Walk in the Park

Pilgrimage Festival includes Justin Timberlake, Eddie Vedder, Mavis Staples, Amanda Shires and Ryan Adams by stephen trageser

all that and write damn good songs, too. Chris Stapleton is the kind of country headliner we’d love to see more of at the downtown enormodome — especially now that he’s armed with tunes from his 2015 smashhit solo debut Traveller as well as From A Room: Vol. 1, the first of two albums he’s slated to release this year. STEVEN HALE

oct. 20: lcd souNdsystem at Nashville muNicipal auditoRium It’s time to come back to dance church! Following their 2016 re-formation after a fiveyear hiatus, the synth-enhanced art punks are touring behind American Dream, their first album since 2010. The record pulls off the trick of navigating complicated emotional territory while dealing in some serious kinetic energy. STEPHEN TRAGESER

f you’re looking for a way to kick off fall, it’s hard to beat the third annual Pilgrimage Music and Cultural Festival, which happens this Saturday and Sunday at Franklin’s picturesque Park at Harlinsdale Farm. The Pilgrimage music and Right out of the gate, Better Than culTural FesTival sePT. 23-24 aT The Park aT Ezra frontman (and harlinsdale Farm Franklin resident) Kevin Griffin and the rest of the team behind Pilgrimage hit all the sweet spots for a festival: It’s convenient and familyfriendly, with an easy-to-navigate layout and plenty of porta-potties and food trucks. The sound at the first two festivals was remarkably good by the standard of outdoor concerts, and even the scheduling has been carefully planned to limit conflicting time slots. Most importantly, Pilgrimage has consistently booked a solid mix of talent, and this year is no exception. Saturday offers a range of soul, Americana and pop artists on the two main stages, Midnight Sun and Gold Record Road. Pop superstar Justin timberlake, who signed on as co-producer of the festival in 2016 after purchasing a home in Leiper’s Fork, comes out to meet the neighbors with the day’s headlining set at Midnight Sun. That stage also features

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the superb pairing of locals Ruby amanfu and steelism and their mix of country and soul, as well as Crescent City R&B masters trombone shorty and orleans avenue and pop outfit Walk the moon. Gold Record Road hosts outlaw-country-inspired Nashvillian Nikki lane, Griffin and better than ezra, blues-inspired rocker gary clark Jr. and Americana favorites the avett brothers. Highlights of the smaller stages include danceable, thoughtful pop from sinclair and stellar country and bluegrass from Jerry douglas band at the Harpeth River stage, as well as outstanding songs from angaleena presley and aaron lee tasjan on the Shady Grove stage. Sunday’s headliner is Pearl Jam frontman eddie vedder, who follows powerful soul and gospel acts like mavis staples and the settles connection (led by children of The Fairfield Four’s Watler J. Settles) at Midnight Sun. Rock ’n’ pop Americana standard-bearer Ryan adams, R&B-pop champs Fitz and the tantrums and recently crowned Americana Music Association Duo/Group of the Year marty stuart and his Fabulous superlatives are among those who’ll take to Gold Record Road. On a related note, amanda shires, a deft and poignant songwriter who is also the AMA’s Emerging Artist of the Year and a recent Scene cover girl, plays on the Harpeth River stage, as well as vintage blues-and-soul man pokey laFarge, folkleaning songsmith karen elson and young electric blues phenom kingfish. The Shady Grove boasts soulful talent like charlie crockett (who happens to be country and Tejano ace Freddy Fender’s son) and the supremely smooth devon gilfillian. As long as the weather cooperates — a heat wave was the only sour note of Pilgrimage 2016 — the weekend should be an outstanding start to a season jampacked with great shows. Check pilgrimagefestival.com for a complete schedule and ticket information.

TRAGESER

Nov. 15: Jay-Z at bRidgestoNe aReNa A lot has happened in the eight years since Jay-Z last played Nashville: He’s released three albums, had three children and, apparently, almost blown up his marriage to Beyoncé by cheating on her with someone named “Becky.” He works through all of that on his latest record, 4:44, a return to form after the disappointing Magna Carta Holy Grail. Maybe Hov isn’t the best rapper alive anymore — that has to be Kendrick Lamar — but he’s still The Best Rapper Alive. Allow him to reintroduce himself. STEVEN HALE

Nov. 22: st. viNceNt at the RymaN All the hints Annie Clark has dropped so far about her forthcoming LP Masseduction indicate it’s going to be every bit as ambitious and fascinating as her previous efforts. The night before Thanksgiving, she returns to the Mother Church for the first time since her 2012 tour with David Byrne. STEPHEN TRAGESER

Nov. 30: JulieN bakeR at maRathoN music WoRks Turn Out the Lights, Memphis-born singersongwriter Julien Baker’s first album for Matador Records, offers some of her most intensely emotional work yet. If you didn’t catch Baker opening for Jason Isbell, here’s your chance to get leveled by someone’s words. STEPHEN TRAGESER

dec. 14-15: bully at meRcy louNge One of the best rock bands in Nashville — or any city, for that matter — wraps the first leg of the tour for its sophomore LP Losing with a two-night homecoming. Preview tracks from the album, due in October via venerable indie Sub Pop, suggest it will be the perfect extension of the sugar-andgravel hooks and smart, personal songwriting they delivered on their breakout debut LP Feels Like. STEPHEN TRAGESER

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concert calendar OCT. 5

SEPT. 24

SEPT. 27

OCT. 1-2

OCT. 4

big boi at marathon music Works

SEPT. 25 SEPT. 26 Harry styles at the ryman

Father John misty at the ryman

Kesha at the ryman

Alison Krauss and David Gray at the ryman

Crystal Castles at Cannery ballroom

OCT. 5

OCT. 6

OCT. 6-7

OCT. 7

OCT. 9

béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn at 3rd & Lindsley

sts9 at Ascend Amphitheater

ed sheeran at bridgestone Arena

Glossary 20th Anniversary show at mercy Lounge

tajmo: the taj mahal and Keb’ mo’ band at the ryman

benjamin booker at the basement east

OCT. 4

Aaron Watson at the ryman

the xx at Ascend Amphitheater

Commodore Quake feat. migos & sZA at Vanderbilt University’s memorial Gymnasium

OCT. 10

OCT. 11

OCT. 12

OCT. 13

OCT. 13-14

OCT. 15

OCT. 17

OCT. 18

songhoy blues at the basement east

bill Callahan at third man records

Alvvays at exit/In

mike Floss at exit/In

Conor Oberst at marathon music Works

Chris stapleton at bridgestone Arena

Craig Finn and the Uptown Controllers at City Winery

paramore at the ryman

emily saliers at City Winery

Katy perry at bridgestone Arena

OCT. 20

OCT. 21

OCT. 22

Against me! at mercy Lounge

LCD soundsystem at Nashville municipal Auditorium

NrbQ at the High Watt

Nick Lowe and Los straitjackets at City Winery

OCT. 23

OCT. 24

OCT. 25

OCT.27-28

OCT. 29

Foo Fighters at bridgestone Arena

primus at War memorial Auditorium

torres at the High Watt

All In for the Gambler: Kenny rogers Farewell All-star Concert Celebration at bridgestone Arena

the Flamin’ Groovies at the basement east

moon taxi at the ryman

the Weeknd at bridgestone Arena

OCT. 29

OCT. 29 and OCT. 31

OCT. 30

OCT. 31

NOV. 1

NOV. 2

NOV. 3

NOV. 4

NOV. 5

Jr Jr at the basement east

Death From Above 1979 at Cannery ballroom

ben Folds at the ryman

talib Kweli at City Winery

Gogol bordello at marathon music Works

Jessica Lea mayfield at the basement east

White reaper at mercy Lounge

Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at the schermerhorn

macklemore at War memorial Auditorium

bon Iver w/ swamp Dogg at the ryman

OCT. 9-11, 13-15 Jason Isbell at the ryman

NOV. 6

NOV. 7

NOV. 8

NOV. 9

NOV. 11

NOV. 12

NOV. 13

NOV. 15

Alt-J at Nashville municipal Auditorium

Japandroids at Cannery ballroom

poppy at mercy Lounge

boris at exit/In

Goblin at exit/In

Courtney barnett and Kurt Vile at the ryman

ron Gallo at exit/In

tori Amos at the ryman

becca mancari at 3rd & Lindsley

Guns N’ roses at bridgestone Arena

Jay-Z at bridgestone Arena

NOV. 19

NOV. 21

NOV. 22

NOV. 24

NOV. 28

NOV. 30

DEC. 7

DEC. 9

DEC. 12

DEC. 14-15

John moreland at 3rd & Lindsley

John mcLaughlin and Jimmy Herring at the schermerhorn

st. Vincent at the ryman

Amanda shires at City Winery

pinegrove at the basement east

Julien baker at marathon music Works

Janet Jackson at bridgestone Arena

Kamasi Washington at marathon music Works

tyler Childers at the basement east

Gary Numan at exit/In

bully at mercy Lounge

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books

The fall brings out the biggest and the brightest among Nashville’s literati

sept. 28: celeste Ng aNd shaNthi sekaraN at parNassus Books Celeste Ng and Shanthi Sekaran both released their second novels in September — Little Fires Everywhere and Lucky Boy, respectively — and while the books follow very different paths, the writers explore similar topics, including race, identity politics, immigration and motherhood. The two authors will discuss their work with Parnassus’ Mary Laura Philpott.

oct. 19: kirstiN valdez Quade at vaNderBilt’s Buttrick hall Night at the Fiestas, Kirstin Valdez Quade’s debut collection of short stories, received critical acclaim when it was released in

Best of the Fest The Southern Festival of Books brings notable names to Nashville this season by megan seling

very fall some of the country’s most exciting authors descend upon Nashville to participate in the southern festival of Books, and this year’s lit-nerd party has an especially enticing lineup — there’s a vice president, mulThe SouThern FeSTival oF BookS tiple Pulitzer ocT. 13-15 aT War MeMorial Prize winners, Plaza and The naShville PuBlic award-winning liBrary doWnToWn poets and journalists and too many bestselling authors to count. There’s an impressive array of up-and-coming locals, too. The festival is free, and events are open to all on a first-come-first-served basis. Here are just a few of the highlights — a full schedule is available at humanitiestennessee.org. On Friday, New York Times bestselling author Jami attenberg (who is wonderful on Twitter, btw) will read from her latest novel, All Grown Up. It’s a story about a childless 39-yearold New Yorker attempting to maneuver through relationships with friends and family as they settle

into lives that are antithetical to what she has (or even wants) — getting married, having babies, being a dedicated-but-broke artist. Newsweek called the national bestseller “sexy, charming and impossible to put down.” Saturday brings the festival’s biggest star, former Vice President al gore, who will discuss his latest documentary and its companion book, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. An Inconvenient Sequel was first intended to follow Gore’s progress as he worked with world leaders to combat climate change, ultimately resulting in the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement. But the documentary had to be reworked when, before the film’s release, President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the agreement. Gore will surely have plenty to say about that. Also on Saturday is an appearance by omar el akkad, a Canadian journalist who’s covered everything from the Arab Spring to the Black Lives Matter movement. This year El Akkad released his first novel, American

the turbulent 2016 presidential election and, after that, President Trump’s inexplicable actions. In his new book, What Unites Us, Rather follows those thoughts even more deeply, examining what it means to be an American today. Advance tickets for his talk are available at wmarocks.org.

2015. The New York Times said the book is a “haunting and beautiful debut story collection,” and Quade won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. She visits Vanderbilt as part of the university’s Gertrude & Harold Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series.

Nov. 6: coliN Meloy aNd carsoN ellis at the Nashville puBlic liBrary dowNtowN Music fans may know Colin Meloy as the frontman for the lit-loving indie-pop outfit The Decemberists, but anyone who follows children’s literature knows Meloy as a talented author, too — which isn’t really surprising if you’ve ever dug in deep on some of those poetic Decemberists lyrics. In November, he and his wife Carson Ellis, an accomplished artist and illustrator, will read from their new middle-grade book The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid, due to be released Oct. 24.

Nov. 11: literary award gala feat. elizaBeth gilBert at the Nashville puBlic liBrary dowNtowN This year’s recipient of the Nashville Public Library Literary Award is Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, which has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. If a pricey gala ticket is out of reach, Gilbert and Ann Patchett are hosting a discussion

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War, which is about a second civil war that occurs as America is being ravaged by climate change and fossil-fuel shortage. On Sunday, cookbook author (and James Beard Award nominee) stella parks will talk about her new cookbook Bravetart. Named one of the country’s best new pastry chefs by Food & Wine magazine, Parks brings athome baking to a new, nostalgia-drenched level with her latest, supplying recipes for all of your favorite childhood snacks — including homemade Nutter Butters, McDonald’s-style apple hand pies, Fig Newtons, Twinkies, Oreos and Thin Mints. Bravetart even shows you how to make your own rainbow sprinkles from scratch. May you never have to purchase a tube of colorful carnauba wax again. Several local authors will also be hosting readings and discussions, including No. 1 New York Times bestseller victoria schwab, music critic holly gleason, songwriter peter cooper, Nashville’s youth poet laureate cassidy Martin and young-adult author Jeff zentner.

earlier in the day, at 10 a.m., at Montgomery Bell Academy. Tickets are free, but must be reserved in advance. They will be available Oct. 2 at nashvillepubliclibrary.org/ salon615.

Nov. 14: daN rather at war MeMorial With poignant, emotional Facebook posts, journalist Dan Rather was able to help countless numbers of people make sense of

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From Tosca to Renée Fleming, it’s an adventurous fall season at TPAC, OZ and beyond by John pitcher sept. 24: cellist coliN carr at Blair’s turNer hall

oct. 5-8: Nashville sYmphoNY plaYs BeethoveN aND rouse at the schermerhorN

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British cellist Colin Carr scales the summit of the cello repertoire, performing all six of J.S. Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello in a single concert at the Blair School of Music’s Turner Recital Hall.

Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony will perform a pair of fifths — Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and contemporary American composer Christopher Rouse’s Fifth Symphony. Britten’s Violin Concerto No. 1 rounds out the program.

sept. 30: New Dialect at puBlic square park New Dialect’s first show of the season is a pop-up installation at Public Square Park. Artistic director and choreographer Banning Bouldin is taking one of her latest dances, called HEAP, and turning it into an evolving series of site-specific installations that will take place at various public spaces during the season.

oct. 3: piaNist Dror BiraN at BelmoNt’s mcafee hall

Israeli-born pianist Dror Biran, a top prizewinner in several important international piano competitions, is highly regarded for his performances of Brahms and Chopin. He presents this year’s Wood Piano Concert at Belmont University’s McAfee Concert Hall.

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oct. 21: Blair striNg quartet at Blair’s iNgram hall

oct. 4: ah YouNg hoNg at Blair’s turNer hall

Soprano Ah Young Hong made a lasting impression at the Blair School of Music in 2015, when she appeared in Michael Hersch’s riveting monodrama On the Threshold of Winter. She returns to present a concert with pianist Mark Wait, performing songs by Barber, Berg, Wolf and Hersch at Turner Recital Hall.

oct. 5 tracY silvermaN plaYs Love Song to the Sun at oZ

Alias Chamber Ensemble presents a concert series called Unbounded Creativity, which will celebrate the legacy of American immigrant composers. This is Alias’ first fall concert at W.O. Smith Music School’s Woods Hall.

Electric violin phenom Tracy Silverman performs his latest concerto, Love Song to the Sun, at OZ Arts. Conductor Robin Fountain and the Vanderbilt University Orchestra will accompany Silverman, who will play along to an interactive video installation.

oct. 26-28: Nashville Ballet’s Lizzie Borden and the raven at tpac’s polk theater

Verismo in Motion

Lizzie Borden’s sensationalized doublehomicide case of 1892 is the subject of Nashville Ballet artistic director Paul Vasterling’s latest dance. This new work will be paired with choreographer Christopher Stuart’s new dance based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem “The Raven.”

Nashville Opera will bring Puccini’s Tosca to life in October by John pitcher

iacomo Puccini’s Tosca stunned the opera world at its premiere in 1900. The work, which is now widely regarded as perhaps the greatest verismo opera of all time, was viewed primarily as a shocker when first staged. Within the space of its three-hour running time, the opera presented its Victorian-era audience with scenes of torture, murder and suicide. Few theatrical works had ever embraced such violence. The passage of time has diminished much of Tosca’s shock value, Nashville Opera’s artistic Tosca director John Hoomes tells the Scene. “AudiOct. 5 & 7 at tPac’s JacksOn Hall ences today probably consider Tosca to be no more shocking than a Matt Damon political thriller,” he says. “It’s just another story about good versus evil. But it remains a powerful story, and people everywhere continue to love it.” Nashvillians will get their chance to love Tosca this fall, when Nashville Opera stages the Puccini classic at TPAC’s Jackson Hall Oct. 5 & 7. There’s much to recommend this production. The set, on loan from Virginia Opera, is lavish and large, re-creating the architectural splendor of Rome during the Napoleonic Wars. The Nashville Opera Orchestra, conducted by Dean Williamson, will be in the pit, performing Tosca’s exceptionally colorful and compelling score. And the production’s large cast of supernumeraries and choristers will lend a touch of Cecil B. DeMille-like grandeur, especially when they march in glorious procession at the end of Act 1. For opera aficionados, the main attraction will likely be the soprano Jennifer Rowley, who sings the title role. Hoomes

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The Blair School of Music’s quartet-inresidence presents the world premiere of composer Michael Alec Rose’s sixth quartet, titled Rousseaux. Works by Dvořák and Smetana are also on the program.

oct. 24: alias at w.o. smith music school

tosca auditioned Rowley in New York for a couple of years and was impressed with the size and beauty of her voice. Her artistry has grown since then, and so has her fame. In May, she starred opposite tenor Roberto Alagna in a production of Cyrano de Bergerac at the Metropolitan Opera. The New York Times declared her performance a “breakthrough,” noting that she “sang with an intensity of expression and a subtly embittered sound that suggested a singer of enormous gift and promise.” Recognizing this promise, the Metropolitan Opera has signed Rowley to perform in five of its productions over the next three years, including the lead in the Met’s own production of Tosca in January 2018. Rowley’s interpretation of Tosca is somewhat novel. Puccini’s famed character is usually portrayed as an older, experienced woman — one who demands absolute fealty from her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, and one who can hold her own against the villainous Baron Scarpia. But Rowley sees Tosca differently. “Tosca is actually supposed to be young, in her early 20s, and she’s experiencing love for the first time,” she tells the Scene. “Her youth and passion informs my portrayal in Act 1.” But what about Act 2, when Tosca carves up Scarpia like a Thanksgiving turkey? “In Act 2, things get a little crazy,” Rowley concedes. “Also, the music gets real heavy. At that point, it’s all about vocal technique.”

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Classical, Dance and Opera

oct. 27-28: Nashville sYmphoNY performs BeethoveN aND picker at the schermerhorN Famed Russian virtuoso Yefim Bronfman solos in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Contemporary American composer Tobias Picker’s Opera Without Words is also on the program.

Nov. 3-4: haYDN’s Creation with the Nashville sYmphoNY at the schermerhorN

Early music specialist Nicholas McGegan leads the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Haydn’s choral masterpiece. Soprano Ashley Valentine, tenor Isaiah Bell and bass Anthony Reed will solo.

Nov. 10-12: Nashville opera’s Maria de BuenoS aireS at Noah liff opera ceNter

Nashville Opera presents Astor Piazzolla’s seldom-heard tango operetta. The production at the Noah Liff Opera Center stars soprano Cassandra Zoe Velasco.

Nov. 17-18: Nashville sYmphoNY plaYs meNDelssohN aND shostakovich at the schermerhorN

Giancarlo Guerrero leads the NSO in Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 “Scottish.” Violinist Augustin Hadelich solos in Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1.

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What’s Up, Docs?

The Belcourt’s annual Doctober series is one of its strongest ever by D. patrick roDgers

very fall, Nashville’s favorite independent arthouse hosts Doctober, a monthlong celebration of documentary films. This year’s installment, which runs Oct. 6-30 at the Belcourt, will feature documentaries on everything from Qatari millionaires and musical pioneers to tensions in the Oakland Police Department, the autumn years of a film icon and much more. While exact screening

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dates aren’t locked down as of press time, you can check belcourt.org for updates and ticketing information. Below is a rundown of all the films heading to Doctober. Theo Anthony’s debut documentary Rat Film, which has earned early comparisons to the work of Werner Herzog, is what it sounds like and so much more. The unrated, 82-minute doc explores the rat population of Bronx Gothic Baltimore, how it intersects with its man-made environment, and what our interactions with the rodents say about figures profiled in Doctober films include: us. Filmed a couple hundred miles north by South African singer Miriam Makeba (Mama a significantly more experienced director, Africa); Mexican singer Chavela Vargas (Chavela); and record producer/A&R guy Ex Libris: The New York Public Library — the 42nd documentary by Frederick Wiseman — capextraordinaire Clive Davis (Clive Davis: The tures the “vast programmatic scope of New Soundtrack of Our Lives). York City’s library system.” Bronx Gothic, on the other hand, serves as Brett Whitcomb’s A Life in Waves follows a portrait of performer Okwui Okpokwasili and her celebrated one-woman show, a story fascinating Italian-American electronic muabout two black 12-year-old girls growing sic composer and pioneer Suzanne Ciani — up in the ’80s. Mansfield 66/67 covers blond and is scored by the musician herself. That one should be a must-see for electronic mubombshell Jayne Mansfield’s late-in-life sic wonks and powerful female innovators friendship with Church of Satan founder alike. Other musicians and music-industry Anton LeVay.

manage to capture mainstream attention will be only one of the subjects covered at this don’t-miss lecture. The event will be preceded by International Lens screenings of Peck’s films Lumumba on Oct. 4 and I Am Not Your Negro on Oct. 16.

Another promising season for the International Lens at Vanderbilt’s Sarratt Cinema

Thursday, OcT. 19: ANGELS OF REvOLuTiON

by Joe NolaN

he always excellent International Lens program promises a plethora of far-flung film viewing at Vanderbilt University’s Sarratt Cinema this fall. Curator Jonathan Waters has brought his keen eye to bear on a selection of flicks and events that include poetic responses to violence in Honduras, imaginative explorations of the Russian Revolution and don’t-miss conversations with visiting filmmakers. International Lens screenings take place mostly on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Here are just a few highlights:

Thursday, sepT. 28: aN eveNiNg WiTh sasha WaTers Freyer

Maverick Russian filmmaker Aleksey Fedorchenko’s Angels of Revolution is based on actual events — the Kazym Rebellion of the 1930s, in which indigenous Siberian tribes stood up to the red wave of Soviet cultural collectivization. But Angels is one part fact-based filmmaking and one part fantastical fabricated folk story.

Thursday, OcT. 26: vOiCES BEYOND THE WALL: TWELvE LOvE POEMS FROM THE MuRDER CAPiTAL OF THE WORLD In Voices Beyond the Wall, director Brad Coley introduces a group of teenage orphans living in a girls’ home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, one of the most dangerous cities on the planet. Coley’s film is about an oasis in the midst of chaos, and poetry’s power to bring healing and forgiveness.

Paradise Now on Sept. 21, inxeba on Nov. 9 and Memories of Murder on Nov. 30. Visit vanderbilt.edu/internationallens for more details and a full schedule.

WedNesday, OcT. 18: visiTiNg Filmmaker Talk WiTh raOul peck

by D. patrick roDgers

ere’s a quick rundown of some of the more promising, intriguing or at least unavoidable films coming to theaters this fall, with release dates subject to change.

sepT. 29: BATTLE OF THE SExES iN limiTed release Emma Stone and Steve Carell play tennis stars Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in this comedy-drama based loosely on the famed 1973 “Battle of the Sexes.”

sepT. 29: FLATLiNERS iN TheaTers everyWhere This sequel to the star-studded 1990 sci-fi thriller of the same name features Ellen Page and Diego Luna as medical students who conduct experiments with near-death experiences — plus Kiefer Sutherland reprising his role as Dr. Nelson Wright.

Other upcoming screenings include

Creating work that falls between what you expect to see in a cinema and what you’ll usually find in an art gallery, Sasha Waters Freyer is a movingimage artist who fuses found 16 mm film footage with digital media. Freyer has shown at international film festivals as well as at contemporary art museums. Expect her Vandy visit to touch on balancing art-making and family life.

Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck’s movies address themes from racism to revolution while still garnering Oscar nominations. Making meaningful movies that

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Voices Beyond the Wall

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OcT. 6: LuCkY aT The BelcOurT; advaNce screeNiNg sepT. 24 as parT OF arT hOuse TheaTer day Longtime character actor John Carroll Lynch makes his directorial debut with this drama featuring the legendary — and very recently deceased, RIP — Harry Dean Stanton as a 90-year-old curmudgeon seeking enlightenment.

OcT. 6: BLADE RuNNER 2049 iN TheaTers everyWhere Denis Villeneuve’s long-anticipated sequel to Ridley Scott’s genre-redefining 1982 sci-fi epic, featuring Ryan Gosling and Jared Leto, with Harrison Ford reprising his role as Rick Deckard.

Italian artist Yuri Ancarani’s The Challenge follows some obscenely rich Qatari sheikhs who happen to be obsessed with amateur falconry, not to mention very expensive sports cars and pet cheetahs. Though early reviews don’t report much in the way of in-depth anthropological analysis, they largely agree on a couple of things: It is beautifully shot. On the opposite end of the spectrum is The Force, Peter Nicks’ vérité documentary about the Oakland Police Department — a police force that in recent years has dealt with charges of misconduct and civil rights abuses. According to Village Voice critic (and former Scene contributor) Bilge Ebiri, The Force has “the texture of a Michael Mann film combined with the clarity of a Frederick Wiseman documentary.” Another extremely promising offering is Human Flow, renowned artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s documentary on the global migration crisis. Rounding out Doctober are docs on legendary surfing pioneer Laird Hamilton (Take Every Wave), a slice-of-life portrait of Indian textile workers (Machines) and French octogenarian filmmaker Agnès Varda’s collaboration with street artist JR (Faces Places).

OcT. 20: THE FLORiDA PROjECT aT The BelcOurT Another indie feature from Sean Baker, director of 2015’s genius Tangerine, this one features working-class strife and a performance from Willem Dafoe that early reviews have called exceptional.

NOv. 3: THOR: RAGNAROk iN TheaTers everyWhere The 17th film installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe features Chris Hemsworth (now with short hair!) reprising his role as the crown prince of Asgard. And this one’s got something no other MCU film has had: Jeff Goldblum!

NOv. 3: THE kiLLiNG OF A SACRED DEER aT The BelcOurT The Lobster director once again teams with Colin Farrell, this time for a psychological thriller also featuring Nicole Kidman and Alicia Silverstone.

NOv. 10: WONDERSTRuCk aT The BelcOurT The latest from arthouse mainstay Todd Haynes, featuring performances by Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore.

NOv. 17: juSTiCE LEAGuE iN TheaTers everyWhere The strength of this year’s Wonder Woman revitalized the DC Extended Universe, but will that carry into this ensemble blockbuster, with Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill back as the caped crusader and Kal-El, respectively? Can’t be worse than Batman v Superman!

NOv. 22: MOLLY’S GAME iN TheaTers everyWhere Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, based on the true story of underground-poker magnate Molly Bloom. Other interesting films coming this fall — without firm release dates and/or locations — include Carpinteros, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Stay tuned for more details on those.

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Oct. 26-NOv. 18: Southern frieD funeral at chaffiN’s BarN diNNer theatre

by martin brady

sept. 28-Oct. 1: Still life With iriS at the theater Bug

Oct. 20-22: haunteD at actOrs Bridge eNsemBle at track ONe

Cori Laemmel’s East Nashville conservatory for young performers presents Steven Dietz’s fantasy centering on a little girl’s search for home. Encountered on her journey are newfound friends Annabel Lee (a young woman from the sea) and Mozart (the composer, age 11).

The nation’s deadliest passenger-train crash was in 1918 at Dutchman’s Curve near present-day Belle Meade, and it’s also the inspiration for this world premiere project featuring original music, dance and immersive art installations. Contributions from experimental performance leaders propel ABE’s Southern Gothic “site-responsive” collaboration, which resurrects voices buried in Nashville’s nearly forgotten history.

Oct. 26-dec. 3: mr. PoPPer’S PenguinS at Nashville childreN’s theatre Artistic director Ernie Nolan’s first musical at Nashville Children’s Theatre finds him overseeing this adaptation of the 1938 novel by Richard and Florence Atwater, featuring a book by Robert Kauzlaric and music and lyrics by George Howe. The promising cast includes veteran performers Geoff Davin, Erin Parker, Rona Carter and Corinne Bupp. The puppet designs are by Brian Hull, with musical direction by David Weinstein.

Oct. 6-22: lineS in the DuSt at teNNessee WOmeN’s theater prOject When an African-American woman’s daughter loses out in a lottery for a shot at a preferred educational opportunity, mom determines to find a different way to help her escape her underperforming neighborhood school. Sixty-plus years after Brown v. Board of Education, Nikkole Salter’s 2014 play asks just how far American society has come. This regional premiere stars Colette Divine, Tamiko Robinson Steele and Alan Lee, and is directed by Maryanna Clarke.

Oct. 6-21: love, loSS, anD What i Wore at act 1 Nora and Delia Ephron’s play is based on Ilene Beckerman’s 1995 book of the same name. A series of monologues describes various women’s relationships, their wardrobes from the past and the interaction between the two. The local lineup features Jennifer Bennett, Caitlin Brockell, Holly Butler, Andrea Crowe and Wesley Paine. Brian Hill directs.

Oct. 10-15: fun home at tpac’s jacksON hall This winner of the 2015 Tony Award for Best Musical is based on cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s bestselling graphic novel, a memoir in which the author discovers her sexuality, but also probes her relationship with her gay father and strives to uncover the mysteries surrounding his life. The first Broadway musical with an explicitly lesbian protagonist features book, music and lyrics by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori.

Before he earned more serious attention with plays like Good Monsters and The Ice Treatment, Nashville-based playwright Nate Eppler crafted this strictly commercial comedy with co-author Dietz Osborne that successfully exploits Southern family stereotypes. It has gained its fair share of regional popularity and returns to home base for this revival.

Oct. 27-NOv. 12: the hunchback of notre Dame at circle players Nashville’s oldest community theater goes a little rogue in presenting this musical based on Victor Hugo’s novel. The play includes songs from the 1996 Disney film version by Stephen Schwartz and Alan Menken. The show’s curious production history includes a conspicuous absence from Broadway, but a significant number of international mountings have dared to engage with the work’s themes of physical deformity, sexual repression and genocide. Expect an epic effort from director Tim Larson.

Neil Simon’s 1993 comedy draws on his reallife experiences as a TV sketch writer in the early 1950s — in particular his relationships with colleagues including Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Larry Gelbart. Lane Wright directs.

NOv. 14-19: leS miSérableS at tpac’s jacksON hall

This Tony-winning musical was inspired by the 1951 Oscar-winning film of the same name. With songs by George and Ira Gershwin and a book by Craig Lucas, the show ran for 18 months on Broadway in 2015 and 2016. Music City gets its first look via the national touring company.

The globally revered musical adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel is the gift that keeps on giving, especially to the legion of actors who have gratefully added the show to their résumés. But for those Middle Tennessee theatergoers who have not yet seen it live onstage, here’s a chance to join committed fans.

Nashville Rep presents the newly topical satire Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

etween local theater companies and the always-active Tennessee Performing Arts Center, there is varied and decidedly thought-provoking stage fare coming our way this fall — but none should gain wider attention than Nashville Repertory Theatre’s production of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, presented Oct. 14-Nov. 4 at TPAC’s Johnson Theater. The 11-yearold musical features a score by Michael Nashville RepeRtoRy Friedman — who died just a few weeks ago theatRe pReseNts Bloody Bloody due to complications from HIV/AIDS — and Andrew JAckson a book by Alex Timbers. It centers on the oct. 14-Nov. 4 at tpac’s JohNsoN theateR founding of the Democratic Party and the ascendance of America’s seventh president, Andrew Jackson — who is depicted as an emo rock star. Director Jason Tucker is no stranger to the Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson script, having directed the show in 2014 for Street Theatre Company, where he is artistic director. In 2011, the play was presented locally in an ambitious project directed by Catherine Coke at University School of Nashville. But Jackson’s legacy means something different in 2017. “When I last directed the show, we did not live in a Trump world,” Tucker tells the Scene, “and it is undeniable the impact that Trump has had on our nation. He also apparently sees something in Jackson that he respects and admires, since he had a portrait of Jackson placed in the Oval Office. So he at least recognizes a fellow populist. “Populism is a terrifying streak in human nature, I think,” he continues. “It scares me. So there’s an opportunity here not just to lambaste Trumpian populism, but also to ask what is it in our nature, as people or Americans, that makes us willfully ignore some obvious realities in order to feel like we have power.” Tucker observes that the show looks like a Saturday Night Live sketch, but only on the surface. “Underneath, it is genuine satire,” he says, “pointing a finger not just at Jackson, but also judging those who put him into power. I marvel at how apropos

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NOv. 10-25: laughter on the 23rD floor at act 1

Oct. 31-NOv. 5: an american in PariS at tpac’s jacksON hall

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this show is: There is dialogue in the script I could just put out on a Facebook feed and everyone would assume I was talking about Trump.” Tucker’s cast of 14 features both familiar and fresh faces. “It’s exciting when you do a show at the Rep,” he says. “You get to work with the finest actors we have in the city.” The show’s offbeat nature almost demands a creative use of its players. Those include the versatile Megan Murphy Chambers portraying Kentucky statesman Henry Clay. “Megan constantly landed stuff in auditions,” says Tucker, “and I decided we could not not have her in the cast. The show can bear genderneutral casting, so why not?” Then there’s African-American performer Bakari King as South Carolina’s John C. Calhoun, Jackson’s vice president, who was a defender of slavery. “Bakari brings his acerbic wit to the role,” says Tucker. “It’s a chance to introduce yet another element into the staging. In the end, all this show cares about is that there is the smallest number of actors possible, so they can do many things, like SCTV or Monty Python. That’s the joy of it.” Tucker serves as musical director as well, but Luke Easterling is the onstage leader of a small punk band, with actress Kelly Hoppenjans making additional contributions as instrumentalist. Jackson’s wife Rachel is portrayed by Laura Holloway, an L.A. transplant with film and TV credits but no previous exposure on a major stage in Music City. Andrew Jackson will be played by Everett Tarlton, who has performed with local companies and worked as a choreographer. “I am excited for Nashville audiences to see what this guy is capable of,” says Tucker. “He is not manufacturing anything. This role is in him.” According to Tucker, all credit for programming the show goes to Rep artistic director René Copeland. “She apparently has wanted to put it on her schedule for years,“ he says. “She was just waiting for the right time.” “The nation’s very divided on Trump,” Copeland tells the Scene. “We’ll just have to see how our audience reacts.” “I think the Rep audience is smart,” adds Tucker, “and the local productions that are gaining the most interest nowadays are those that are most immediately relevant. I think we’re ready to be jolted.”

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The busiest time of year for visual arts is also the most interesting through oct. 13: MonuMents and structures at BelmoNt uNiversity Featuring contributions by some of the most noted names in Nashville’s art scene, Monuments and Structures presents a timely display that deploys abstract paintings and photography in an examination of landmarks, urban reference points and figurative political monuments. The show at Belmont’s Leu Art Gallery includes work by Brady Haston, Tom Williams and Robin Paris. JOE NOLAN

oct. 4-29: eyes Like eneMies at east side Project sPace Artist and curator Jodi Hays’ garage gallery, Dadu, is the most unique art space in East Nashville. This fall Hays will make a trip over the Shelby Street Bridge to host Eyes Like Enemies at the East Side Project Space in The Packing Plant. The two-person exhibition features work by Mark Brosseau and Brian Edmonds, who both explore the roles that space, memory and history play in our perceptions of painting. Hays will also have her own solo exhibition at Red Arrow in November. JOE NOLAN

oct. 5-Nov. 9: Paul harmoN at daNe carder studio Nashville’s visual art scene was still in its infancy in the 1990s, but Paul Harmon was on his way to having his pop-inspired paintings collected by patrons like Princess Caroline of Monaco. You could even make the argument that Harmon himself was Middle Ten-

oct. 6 to march: WorLd War i and the Great MiGration at Fisk uNiversity A companion exhibition to the Frist’s World War I and American Art, Fisk University’s World War I and the Great Migration examines how the Great War spurred the relocating of 6 million African-Americans from the rural South to the urban centers of the industrial North between 1916 and 1970. The exhibition includes work from movements like the Harlem Renaissance and the Chicago Renaissance, and will feature work by Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Albert E. Smith and more. JOE NOLAN

oct. 7-Nov. 18: johN WarreN at seed sPace John Warren is among the city’s best video artists and experimental filmmakers. He’s also a Tennessee Arts Commission 2017 Individual Artist Fellow, and he used the stipend he received to fund 16 mm short films like “Honky Tonky,” a poetic study of Lower Broadway that premiered at the Nashville Film Festival in April. Warren’s study of downtown construction cranes, “Future Tense,” will screen at Seed Space this fall.

JOE NOLAN oct. 7-Nov. 24: WaiLinG WaLL at the BroWsiNg room gallery Michael Dickins is the gallery director at Austin Peay, and Wailing Wall is the installation artist’s response to Trump’s proposed border wall. The work will ask viewers to reflect on their personal empathy — or apathy — toward those who will be most affected by such a separating structure. JOE NOLAN

nessee’s art scene, so his exhibition at Dane Carder Studio promises to feel like a summit between the new kids and the old master. JOE NOLAN

oct. 6-jaN. 21: WorLd War i and aMerican art at the Frist There’s a subtle but unmistakable difference between art history and art that’s of history. This exhibit at the Frist explores the

Mark Bradley-Shoup’s abstract studies of architectural spaces feature exacting brushwork in scenes permeated with Zen stillness. Wolf Kahn’s paintings are also noted for their sense of stillness, but the artist’s preoccupation with natural landscapes makes his work a perfect complement to BradleyShoup’s. JOE NOLAN

oct. 13-Nov. 5: tara Walters — i aM ListeninG at the red arroW gallery Tara Walters uses a fumage technique to burn candle smoke into wet paint, creating ghostly patterns evoking portals that draw viewers into

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“i hear aNgels,” tara Walters

“saskia saskia,” Paul harmoN

oct. 10-Nov. 11: mark Bradley-shouP aNd WolF kahN at david lusk gallery

Sounding Off Nick Cave’s magnificent sculptures come with strings — and twigs and sequins — attached

“rescue ,” Nick cave. ,courtesy oF the artist aNd jack shaiNmaN gallery, NeW york. © Nick cave. Photo: james PriNz PhotograPhy

Fall Guide

art

way American art and artists contributed to the culture of World War I, placing it firmly in the latter camp, where art doesn’t just reflect the culture — it creates it. Featuring works by John Singer Sargent, Georgia O’Keeffe and George Bellows alongside propaganda posters and political cartoons, World War I and American Art explores work by more than 70 artists exploring wartime themes. Of special interest is the programming here, which includes a lecture by Richard Ormond, former deputy director of London’s National Portrait Gallery and great-nephew of John Singer Sargent, titled “Mr. Sargent Goes to War.” LAURA HUTSON

by Joe NolaN

rist Center patrons will remember Nick Cave’s “Soundsuit” sculptures from 2013’s 30 Americans — the otherworldly wearable fabric sculptures were a highlight of the show. This fall, the Frist Nick cave: Feat. will host Nick Cave: Opens nOv. 10 at Feat., a solo exhibithe Frist tion presenting a selection of the Soundsuits along with a video projection, a number of wall sculptures, and a large multimedia installation. One of the most compelling qualities of Cave’s work is the way the colorful, outrageous pieces engage audiences of all ages while simultaneously offering complex, sophisticated statements that speak to issues of race and social justice. The show’s 10 Soundsuits were made between 2011 and 2017, and will be dramatically deployed across a runway-style platform installation. The suits are Cave’s signature works, so look for this display to be highlighted at the exhibition. Cave’s original Soundsuit was created in the 1990s as a response to the infamous footage of Rodney King being beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers — the wearable sculptures are metaphorical suits of armor, protecting black men from racial profiling and police brutality. Cave’s original suit was a modest affair — a rustling sheath of twigs that covered the wearer. The artist has gone on to create approximately 500 suits over the past twoand-a-half decades, in the process evolving them into the decorous, decadent duds viewers will see at the Frist this fall. In addition to a gallery wrapped in twinkling fabric and an installation of thousands of suspended strands of colorfully patterned bamboo titled “The Architectural Forest,” Feat. will also include an immersive life-size video that will dominate one of the exhibition spaces. “Blot” is one of those time-based works that acts as

both a work of art and a documentation of a performance. “Blot” features a whirling dancer decked out in one of Cave’s wild, wooly works. The costume and the performance combine to create abstract inky shapes moving through otherwise empty space for a little more than 40 minutes. The effect is immersive and hypnotic — and also points to the real-life performances that will be featured throughout the Frist’s Nick Cave program. One of the most eagerly awaited elements of the exhibition’s time in Nashville will be Cave himself. In conjunction with Feat., Cave will direct a months-long community-engagement project that will culminate in free public performances featuring live dance, music, Soundsuits, spoken-word events and more. The artist’s original compositions will showcase performing arts organizations and university students from all over Middle Tennessee, while specifically engaging our city’s increasingly diverse population. One performance will include community beada-thon events where Nashvillians will create 30 decorative blankets, which will eventually be used to cover Cave’s body in a kind of scapegoat performance that will find the artist symbolically taking on the burdens and responsibilities we’re all weighed down by in our individual lives.

her picture planes. I Am Listening will also include a new video installation titled “TIME.” JOE NOLAN

Nov. 11-dec. 23: the Professors at cumBerlaNd gallery For many artists, personal creativity and education go hand in hand. The Professors will feature work from leading Middle Tennessee educators who also maintain productive studio practices. The show will include work from Cheryl Goldsleger, David Kroll, Leonard Koscianski, Terry Thacker and David Lefkowitz. JOE NOLAN

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THE LigHT and Sound MacHinE: Wavelength

There is no hyperbole in proclaiming Michael Snow’s 1967 spatial freak-in Wavelength one of the most important experimental films ever made. But it isn’t just cinephiles and enthusiasts of the unconventional who have something to gain from the experience of this journey — and journey is the right word. Traversing the distance of a room over the course of a week, moving incrementally closer, through the visible and the invisible, Wavelength is somehow both a visual representation of a graph with its axes of distance and time and a trippy dive into space, and “space.” It’s both the diving board in and the ladder out, and it’s been assisting human consciousness for 50 years now. Every ostentatious tracking shot or CG-assisted long take that has proliferated in the past decade of commercial cinema humbles itself before the grandaddy of spacetime cinema, and now is the time to experience this. The 45-minute film screens Thursday night at Third Man Records as part of the monthly Light and Sound Machine series, co-presented by the Belcourt and Third Man. 8 p.m. at Third Man Records JASON SHAWHAN

Jerry Reed’s biggest hits — among them “When You’re Hot, You’re Hot,” “The Bird” and “She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)” — could be classified as novelty songs, but they’re also exceptionally catchy radio-ready concoctions featuring Reed’s excellent six-string work. (And he was equally adept at both finger-style and flatpicking.) Any guitarist who could hold his own in duets with the likes of Glen Campbell and Chet Atkins, which Reed managed to do, is a formidable musical force. Reed, who died in 2008 at age 71, had an undeniable good-ol’-boy Southern charm, which he parlayed into an acting career highlighted by his turn as Cledus in the Smokey and

the Bandit films. (He also wrote the Bandit theme song, “East Bound and Down.”) Some equally legendary country stars — Brenda Lee, Bobby Bare and Suzy Bogguss — are among the artists who will help celebrate Reed’s music. 7:30 p.m. at 3rd & Lindsley JACK SILVERMAN

the forthcoming album along with vintage DADDY songs. Fast and loose rock ’n’ roll is a concept to savor in these uptight times. 7 p.m. at The Family Wash EDD HURT THE HUNDRED DRESSES

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Fronted by Nashville songwriters, singers and guitarists Will Kimbrough and Tommy Womack, DADDY plays rock ’n’ roll tunes in a fast-and-loose style that puts me in mind of English rockers the Faces. You’ll hear examples of their allusive approach on their 2005 debut Daddy at the Women’s Club and its follow-up, 2009’s For a Second Time, and the group’s songwriting is equally impressive. I love the Women’s Club track “Vicky Smith Blues,” SUZY BOGGUSS in which Womack sings about a fast, loose and elusive 16-yearold love object who wears hot pants and lounges in the basement rec room her daddy built himself. Womack says DADDY cut a new record earlier this year at Nashville’s Blackbird Studio with drummer Paul Griffith, bassist Dave Jacques and keyboardist John Deaderick. Womack and Kimbrough appear Thursday night as a duo, and they’ll play tunes from

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[aFteR-ScHOOL SpeciaL]

the hUnDReD DReSSeS

Adapted by William Kent Williams from the 1944 Newbery Honor children’s book by Eleanor Estes, The Hundred Dresses relates the story of Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl who is misunderstood and mocked by her classmates in a Connecticut

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critics’ picks school. But Wanda has a secret gift, and lessons in tolerance, responsibility and courage are learned by all. The first production under Nashville Children’s Theatre’s new artistic director Ernie Nolan features a strong cast — which includes Barry Scott, one of our city’s most important actors and a nationally known performing artist who, unbelievably, is making his first appearance on the NCT stage. Kristin McCalley, Tamiko Robinson Steele, Catherine Birdsong and Taylor Kelly complete the ensemble. Through Oct. 1 at Nashville Children’s Theatre MARTIN BRADY

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Fri/9.22 [Country MusiC for DuMMies]

Sam Hunt w/maren morriS, CHriS JanSon & ryan FolleSe

In need of a CliffsNotes guide to contemporary country? Look no further than Sam Hunt’s 15 in a 30 Tour, which comes to Ascend Amphitheater. Featuring a deep and diverse pool of talent, it’s led by Hunt — arguably the tip of the genre’s crossover spear. He’s fluent in Southern pop and slowburning hip-hop, and his “Body Like a Back Road” is Billboard’s longest-serving Hot Country Songs No. 1 in history, while also scoring high on the Hot 100 chart. Joining Hunt is the dark country soul of Maren Morris, a bold and gritty outlier whose excellent debut, Hero, is filled with edgy, vocally

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“AS A REAL DJ, this guy is Fukin annoying and useless!” another typed furiously. Not everyone was mad, though — and not everyone butchered the English language so thoroughly. “I don’t know what I love more,” said another commenter. “The song or the guy on the right having so much fun.” But you try to look cool when songs like “Radio” are slithering through your head, packing together the sleek production of American electropop and the playful experimentation of European club music. It’s just not possible! This year’s What Now features understated beats weaving a tapestry that perfectly complements singer Amelia Meath’s vocals, which sound like Cat Power crossed with CocoRosie. Don’t be afraid to dance like no one’s watching — even though YouTube commenters always (ALWAYS) are. 8 p.m. at the Ryman MEGAN SELING

stunning confessionals. Meanwhile, Chris Janson, one of the most enthusiastic and genuine performers to take the stage in recent memory, will unleash a barrage of wildeyed energy and optimistic twang. Former Hot Chelle Rae frontman Ryan Follese kicks things off with a dose of slick suburban pop rock. 7 p.m. at Ascend Amphitheater

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CHRIS PARTON [KiCK JuMp twist]

Sylvan eSSo

YouTube commenters, the absurdly judgmental bunch that they are, didn’t know what to make of the dance moves jerking and popping out of Sylvan Esso producer and multi-instrumentalist Nick Sanborn during the duo’s performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “They guy having a seizure, great,” said one critic.

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sam Hunt

[VinyL riCHie]

vinyl CluB, ePiSoDe 44

Every month, Wilburn Street Tavern opens its doors and its turntables to the public for a freewheeling analog dance party where you — yes, you — are the DJ, and it’s been doing it for 44 months in a row. Vinyl Club, launched by WXNA DJ Nekos Barnes (aka DJ Blackcircle) back in 2014, is effectively an open-mic night for the wheels of steel. DJs sign up for 15-minute slots starting at 8 p.m. and rock the party until 3 a.m. This month is extra special, as it’s the last one at Wilburn for a minute — owner Miss Paulette is shutting her doors temporarily to make some much-needed repairs on the beloved Cleveland Park dive bar. 8 p.m. at Wilburn Street Tavern LANCE CONZETT

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818 3RD AVE S. DOWNTOWN • 259-9891 1/2 mile off Broadway on the South side

FREE PARKING/SMOKE FREE

THU 9/21

JERRY REED CELEBRATION SUZY BOGGUSS, BRENDA LEE, BOBBY BARE, RICHARD SMITH, 6TH ANNUAL

____________________ ____________________ MELVINS W/ SPOTLIGHTS

7:30

BRENT MASON, JOHN KNOWLES, LOTTIE REED, BUDDY GREENE, RANDY MASON, KIRBY EASLER, PARKER HASTINGS, EVAN TWITTY, JOHN MCCLELLAN, SEIDINA REED FRI 9/22 SAT 9/23

BACKSTAGE NASHVILLE LIVE

MON 9/25 TUE 9/26

12:30

BUDDY OWENS, GALEN GRIFFIN, RAY STEPHENSON W/ ASHLEY AND ABBIE FLEENER

12 AGAINST NATURE SUN 9/24

8:00

____________________ STEELY DAN EXPERIENCE: AJA W/ SCALE ____________________ PONCÉ MODEL ____________________ THE TIME JUMPERS

NASH RHYTHM AND BOOTS W/ RADIO

____________________ BILLY CURRINGTON

8:00

ROMANCE

WED 9/27

THU 9/28

FRI 9/29

90’S BABIES FOR 90’S LADIES