Cracking Art Continues Colorful Summer Run at Cheekwood (NowPlayingNashville.com)
Recently opened at Cheekwood Estate & Gardens and continuing through the summer and a feast for the eyes, Cracking Art is a Milan, Italy-based artist collective born out of the intention to radically change the history of art by investigating the relationship between natural and artificial reality. By using 100% recycled plastic materials, Cracking Art creates site-specific installations using large-scale, natural animal forms made of synthetic materials, playfully arranging meerkats, bears, crocodiles, birds, and other animals in surprising invasions of familiar landscapes.
Fisk Food and Music Festival Features Jazz, R&B (Jazzy 88 radio)
Expect smooth jazz and soulful R&B from the likes of saxophonists Tim Cunningham and Chazz Williams, emerging contemporary jazz bassist Blair Bryant, and jazz vocalist Joe Freel at the third annual Fisk Food and Music Festival from 2-9 pm Saturday, June 30 at the Fisk University campus grove. There’s also a kid’s zone and a mini health fair. Bring your lawn chairs. Admission is free.
Full Moon Pickin’ Parties Continue at Warner Park (NowPlayingNashville.com)
The laid-back, family friendly bluegrass fund-raiser Full Moon Pickin’ Parties continue their 18th season 7-11 pm Friday night, June 29, at Warner Park Equestrian Center. With all ticket sales going directly back into Warner Parks, this month’s lineup features The Good Dogs, Harpeth Run, and The Back 80 Bluegrass Band.
Final Movies in the Park: ‘The Greatest Showman’ (Nashville Scene)
The Nashville Scene’s final Movies in the Park outing is going to be a circus — literally, the Scene’s Nancy Floyd reports: Prior to an outdoor screening of the 2017 musical “The Greatest Showman,” enjoy breathtaking, high-flying, death-defying stunts and curiosities. The talented aerialists and stilt-walkers from Beyond Wings Circus will put on two spectacular shows at 6 and 7 p.m., and their costumed entertainers will be roaming the park to create perfect Instagrammable moments. As always, a host of food trucks will be on site to keep you steadily supplied with snacks, and the movie starts at dusk. Bring a blanket or a lawn chair.”
Live On the Green’s 2018 Lineup Includes Jimmy Eat World, X Ambassadors, Cold War Kids (The Tennessean)
Live on the Green, Nashville’s largest free outdoor concert series, has announced its upcoming 2018 lineup. Jimmy Eat World tops this year’s bill, set for Thursday nights beginning Aug. 9 and closing out the season with a three-day finale Aug. 30-Sept. 1. Acts also include indie rockers Car Seat Headrest, X Ambassadors, Trampled by Turtles, Cold War Kids, Natalie Prass, and Dr. Dog.
Nashville-centric Paramore Art and Friends Fest Announced (Native magazine)
Hometown heroes Paramore, the Hayley Williams-fronted rockers fresh off an acclaimed debut at Bonnaroo a few weeks ago, will return home with what’s billed as a “one-night celebration of Nashville’s extraordinary music and arts community. It’s set for Friday, Sept. 7 at Municipal Auditorium. Local favorites also on the bill include COIN, Bully, Canon Blue, Liza Anne and Nightingail. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. this Friday, June 29 at Ticketmaster.
Roots rock greats The Blasters, Reverend Horton Heat, Big Sandy Headline Exit/in (NowPlayingNashville.com)
Talent bookers at the legendary Midtown nightclub Exit/In have outdone themselves this weekend with a Saturday-Sunday bill of some of the all-time greats in Americana roots rock. The Blasters perform Sunday night, July 1, preceded by a Saturday bill that includes Reverend Horton Heat with special guest Big Sandy.
Caviar and Bananas joins growing ranks of closed Nashville restaurants (Nashville Business Journal)
Charleston-based cafe and market Caviar & Bananas has announced it’s closing its Aertson Midtown outpost on Friday, June 29, just over a year after it opened. It joins downtown’s Back Alley Diner, which closed after last weekend’s service, among the growing list of recently shuttered eateries in Nashville.
