http://music-city-vacations.com Music City's Best Attractions, Entertainment, and Lodging Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:25:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you visit Nashville and have even a passing interest in country music, your trip will be incomplete if you miss checking out country music's Mother Church, The Ryman Auditorium. The Ryman Auditorium was conceived in 1895 by a Nashville riverboat captain named Thomas Ryman, who had recently been converted to ... http://music-city-vacations.com/ryman-auditorium-nashvilles-mother-church-of-country-music/ The Tennessee Performing Arts Center (commonly referred to as "TPAC") exists to provide a place to take a lead in the arts in Middle Tennessee, sustaining and nurturing the performing arts, along with education in the arts, local arts groups and other organizations devoted to the arts. TPAC is in the ... http://music-city-vacations.com/tennessee-performing-arts-center-tpac/ The Musicians Hall Of Fame and Museum is the only museum we know of whose goal is to honor all of the musicians who actually played on some of the greatest recorded music, recorded here in Nashville as well as many other great music cities, of all time.  There are ... http://music-city-vacations.com/musicians-played-greatest-recordings-honored-hall-fame-museum/ Dolly Parton has opened a new souvenir store in downtown Nashville, on Second Avenue right beside the Wildhorse Saloon. It's the most colorful building in the 2nd Avenue Historic District (pink, purple, yellow, green, red & blue).  To be just a bit more noticeable, you'll hear Dolly's music coming from the ... http://music-city-vacations.com/dolly-partons-downtown-nashville-store-dolly-parton%e2%80%99s-trinkets-treasures/ Downtown Nashville's newest hotel is an impressive rehabilitation of the old American Trust Building. Located at 315 Union, the hotel has 87 rooms and 18 extended stay suites, and is located in the downtown business district, Printer's Alley and 2nd Ave., close to all the major downtown attractions and entertainment venues.  ... http://music-city-vacations.com/new-hotel-in-downtown-nashville-hotel-315/ [caption id="attachment_210" align="alignright" width="400" caption="Bluebird Songwriters In The Round"][/caption] It's off the tourist-beaten track, and it's a place to gather for earnest listening, so they don't tolerate blabbing during the performances.  If you've heard of the Bluebird Cafe but have not seen it in person, you may be shocked at how ... http://music-city-vacations.com/a-songwriters-mecca-nashvilles-bluebird-cafe/ [caption id="attachment_198" align="alignright" width="499" caption="Legends Corner Bartenders, Nashville, Tennessee"][/caption] Your visit to Nashville won't be complete until you take a stroll down lower Broadway, where you'll run across many gritty little honky-tonk joints. One of Nashville's best is Legends Corner, known as "Home of Honky-Tonk Lemonade". Loads and loads of country album ... http://music-city-vacations.com/legends-corner-nashville/ [caption id="attachment_185" align="alignright" width="432" caption="Fox Trot Carousel, Riverfront Park, Nashville"][/caption] Located in downtown Nashville at First and Broadway, in Riverfront Park, overlooking the Cumberland River is the Fox Trot Carousel.  Created by Nashville-born artist Red Grooms, the carousel is unique in that all of the figures fashioned by Grooms are famous ... http://music-city-vacations.com/fox-trot-carousel/ Here's a sport that's not unique to Nashville, but it's so different and so much fun, just had to tell you about it! Roller Derby is back, with hundreds of all-women flat track teams across the country. Today's revival of roller derby keeps the athleticism of the original sport and adds ... http://music-city-vacations.com/nashville-rollergirls/ Just a few miles west of downtown Nashville, you'll find Edwin Warner and Percy Warner parks, which combined cover almost 2,700 acres of middle-Tennessee countryside. This is one of the largest municipally managed parks in America, offering miles of hiking trails, bridle paths, scenic drives and picnic shelters. Two golf courses ... http://music-city-vacations.com/edwin-and-percy-warner-parks/