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How Nashville Became Music City
As you finalize your plans to attend APTA’s 2018 Annual Meeting in Nashville, be sure to set aside some time for exploring this wonderful city!
From its very beginnings, Nashville grew from a foundation built on music. Music has been the common thread connecting the life and soul of the city and its people. And visitors have ventured there to experience the music that weaves such a fundamental pattern in the city’s cultural, business and social fabric.
Nashville’s earliest settlers celebrated in the late 1700s with fiddle tunes and buck dancing after safely disembarking on the shores of the Cumberland River. Nashville’s first “celebrity,” the noted frontiersman and Congressman Davy Crockett, was known far and wide for his colorful stories and fiddle playing.
As the 1800s unfolded, Nashville grew to become a national center for music publishing. The first around-the-world tour by a musical act was by the Fisk Jubilee Singers from Nashville’s Fisk University. Their efforts helped fund the school’s mission of educating freed slaves after the Civil War—and also put Nashville on the map as a global music center. In fact, upon performing for the queen of England, the queen stated the Fisk Jubilee Singers must come from the “Music City.”
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| The Ryman Auditorium, historic home of the Grand Ole Opry. | Even before the Ryman Auditorium became known as the downtown home of the Grand Ole Opry, it already enjoyed a national reputation. Enrico Caruso, John Philip Sousa and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra gave roof-raising performances there that earned the Ryman the nickname “Carnegie Hall of the South.” The Ryman’s unrivaled acoustic qualities continue today—it has received Pollstar magazine’s prestigious “Theater of the Year” award consecutively for the past five years as the best auditorium in the nation to experience live music.
In 1925, the establishment of radio station WSM and its launch of the broadcast that would be called the Grand Ole Opry further secured Nashville’s reputation as a musical center and sparked its durable nickname of “Music City.” The Opry, still staged live every week, is America’s longest-running radio show. It ignited the careers of hundreds of country stars and lit the fuse for Nashville to explode into a geographic center for touring and recording. In recent years, cable television has broadcast Music City’s stars and music to the world.
Over the years, Nashville has also become a hub for pop, rock, bluegrass, Americana, jazz, classical, contemporary Christian, blues and soul music. Rolling Stone recently gave Nashville the title of “Best Music Scene.” In fact, Nashville has the highest concentration of people working in the music industry per capita of anywhere in the world.
There’s truly no other place in the world like Nashville. Its connection to music is unequaled and its reputation as Music City has been consistently proven for more than 200 years. Welcome to the city where music is written, recorded and performed every single day. Welcome to Music City.
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| The 2018 APTA Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN, is only two weeks away—Sept. 23-26—and APTA is waiting to greet you with renowned speakers, educational sessions and networking opportunities. To register and learn more, click here. |
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