JUNE 7
GONE COUNTRY
Nashville Shores
615-889-7050
www.nashvilleshores.com
$21.95 for people 48 inches or taller; $16.95 for peolple 47 inches
or shorter, military and seniors.
Nashville Shores celebrates the music so identified with the city-country
music. GONE COUNTRY runs for several weeks in June (coinciding with the CMA
Music Festival) and features a Country Carnival and other events.
JUNE 7
POWER SOURCE MUSIC SHOWCASE
AT B.B. KING'S
BB. King's lower lovel club on historic Second Avenue
615-742-9210 ext 26
www.ccma.cc
10am-6pm. Free admission. Join some of today's hottest inspirational country
music artists singing songs of Faith, Family, and Country.
JUNE 7-10
CMA MUSIC FESTIVAL
Downtown Music City
800-CMA-FEST
www.cmafest.com
Call for tickets or visit our website to download an order form to fax or mail;
visit www.ticketmaster.com to buy online or charge-by-phone at 615-255-9600.
The annual CMA Music Festival is unlike any other, taking place over four days
and featuring more than 70 hours of musical performances, and other events with more than 400 artists and celebrates particpating. The 2006 CMA Music Festival was the
biggest in history with more than 161,000 attendees representing every state and
27 foreign countries.
JUNE 12-17
HCA/TRISTAR BROADWAY ACROSS AMERICA'S SWEET CHARITY
Tennessee Performing Arts Center
615-255-ARTS
www.tpac.org
The star of Broadway's Cabaret and such memorable films as The Breakfast Club,
Pretty in Pink, and Sixteen Candles, Molly Ringwald takes center stage as Charity
Hope Valentine, who's a true original,eternal optimist...and the unluckiest romantic
in New York City. Sweet Charity's tuneful score(by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields) features such hits as "Hey Big Spender," "There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This" and "If MY Freinds Could See Me Now."
JUNE 18
TRAVELLERS REST MUSIC FESTIVAL
Travellers Rest Plantation & Museum
615-832-8197
www.travellersrestplantation.org
Adults $12.00 Children(6-12)$5. 5 & under free.
Bring a picnic to Travellers Rest and join us on the lawn for a variety of musical
genres, from Celtic, to Bluegrass, to New Age at this annual festival at one of
Nashville's oldest historic hones. There's something for the whole family to enjoy.
JUNE 22
SUMMER SOLSTICE
Nashville Shores
615-889-7050
www.nashvilleshores.com
6:30-11pm. Free; suggested $10 donation. Fire on the water. Party on the Beach.
Middle Tennessee's young professionals come together to celebrate the longest day
and shortest night of the year.
"Midsummer Night's Eve" - with a huge beach party, bonfire on the lake, and great
music...all to help local charitable organizations.
JUNE 22-23
NASHVILLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA'S GYPSY NIGHTS
Schermerhorn Symphoney Center
615-687-6400
www.schermerhornsymphonycenter.org
8-11pm $19.-$69.00. Gypsy Nights features famed violinist Gilles Apap in NCO Composer-in-residence David Balakrishnan's new Violin Concerto, drawing inspiration from the origins of Gypsy-inspired work for cimbalom, the national instrument of
Hungary.
JUNE 22-OCOTOBER 7
LYRICAL TRADITIONS: FOUR CENTURIES OF CHINESE PAINTINGS FROM THE PAPP COLLECTION
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
615-244-3340
www.fristcenter.org
Comprising 60 hand-painted scrolls, hanging scrolls, fans, screens and albums,
Lyrical Traditions is drawn from the collection of Phoenix residents Marilyn and
Roy Papp. The exhibition aslo feature magnificent paintings produced in the Ming
(1368-1644) and Quing (1644-1911) dynasties. Works in the exhibition show how artists
followed stylistic conventions and perpetuated anciet social values related to
Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, while exploring the wide range of expressive approaches possible within the framework.
JUNE 22-OCTOBER 7
SYLVIA HYMAN: FICTIONAL CLAY
FRIST CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS
615-244-3340
www.fristcenter.org
Sylvia Hyman: Fictional Clay presents 24 meticulously crafted trompe l' oill sculptures created over the last eight years by Nashville's renowned clay artists.
Hyman translates everyday items that reflect her own interest and personal history-
letters, maps, scrolls of sheet music, and books-into stoneware and porcelain, then
screenprints them with text, symbols, or images. She places fascinating juxtapositions of these clay objects in a variety of cermaic containers, from berry
baskets and wooden boxes to a faux alligator violin case.
JUNE 22-OCTOBER 7
WHISPERING WIND:RECENT CHINESE
PHOTOGRAPHY
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
615-244-3340
www.fristcenter.org
This exhibition includes works by 14 contemporary artists from China, several of whom
live in the West.
The photographers are internationally celebrated for images that examine contrasts between traditionalism and globalism, the real and the unreal, nature and urban life,
and the personal and social that have come into sharp focus since the end of the Cultural Revolution.
