Tornado hits Nashville and we give a brief update. Looks like we are getting that new skyscraper where the downtown Subaru dealership is located! A new popular broadway musical is added to the TPAC line up for the next week. And in preparation for spring, we’ll let you know where you can celebrate the sunshine with all of the spring festivals happening in Nashville! We’ll bring you these lists, plus today's events, on Nashville Daily.
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Hello everyone. This is the Nashville daily podcast. I'm Stuart Deming and I'm Erin Pennington. It looks like we're getting that new skyscraper where the downtown Subaru dealership is located. A new popular Broadway musical is added to the T pack lineup for the next week and in preparation for spring, we'll let you know where you can celebrate the sunshine with all the spring festivals happening in Nashville. We'll bring you these lists plus today's events on Nashville daily.
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All right, before we get started with this episode just keep in mind, today is super Tuesday or a voting day here in Nashville as well as across the country. And not only are you voting on presidential primaries, but a lot of local votes are happening as well. So if you are a a resident of Tennessee and you are registered to vote you and you don't know where to vote or where your polling place is located, you can follow the link in the show notes and hopefully that will help you figure out where your where your place of voting is. So just wanted to throw that in there before the episode begins. If you are already registered to vote, today is the day to go and vote on super Tuesday. Thank you so much. If you're heading to some of these festivals happening in the spring and you need Nashville merchandise, Nashville gear, Nashville puzzles, you need to be prepped.
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But they do have the same Patty shirt and it just says Nashville and the eye in Ville is a four leaf Clover. It's pretty unique. So if you're looking to get your st Paddy's gear screened to threads.com. All right. And events that he has kinda gone away this week just for today. Cause for today. We have a few things going on. The first is at the Ryman auditorium. Bryman auditory of his is his backup, but we found out they didn't really go away last week. They were just hosting private events. Some company paid for them to have private events all week long. That sounds like a lot of money. It sounds like a lot of fun. It sounds like a lot of fun. So you have George Thoroughgood and the destroyers playing tonight at 8:00 PM and then at T pack. Jesus Christ superstar, one of the, probably a pretty good runway hit one of the longest running.
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I think it's over 50 years old or it's close to 50 years old. Yeah. This is going to be at T pack. This is starting today through Sunday. So make sure to get your tickets@ptpackatppack.org. Speaking of Sunday, we are moving forward in our, this is just our friendly reminder to you that the clocks are going forward and the hour on Sunday, so, so you lose an hour sleep taking your naps now so that you can make up for that last hour of sleep, especially because the weather already makes it feel like you're losing sleep. Yeah. And just how dark it gets so early right now and it's just like, ah, it's 8:00 PM and it feels like midnight. Yeah. So last week we talked about a development possibility that was going to be happening on Broadway. So right near 40, 65, there's that Broadway exit and then the Broadway splits to West end right there.
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They're building broad West. But before that there's a Subaru dealership, a Honda dealership, world trade dealership, and then a white castle. And I think that's the world trade fit. One of those doesn't cafe, that's a white castle. It does not fit. And I don't know why it's still there, but it's still there. And but we talked about this that they, that there is permits in Metro that they are looking at the water, the water mains and the longer lines to see if potential development can happen there. And guess what most likely that development is happening. And we all know how much that land's going to be sold. It's 11 acres and a huge developer, I think it's called. It's the Heinz company is a, how you say Hinz company, a Heinz company, but not the ketchup. This, this this real estate, I believe developer.
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It's global real estate developer. And they're headquartered in Houston and it looks like they're in talks with members of the Reed family who owns those 11 acres off of Broadway. And there were filings that were made public on February 24th with Metro that described the potential of what could be built on the read the land. This includes 1.5 million square feet of office space. That means that means within blocks of each other, Nashville yards, all the stuff happening in the Gulch brought us all the way. Yeah. All this stuff that's going to be happening on Charlotte that hasn't been announced yet. That means within that area in the last five years, I think it's close to 10 to 15 million square feet for class a office space have, has been built. Wow. Geez. In addition to that 1.5 million square feet of office space, also a thousand residential units as well as 150 square feet, 150,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space and 350 hotel rooms.
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It just seems like another Nashville development. Like everyone's like, Hey, okay, we're going to have class, a office space, residential, a retail space and a hotel just because we can't do that in Nashville, especially on the 11 acres of property. Yeah. And it'll be interesting to see. That's just another addition to Nashville becoming and looking like a completely new city. Yeah. And I think once river North is truly in Nashville, it's wanting to look like a different city all together. And we've talked about river North on the podcast that's going to be North of downtown Nashville and go listen to that episode. I can't remember off the top of my head what episode that was, but it was a while back. Yeah. We'll probably do an episode here soon. Kind of doing a recap of all of these new mixed use developments that are going to have an impact on the skyline because they're, they're definitely, even with us talking about them only almost on a daily basis, it's still kind of hard to, to keep up with.
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And so we'll, we'll try to do our best to do a little bit of a recap. So hopefully we can bring all of these into one, one cohesive space. Yeah. But I think we're gonna have to break that down by individual roads in Nashville. So I get church street, it's a study. And on your maps y'all, we're we're, we're going to give you some, some geography knowledge. Yeah. Hopefully. So, Aaron, last week you had an opportunity to eat at one of our favorite restaurants again in downtown Nashville, but it's not rise. It's not rise. It's really close. This is across from that the Andrews bakery where last week we went to cafe with aK cafe with a K and,uI went to Oscar's taco shop. I actually ordered it online via Stewart's recommendation to order online. Good choice to do.
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You can literally, if you search in Oscar's tacos into Google, you order it through Google. Oh really? I didn't realize you did it through Google. Do it through Google my day through their personal website. No. So do it through Google and it since I already have my debit card through Google. And so it literally took me about 30 seconds to order there. That's amazing. Yeah. I had a steak, egg and cheese with hashbrowns inside burrito and it was good. Like it was really good. It looked phenomenal. Yeah. And I got a cookie with it. They sort of Christy cookies, which hasn't made possible. That's so good. Christy cookies, we've talked about this on the podcast I think three or four times. They are bought by a New York company recently. They have a cookie tasting location over in 12 South where you can go get some cookies.
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They have a that they have a German town, they have the Germantown, the factor, you can actually buy directly out of their factory. But this one on 12 South is where like they're made that day and they're delivered that morning to the 12 South cook butts and ice sharp. I originally figured out you can also buy them at Kroger. Yeah. You could get there a little bit cheaper. And Kroger aren't they? Oh yeah. It's probably because they're buying so much whole. So it's like almost 10 bucks for half a dozen inside of their factory in Germantown and Kroger. It's like $5 for a dozen. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah. Such a better price point. So today is a great day to head to the factory in Franklin to be endorsed. [inaudible] Worse. It just seems like a common theme for us as well in the factory. This is, let's just talk about the history book real quick.
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In the 1920s, it was a oven manufacturing plant. So three different oven companies made ovens in the factory for about 40 years. That's kind of cool. Yeah. And then some brilliant developer turned into this mixed use office food vibe, event space, and they have really great coffee. Honest roaster, coffee, honest coffee roasters is down in the factory. You also have $5 bakery where you can get one of the amazing hundred layer donuts. And if you want an ice cream, you can also go the Jenny's. But there's this taco shop in the factory called MOHO tacos. I think that's how you say it. Yeah. And they had this hot chicken taco that was fire. It was amazing. Probably some chicken taco I've ever had hands down there. And I think that's the only hot chicken taco I've ever had. So it's definitely the best. But if with all this rain and you want to get away from your actual class, a office space and you want a unique work atmosphere, the factory and Franklin is one of the best places for that.
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We recorded a podcast in there. It was amazing except for we couldn't find power. Yeah. We finally found power. So there's, I mean, but it's, it's gorgeous. I think that's one of the, the best reuses of old factories in Nashville. Marathon village comes close, but I think the Franklin B, just because of how much space was available they, they really made use of that. I mean, you can go see a dang play there. Like it's insane music or Sarah's a large events, barber shops. There's a meat shop, there's a blacksmith. Like it's, it's incredible. Make sure to check out our YouTube channel, X PLR dot Nash to watch our video on the factory. Boom. That is explorers at Nashville tip of the day and now the most awaited part. We are going to talk about spring festivals and hopefully boost your spirits to let you know, yes, spring is coming.
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Just hold tight. Just a little bit more, hopefully that sunshine will come out, but the spring is coming in. There are some festivals in celebration of, it kind of sounds like, you know like the, the, the Greek used to do what native Americans used to do. Like celebrate the coming of the seasons. Seasons. Yeah. Like the summer soul SIS wish we just do it with, with beer and music. Yeah. That's pretty much Nashville hot chicken. Yeah. So the first festival we were that we wanted to highlight, this is all coming from Nashville goober. Yeah. By the way, they're all free. These are all free. Yeah. So that's the reason we wanted to highlight these free amazing festivals is you have the Nashville cherry blossom festival happening at public square park. This is happening April 4th. I know it's about a month away. Like you guys have to wait for some of these festivals.
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But from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM and last year there was a huge controversy about the cherry trees being removed by the NFL. They put them back, they put them back and they replanted like an extra 150 cherry trees. So they're having the cherry tree festival and I hope all the cherry trees are actually in bloom for this. I know, it's embarrassing. I know. I think they're doing it later rather than you just can't time cherry tree blooming in Nashville, Missouri, Lipscomb the universe and you put a steam line underneath your cherry trees. But I think it's cherry trees on top of the same line but you know, on top of your chair. But it is very interesting that in Nashville, just the weather's so different here. I had a Lyft driver the other day that said mother nature needs to see a psychiatrist.
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That's a good one. That's a really good one. But this is exciting. Like this incredible that all of these are are free. So the national cherry blossom festival again Saturday, April 4th from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM so it is a one day event. So you want to Mark this on your calendar. It's held every year. Family friendly celebration of Japanese culture because obviously the cherry tree is coming from Japan. One of the best things that that nature wise that has happened here in national speaking of kind of Japanese, you know, gardens and culture cheek woods, redoing their Japanese garden. I hope, I think it might be opening is either this year or later in the summer. So we will hopefully bring you more information about that soon. But the coolest thing about the cherry blossom festival, and I just read this, there's a 2.5 mile cherry blossom.
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Walka starts at nine 30 and it goes throughout downtown Nashville, either through the, through the Capitol building through Broadway or first Avenue and you get to see all the cherry trees in downtown Nashville. I love, that's amazing. That's cool. I hope they're bloomed cause otherwise it's not. It's a very depressing walk. Yeah. Or I just make that walk every single day of my life. All right, so another one is record store day. So there's a record number of stores, but it's like record store, like said if you want to sign all like this is happening April 18th, 2020 and this is free and the best place to go for that I would say is third band studio Jack White's studio that's in so bro and are one of the only places in the world that recorded live music to vinyl. It's one of like three places in the world that does that and it's incredible.
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Really? Yeah, there's studio a. So I've had a couple private tours that third band records and I've been there once for a session when they're actually recording live music to vinyl. And it's like, it's a work of art. You have two guys in lab coats that are doing this and they're legitimately like having to tape the vinyl and like bring the line that where the music is going up and down on the vinyl, like they have to do this all mathematically. It's incredible. Wow. And there's only from one I've heard from tours that Jack White, a third man studios, there's only maybe six people in the world that truly understand the science of recording to vinyl. And that's why there's only three companies in the world that do it. That's insane. Why live music? Other companies record the vinyl, but it's not live music.
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It's already pre recorded music. Yes. Yeah, man, that is crazy. All right. Another festival that's happening in the spring earth day, Nashville. Earth day, Nashville earth day festival is what the festival is called is Saturday, April 18th at Centennial park. I hope it's on muddy park is a mud Fest right now. This is interesting because Centennial's going through renovations right now. They're not supposed to be done. Yeah, I believe I taught, they are opening, reopening in the summer, so it must be on the other side of the park where the motivation is, are happening, but it's still large enough to where they can host festivals. The festival will be filled with environmentally friendly vendors, educational booths, workshops and speakers. There'll be live entertainment, a beer garden and a green market. It's free and family friendly, environmentally friendly vendors cause she can't grill there then. Oh, I don't know. I'm not sure how that works.
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So I guess this is a big deal here in the city of Nashville. This is also happening April 18th. A lot of things are happening. April 18th, record day, earth day and the pinwheel festival. Tell me more stories happening. I severe park from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. This is the pinnacle festival as a free family friendly events celebrating childhood. Okay. So not to kill the mood but apparently severe part only severe park used to be like a, like a needle Parker shoot up park or something like that. Oh yeah. That's more facts than I probably knew. I assume all parks were like that at some point in Nashville. Yeah, before it got cleaned up real bad. But depending on what festival. Oh yeah, free and family friendly. No more needles. Attendees can expect children's performances, crafts, games and food activities will also be there such as face painting, puppets, bounce houses and more.
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If you guys are going to this pinwheel festival, make sure to cross the street from severe park and go the Los Brilinta is gloss [inaudible] yeah. And get some Mexican popsicles. Fantastic. And that's a good refreshing Popsicle that you can get in 12 South. This festival that we're about to talk about is world renowned festival. They say that there's possibly about 150,000 people that could travel into this. Are you serious? Yeah. Wow. If the Corona virus doesn't happen here in America, that's what [inaudible] that's what they're estimating. Let's say all of these festivals are very based on what happened [inaudible] who was my, that'd be the best time in in, in the history of the world to gather together with larger groups of people. Yeah. That's, I don't know. I don't know enough yet. A lot of the experts are saying that it's going to have such economic devastations in America.
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Yeah, it's really interesting. So we'll see what happens if some festivals canceled out. But this is, this has been a very large festival. I, I know attendance in the past has been about 125,000 to 150,000 throughout the weekend. And this is the Franklin main street festival happening Saturday, April 25th and Sunday, April 26th from 10:00 AM on Saturday to 7:00 PM and 11:00 PM 11:00 PM to 6:00 PM they got a typo on Nashville guru, I think it's supposed to say 11:00 AM on Sunday, April 26. And this is in historic downtown Franklin. Attendees can expect a weekend full of music arts, craft rides, foods and children activities. Emission is free and open to all ages. Parking is crazy. In Franklin. I would recommend parking at the factory and walking in or even parking on highway 96 like near Kroger and taking an Uber in or just getting there super early. I get there before 10:00 AM get there at like 6:00 AM then you're good.
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Unless you're in a vendor, then you're already there at 6:00 AM hopefully. Then there's good parking. Yeah. So this is live music and it's just an amazing, I've gone to it twice. It's a great festival. It really is. Yep. One of the other festivals that start in the spring and go throughout the summer is musician's corner. If you've been in Nashville for a while, you made have, you may have heard of musician's corner. It's an annual free concert series that takes place every weekend in may, in June at Centennial park. Attendees can expect live music, food vendors, local artisans, kids area and a musician's corner pub feature and beer, wine and cocktails for purchase. They also have one in September, September, sundown. That's kind of like musician's corner but just in September. But this will start every weekend in may and go through every weekend in June. So I think it's going to be moving cause I thought that part of the park may know that part of the park is finished right now. Yeah. Yeah. So we need to get back to those dates about Centennial. I know we've talked about it, but I cannot remember when the centennials fully opening it again. We did an entire episode on [inaudible].
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Was that a long time ago? So let's talk about the largest festival and best festival that happens here in the city of Nashville. And I guess this is still springtime, even though I would consider it summer because June is really hot and that's C as a festival, country music association festival that happens typically the first or second weekend in June. Speaking of festivals, bong and Rue completely sold out first time in history that they sold out this early. Are you serious? Completely sold out. First time in history that they sold out this early, which is incredible. They were having very financial difficulties, but CMA festival happening in downtown Nashville. They have free concert areas. So like the river river fronts, some of the other stages throughout. I think HGTV has a free stage. You cannot get into the extremity fanfare that happens at the music city center.
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You have to have pay tickets for that. There's so much free activities happening during CMA fests. Yeah, this is our largest festival in Nashville. This is one of the largest economic boosters that happens in the city every single year. And last year, I think they said around 275,000 people came to Nashville for a CMA festival. Really? Yeah. That's what they're estimating. People with the economic development plan, I think it was like $50 million from that weekend was invested into downtown Nashville for local businesses. Mike, good. That's amazing. But they have free things, all concerts all throughout downtown and they also have paid tickets, so they have tickets at Nissan stadium and then they have the expanded the fanfare at the music city center. To learn more about CMA Fest, we have a survival guide on our YouTube. We probably need to make a new one for 2020 every year. It's a different journey every year.
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It's a different journey. If the Corona virus is a thing during the CMA Fest, we'll make a very different video for that. You're going to be walking around hazmat. Seriously. It could be the case. Wash your hands. Often. We'll leave that with this explores Nashville tip of the day. We're scratching the old one. Just go wash your hands, wash your hands. And if he's the number one transmission of flu is generally not washing their hands. That's awful. So this is some of the free festivals that are happening here in the spring, throughout the city of Nashville. We did us the X PLR underscore Nash. If you're attending one of these festivals, I think I'm may go that cherry blossom festival and do that walk. I think that's all so incredible. I mean, I'm not, I'm not a huge vinyl fan so I'll probably won't go to any of the, the vinyl stuff.
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But it's cool to learn about the, what's going on at Jack White studios and everything should have them on some time. Fun. I mean, all of this is really cool. I hope to make it out to as many as possible. Tweet us at X PLR underscored Nash, let us know which one you're going to. Let us know. If you have any questions about the events and hopefully we'll see you guys there at some of them. Make sure you go subscribe to our YouTube channel. I X PLR. Dot. Nash and on tomorrow's episode, we are looking at the history of Nashville from 18, 10 to 1820. I'm super excited about it cause there's some good history during that time period in Nashville. It really is. So get your, I don't know what you would get in preparation for like getting ready for learning about history. Your notebook.
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You get a notebook, go get your notebook or you can go get your like old, those old wigs that the politicians used to wear. Oh, get your, go get your wig and get some historical clothing and get ready for some Nashville history. All right, we'll see you guys with that. All right. For today's local artists, we are going out with maiden, mother crone and their song blue ruin. There are four members in this band and the band formed just about a year ago in February of 2019. It's made up of Greg, Nick Dave and Wesley. Shout out to those guys. Greg and Nick, our national area natives. Dave moved to Nashville in 2010. So it's been here a while. And Wesley moved to Nashville in 2017 so almost a local there. And Dave said their favorite restaurant as a band is steak and shake. Great little late night spot for just about anybody. But we will go out with some kind of psychedelic rock really cool stuff with a maiden, mother crone and their song