Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2020 i Nashville Lifestyles Magazine

We are living in strange times. I feel like I’ve said that every single day lately. I’ve barely left my house since Friday, March 13, and the irony is not lost on me. Someone said to me today, “Just make sure you don’t give up.” Fair enough. Trust, we are far from giving up. I realize that comment wasn’t meant to be offensive, but I want all of you to be very well aware that we aren’t giving up. Giving up would be the easier way to handle it. We haven’t given up. Instead, we are reinventing our May issue—this special edition focused on promoting recovery as a city. We are scheduling and rescheduling months of events in hopes that we can gather and celebrate each other. We want to…

Bloody Mary Festival The highly anticipated Bloody Mary Festival is rescheduled for July 25, for guests to sample and vote on the best Bloodys in Nashville, at Track One. (Originally scheduled for March 14.) thebloodymaryfest.com/ Nashville-3-14-20 Nashville Fashion Week Nashville Fashion Week will now take place August 4 to 8 as the perfect, most fashionable way to close out the summer. (Originally scheduled for March 31-April 4). nashvillefashionweek.com Chihuly at Cheekwood Chihuly at Cheekwood is rescheduled to open on July 18, and will continue through January 10, 2021, where visitors can view the new, large-scale installations in the gardens of the estate. (Originally set to open April 25.) cheekwood.org Bonnaroo Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, packed with a highly anticipated lineup of performers, has been rescheduled for September 24 to…

Just after midnight on March 3, as residents slept, a tornado touched down in Davidson County. When it reached John C. Tune Airport it was a strong EF2 tornado, and from there it tore a path through North Nashville and Germantown, leaving destruction in its wake. By the time it crossed the river into East Nashville it had grown into a monster EF3, and when it descended upon Five Points it claimed its first two casualties. The storm alternated strength level as it remained on the ground through Donelson, Mount Juliet, Lebanon, and Smith County, taking the lives of even more people. The same storm spawned a second tornado, which roared into Putnam County as a dangerous EF4 with winds up to 175 miles per hour just before 2 a.m.…

Nashville is my home. But I was born and raised in Florida, so I consider myself pretty fearless when it comes to weather. However, in the early hours of March 3, as I hunkered down with my husband and our dog watching a tornado on the ground head right for our community, all of my bravado was replaced with terror. When we got the all-clear and took a quick inventory of our East Nashville home, I saw that, debris aside, we had made it out unscathed. For a moment I teased myself, “See? Nothing to freak out over, Alison!” Then the text messages started. Friends living just a couple miles away were in dire straits. No power, no roof, no idea what to do. My husband is a music writer…

JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT Reunions Americana scion Jason Isbell looks inward with his seventh album, featuring measured spoonfuls of Laurel Canyon rock (and an appearance by David Crosby). Ten new songs find him seeking reconciliation with his former self—and by extension the world at large. SARA EVANS Copy That Sara Evans steps into a musical time machine for this covers album, applying her playful vocals to a sturdy set of classic pop and country favorites. Visiting six different decades, she delightfully coaxes disco, Brit-pop, new wave rock, and more into the 21st century. GRETCHEN PETERS The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury On her latest album, songwriter Gretchen Peters tributes an underappreciated country giant. With quiet contemplation and help from Buddy Miller, Charlie McCoy,…

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE (CFMT)  tornadoresponse.com CFMT has been spearheading several initiatives, including donation collections for families hit hard by the storm, funding for nonprofits, grants from the Middle Tennessee Emergency Response Fund, and more. AMERICAN RED CROSS OF TENNESSEE  redcross.org Red Cross is supporting the Middle Tennessee community by providing supplies such as meals, hygiene items, and more; shelter for those who lost their homes; and support via volunteer mental health professionals. AGAPE ANIMAL RESCUE AND TRAINING CENTER  agaperescue.org The Nashville rescue is working to distribute food and other supplies to pet owners and partner organizations and is recruiting new foster families who can temporarily take in pets for families and owners who lost their homes in the storms. UNITED WAY OF GREATER NASHVILLE  unitedwaynashville.org Nashville’s United…

Over 40 years in music, new Nashville resident Lucinda Williams has earned the reputation of a scrappy roots-rock poet, more than willing to voice what’s on her mind—but she’s always looked inward for subjects to snarl at. That changes with Good Souls, Better Angels, her first album of what she describes as “protest” songs. Reuniting with producer Ray Kennedy more than 20 years after their landmark Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, the artist turned to current events for inspiration and her childhood for a sound, steeping the album in hard-edged Delta blues and dissecting the daily news like a Vietnam-era Bob Dylan. “There are times when really horrible things are happening—like the coronavirus—but at the same time it brings us together. I’m writing to release something, hoping when other…

When one enters this Oak Hill home, the library to the left sets the tone, literally. It is painted a dark, velvety green, an inky color that reminds one of fir trees in coastal Maine or the 1954 Jaguar D-type sportscar painted British Racing Green. It adds gravitas to the space, rendering it stately, serene, and cozy, like an exclusive members’ club in London. Interior designer Connie Vernich chose the color, Sherwin Williams Courtyard, as part of her overall design plan. She has a talent for making a home look traditional yet fresh rather than overwrought or stuffy. “We painted the library a moody green to give the room a masculine, big-city feel that we knew the husband would love,” Vernich explains, noting that he’s a native New Yorker. The…

JOHN COOPER Mayor of Nashville Mayor Cooper has been a North Star for many Nashvillians since March 3, when the tornado touched down in Bells Bend. Now, thanks in part to his daily press conferences, the mayor has become a key point of information and strength in a time of unprecedented uncertainty. “You realize how important it is to get this right,” he says of holding office right now. “We have the tornado, the coronavirus, and our finances in addition to schools, public safety, and infrastructure,” he says. “Now the days and nights are longer, and they will be until we’re all on the other side of the storm rebuilding process and the coronavirus pandemic. But Nashvillians should never expect anything less from their elected officials, at any level of…

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