Well, bummer news: The "2,800 sq ft. open-air arts & cultural center, events & music venue" in East Nashville known as East-Centric Pavilion is no more. That's according to a press release sent the Scene's way (which can also be seen at this link) by ECP founders Susan Ghorbani and Courtney McCarley. See the full statement block-quoted after the jump. Rest in peace, East-Centric. We hardly knew ye.

Update: The Cream spoke with new venue manager Jack Davis — also the Tomato Art Fest honcho — who says the name of the venue has now changed to the Pavilion East (see their new website here). "Events will start gearing up there in March and run through probably the first week of November," Davis tells us. "It will continue to be an East Nashville-based event facility." Davis says he's already spoken with non-profit groups and would like to organize fundraisers in the space. The pavilion will continue to be available for rental, though they'll also organize their own events.

As far as the new name?

"There's only so many combinations of 'pavilion' and 'east' I could come up with," says Davis, laughing.