Nashville live music: Concert venues in Music City

Dave Paulson | Nashville Tennessean

A 1,200-capacity music venue and state-of-the-art bowling alley is almost ready to roll into Music City.

Brooklyn Bowl Nashville will open in the city's Germantown neighborhood on March 14. It will be Brooklyn Bowl's third location, following the original in New York City (established 2009) and one in Las Vegas.

"We're taking the best of everything we've learned," says co-founder Peter Shapiro. "And the Nashville venue's going to benefit from that."

It will be located at 3rd Ave and Jackson St., right next to First Tennessee Park — home of the Nashville Sounds baseball team.

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As the name suggests, Brooklyn Bowl Nashville will include 19 lanes of bowling, spread over two floors, along with food and drink.

But live music is also a crucial part of the brand, and the venue's concert calendar includes tour stops by St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Angel Olsen, The Revivalists, Larkin Poe and String Cheese Incident.

"Nashville's got a similar vibe to what's going on in Brooklyn," Shapiro says. "(It has) a lot of creative and outgoing people who like to work hard, play hard and have fun, and love live music, and instrumentally performed music.

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"That's where we come out of, and that's obviously where Nashville's history is. Brooklyn Bowl opened more than 10 years ago, but pretty early on, we said, 'We want to go to Nashville.'"

With a capacity of 1,200, the venue is entering a concert market space currently occupied by Cannery Ballroom, Marathon Music Works and the 2,000-capacity Ryman Auditorium.

Adam Macchia

Tickets for the 2020 shows go on sale at noon CT Friday, December 20.

Brooklyn Bowl Nashville 2020 Spring /Summer Lineup

Sat., Mar. 14 | Bowlive feat. Soulive & George Porter Jr.

Sun., Mar. 15 | The Dirty Knobs with Mike Campbell

Mon., Mar. 16 | The Revivalists

Sat., Mar. 21 I Rayland Baxter

Fri., Mar. 27 | St. Paul and the Broken Bones

Tues., Mar. 31 | Antibalas

Thurs., Apr. 2 | Brent Cobb & Them

Fri., Apr. 3 | Hippie Sabotage

Sat., Apr. 4 | Hippie Sabotage

Thurs., Apr. 9 | Theory of a Deadman

Fri., Apr. 10 | The Dip

Sat., Apr. 11 | Tennessee Dead with Liz Cooper & the Stampede + Futurebirds

Mon., Apr. 13 | Angel Olsen

Fri., Apr. 17 | Real Estate

Sat., Apr. 18 | The Infamous Stringdusters with special guest Town Mountain

Wed., Apr.22 | Toots and The Maytals

Fri., Apr. 24 | Joe Russo’s Almost Dead

Sat., Apr. 25 | Larkin Poe

Sun., Apr. 26 | PJ Morton

Mon., Apr. 27 | Shinyribs

Fri., May 1 | Twiddle

Sun., May 3 | Royal Blood

Fri., May 9 I Phosphorescent

Mon., May 11 | Poolside

Wed., May 13 |Jinjer

Sat., May 23 I Frank Foster

June | TBA I The Hold Steady

Sat., June 20 | Car Seat Headrest

Sun., June 21 | Chicano Batman

Wed., July 22 | The String Cheese Incident

Thurs., July 23 | The String Cheese Incident