"2014 Summer Guide" - Nashville Shakespeare Festival
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"2014 Summer Guide" - Nashville Shakespeare Festival
Log in / Create Account SEARCH Summer Guide 2014 Baseball, beer, movies and art: your cheatsheet for summer hotness, from AAA to OZ b y STEVE CAVENDISH @SCAVENDISH, ADAM GOLD @GOLDADAM, STEVE HARUCH @STEVEHARUCH, LAURA HUTSON @HUTSONLAURA, JIM RIDLEY @COUNTRYLIFEBLOG, D. PATRICK RODGERS @DPATRICKRODGERS, JACK SILVERMAN @JACKSILVERMAN3 and ABBY WHITE @FABIGAILWHITE NEW S » C O V ER S T O R Y Like 179 May 15, 2014 Tw eet Subm it Share 2 click to enlarge RECENT COMMENTS Re: In Y ear One, t he Music Cit y Cent er Didn't Live Up t o t he Hy pe Here's an alternate headline that would have worked for The Tennessean and The Scene..."MCC Surplus… POSTED BY MNASH ON MAY 27, 2014 Re: In Y ear One, t he Music Cit y Cent er Didn't Live Up t o t he Hy pe Consultants. They're a plague on the modern world. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? 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Try out the HTML to PDF API My Sc ene Deals T OOL S email print share Promotions * required SUBMIT pdfcrowd.com H Guide, and we invite you to take a dip. Tack these calendar pages to your wall, keep up with the latest at nashvillescene.com/calendar and get into some of Nashville’s finest hot-weather offerings — whether that involves music, food, art or some combination thereof. You know, whatever suits your fancy. Ready to take the plunge? Might as well … click to enlarge share save to instapaper add to favorites add to custom list comments (1) LATEST IN COVER STORY CCA has eight lobby ist s on Capit ol Hill — and y et it say s it doesn't lobby on incarcerat ion issues. May be it doesn't have t o. Correctam undo! by Steven Hale PHOTO: ERIC ENGLA ND. PHOTOGRA PHED A T A PRIV A TE POOL. Rio riovillemusic.com May Comedy 's hot t est pist ols pack heat as t he Wild West Comedy Fest ival t akes over Music Cit y Wild Bunch by Lance Conzett 29-31: Emergence at Martin Center for Nashville Ballet The Nashville Ballet's annual Emergence series presents cutting-edge works in an intimate setting at the ballet's studio in Sylvan Heights. This year's offering includes Amorisms, an original composition by Pulitzerwinning composer Paul Moravec featuring choreography by Gina Patterson and a musical collaboration with the Alias Chamber Ensemble and Portara Ensemble. Emergence will also showcase two more of Moravec's works — Tempest Fantasy and Sacred Love Songs — with choreography by Banning Bouldin and James Gregg, respectively. —AW Aziz Ansari t alks modern romance and get t ing checked out in t he checkout line The Tinder Trap by Lance Conzett More » 23-25: Nashville Flea Market The flea market at the state fairgrounds' Expo Center, held the fourth weekend of every month, reliably offers an adventurous shopping experience in which you never quite know what you're going to get. It's only five open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com bucks to park, and admission is free, so even if you just want to browse the 1,300-plus booths selling everything from Amish furniture to shoes, it's a deal. —AW 18 & 31: Tennessee Association of Vintage Base Ball You know the old saw: "1864 the number, another summer, sound of the daisycutter." Um, anyway, these folks are playing old-timey base ball — it was two words in the 1860s, the decade from which the Tennessee Vintage Base Ball Association draws its rules and general inspirado. The Nashville Maroons (see photo on p. 32) are charter members, along with the Franklin Farriers, but the schedule has filled out this season, with teams now hailing from as far away as Knoxville and Roane County. Local games are played at Bicentennial Mall, Carnton Plantation, the Sam Davis Home, and Mansker's Station. Championship weekend is Sept. 1314; for a complete schedule check out tennesseevintagebaseball.com/schedule. —SH click to enlarge PHOTO: MICHA EL W. BUNCH. HA IR, MA KEUP A ND STY LING BY A RIA CA V A LIERE NEGRI. PHOTOGRA PHED A T PERCY PRIEST LA KE. Laura Felicia Cavaliere lauracavaliere.com click to enlarge open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com PHOTO: ERIC ENGLA ND. PHOTOGRA PHED IN LEIPERS’S FORK. Luke Stockdale (left) and The Coon Man sideshow signco.com June 5, 12, 19 & 26: Movies in the Park Now in its 19th year, the Scene's annual free outdoor screening series draws thousands of picnickers, blanket-toting parents and kids to Elmington Park every Thursday night through June for stars under the stars. What's playing? Shhh, we can't tell you — except in coded clues. June 5: "Late night hero Jimmy Fallon socks the Farrellys' baseball comedy outta Fenway Park!" June 12: "Who wants a second dose of mirth, minions and Gru? 'Me 2!' " June 19: "Stay classy, Nashville, with the Ron Burgundy broadcast that started it all!" June 26: "Three words: LET IT GO!" For the last one, expect a sing-along you can hear all the way down West End. Party starts late afternoon; movies begin at dusk. —JR 5-8: CMA Fest click to enlarge The CMA Music Festival — 'Merica's favorite NASCAR-sized, star-studded annual explosion of pop-country — hits the heart of Nashville for its 44th year. For country fans, the four-day festival is ground zero for seeing the genre's hottest stars, which this year include Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, Tim McGraw, Little Big Town and the like, at LP Field, along with many of the genre's fresh faces and midlevel up-and-comers at Riverfront Park and various pop-up venues in the vicinity of Lower Broad. —AG open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com 7 & 14: Studio Workshop: "Cut and Click: Shadow Puppets in Motion" Little Big Tow n Watch Me Move: The Animation Show might be the Frist's most crowdpleasing exhibition of the summer, and this two-part workshop with local artist and animator Amelia Garretson-Persans is the highlight of its programming. Garretson-Persans will lead participants through the process of creating their own stop-motion animation short with shadow puppets, and the resulting videos will go on view in July at the Frist's Responding to Art Gallery. 1-5 p.m. at the Frist; $40-$50 per person —LH 9-11: Southland Conference Last year, PandoDaily founder Sarah Lacy said the secret to making the upstart tech conference a success was to go nuts: "Act like Oprah just gave away a car," she urged. This year, Pando is a co-producer (along with Launch Tennessee) and Lacy is a host — and the sophomore edition is no slouch, featuring speakers the likes of Al Gore, PayPal president David Marcus, and Every Mother Counts founder Christy Turlington Burns (whom you might recognize from her first career), to name but three. One startup will get $100,000 based on their pitch to investors, but as consolation prizes go, three days of barbecue, hot chicken and music by St. Paul and the Broken Bones ain't half bad. At Marathon Music Works —SH 12, 19 & 26: Nashville Dancin' This year's Nashville Dancin'— a sort of update on the popular Dancin' in the District series that brought performers like Cake, The Psychedelic Furs and Blondie to the banks of the Cumberland from 1993 until 2005 — will take place every Thursday evening between June 12 and July 31 at Riverfront Park. Headliners include Houndmouth, Xavier Rudd, Lettuce, Dumpstaphunk, Hayes Carll, Will Hoge and more, with the undercard populated by Scene-approved locals like Los Colognes, Steelism, Promised Land Sound, Rayland Baxter, Sol Cat, James Wallace and the Naked Light and more. —DPR 12-15: Bonnaroo An event that needs no introduction, Middle Tennessee's world-famous four-day musical party returns to nearby Manchester for its 13th installment. This year, the big story is co-headliner Kanye coming back to the farm to redeem his notorious 2008 appearance. But Bonnaroo isn't the place to show up in hopes of seeing a train wreck — it's where one (or more like 80,000) goes to see a glorious clash of styles from across the popmusic spectrum. This year's bill boasts headliners like Elton John and Jack White, legends like Nick Cave and The Flaming Lips, ravers like Skrillex and Cut Copy, comedians such as Neal Brennan and Hannibal Buress and indie-rock under-card staples ranging from Real Estate to Vampire Weekend. —AG 20: Philip Glass and Tim Fain at OZ Philip Glass is without question one of the greatest composers of the past century, and his influence can be heard everywhere: in symphony halls, on movie soundtracks, in the work of Brian Eno, David Bowie, Radiohead and countless other acts. Glass will perform solo, and with violinist Tim Fain. Fain may not be a household name like Glass, but if you've seen the film Black Swan, you know his work, both on the soundtrack and on-screen. He's an immensely gifted performer, playing with a ferocious intensity that well suits Glass' compositions. —JS 28: Nashville Scene 25th Anniversary Party open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com It's our party and we'll cry if we want to, but we probably won't want to, because you'll be there and it'll be fun. On the Nashville Cream Stage: My So Called Band plays one song from each of the past 25 years. Our food blog, Bites, hosts food from Grilled Cheeserie, Music City Pie, Deg Thai, Puckett's and Jim 'N Nick's. Our arts blog Country Life presents the Art Box Gallery: 25 Scene distribution boxes reimagined by local artists. These will be unveiled at the event and then put on the streets for use after. Melee in the Gulch! 6-10 p.m. at 11th Avenue and Pine; $10 tickets available at nashvillescene.com. —SH 23-29 Nashville Craft Beer Week Returning to various sites around Nashville, Tennessee Craft Beer Week includes virtually every local beer maker participating — in addition to a number of craft breweries from around the country, including Bluegrass Brewing, Brooklyn Brewery, Flat 12, French Broad, Good People, Goose Island, Green Flash, Highland Brewing, Lagunitas, Lazy Magnolia, Left Hand, North Coast, New Belgium, Rivertown, Sam Adams, Schlafly, Sierra Nevada, Southern Tier, Starr Hill, Straight to Ale, Sweetwater, Terrapin and more. —SC click to enlarge PHOTO: MICHA EL W. BUNCH. PHOTOGRA PHED A T STEWA RTS FERRY DA M. Leah D’Andrea imdb.me/leahdandrea click to enlarge open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com PHOTO: MICHA EL W. BUNCH. from left: Mason Hickman, Tiffany Minton, Adia Victoria, Ruby Rogers facebook.com/adiavictoria July 4: Music City Hot Chicken Festival Tennessee has the mockingbird as its emblem; Nashville's favorite fowl mocks those who scoff at its hellacious heat and peppery punch. Voted the No. 1 food event in Nashville last year by Scene readers, East Park's annual Independence Day salute to the great atomic bird has people lining up hours early for free giveaways of the city's indigenous specialty, hot chicken — fried chicken doused in a fiery paste the color of hell's kitchenware, toothpicked with pickles atop white bread. There's also a beer garden, food trucks, kids' activities, the hotly contested amateur chicken cookoff, and cool-down stations to beat the July heat — but the main attraction's heat is unbeatable. —JR 25-26: Sounds Like Summer This year, the Scene's annual Sounds Like Summer concert series will once again take over the Cannery complex — the establishment that's home to venues Mercy Lounge, Cannery Ballroom and The High Watt. On Friday, July 25, and Saturday, July 26, we'll celebrate the summer and the eighth anniversary of our music blog, Nashville Cream, with a three-stage blowout, drink specials, giveaways and more. Stay tuned for the Sounds Like Summer lineup. —DPR click to enlarge open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com PHOTO: MICHA EL W. BUNCH. PHOTOGRA PHED A T CENTENNIA L PA RK. Britt Byrd brittbyrd.w eebly.com click to enlarge PHOTO: ERIC ENGLA ND. PHOTOGRA PHED A T BICENTENNIA L open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com CA PITA L MA LL. Nashville Maroons From left: Gene “Doc” Long, Zac “Shaky Leg” Stone, Jonathan “Moonshine” Moreland, Brad “Peach” Hughes, Nick “Biscuit” Castro, Rick “Sticky Fingers” Compton tennesseevintagebaseball.com August 8-9: Tomato Art Fest Before Nashville became the object of breathless travel-trend pieces — and before East Nashville was named its glimmering low-rent paradise — Meg MacFadyen's Tomato Art Fest gave East Nashvillians an event to galvanize around. This year is the beloved street festival's 10th annual installment, and will feature all the food, crafts, art, music and camaraderie you'd expect from a community-minded neighborhood's trademark institution. For a full lineup of events and participants, check tomatoartfest.com. —LH 14-17: Shakespeare in the Park: As You Like It As the melancholy Jaques says in Act 2 of As You Like It, "All the world's a stage" — and apparently that includes the Centennial Park Band Shell, where Nashville Shakespeare Festival will mount the comedy. Shakespeare in the Park is typically the theater event of the summer, but if you need more motivation than that, this production, set in the Great Depression, features music by Stan Lawrence and Nashville's answer to the Bard, David Olney, who also will act in the show. NSF artistic director Denice Hicks says the staging is "inspired by the ridiculously optimistic comedies of the 1930s, and could be subtitled 'O Brother Where Art Thou?' " Sold! Thursdays through Sundays, plus Labor Day Monday. —JS Ongoing The Belcourt's Summer of Surprises For moviegoers who want to know up front what they're getting, there's little danger of being surprised this summer by the likes of Think Like a Man Too, The Expendables 3 or a fourth Transformers movie. But if what you want is a little quality assurance, the safest bet in town remains the first-run, repertory and midnight programming at The Belcourt. Along with a month of Muppet matinees and a slew of superb restorations, this summer's dynamite lineup is a three-month vacation studded with promising new releases and overlooked gems. Among the former, the movie of the summer may be Boyhood (Aug. 1), the culmination of Richard Linklater's 12-year project to record young star Ellar Coltrane's childhood on film within a fictional framework. Advance word is giddy, as it is on the grrl-punk comedy We Are the Best! (June 13), director Lukas Moodysson's return to the crowdpleasing terrain of Together, and Snowpiercer (July 11), The Host director Bong Joon-ho's sci-fi spectacle pitting Captain America's Chris Evans against Tilda Swinton aboard a class-segmented futuristic bullet train. Other tantalizing first-runs include Michael Tully's Ping Pong Summer (June 6), Steve James' eagerly awaited Roger Ebert doc Life, Itself (July 4), the Nashville premiere of Lav Diaz's four-hour Filipino drama Norte, the End of History (week of July 25), and Alejandro Jodorowsky's first new feature in 24 years, The Dance of open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com Reality (June 20). Revival fever begins with a cult-movie grail item: a digital restoration of Sorcerer (June 7), William Friedkin's gritty 1977 action-thriller riff on The Wages of Fear. The acclaimed restoration of Billy Wilder's tip-top noir Double Indemnity follows June 14, trailed by one of the best American features of the civil rights era, Michael Roemer's Nothing But a Man (June 27); the definitive British comedy On Approval (July 26); like-new looks at Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (Aug. 2) and Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (Aug. 9); and the late Alain Resnais' 1968 sci-fi dazzler Je t'aime je t'aime (Aug. 23). And yes, since folks are already staking out the Fab Four's telephone booths: The restored A Hard Day's Night opens July 4 weekend. Midnights run the gamut from ludicrous '80s crud-a-palooza Deadly Prey (May 31) to the evergreen The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (July 25), with detours for Pride Month ready-made Top Gun (June 6) and Nicolas Cage in Valley Girl (June 13). Watch for a month of midnights related to the Frist's Watch Me Move animation exhibit, featuring the anime classic Ghost in the Shell (July 4) and Ralph Bakshi's X-rated semiautobiographical 1973 feature Heavy Traffic (July 18). —JR Sweet Releases: This Summer's Forthcoming Records click to enlarge Summer 2014 will see the release of an eclectic assortment of local releases from established acts and up-and-comers alike. Local rock 'n' roller Daniel Pujol and his PUJOL will unveil KLUDGE — a brainy, infectious collection of songs I like to think of as "philoso-punk" — via Saddle Creek Records on May 20 (see story on p. 73), while fellow youngsters Cherub will make their major label debut with Year of the Caprese, a collection of funky, unctuous EDM, May 27 on Columbia Records. Also on May 27, supergroup-of-sorts Spanish Gold (featuring My Morning Jacket's Patrick Hallahan, Brownout's Adrian Quesada, and Hacienda and City and Colour's Dante Schwebel) will issue its debut, South of Nowhere. On June 3 — just days before her scheduled appearance at LP Field for this year's CMA Music Festival — country queen Miranda Lambert will issue her fifth studio album, Platinum. Noted folk singer Mary Gauthier's Trouble and Love drops June 10, while Music City's most heralded string band, Old Crow Medicine Show, will unleash Remedy on July 1. But perhaps the most hotly anticipated Nashville-centric release of the summer will come from erstwhile White Stripe Jack White, whose Lazaretto hits shelves on June 10. The follow-up to White's 2012 solo debut Blunderbuss will be issued in multiple formats, among them a Third Man Records "Ultra LP" version with special features including locked grooves, a "hand-etched hologram," two vinyl-only tracks hidden under the labels and more. —DPR Dynamite: TNT at OZ Nashville When OZ Nashville set up shop in the virtual wasteland near John C. Tune Airport last year, we were ecstatic — and also a little skeptical. But the organization has consistently impressed us with its array of first-rate art offerings — look to the write-up of Philip Glass for one example — along with thoughtful community art events like TNT. Take the May 15 edition, for example. In it, photographer Hunter Armistead, a longtime fixture of Nashville's art community with a self-published book and Parthenon exhibit under his belt, will present his series of 1920s-style portraits of Nashvillians and emcee a variety show to showcase their various talents. The models, who include Katelyn Epperly, Meagan Rhodes, Heather LeRoy, Elle Long, Rosemary Fossee, Jenna DeNuys and Molly Cherryholmes, posed as Zeigfeld Girls, the vaudeville-style showgirls of the flapper era. It's a perfect example of TNT's mission statement: to provide a space for collaborations among creative open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com disciplines that would traditionally not be seen in a visual gallery or theater. May 15; other TNT installments June 19, July 17, Aug. 21 at OZ Nashville. —LH Special Summer Brews click to enlarge How about another round? Most brewers in Middle Tennessee are introducing seasonal creations for the summer. Here are a few varieties that will be rolling out to the public. (Consult your favorite brewery if you don't see it listed here — not everyone got back to us before press time.) Jackalope will offer Lovebird (a strawberry-raspberry hefeweizen) and Casper (a "friendly" gose-style that is half wheat and half pilsner). Black Abbey is making Crossroads (a lighter, cream-ale style) and Brother Maynard (a Belgian-style IPA), and has plans for a saison later this summer. Sparta's Calfkiller will have three hot-weather specials: Wizard Sauce (a light, hoppy ale), Scorned Hooker (a hoppier style of red beer) and Quazi (described as "almost like every beer, unlike any beer" as it's a mix of a pale ale, a wheat beer and a pilsner). —SC Farewell to Arms (and Bats): The Last Year at Greer PHOTO: MICHA EL W. BUNCH. Whatever your opinion of the Triple-A Nashville Sounds moving to their new historically inspired, built-on-top-of-ancient-ruins Sulphur Dell ballpark — er, First Tennessee Park — or the fate of the minor leagues' one and only light-up guitar-shaped scoreboard, this will be the last Nashville summer you can watch professional baseball at Greer Stadium. (As far as we know.) Sure, some folks might say they won't miss the sun-bleached blue plastic seats or the plywood heights of the general admission seats, but they've got a kind of lived-in patina that the new confines won't, at least for a while. In the meantime, you can still see Jimmy Nelson, who owns a sparkling 1.76 ERA through eight starts, or Elian Herrera, who's batting a crisp .383 as of press time, while they're still playing nine frames at a time down the street from the city's newest art-crawl and wine-tasting district. And as the sun sets on the stadium that tried to contain Prince Fielder and once played host to a barnstorming Yankees team, swan-song promotions abound. Among them: autographs before every Sunday home game; a Greer T-shirt giveaway May 17; an appearance by the San Diego Chicken (June 24); a Greer Stadium replica giveaway (June 27); and a paintable bobblehead giveaway (July 26). The final game at Greer is Wednesday, Aug. 26. And hey, if you're just in it for some baseball and boom-booms, here are the dates for free postgame fireworks: May 16, 17, 30 and 31; June 13, 14, 27 and 28; July 3, 11, 12, 25 and 26; Aug. 8, 9, 22 and 23. —SH click to enlarge open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com PHOTO: ERIC ENGLA ND Max (left) and Benjamin Goldberg strategichospitalityonline.com More Cover Story » Tags: Cover Story Like 2 Share 179 people like this. Sign Up to see w hat your friends like. 4 Tw eet READERS ALSO LIKED… open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? 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