Monday
Join The Tennessee Alliance for Progress for the Summer Solstice TAP Your Foot Celebration!!
6:30 to 9 pm at the French Quarter, 823 Woodland, East Nashville featuring The Jake Leg Stompers - The Foremost Roots Revival Band performing a rollicking Cakewalk Circus and Medicine Show!
The Fedora Brothers - Early Southern country blues, gospel and ragtime! Shelby Bottom String Band - Quirky Americana from the backroads of East Nashville!
$5 to $15 - sliding scale. Give what you can for a Very Good Cause.
Great New Orleans cuisine, non-smoking, kid friendly.
www.taptn.org for more information or to make a donation.
Monday to Friday starting July 21 9am – noon & 12:30pm – 3:30pm
The Hendersonville Arts Council will host art classes for ages 6-16 at Historic Monthaven in Hendersonville.
Call the Council, 615-822-0789, for information & registration.
Hendersonville Arts Council at Monthaven, 1154 W. Main Street, Hendersonville, Tenn.
Monday to Friday 9am – noon, 1pm-4pm
Watkins College of Art, Design, & Film will conduct introductory classes for teens in drawing, painting, working with clay and other media. Fee is $165.
Watkins College of Art, Design, & Film, 2298 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville
www.watkins.edu/community-education/youth-teens
For tickets/registration call 615-383-4848
A free screening of the documentary film ‘DIRT! The Movie’ which examines soil and it’s importance to our food at at Warner Park Nature Center at 6:30pm. For adults, contact the center to register.
Warner Park Nature Center, 7311 Highway 100, Nashville
Wednesday
International Black Film Festival of Nashville - deadline june 23
http://filmnashville.org/tag/black-film-festival/
Thursday
June 24 7pm – 8pm ‘Poet’s Corner’, a monthly reading by a featured local poet the 4th Thursday of every month will begin June 24th, 7pm at Scarritt-Bennett Center. The first poet will be T.J. Jarrett.
The Front Porch @ Scarritt-Bennett Center, 1000 19th Avenue South, Nashville
www.scarrittbennett.org/programs/pc.aspx
The Green Wagon offers Gluten Free Night Thursday at 6:15. Aunt April's Bakery leading discussion. RSVP tweet @thegreenwagon, so we can bring enough samples & chairs!
The Green Wagon
1100 Forrest Ave
5 Points, East Nashville
Friday
June 25 6pm-9pm
The first ‘Art & Flowers’ event featuring floral arrangements, artwork by local artists & live music performed by Alias Chamber Ensemble at Terrazzo in the Gulch located at 700 12th Avenue.
Tickets: $35 in advance, $45 at door
The 2nd Full Moon Pickin’ Party of 2010 will be 7-11pm at the Steeplechase Barn of the Equestrian Center in Percy Warner Park. The event will feature bluegrass music performed by Shelby Bottoms String Band, Latresa & The Signal and Youngtown.
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at door. Children 6 and under free, $10 for age 7-15, Pickers with a bluegrass instrument $5
Steeplechase Barn at the Equestrian Center of Percy Warner Park, 2500 Old Hickory Blvd., Nashville
Saturday
‘Avant-Arte Show’, an exhibit of artwork by Michael Manly and Geppe Hernandez will be 5-9pm at the Gaw Complex in Nashville.
Gaw Complex, 1926 Hayes Street, Nashville
615-578-0037
Saturday and Sunday
The TSU Guitar Summit, a weekend of classes & workshops on a wide variety of guitar subjects will be 9am – 6pm Sat. & 10am-6pm Sun. at TSU.
Tennessee State University, 3500 John A. Merritt Blvd, Nashville
Sunday
Blues artist Stacy Mitchhart & friends will perform 6-8pm as part of the Tennessee Jazz & Blues Society’s ‘Jazz on The Lawn’ series at Belle Meade Plantation.
Tickets: $20 general, $10 members of Tennessee Jazz & Blues Society
Belle Meade Plantation, 5025 Harding Pike, Nashville
For more community events, check out Nashville Public Radio's HAPPENINGS and Now Playing Nashville
