Mark Murphy News

Northern Sky Theater will launch their 2023 season with their annual fundraiser Raise the Curtain: Light the Sky on Saturday, May 27. The fundraiser will once again be held at the company's Gould Theater outdoor gathering spaces, complete with music and food around a bonfire and culminating in the evening’s performance by the Northern Sky company.

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville today announced the line-up for its second annual Brave New Works Lab, a development program for innovative new artistic creations that transforms the organization's expansive warehouse into a laboratory for local artists.

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville has announced it will present three performances of the internationally-acclaimed production Cion: Requiem of Ravel's Boléro by South African choreographer and director Gregory Maqoma in its expansive warehouse May 4-6.

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville, in partnership with Parnassus Books, will host ​​an intimate conversation with author, dedicated advocate, and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Joan Baez, alongside her longtime friend, 14-time Grammy winner Emmylou Harris.

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville will present world-class percussion and dance group the Yeli Ensemble on stage stage alongside multiple local artists for the premiere of a new theater, dance, and music collaboration in OZ's expansive warehouse April 14 and 15.

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville will welcome back scratch DJ, producer, and performer extraordinaire Kid Koala to perform his theatrical cinema experience, The Storyville Mosquito, at OZ Arts' expansive warehouse from March 23-25.

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville has announced the defiant and beautiful voices of Ukrainian ensemble DakhaBrakha will take the OZ Arts stage on February 25, 2023 - one year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville today announced Compagnie Hervé Koubi will take the stage with its astonishingly kinetic performance What the Day Owes to the Night, choreographed by French-Algerian artist Hervé Koubi, on February 2-4.

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville is giving the city a unique window on the world in its expansive Spring season of groundbreaking performances featuring some of the world's most influential artists at the forefront of dance, music, theater, and multimedia.

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville, in partnership with Parnassus Books, will present Songs & Stories, an evening of music and conversation with legendary singer-songwriter Patti Smith, is officially sold out and will take place in OZ Arts Nashville's expansive warehouse on November 21.

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville today announced revered blues and soul singer Martha Redbone will take the OZ Arts stage with a cast of eight actors/musicians to perform the epic interdisciplinary theater production Bone Hill: The Concert December 2 and 3, 2022.

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville has announced Nashville's celebrated contemporary dance collective New Dialect will return to the OZ Arts stage together with the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), in a dynamic co-production Broken Theater, November 17-19.

Celebrated vocalist Kate Baker and her late husband, guitar giant and influential educator Vic Juris, chronicle a moving love story on Return to Shore, their evocative new album out now.

Billy Stritch returns to Crazy Coqs with a band new show spotlighting the music of legendary tunesmith, Cy Coleman. He'll be joined this time by a swinging jazz trio – all the better to perfectly celebrate one of Broadway and pop music's jazziest composers.

John Montesante Dectet is a stylish, 10-piece, horn-led jazz ensemble formed in 2012, boasting six stellar horns, a matchless rhythm section with 2 featured singers – performing exceptional arrangements, honouring the Blue Note and Bebop era.

Below, you'll find details on all jazz programming at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater running May 9 - May 22. Artists appearing at Birdland Jazz Club include Bill Charlap Trio and Solo, NYC All-City Latin Ensemble and the Fat Cats, Eliane Elias, and George Gee Orchestra. 

Below, you'll find details on all jazz programming at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater running May 2 - May 15. Artists appearing at Birdland Jazz Club include Bill Charlap Trio and Solo, Andy Farber and his Orchestra, and NYC All-City Latin Ensemble and the Fat Cats. Downstairs at Birdland Theater, you'll find Anaïs Reno Quartet, Lauren Henderson Quartet, Steve Slagle Band, Mafalda Minnozzi, Kristen Lee Sergeant and The Royal Bopsters with special guest Sheila Jordan. Regular events include David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band, Frank Vignola's Guitar Night, Birdland Big Band and Arturo O'Farrill & The Latin Jazz Ensemble.

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville today announced the line-up for its inaugural Brave New Works Lab, which transforms the organization’s expansive warehouse into a laboratory for local artists to experiment with new forms as they create new works for the stage. The program features four unique performance pieces from local artists working across multiple disciplines, including dance, theater, multimedia, performance art, and music. Performances will be held nightly from May 19-21, and OZ Arts will also host a cutting-edge visual art exhibit and poetic film screenings presented with local partner organizations in conjunction with the Brave New Works Lab.

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville today announced its presentation of Malpaso Dance Company, an acclaimed contemporary dance group based in Havana, Cuba, on April 29 and 30, 2022 in its expansive warehouse.

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville announced it will present Kitchen: You've Never Had it So Good by Gob Squad, an acclaimed multimedia collective of ingenious artists from the U.K. and Germany, in its expansive warehouse from March 24-27.