Nashville Sightseeing Tours

Nashville Tours

erica — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:37:36 +0000

Nashville is a great place to take tours. There are many Nashville tours to choose from. Our site helps you find the best Nashville tours based on your personal needs and preferences.

Nashville Tours

To find the best Nashville tours, click on one of the links in the blue box above.

The Wildhorse Saloon

erica — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:09:28 +0000

(120 Second Ave. North)

The 66,000 square foot saloon, The Wildhorse is a massive entertainment venue which includes everything from a restaurant, bar and concert site to a dance club and even a television studio. The Wildhorse offers a variety of exciting options from dance lessons to live music and is deeply rooted in the country music of its hometown Nashville. The Wildhorse is also a key live music locale and has featured prominent artists like Sons of the Desert, Lonestar and Trick Pony and continues to bring newfound and vintage entertainment to the Music City scene.

The Big Bang Dueling Piano Bar

erica — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:29:23 +0000

(411 Broadway Suite 201; Tuesday-Thursday; 7p.m.-3a.m.; Friday & Saturday; 5p.m.- 3a.m.)
The Big Bang Dueling Piano Bar of Nashville is located directly across the street from “Honky Tonk Row” in the heart of Music City. The Big Bang combines high energy music in every genre from rock and pop to alternative and county in an exciting atmosphere. The Big Bang is the perfect night of singing along, dancing and most importantly, fun!

The Tennessee State Museum

erica — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:04:14 +0000

The Tennessee State Museum contains artifacts from the prehistoric Indians to the Civil War era and even covers modern day history. The museum hosts a special Native American Indian section along with exclusive displays of rich Tennessee history including weapons artifacts, art, furniture and silver. The museum also houses some of the most impressive Civil War memorabilia in the United States consisting of uniforms, battle flags and weapons. The Tennessee State Museum demonstrates significant amounts of American history through exhibits portraying African American soldiers in the Civil War, the women’s suffrage movement and a black family living in white Knoxville prior to 1860. As an added bonus, visitors can stop across the street at the Military Museum.

The Tennessee State Museum contains artifacts from the prehistoric Indians to the Civil War era and modern day history. The museum hosts a special Native American Indian section along with exclusive displays of rich Tennessee history including weapons, art, furniture and silver. The museum also houses some of the most impressive Civil War memorabilia in the United States consisting of uniforms, battle flags, and weapons. The Tennessee State Museum demonstrates significant amounts of American history through exhibits portraying African American soldiers in the Civil War, the women’s suffrage movement and a black family living in white Knoxville prior to 1860. As an added bonus, visitors can stop across the street at the Military Museum to check out their impressive displays.

The Ryman Auditorium

erica — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:14:20 +0000

The Ryman Auditorium was the vision of Captain Thomas Ryman and first made it Nashville debut in 1892. After quickly working its way up to “the Mother Church of Country Music,” it was left vacant in 1974 because the Grand Ole Opry relocated to the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center. In 1994, the Ryman Auditorium was restored to its rightful music venue where it hosted everyone from James Brown and Patsy Cline to Sheryl Crow and Shania Twain. Today it continues to be one of Nashville’s foremost music hotspots.

Hatch Show Print

nadia — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:05:23 +0000

If you’re in Nashville or anywhere in the continental United States, then sooner or later, you’re destined to run into the designs and images of the signature unique art that is Hatch Show Print. As one of the oldest letterpress print shops that is still fully functional, Hatch Show Print has introduced the public to a popular poster style created for musical talent like Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Garth Brooks, Shania Twain and Wynonna Judd. Originally created to promote early forms of entertainment like the circus and vaudeville, Hatch Show Print continues to push the artistic envelope when crafting their hand made, hand cranked, one of a kind posters. It all began in 1875 with William H. Hatch who relocated his small Wisconsin print shop to Nashville and taught the trade to his sons. Hatch captured the splendor of country music along with other musical genres, promoting for jazz and blues entertainers like Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith and Duke Ellington.

Although letterpress printmakers like Hatch found it difficult to compete with the modern innovations of offset printmaking, the print shop found support in various arts like wrestling and rock and roll. Today, Hatch Printing is an integral component of the Country Music Foundation which was a donation made in 1992 by Gaylord Entertainment and runs 14 historic printing presses. The long and strenuous process to creating the perfect Hatch poster is described below: “Starting with a customer’s copy (or text), we design a look that not only captures the sound, feel and/or look of a band, magazine or product, but do so within the dimensions of the selected poster size and through the lens of Hatch history. Next, we turn to the three, five or ten different drawers and shelves containing the letters and hand-carved images needed to complete the design. Then, we carry the entire design form over to an available press, lock in, choose a color and start cranking. Did we say color? If more than one is required, we have to decide which portion of the layout to print in which color. One hundred posters in three colors? That’s three times through the press per poster or 300 runs altogether.”

(Courtesy of: http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/site/experience-hatch-today.aspx

For more information on Hatch Printing, check out this video which gives you an in depth look into the world of letter printing:

http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/site/multimedia-video.aspx?cid=3966

The Hermitage- Home of President Andrew Jackson

erica — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:09:10 +0000

The Hermitage, home of President Andrew Jackson, is one of the most authentic early presidential homes in America. The Hermitage not only boasts a rich and prosperous history that surrounds the house and tells stories of slavery, freedom, religion, the fortune of cotton, women’s suffrage and more, but it also shares the tale of how this 1000 acre farm transformed from a wealthy plantation and cotton farm to facing significant post Civil War collapse. Today, The Hermitage remains an integral component of Tennessee history which is funded solely through the aid and interest of visitors. Tours around the beautiful property include a peek into the Jackson family mansion, the formal garden, and a traditional style log cabin from 1804. This former plantation home was once occupied by more than 150 enslaved African Americans who maintained the beauty and wealth of the farm, cotton and animals. Guests have the opportunity to visit the slave quarters which are also on the property.

Belle Meade Plantation

erica — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:51:46 +0000

The gorgeous 30 acre historic property, Belle Meade Plantation is located a short 6 miles west of Nashville and was once the largest private estate in Tennessee. Built in 1853, the Belle Meade mansion, a stunning Greek revival home adorned with traditional white columns and detailing, was the host of the Harding-Jackson family for a whopping five generations. The 5400 acres of land in the late 19^th century was used as a thoroughbred nursery known chiefly for breeding and training

championship race horses. It has been said that today’s Kentucky derby winning horses like Barbaro and Secretariat can trace their lineage back to the breeding stock at Belle Meade. Guests can visit this beautiful and serene location and enjoy guided tours of the mansion and grounds which include a log cabin, carriage house and stable, and the original 1830’s slave quarters. A Southern eatery Martha’s, is also a delightful spot on the plantation where they serve up traditional home-style cuisine daily and even comes equipped with a tea room.

The Parthenon

erica — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:20:39 +0000

You don’t have to be in Athens to visit the Parthenon anymore because the Nashville Parthenon is a proud centerpiece in Centennial Park, which also hosts a 42 ft. re-creation of Athena in a perfect duplicate of le original. Built in 1897 for Tennessee’s Centennial Exposition, this Parthenon is the only full scale copy of the Athens Parthenon anywhere in the world. The replica serves as Nashville’s primary art museum which features a permanent collection of 63 painting of 19^th and 20^th century American artists and temporary exhibits and shows seasonally. This wonderful attraction is the perfect spot for a day of culture and is only 5 minutes away from downtown.

Music City Walk of Fame

erica — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:18:30 +0000

The Music City Walk of Fame located on Nashville’s Music Mile, “is a landmark tribute to those from all genres of music who have contributed to the world through song or other industry collaboration and made a significant contribution to the music industry with connection to Music City”. Honored inductees include some of the biggest names in music history like Reba McEntire, , The Crickets, , Wynonna Judd, Frances W. Preston, Emmylou Harris and Jimi Hendrix.

Twice a year, inductees are announced and awarded at a star studded ceremony with a platinum and granite sidewalk star along Music Mile. Music Mile is the one-mile stretch which connects downtown to Music Row where visitors can experience the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the Nashville Arena, the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum, the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, and much, much more. For more information on visiting this must see attraction, go to: www.visitmusiccity.com/walkoffame.com.