Entertainment Districts in Nashville

12 South presents boutique shops and restaurants along a walkable strip, one of Nashville's most Instagram-famous entertainment corridors.

Belle Meade Plantation presents winery tastings and historic tours at a 19th-century thoroughbred horse farm in Nashville's affluent Belle Meade neighborhood.

Cheekwood Estate and Gardens presents outdoor concerts and seasonal light festivals on a historic Nashville estate with botanical gardens and an art museum.

East Nashville's Five Points entertainment district is the authentic Nashville that exists beyond the Broadway tourist strip — a walkable neighborhood of independently owned bars, restaurants, vintage shops, and music venues where Nashville's musicians, artists, and creative professionals actually live and socialize. The neighborhood's extraordinary density of original creative talent, combined with its affordable-by-Nashville-standards real estate, has made it the most culturally authentic entertainment area in a city increasingly defined by its tourism economy.

East Nashville presents indie music venues and craft cocktail bars across the Cumberland River, one of the city's most creatively vibrant neighborhoods.

Fifth and Broadway presents the National Museum of African American Music alongside restaurants and bars in downtown Nashville's newest entertainment development.

Germantown presents restored historic homes turned restaurants and wine bars in Nashville's oldest neighborhood north of downtown.

Lower Broadway is Nashville's iconic honky-tonk district — a several-block stretch of neon-lit live music bars, rooftop venues, and restaurants running live country and roots music from late morning through the early hours, seven days a week. The area anchors Music City's identity as an entertainment destination and is central to Nashville's surging popularity as a bachelor and bachelorette party capital.

Lower Broadway presents Nashville's legendary strip of honky-tonks with live country music pouring from every open door, the beating heart of Music City's entertainment identity.

Lower Broadway is Nashville's most famous entertainment district — the neon-lit, honky-tonk-lined stretch of Broadway between 2nd and 5th Avenues that presents live country and rock music on 10+ stages simultaneously, seven days a week, with no cover charge. Drawing 15+ million tourists annually and generating billions in economic activity, Lower Broadway is the most economically productive entertainment street in America and the defining image of Nashville's transformation into the nation's bachelorette party capital.

Marathon Village in a converted early-1900s automobile factory presents Third Man Records, distilleries, and shops near downtown Nashville.

Nashville's Midtown entertainment district along Demonbreun Street is where the city's nightclub culture exists beyond the honky-tonks of Lower Broadway — a stretch of upscale bars, restaurants, and nightclubs serving Nashville's young professional population and the more conventional nightlife side of the city's enormous tourism market. The district's proximity to Music Row, Vanderbilt University, and major hotel corridors makes it Nashville's most versatile evening entertainment destination.

Music City Walk of Fame in downtown Nashville presents bronze stars honoring music legends along Demonbreun Street near the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in downtown Nashville honors the session musicians behind hit recordings across all genres of American music.

Printer's Alley is Nashville's most historic entertainment alley — a narrow downtown lane of bars, clubs, and entertainment venues dating to the Prohibition era when the alley's printing businesses provided cover for speakeasies. Today's Printer's Alley maintains its underground entertainment identity with venues like Skull's Rainbow Room alongside newer craft cocktail bars and late-night music establishments that attract both Nashville history enthusiasts and current visitors seeking something beyond Lower Broadway.

Printers Alley presents a historic cobblestone entertainment district of jazz clubs and speakeasies just off Lower Broadway in downtown Nashville.

The Gulch is Nashville's most contemporary neighbourhood — a walkable urban village with upscale restaurants, boutique hotels, cocktail bars, and shops developed on a former rail yard southwest of downtown. A more refined alternative to Lower Broadway's honky-tonk energy, The Gulch draws Nashville's creative class and upscale entertainment visitors alongside casino-adjacent tourism.

The Gulch presents rooftop bars and upscale restaurants in a converted rail yard district south of downtown Nashville.

Wedgewood-Houston presents converted warehouse galleries and breweries in one of Nashville's fastest-transforming arts neighborhoods.