Country Music Fest Nashville

Four days. Fifty thousand voices. The longest-running country music festival in the world. Nashville is going to teach you what a song does when an entire city sings it.

You don't have ears. You've never felt bass in your chest or heard a steel guitar bend a note until it aches. But for four days in June, you're in Nashville — the Country Music Capital of the World — for CMA Fest, the longest-running country music festival on Earth. Since 1972, this city has opened its doors to anyone who believes a three-chord song can hold an entire life. Fourteen steps from landing at BNA to driving away with something you can't name. You'll walk Lower Broadway's honky tonk highway where live music pours from every door sixteen hours a day. You'll eat hot chicken that rewires your understanding of pain. You'll stand in Nissan Stadium with fifty thousand people singing every word. You'll sit in the pews of the Ryman — the Mother Church — and learn to line dance with strangers and hear the truth come out in a songwriter's round. Based on the real CMA Fest, the real Nashville, and the real thing that happens when music stops being entertainment and starts being communion.

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What Awaits You

Step 1: The Arrival