WNXP Podcasts

This week for What Where When-sday, we feature the Off Broadway concert series at Analog in the Hutton Hotel. For Halloween weekend, The Addams Family in Concert will performed by cast members from the Broadway and national tour, and the hotel will also offer a spooky immersive experience.  WPLN’s LaTonya Turner talked has a preview.

The second annual Nashville Jazz Festival happens this Saturday (Oct 24) and Sunday (Oct 25) at 3rd and Lindsley. Presented by the Nashville Jazz Workshop lineup features local to national acts with ties to the local Jazz scene and serves as an extension from the work the jazz workshop does year-round.  

Nashville artist Tre Burt announced a residency at Brown's Diner kicking off this Friday (October 23rd) with Sunny War, the debut show for their Smooth Harrison collaboration. The Oh Boy Records artist chose one of John Prine's favorite spots to go and play and Burt calls the diner "a darling of Nashville where you can see a lot of cool music in an intimate spaces," he saw this as a perfect spot to reflect for his love of Nashville. Burt joined us to talk about the idea for the residency, friendship with Sunny War, and new music. 

WNXP's Nashville Artist of the Month for October Josh Gilligan sat down in the Sonic Cathedral to discuss his new record Sideways, the first for the Nashville-based Congrats Records. Gilligan details the album's unexpected inspiration from a night out at a Palm Springs restaurant, the encouragement he's gotten from Congrats founder and Paramore drummer Zac Farro who produced Sideways and the difference between standing on the side of the stage with artists like Medium Build and stepping up to the mic for his solo work.

One of our favorite Nashville indie crews, The Sewing Club, just dropped their debut album Sew on Born Losers Records. It was made with Calvin Lauber (boygenius, julien baker) and sees the band lean even heavier into stacked guitars and fuzzed-out, shoegaze-adjacent, catchy-as-heck, melodic rock. Lead singer and songwriter Hannah McElroy sat down with us to talk about the band’s signing, their breakout song “Strange” and stories behind some of the debut’s standout tracks. 

On Monday (Oct 19) Nashville singer/songwriter Margo Price Presents: Get Out the Vote at City Winery. Hosted by Civic TN and featuring performances from Mon Rovia, S.G. Goodman, Nathan Evans Fox, Rodney Crowell, and Denitia, Price talked with This is Nashville’s Blake Farmer about using her platform to encourage Tennesseans to get out there and vote regardless of what side they are on politically. 

At the age of 8, MT Jones used to sit around and watch his uncle play the piano until he learned how to play on his own. Listening to  The Beatles early on, he watched Ray Charles' biopic, "Ray", starring Jamie Foxx and the documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" about the Funk Brothers and started to immerse himself in soul music. He joined a band and began songwriting and all though he says those early writings were terrible, this is what got the ball rolling. Now UK soul singer/songwriter joined WNXP to talk developing as a songwriter, friendship with Jalen Ngonda, and releasing his debut record Joy.

National Coming Out Day is this Sunday (Oct 11), an annual LGBTQ awareness day first celebrated in 1988. This year, Nashville Pride is teaming up with Girlcrush Social House located in Five Points in East Nashville for an event featuring live music, vendors from Nashville Cares and Chroma Wellness Center as well as opportunities for weddings and vow renewals.

The Nashville Film Festival is wrapping up but there is another film fest for the movie buffs out there. The International Black Film Festival, starting today (Sep 30) through Sunday (Oct 4) at Belmont University, Scarritt Bennett Center and other venues across Nashville. The festival was founded more than two decades ago by Hazel Joyner-Smith.  She talked with This is Nashville’s Blake Farmer about this year’s theme– Return on Independence or R-O-I.

Artville started back in 2023 with the mission to celebrate and amplify Nashville’s vibrant artistic community. The free annual visual arts fest has featured public art installations, contemporary art, murals and more highlighting the creative culture of Nashville. Artville will be taking place this Thursday night (Sep 24) at Wasioto Park with an after dark event and Friday (Sep 25) through Sunday (Sep 27) at Walk of Fame Park in Downtown Nashville along with the American Artisan Festival.