Photo gallery: Live on the Green

Thousands gathered on the Public Square for Nashville’s sixth annual Live On the Green, presented by Nashville’s independent radio station Lightning 100. This year around 22 bands were included in the line up. More than 20,000 people attended on the first night, with bands City and Colour, Spanish Gold and The Weeks entertaining the crowd. During the second week, VIP tickets were sold out for The Head and the Heart, Wild Cub and Goodbye June. Because of the popularity this year, Live on the Green expanded its final session into a three-day series. This will take place from September 5-6. The coming dates include bands All them Witches, The Features, Capital Cities, Johnnyswim, Delta Spirit, Cage the Elephant, Augustana, G. Love and Special Sauce, The Wild Feathers, LP, the Lone Bellow and Jake. Created with Admarket’s...

Live on the Green keeps Nashville coming back, more great shows this weekend

Review: Live on the Green, Nick Waterhouse My musical weekend started Thursday night at Live on the Green. This week was the most anticipated lineup I had ever heard of for Live on the Green. To start the night off, some friends and I arrived early (around 5:30) because we had heard they were preparing for a crowd of 20,000 attendees. After hearing this we knew we had to get there early to get a good spot. After about an hour, the first band hit the stage. Fly Golden Eagle, a local electronic grunge rock band, started their set with a song featuring some fiery saxophone and keys. Fly Golden Eagle is a band that has recently been gaining exposure and hitting the festival circuit with appearances at Bonnaroo and other festivals. These guys from the east side of Nashville (including a Lipscomb graduate, Richard Harper), started the night better than most any local band could. The next band on stage was the local former Belmont students, The Apache Relay. With this being their second Live on the Green, they were seasoned and ready to go. You could tell the maturity they had gained due to their recent touring with bands such as Dawes and Mumford and Sons while they entertained what now seemed like 10,000 people in the crowd. Once their set ended, everyone knew what was next. Alabama Shakes was setting up. This time last year I don’t think anyone in the crowd even knew who these guys were, but you better believe they did last Thursday. Finally, after what seemed like forever, they took to the stage...