The Wooten Brothers at Rudy's Jazz Room for 615 Indie Live, 2/1/2025
As the constellation of music venues across Nashville has slowly grown more corporatized, the live music scene has started to lose some of its community-oriented spark. But 615 Indie Live, a daylong local music marathon sprawled across 13 venues (and some 17 stages) early this year, was an antidote to that sucking feeling. A partnership between Music Venue Alliance Nashville and the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp, 615 Indie Live was a choose-your-own-adventure celebration of what makes Nashville special. Whether it was Alanna Royale crushing at The 5 Spot, fiddle queen Lillie Mae lighting up Dee’s, Six One Trïbe throwing down at The Basement or DJs Maggie Wells and Ken Sable holding it down at Night We Met, 615 Indie Live showed the vital need for independence in live music. And all for a measly 15 bucks.
