Celebrate Springwater’s Grand Reopening

Not even a pandemic could kill Centennial Park-adjacent dive bar Springwater. Though it’s changed names and hands several times since the 1890s, the establishment proudly touts its reputation as the oldest bar in continual operation in Tennessee. For more than four of those many decades, the watering hole’s tiny venue area has played a mighty role in Music City’s ever-evolving creative community, offering space for folk-schooled songwriters, punks, metalheads, experimental electronic musicians, comedians and more to mingle and hone their respective crafts. Springwater celebrates a return to in-person performances with shows June 4 through 6 featuring a slew of notable locals. Check out philosophically inclined rock ’n’ soul-ish groups The Altered Statesman and Styrofoam Winos at an early show on Friday with free-jazz quartet In Place; the late show features Black Venus, who are fans of heavy blues and Baudelaire, alongside ferocious garage rockers Beat Creeps and grunge expanders Vera Bloom. Saturday, the raucous Voltagehawk and shape-shifting Cloudmouth team up with thrashy boogiemen Electric Python. Sunday, the bill starts on a more frenetic note with The Dirty Delusions, cools things down just a tad with Casey Jo and the Friday Night Dads and gets heavy and dark with Year of October wrapping up. Visit thespringwater.com for advance tickets and complete scheduling info. June 4-6 at Springwater, 115 27th Ave. N. STEPHEN TRAGESER