Over the past 12 years, the Sunday Night Soul showcase organized by Jason Eskridge and Cyd Blanchard has become a keystone for Nashville’s community of soul, R&B and gospel musicians and fans. That’s been crucial in a bustling music town with a history of indifference — and sometimes outright hostility — to our wealth of talented Black musicians and rich legacy in Black music. A superb singer and songwriter, Eskridge is a longtime Nashvillian who left a job as a mechanical engineer with NASA to come here and pursue music, and he launched Sunday Night Soul in a similar spirit to Lovenoise, around the time that organization shifted focus from hosting a vibrant weekly showcase in the Aughts to promoting huge concerts. However, the time has come for Sunday Night Soul to conclude — for reasons not enumerated, but likely to include the demands of Eskridge’s sandwich shop Music City Sandwich Co. — but not without a grand finale set for Sunday. As of this writing, a reunion of dormant soul-and-funk aces Dynamo anchors the lineup, with more guests to be announced.
6 p.m. at The 5 Spot
1106 Forest Ave.
