The enormous number of elections in Nashville this year is a recipe for voter fatigue, but a variety of folks in the music world have been advocating for participation in a variety of ways — note the activity of groups like Please Vote Nashville, the Get Out the Vote Festival at The Basement East on Oct. 3 and Taylor Swift speaking out against Marsha Blackburn this past weekend, among many others.
A week from Saturday, on the morning of Oct. 20, a star-studded group of players will get together to highlight the start of early voting for the Nov. 6 midterm election, which includes races for Tennessee's governor and the U.S. Senate. Sheryl Crow, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires, Lucie Silvas, Jonathan McReynolds and Gabriel Kelley will take the Ascend Amphitheater stage starting at 10 a.m. Five members of the March for Our Lives movement, which started following the deadly school shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., will be the event's unofficial emcees, and they'll be part of the half-mile march that will leave Ascend for the Howard Office Building, an early polling location, at 11 a.m.
The event, organized as part of a project by talent agency giant William Morris Endeavor, is free, but requires an RSVP through the event's website. Check out the Facebook event page for more details. (HT to Rolling Stone Country's Joseph Hudak.)
