Music City Roots is on the move again.
The Americana-centric variety show left its home at the Loveless Barn in 2014 for bigger digs at Liberty Hall inside The Factory at Franklin. A post by MCR's Craig Havighurst confirms that the program broadcast live on Wednesday, Dec. 13, will be the final one at The Factory, after which they'll take the show on the road until their new home is ready at the 6th & Peabody development in SoBro. The space is expected to open in the second half of 2018.Â
William Williams over at our sister publication Nashville Post has more details on said complex. The space is located (as you might expect) at Sixth Ave. S. and Peabody St. and will be the Nashville outpost of Johnson City's Yee-Haw Brewing Company, including a brewery and taproom. Among other uses of the space, there will also be a dedicated facility for Music City Roots, which is set to include a broadcast suite for WMOT Roots Radio 89.5-FM. The radio station, operated by Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, switched its format from jazz to Americana in September 2016 and took over as MCR's broadcast partner.
The show was first broadcast on WSM 650-AM in October 2009, and has steadily grown to include syndication on other radio stations as well as a video component, which is streamed live online and appears on PBS stations around the country including Nashville's own WNPT. Among the show's memorable moments was a 2015 benefit for local luminary Tommy Womack, headlined by none other than Jason and the Scorchers, which The Spin caught in person.Â
