Nashville Day by day Update Wednasday March 6 th in the morning. from DJ Philippe February 24th 2013 ------------------ I leaved Paris city with some delay on Sunday morninh the 24th of February due to a few inches of snow on the airport ,but i could take my connection to NAshville from Cincinati (OH) in time then arrived in Nashville ok under the sun 14°C. I went to my hotel around 5PM. In the evening i went out to listen some good music at the well know "STATION INN". _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Monday February 25th -------------------- I wake up at 8.30 ,took my continental breakfast at the Hotel "BEST Western" located in Downtown.Temp outside was 8°c will be up to 14°C this day sun is already shining. IT's 10.15 i'm leaving the hotel. I'm going down tothe poste office located in the Arcade to buy stamps , then i went down to 2nd avenue ,the river bank,and on Broadway avenue , making some shoping then,i stopted at the "Honky tonk central for a Bud and listening music there, then enter at Toosie's for ten minutes and it was time to cross the street in diretion of Rippi's for Lunch , ma menu was acomposed of a small home salade and a half portion of RIbswith colslaw & french fries.while eating a couple of singers were arriving on stage to performe before they start i call by good friend Gilles Goddard, he was at this time in New York so we decided to have lunch together on Saturday. After lunch i cross the road one more time to listen some music at the 2nd Fiddle withg an another Bud. When i went outside half an hour later the sky had become cloudy but temp still good except sometimes wind blows.I went back to my hotel to check my computer. Another mail have arrived another skeds were setup for Sunday lunch with Ashley Robertson. Then i made some others phones calls. It's now 6PM , i'm looking a some clips on GAC TV , i don't know if i'll go out this evening because of tomorrow the starting of DJHOF & CRS2013 a hard week. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday February 26th --------------------- Last evening i stay in my hotel. This morning i wake up only at 8.30 Took as usual breafast then go to the computer to check mails and download the weekly Country Fastfall show. and also get CTEX radio show. The Country Fastball show was available early because the crew of Country Fastball will be in Nashville for CRS, I met Robert two years ago there. Weather have changed cloudy with some showers temp 12°C for today. i'll leave my hotel around 11.30 going downtown to the Nashville Convention center to get my regestration package then i'll move to the Bridge bar of the reniscance hotel to do my first interview of CRS201" with people i've already met several time the duets of the Roys with their great bleugrass music. Around 12.30 i met The Roys at the Bridge Bar,they are nice people, i was very glad to do a new interview. Then i went back at the Rippy's for lunch :a small house salade and a cheeseburger with fries. The sky was grey this morning with a few showers,with a cold wind from the north. I walk around the Country Hall of fame museum to look at the works changes of the future new convention center,i took a few photos and go to the stage to listen some music, around 5PM i went back to the convention center to pick up my DJHOF DJ Hall Of Fame regestration to access to coktail reception & dinner. After Dinner i took a taxi to "REBAR" located at 19191 Division street to look the Jacob Martin Band performing there.it was a very nice atmosphere in this bar i just discover, i get a Cd and a photo of the group when the shows was finish i took an another taxi to join Jackson Delaney who was playing at the "2nd Fiddle on Broadway avenue around 9.00AM i leave there and walk back to the NCC Nashville Convention Center where Katie Armiger and Craig Campbell were fermorming on the second floor of the "Rennaissance Hotel" close to the NCC. At 10.45 i was back to my hotel,ready to sleep after this first busy day.Tep 5°C. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday February 27th . ------------------------- I leave my hotel around 8.40 temp 4°C only (10°c Max today) Never mind most of the time i'll be indoor. At 09.30 i started the serie of interviews with Lucas Hoge,Live Wire,Martin Jacob Band and Lisa Matassa. At 12.00 after taking our small pinic composed of a sandwich, a paquet of chips, and a botle for drink we cross the street to move to the Ryman Auditorium to have a great acoustic performance of 21 artits from little Big Town to George Strait. After the show we went back to the NCC for the WCRS Live with singer songwriters playing and talking about the songs they wrote,it's always a great momeny. Came the Artist/Attendee welcome reception where i met my good frind one of the first artist i met when i came for the first time at CRS in 2000 Claudia Nygaard she gave me her latest CD, she ll' move to Boston tomorrow to performe there. Around 7.00 it was time to join level 1 for the Grand Ole Opry Concert. It was a 3 hours of live music ,just wonderful. After that arond 10.00 i went to the Renaisance Hotel in the Ryman roon to view and listen the reformated group Lonestar. Then I went back to my hotel around 10.40PM to sleep, it was an another great day waitng for me tomorrow.Temp outside was 4°C. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday February 28th . ------------------------- I wake up at 7.00AM temp outside 1°C up to 6°c for today. This morning started with two interviews clinton Gregory & jackson Delaney in the media room. At 12.00 we had the Capitol/MCA Lunch with Jon Pardi & Garry Allan. Around 2.00PM i went to see some showcase on Broadway avenue at the Crossroads, there were some artist including Hanna Belle ,The Monroeeville & the 14 years old singer Lissie Sider. At 4.30 i went back to the NCC to listen the KCRS Live with great songwriters. At 7.00 PM i was back in The Renaissance Hotel for the Bob Kingley's Acoustic Alley where i eat some food , drink a Corona & a glass of red wine , i stay there until 9.30 when i move to the Bridge Bar where i met my friend Mark Trail , he was with Michael Thomas a singersongwriter that i met for the first time but i ve already heard some of his songs ,we had talks for 1àmn the i leave them to be back at my hotel where i arrived around 10.00PM ; time to look at my email and updatae my web-site It'll be soom timùe for me to go to bed ,temp 2°C ,tomorrow is another busy day !!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday March 1st. ----------------- As usual i wake up earlier to be ready in time . I went to the Bridge Bar to do an interview with Joanna Mosca , jut before she arrived i met Martha Moore , she is alway speed runing from an appoinment to an another,she always hepl me to discover and met new artits, there is a long time i met her about or more of 10 years. She leave me then Joanna came , i did the interview and took some photos, she autograph a couple of photos and her new CD. So i went back in the NCC to follow a sessions about "Digital competition". Then it was 12.00 time for the lunch host by Black River eEntertainement including as usual artits performances.KellY Pickler,Criag Morgan etc.. After the show i went back to two sessions about 'social network". The time for the New Faces of country music coktail reception. i drink a glass of white wine while listen to a showcase with Mark Cooke. Then it was time for the New Faces of country music Dinner & Show i was sat at table N°72 , a good place to take photos. There were a lot of artits on stage easton Corbin,Florida Georgia Line, Brantley Gilbert,Jana Kramer,Kip Moore. After the show i went to the Badge Bar than to the Bridge Bar to see if i could met some friends i know there,nobody was there so as i was about 11.30PM i decided to go back to my hotel and went to bed after this long day at 12.00. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday March 2 nd . --------------------- This morning i only wake up at 09.00AM took my breakfast on the 2nd Floor , a lot of people were there. I went back to my room to look at my email and update my web-site. i'll have lunch with my two friends Gilles Godard & Mark Trail , Gilles will pick me up at my hotel at 12.00. So we went to FIDO on the west side of Nashville , it's a popullar athmosphere there and the food is simple but good. Gilles leaves Mark at his office in music row and me near the "Legends's corner" on Broadway avenue. I stay all this afternoon listening misic in differents bars. Around 6.40PM i took a taxi in direction of the "Sky Blue Cafe" located on the east of Nashville at 700 Fatherland avenue.I came here to the show of Audrey Auld that i met alreday last year ,she was perferming today with Mean Mary who play banjo, Mary gives me her new CD "Walk A Little Ways With Me".It was a great show. Audrey gives me her small album "Wood" an homage at Woody Gutry then sheleft me at my hotel. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday March 3 rd This mornbing i didn't wake up earlier only 8.30. My good friend Ashley Robertson ,i know her since a decade by email or letter then since a few years i saw her regulary in Nashville or in Paris a few month ago during her European tour through UK , Germany ,Austria,Italy ,Spain & France. She will pick me up at my hotel at 10.30AM , will have lunch at Green Hills , a place a didn't know,there is so many places to go in this music city. The "Table 3" is a new restaurant French comfort food. Today is Ashley 's birthday ,we had lunch with her parents then we will have dinner together i think it will be a japanese restaurant,the will pick me up at my hotel about 7.30PM. This day sun shines all day long temp up to 5°C. we went to "NINKIN" located at "4530 Harding Pike NASHVILLE TN 37205,we were not alone, we were ten as it was Ashley's birthday some of her friends join us , the food was great we ending dinner with the birthday's cake the i wend back to my hotel. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday March 4th. I took my breakfastaround 08.00AM outside the shy was cloudy but sun will come soon temp is 55°C , will be up to 13°C this afternoon. Today is a cool day for me , i'll go downtown for a walk. I've just read my emails and update my web-site.. I took lunch at the risppy's with a small house salade & Catfishs. I enter at the legends corner where a female artist was playing when arrived on stage the Thompson Square first the boy sing alone a song then the duet came on stage for an another song. As the weatherr was find i walked back to my hotel. Around 08.00PM i went down in the lobby and ask for a taxy to go to Blackstone restaurant on west end for dinner ,i took a BBQ Pizza , their pizza are wonderful on fire backed with two chase pale it was great. After dinner i walk to the Guiness Pub located on music row , there was some artistist playng there so i took a Harp beer while listenig to the showcases.Then i went down on the street to the "Tin Roof" but today it was calm ,no music there ,so i took a taxi to my hotel.Temp outside still 11°C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday March 5th. This morning it's raining but temp is about 12°c. I had a lunch with Brian from Inside Music Row , i met him around 1.00 PM at "the tin roof", we talk while eating a swandwinch. After that i walk to the Dan Guiness Irish PUB where i stay a long time looking at a football match between MU & RM, Manchester United & Real Madrid score was 1-2. Later on i walk in this area took a coffee at Submarine Cafe the wnet to Blackstone for a beer then later went to Indigo Hotel in West Ends, but has a part of the hotel is in renovation the showcase of livemusic was moving of place at the Indigo Hotel at 315 Union street a few blocks from my hotel so i took a taxi to get there. There was a lot of artitis appearing at the showcase presented by Jack, I stay there untill the show ended around 22.30, i walk up to the hill, i was cload and windy temp was 1°c but seems to be -3°C so i was happy to arrived in my warm room.It's was time to go to bed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday March 6th. Temp 1°c feeling -3°C cold & windy up to 7°C this afternoon. Plans are lunch with my best friends Ramona & Preston , in late afternoon surely a coffee or a drink with Gilles Godard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday March 7th. I'll took my plane to Paris through Cincinaty at 10.30AM. Friday March 8th. Around 08.00 AM PARIS time i'll land at Charles De Gaulle 's Airport. Pick up my lagguages the took a taxi to my home. End of the 10 days 's trip. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- to be continue.... DJ Philippe from Nashville Music City U.S.A.