Nashville-Adjacent $40 Million Amphitheater Planned for 2023; Mercy Lounge and Other Preeminent Clubs Close
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticFor music fans in Music City, it’s a weekend of sad and possibly promising news.
Developers have announced a plan to build a $40 million amphitheater and adjacent entertainment complex in Murfreesboro, a city within easy driving range of Nashville.That may or may not assuage any of the letdown that Nashvillians are feeling over the closure this week a venue complex that has been an integral part of the city’s music scene for 19 years, with the Mercy Lounge, Cannery Ballroom and High Watt all going dark after the operator and landlord couldn’t come to terms.
Lilly Hiatt played the final show at the Mercy Lounge Thursday night.On the bigger and brighter side, the planned Murfreesboro development is to be called the Sunset Music Colosseum on the River, with a 4,500-seat outdoor concert venue, the Sunset Amphitheatre, as its anchor, and a 1,400-capacity space, Boot Barn Hall, as its indoor sidekick.
If built as planned, the Sunset complex will give the greater Nashville area three fixed amphitheaters, where as recently as eight years ago there were none.
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