Ascend Amphitheater
{{Short description|Open-air event venue}}
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|stadium_name = Ascend Amphitheater
|nickname = "The Green"
|logo_image = File:Ascend Amphitheater Logo.png
|image = Ascend Amphitheater on August 1, 2015.jpg
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|location = 301 1st Avenue South
Nashville, Tennessee
United States
|coordinates = {{coord|36.159178|-86.771658|display=inline,title}}
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|opened = July 30, 2015
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|owner = Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County{{cite web|url=http://www.ascendamphitheater.com/news?n_id=168|title=Live Nation to manage new Nashville Amphitheater|publisher=Ascend Amphitheater official website|accessdate=June 17, 2015}}
|operator = Live Nation Entertainment
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|seating_capacity = 6,800; 2,300 fixed seats, 4,500 on the lawn
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|website = [http://www.ascendamphitheater.com/ ascendamphitheater.com]
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The Ascend Amphitheater is an open-air event venue located on the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee. It is set inside the Metro Riverfront Park. The amphitheater seats 2,300 in fixed seating, and 4,500 on the lawn, with a total capacity of 6,800.
History
Ascend Amphitheater was first proposed on August 27, 2013, when then-Nashville Mayor Karl Dean unveiled plans for the venue on the site of the city's former thermal transfer plant, which was phased out in the early 2000s.{{cite web |url=http://www.nashvillepost.com/home/article/20471545/dean-unveils-riverfront-amphitheater-parks-plan |title=Dean unveils riverfront amphitheater, parks plan |last1=Hale |first1=Steven |date=August 27, 2013 |website=NashvillePost.com |publisher=SouthComm |access-date=May 3, 2016 |quote=}} The site was originally proposed to be the home of First Tennessee Field, a minor league baseball stadium for the Nashville Sounds. After numerous financing delays, the ballpark project was scrapped in 2007 and the land sat largely vacant until construction on the amphitheater began. The land was occasionally used as temporary event space in the meantime.
Venue
Live Nation is the operator for the open-air venue. Eric Church opened the venue with two sold-out shows on July 30 and 31, 2015, followed August 1 by Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire during their Heart and Soul Tour 2015,{{cite web|url=http://www.ascendamphitheater.com/events|title=Ascend Amphitheater Events|publisher=Ascend Amphitheater official website|accessdate=June 17, 2015}} and Phish on August 4.
Live Nation signed a 10-year contract with Nashville and a 10-year contract with Ascend Federal Credit Union.
Concerts
A list of notable events held/to be held at the Amphitheater.
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| scope="col" style="width:15em;"| Artist
! scope="col" style="width:15em;"| Tour/Event ! scope="col" style="width:10em;"| Date ! scope="col" style="width:18em;"| Opening act(s) |
|---|
| 5 Seconds of Summer
|June 30, 2022 |— |
| Alabama Shakes
| — | April 21, 2016 |
| Alan Jackson
| Honky Tonk Highway Tour | May 19, 2017 |
| Alicia Keys
|August 2, 2020 | |
| All Time Low & Sleeping with Sirens
| Back To The Future Hearts Tour | October 13, 2015 | One Ok Rock & Neck Deep |
| America Fest 2015
|{{small|Loretta Lynn, Steve Earle, Nikki Lane, | September 19, 2015 | — |
| Amos Lee
| Spirit Fall Tour 2016 | September 16, 2016 | — |
| Australian Pink Floyd
| — | August 22, 2015 | LedZeppelin2 |
| Avril Lavigne
| September 4, 2024 | Simple Plan and Girlfriends |
| Barenaked Ladies
| Last Summer on Earth Tour | July 5, 2016 | OMD & Howard Jones |
| Bastille
| Wild Wild World Tour | May 5, 2017 |
| Ben Rector
| The Biggest Tour I Have Done So Far Tour | August 27, 2016 |
| Blink-182
| August 8, 2016 | A Day to Remember, All-American Rejects, |
| Boyz II Men {{small|(with the Nashville Symphony)}} | — | September 11, 2016 | — |
| Brand New & Modest Mouse
| — | July 19, 2016 | — |
| Bryan Adams
| April 15, 2015 | — |
| Cage the Elephant
| 2016 Tour | May 19, 2016 |
| Carnival of Madness
| 2016 Tour | August 4, 2016 | — |
| Cheap Trick, Heart & Joan Jett & the Blackhearts | Rock Hall Three for All | September 19, 2017 | — |
| Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire
| Heart and Soul Tour | August 1, 2015 | — |
| rowspan="2"|Chris Stapleton
| rowspan="2"|Chris Stapleton's All American Road Show | October 14, 2016 | Lee Ann Womack |
| October 15, 2016 |
| Chris Tomlin
| October 8, 2015 |
| Chris Young
| I'm Comin' Over World Tour | September 30, 2015 | Jerrod Niemann & Cam |
| rowspan="3"|CMA Festival
| Jonathan Jackson + Enation | rowspan="2"|June 9, 2016 | rowspan="3"| — |
| Ryan Lafferty |
| Sarah Evans
| June 10, 2016 |
| Cody Jinks
| Change the Game Tour | April 27, 2024 |
| Counting Crows
| Somewhere Under Wonderland Tour | August 7, 2015 |
| Counting Crows & Rob Thomas
| Counting Crows & Rob Thomas on Tour | September 30, 2016 | K. Philips |
| rowspan="2"|Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds
| rowspan="2"|2017 Tour | May 6, 2017 | rowspan="2"|— |
| May 7, 2017 |
| Depeche Mode
| September 18, 2017 | — |
| Dierks Bentley
| Miles and Music for Kids | November 1, 2015 | Thomas Rhett, The Cadillac Three, Cole Swindell, |
| Disturbed & Rob Zombie
| — | May 7, 2016 | Pop Evil |
| Duran Duran
| July 6, 2016 | Chic feat. Nile Rodgers |
| rowspan="2"|Eric Church
| rowspan="2"| The Outsiders World Tour | July 30, 2015 | J. Roddy Walston & The Business |
| July 31, 2015 |
| Flight of the Conchords
| Sing Flight of the Conchords | July 14, 2016 |
| Florence and the Machine
| How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful Tour | October 9, 2015 | — |
| Garth Brooks
| — | October 24, 2016 | — |
| Gary Clark Jr.
| The Story of Sonny Boy Slim Tour | July 16, 2016 | Raury |
| rowspan="2" | Goo Goo Dolls
| August 5, 2016 |
| The Miracle Pill Summer Tour
|August 29, 2020 |
| Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
| Midnight Tour | October 10, 2015 |
| Hall & Oates
| 2015 Tour | September 14, 2015 | — |
| rowspan="2" | Halsey
| Hopeless Fountain Kingdom World Tour | July 18, 2018 |
| For My Last Trick: The Tour
| May 21, 2025 | Julia Wolf & The Warning |
| Idina Menzel
| August 15, 2015 | — |
| Jackson Browne
| Standing in the Beach Tour | October 11, 2015 | Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams |
| Jake Owen
| — | April 27, 2017 | Eric Paslay & LANco |
| Janet Jackson
| September 27, 2015 | — |
| Jeff Beck
| — | August 3, 2016 |
| Jill Scott
| — | August 5, 2015 |
| rowspan="2" | Jimmy Buffett
| I Don't Know Tour | May 26, 2016 |
| —
|June 25, 2020 |— |
| rowspan="2" |John Legend
| May 18, 2017 |
| Bigger Love Tour
|August 15, 2020 |
| Journey
| July 27, 2016 |
| Kesha
|May 16, 2020 |
| Kings of Leon
| Album release concert | October 6, 2016 | — |
| Kip Moore
| Me & My Kind Tour | August 10, 2017 |
| rowspan="2"|The Lumineers
| rowspan="2"|Cleopatra World Tour | September 20, 2017 | rowspan="2"|Børns & Rayland Baxter |
| September 22, 2017 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd
| — | October 2, 2015 | Blackstone Cherry |
| Meghan Trainor
| August 6, 2017 |
| Muse & Thirty Seconds to Mars
| 2017 North American Tour | June 3, 2017 | PVRIS |
| My Morning Jacket
| The Waterfall Tour | August 6, 2015 |
| NEEDTOBREATHE and Switchfoot
| Tour de Compadres | August 14, 2015 |
| Neil Young & Promise of the Real
| The Monsanto Years Tour | April 28, 2016 |
| Niall Horan
| July 23, 2018 |
| Odesza
| May 12, 2018 |
| Old Crow Medicine Show
| — | August 28, 2015 |
| Peter Frampton & Cheap Trick
| — | August 16, 2015 | Slash & Sammy Hagar |
| Phillip Phillips & Matt Nathanson
| July 28, 2016 |
| rowspan="5" |Phish
| — | August 4, 2015 | — |
| rowspan="2"|Fall 2016 Tour
| October 18, 2016 | rowspan="2"| |
| October 19, 2016 |
| rowspan="2" |—
|August 4, 2020 | rowspan="2" |— |
| August 5, 2020 |
| Pretty Lights
| Pretty Lights Hallows Eve | October 31, 2015 |
| Ray LaMontagne
| The Ouroboros Tour | July 29, 2016 | — |
| Sheryl Crow
| July 4th Celebration | July 4, 2016 | — |
| The Smashing Pumpkins & Marilyn Manson
| August 9, 2015 | Cage |
| Snoop Dogg
| Wellness Retreat Tour | April 28, 2017 |
| Steely Dan
| Rockabye Gollie Angel Tour | August 8, 2015 | Elvis Costello & The Imposters |
| Steve Earle
| | September 19, 2015 | |
| Styx {{small|(with the Nashville Symphony)}} | 2016 North American Tour | May 21, 2016 | — |
| Sublime with Rome
| — | August 18, 2015 | Rebelution, Pepper, & Mickey Avalon |
| rowspan="2"|Thomas Rhett
| rowspan="2"|Home Team Tour | April 20, 2017 | rowspan="2"|Kelsea Ballerini, Russell Dickerson & Ryan Hurd |
| April 21, 2017 |
| Train
| May 31, 2017 |
| Twenty One Pilots
| Emotional Roadshow World Tour | August 7, 2016 | Mutemath & Chef'Special |
| Umphrey's McGee
| 2016 Tour | August 26, 2016 | Tauk |
| Uncle Kracker, Sugar Ray, Better Than Ezra & Eve 6 | Playing Under the Sun Summer Tour | August 29, 2015 | — |
| Weezer & Panic! at the Disco
| Weezer and Panic! at the Disco Summer Tour 2016 | July 13, 2016 |
| rowspan="2"|Widespread Panic
| rowspan="2"|Summer Tour 2015 | September 5, 2015 | rowspan="2"|— |
| September 6, 2015 |
| rowspan="2" | ZZ Top
| September 1, 2015 |
| —
|June 28, 2020 |— |
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.ascendamphitheater.com/ Official website]
{{Music venues of Tennessee}}
{{Authority control}}
Category:Amphitheaters in the United States
Category:Buildings and structures in Davidson County, Tennessee
Category:Buildings and structures in Nashville, Tennessee
Category:Music venues completed in 2015
Category:Music venues in Tennessee