East Carolina University’s Honors College Student Council (HCSC) hosted its own talent show on Jan. 20, featuring performing acts from Honors College students and an art exhibit at the Hendrix
Nashville musician Matt Daughtry was singing a classic from 1969 The Band s Up On Cripple Creek outside Exit/In on Wednesday afternoon, as a crowd gathered to support a musical institution that s been around almost as long.
Last week, the building that holds Exit/In a 50-year-old rock club that s among Nashville s most iconic venues went under contract to be sold to AJ Capital Partners, a Chicago-based developer.
Since then, Exit/In owner Chris Cobb has launched a crowdfunding campaign to buy the property from its future owners. At Wednesday s gathering, Cobb and his wife, Telisha, along with several city council members, made the case for Exit/In s survival.
Metro Councilmembers Speak Up on Behalf of Exit/In See photos from Wednesday s press conference in support of preserving the 50-year-old venue, whose property is under contract Share
As a warm breeze blew down Elliston Place on Wednesday afternoon, the planned press conference in front of Exit/In became something of a late-pandemic block party. Several dozen masked folks standing about six feet apart bobbed and swayed to roots-rock outfit Matt Daughtry and Friends, who soul singer A.J. Eason recruited to play a few tunes to warm up the audience. Since March 2020, no one’s been able to see a show at either Exit/In or The End, the two venerable venues straddling the strip of Elliston that has for decades been known as the Rock Block, and which was recognized with a historical marker last summer. It’s a good bet that in the Before Times, more than a few in the crowd well, probably not the youngsters helping their parents chalk messages of support on the
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