Tickets on Sale for March 19 Premiere

The album and short film produced during The Nashville 9 project will premiere on March 19, at the Belcourt Theatre. The event will include live music performances followed by a screening. Tickets are on sale now.

The Nashville 9 Premiere and Performance Event
To benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee
Thursday, March 19 at the Belcourt Theatre
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; show starts at 6:45 p.m.
Buy Tickets ($15 in advance; $20 day of show)

In the first nine days of November 2008, four longtime friends undertook an ambitious project that explored storytelling, the artistic process, and the Nashville, Tennessee community. They called it The Nashville 9. Assisted by a grassroots collective of Nashville cast, crew and musicians, the foursome worked in frenetic 24-hour cycles to turn Nashvillians' freshly told stories into written songs and scenes that were immediately recorded and filmed. Each day, one story sparked one song and one scene. The result after nine days: an album featuring the nine songs recorded by different Nashville artists and producers, and a short film comprising the nine scenes shot at various Nashville locations. The album and short film will premiere on March 19 at the Belcourt Theatre.

The evening will include a brief introduction to the Nashville 9 project, musical performances by four of the nine Nashville artists featured on the Nashville 9 album (The Champion and His Burning Flame, Michael Logen, Kindercastle, and Jaclyn James with special guest Plumb) and a premiere screening of the Nashville 9 short film. Attendees will also get a sneak peek at a forthcoming documentary about the Nashville 9 project. One dollar from each ticket sold will benefit The Boys & Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee's media center initiative.

The creators of The Nashville 9 project are songwriter Luke Sheets and screenwriter Chad Morgan. They, along with actor Nathaniel McIntyre and “utility man” Brandon McDonald will be in attendance at the March 19 event.

The Nashville 9 album will be available for sale at the premiere and will include directions for accessing the short film and additional media related to the project. The song “Hang On,” written by Luke Sheets and recorded by Jaclyn James during the Nashville 9 project, has already been re-recorded as a track for Plumb’s forthcoming album. That single will be released to radio in February 2009.