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Arbor Day Celebration
2018-02-27 10:00 - 14:00, 2018-02-26 10:00 - 14:00, 2018-02-25 10:00 - 14:00, 2018-02-24 10:00 - 14:00, 2018-02-23 10:00 - 14:00, 2018-02-22 10:00 - 14:00, 2018-02-21 10:00 - 14:00, 2018-02-20 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) and 2 more dates | TN
Activities for Kids and Family in Franklin, TN
Please join The Franklin Tree Commission and the City of Franklin Parks Department for tons of fun in the trees with opportunities in tree climbing, kids’ activities, food, information and free tree saplings at Pinkerton Park in Franklin from 10am-2pm.
Master tree climbing instructor Tim Kovar, from Tree Climbing Planet will guide individuals into the crown of a tree for a public tree climb with several stations, all certified equipment will be provided during this annual family friendly event. Participants will ascend into the tree using the same rope-and-saddle method that canopy researchers use. “Getting up into a tree – being surrounded by the branches – is just a great way to explore nature,” said Tim Kovar. “Not only is it just plain fun, it connects us with the natural world in a way that not many people are exposed to.”
The tree climb is free and open to the public. Participants must be at least six years old and be wearing closed-toe shoes. For more information please check out the website or email specific questions to parksinfo@franklintn.gov

Songwriter Night: Craig Morrison & Hayden Hodge
2018-02-25 18:30 - 20:00
After moving to Nashville from Australia with his family in 2011, Craig Morrison has achieved global success, releasing hits such as “Phone Call” and “Reminisce” which topped the Australian Country Music Charts at #3, hit #18 on the European Hot Disc Charts, and reached #39 on the U.S. Music Row Charts. Those successes prompted touring across the U.S., Australia, and France. Morrison has shared the stage with the likes of Rascal Flatts, Big & Rich, and The Band Perry, to name a few. He has also been awarded the National Songwriter’s Award and multiple ‘Male Vocal Artist of the Year’ awards throughout Australia.

Tech Savvy Parenting Workshop
2018-02-25 15:00 - 18:00
This event is being hosted by The Franklin Clapham Group, a local non-profit with the mission of speaking into the culture of the day from a Biblical worldview on various subject matters. We host such event as forums, speakers, conversations, and topical events to engage and serve our community.
The seminar, titled Tech Savvy Parenting, focuses on issues affecting teens on a daily basis- things like- Internet security, social media, cyberbullying, sexting, etc. People attending this seminar will come away with a better understand of the dangers of the web culture and will be given specific steps and such needed tools to safeguard their child’s digital life.
In addition, unlike most forums and seminars of this type that have taken place in our community, our speaker Brian Houseman, well-known authority on today’s web culture, and a former school administrator and youth pastor, and a dad of teens himself, will walk us though how it is less about “behavior modification” and ultimately more about a heart issue.

Doubt: A Parable
2018-02-25 14:00
“What do you do when you’re unsure?” So asks John Patrick Shanley, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the literary masterpiece Doubt: A Parable. When an unthinkable accusation is leveled against Father Flynn, Sister Aloysius realizes that the only way to get justice is to create it herself. Join Studio Tenn in this Tony Award winning and Academy Award nominated drama that not only raises questions of uncertainties, but causes audiences to explore who they are, and who they become, in the face of adversity.
Sunday, February 25 at 2 p.m.
FEBRUARY 15 – 25, 2018
See website for other dates and times.

Here Come the Brides Bridal Show Tennessee
2018-02-25 13:00 - 17:00
Here Come the Brides Bridal Show in Franklin, TN
We are the bridal show that is not only informative but entertaining! Over $15,000 in prize giveaways, including a romantic weekend giveaway, and our signature “bridal war games” with crowd participation. First 100 Brides at the door receive a weekender bag. Come enjoy the day. Trust us, your fiancé, will even enjoy it! With over 20 years experience in the wedding industry, we know how to plan great shows! See you at the show at Embassy Suites in Franklin, Tennessee.

Reruns are Fun Consignment Sale
2018-02-25 12:00 - 15:00
Shopping in Franklin, TN
Reruns are Fun Spring/Summer Consignment Sale – The Franklin Area’s Premiere Consignment Sale
​​​Since 1990 Reruns Are Fun Consignment has been selling quality name brand clothing, shoes, accessories, equipment, furniture, and more at a fraction of the original cost! Brands include: Gap, Gymboree, Janie & Jack, Matilda Jane, Abercrombie, Aeropostale, etc. We also have great vendors offering new merchandise and great services.
PUBLIC SALE
Saturday, February 24th: 9 AM – 7 PM
Sunday, February 25th: 12 PM – 3 PM​
PUBLIC HALF PRICE SALE
Monday, February 26th: 9 AM – 8 PM

Visit https://www.rerunsarefunsale.com/ for more information.

Sierra Hull
2018-02-24 20:00
Sierra Hull, the singer, mandolinist and former child prodigy, signed with Rounder at age 13 and distinguished herself by becoming the first bluegrass musician to receive a Presidential Scholarship to the prestigious Berklee College of Music.

Now a seasoned touring musician nearing her mid-20s, Hull has delivered her most inspired, accomplished, and mature recorded work to date; no small feat. Weighted Mindis a landmark achievement, not just in Sierra Hull’s career, but in the world of folk-pop, bluegrass, and acoustic music overall. With instrumentation comprised largely of mandolin, bass, and vocals, this is genre-transcending music at its best, with production by Béla Fleck and special harmony vocal guests Alison Krauss, Abigail Washburn, and Rhiannon Giddens adding to the luster. Hull speaks eloquently, in her challenging and sensitive originals, her heartfelt vocals, and once again breaks new ground on the mandolin. Béla Fleck special guests on banjo on two tracks and duo partner, Ethan Jodziewicz, not only anchors the record on bass, but introduces us to a major new instrumental voice.
Sponsored by Jackson National Life
Presented by Franklin Theatre Live

Strings & Stories: An Intimate Night of Songwriters’ Tales
2018-02-24 18:00
High Hopes Development Center hosts the 8th Annual Strings & Stories: An Intimate Night of Songwriters’ Tales at 6:00pm on Saturday, February 24th at Green’s Grocery at 4345 Old Hillsboro Road in Leiper’s Fork. This annual sell-out event features acclaimed artists Sean McConnell, Kelly Archer, and Jordan Reynolds sharing the intimate stories behind some of their most popular songs recorded by performers including Keith Urban, Jason Aldean, Brad Paisley, and Thomas Rhett to name a few.
Dinner for the event is proudly provided by Red Pony, wine by Del Rio Wine and Spirits, beer by Czann’s Brewery with dessert and coffee by Frothy Monkey. Tickets are available now for this annual sell-out event for $150 each and available at www.HighHopesForKids.org or by calling 615-661-5437.

Doubt: A Parable
2018-02-24 14:00 - 19:00
“What do you do when you’re unsure?” So asks John Patrick Shanley, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the literary masterpiece Doubt: A Parable. When an unthinkable accusation is leveled against Father Flynn, Sister Aloysius realizes that the only way to get justice is to create it herself. Join Studio Tenn in this Tony Award winning and Academy Award nominated drama that not only raises questions of uncertainties, but causes audiences to explore who they are, and who they become, in the face of adversity.
Saturday, February 24 at 2 p.m.
Saturday, February 24 at 7 p.m.
FEBRUARY 15 – 25, 2018
See website for other dates and times.

Reruns are Fun Consignment Sale
2018-02-24 09:00 - 19:00
Reruns are Fun Spring/Summer Consignment Sale – The Franklin Area’s Premiere Consignment Sale
​​​Since 1990 Reruns Are Fun Consignment has been selling quality name brand clothing, shoes, accessories, equipment, furniture, and more at a fraction of the original cost! Brands include: Gap, Gymboree, Janie & Jack, Matilda Jane, Abercrombie, Aeropostale, etc. We also have great vendors offering new merchandise and great services.
PUBLIC SALE
Saturday, February 24th: 9 AM – 7 PM
Sunday, February 25th: 12 PM – 3 PM​
PUBLIC HALF PRICE SALE
Monday, February 26th: 9 AM – 8 PM

Visit https://www.rerunsarefunsale.com/ for more information.

The Franklin Farmers Market
2018-02-24 09:00 - 12:00
The Franklin Farmers Market is a true Tennessee farmers market!
From produce, fruit and dairy to baked goods and meats, you’ll find delicious fresh food at the Franklin Farmers Market. And because it’s all from local farms, the variety of goods increases and changes each week through the seasons. You can taste the difference, because it all comes straight from the farm to the market, ripe and ready to enjoy. It’s Tennessee farm fresh food from real farmers, every Saturday morning at the Franklin Farmers Market. Plus, there are a select number of local crafts persons at the market too, with unique and beautiful goods for you to enjoy.
Market Hours: All Year Long, Every Saturday!
Spring/Summer Market: April thru Oct, 8am – 1pm
Fall/Winter Market: Nov thru March, 9am – 12pm

Mary Gauthier
2018-02-23 20:00
One of America’s most admired artists – across the US and…around the world.” The Wall Street Journal

There is nothing trivial about Mary Gauthier’s tenth album, Rifles and Rosary Beads (Thirty Tigers – release date Jan. 28th). All eleven songs were co-written with and for wounded veterans. Eleven of the nearly four hundred songs that highly accomplished songwriters have co-written as part of Darden Smith’s five-year-old SongwritingWith:Soldiers program.
None of the soldiers who have participated in the program have taken their own lives, and there’s nothing trivial about that. Something about writing that song – telling that story – is healing. What Smith calls post-traumatic-growth.
Award-winning songwriter of “Mercy Now,” Gauthier’s first nine albums presented extraordinary confessional songs, deeply personal, profoundly emotional pieces ranging from “I Drink,” a blunt accounting of addiction, to “March 11, 1962,” the day she was born – and relinquished to an orphanage – to “Worthy,” in which the singer finally understands she is deserving of love. Maybe that’s where the confessional song cycle ends, for she has midwifed these eleven new songs in careful collaboration with other souls whose struggle is urgent, immediate, and palpable. And none are about her.
SHOW WILL BEGIN WITH SHORT FILM: RIFLES AND ROSARY BEADS
Rifles & Rosary Beads is a short film about the power and beauty of turning trauma into art. It tells the story of one professional songwriters experience co-writing with Veterans and their families through the Songwriting;WithSoldiers program. Each song is a glimpse inside the heart and soul of a Veteran (or their spouse). The service members words bring listeners deep into the harrowing effects of war. Written honestly from a vulnerable place, songs like these can change wounded persons life by making beauty out of the beast. The process of co-writing them is deeply therapeutic for both the Veteran and the songwriter, but it’s not therapy. It is the making of art.
Sponsored by Jackson National Life
Presented by Franklin Theatre Live

Doubt: A Parable
2018-02-23 19:00
“What do you do when you’re unsure?” So asks John Patrick Shanley, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the literary masterpiece Doubt: A Parable. When an unthinkable accusation is leveled against Father Flynn, Sister Aloysius realizes that the only way to get justice is to create it herself. Join Studio Tenn in this Tony Award winning and Academy Award nominated drama that not only raises questions of uncertainties, but causes audiences to explore who they are, and who they become, in the face of adversity.
Friday, February 23 at 7 p.m.
FEBRUARY 15 – 25, 2018
See website for other dates and times.

Reruns are Fun Consignment – Volunteers Pre-Sale
2018-02-23 09:00
Reruns are Fun Spring/Summer Consignment Sale – Volunteers Pre-Sale

The Franklin Area’s Premiere Consignment Sale
​​​Since 1990 Reruns Are Fun Consignment has been selling quality name brand clothing, shoes, accessories, equipment, furniture, and more at a fraction of the original cost! Brands include: Gap, Gymboree, Janie & Jack, Matilda Jane, Abercrombie, Aeropostale, etc. We also have great vendors offering new merchandise and great services.

Visit https://www.rerunsarefunsale.com/ for more information.

Doubt: A Parable
2018-02-22 19:00
“What do you do when you’re unsure?” So asks John Patrick Shanley, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the literary masterpiece Doubt: A Parable. When an unthinkable accusation is leveled against Father Flynn, Sister Aloysius realizes that the only way to get justice is to create it herself. Join Studio Tenn in this Tony Award winning and Academy Award nominated drama that not only raises questions of uncertainties, but causes audiences to explore who they are, and who they become, in the face of adversity.
Thursday, February 22 at 7 p.m.
FEBRUARY 15 – 25, 2018
See website for other dates and times.

Brightstone’s 16th Annual Songwriter’s Night
2018-02-21 17:30 - 21:30
BrightStone’s 2018 Songwriters Night featuring Michael W. Smith
A night of talented musicians and amazing food, heartfelt stories from our students and their families…Songwriters Night promises to be a moving and entertaining evening you’ll never forget. This year’s event features Michael W. Smith and friends!
Please visit BrightStone Songwriter’s Night for tickets and additional information.

An Evening of Jazz & Chocolate
2018-02-18 19:00
Valentine’s weekend, indulge in gourmet chocolates provided by Paul’s Chocolate and Schakolad Chocolate Factory while enjoying the velvet vocal stylings of jazz recording artist, Debbie Cunningham, and her band. You will hear classic jazz standards, bossa nova, and blues, as well as some new songs from her latest release: A Million Kisses. Ms. Cunningham has been featured in Women in Entertainment and MORE magazines, and has been described as both a powerful and engaging entertainer with a unique jazz styling that is soulful and sultry, yet elegant.
To purchase tickets and for more information, please visit An Evening of Jazz & Chocolate and http://debbiecunninghamjazz.com/

Saul Zonana and Friends - Up Close and Personal
2018-02-17 20:00
FOUR ARTISTS that you’ve known for years, playing their own original songs, up close and personal, sharing their stories and then joining together to play the music that influenced them.
GORDON KENNEDY (writer of “Change The World”)
ROB ARTHUR (Peter Frampton)
SAUL ZONANA (Adrian Belew)
ADAM LESTER (Peter Frampton)
See Saul Zonana and Friends – Up Close and Personal for more information.

SUZY BOGGUSS
2018-02-17 20:00
Grammy winning singer-songwriter, Suzy Bogguss, is one of country music’s enduring treasures. In the 1990s, Bogguss sold 4 million records with radio hits like “Outbound Plane,” “Someday Soon,” “Letting Go,” and “Drive South.” In the midst of her country popularity she took time off for projects like the duets album with the legendary Chet Atkins, an album of modern swing music with Ray Benson of Asleep At The Wheel, and an album of original music landed her at number 4 on the jazz charts. Her folk music roots show through in her frequent appearances on Public Radio’s, “A Prairie Home Companion,” and in her critically acclaimed album and book project from 2011, “American Folk Songbook.” In 2014, she released Lucky, a collection of songs written by Merle Haggard and interpreted through Suzy’s crystal vocals from the female point of view. Her latest offering, Aces Redux, is a re-recording of her platinum selling album Aces produced by Suzy with fresh arrangements and her sparkling vocals.

Recent highlights for Bogguss include touring this year with the “Chicks With Hits” show with Terri Clark and Pam Tillis, she recently recorded with Tommy Emmanuel, and one of Bogguss’ Christmas songs was recorded by Blake Shelton for his latest holiday album.
Sponsored by Jackson National Life
Presented by Franklin Theatre Live

Franklin on Foot - Psychic Ghost Walk
2018-02-17 19:00 - 21:00
Featuring Psychic Medium, Janet Lemley
Franklin, TN – Franklin on Foot’s walking tours have been a local favorite since 2003, but they’re about to do something for the first time. On Saturday, February 10th, and Saturday, February 17th, they will host a special event, billed as a Psychic Ghost Walk. The night tour will be led by veteran guide Alicia King Marshall, and feature celebrated psychic medium, Janet Lemley.
“We’ll walk through the haunted streets of historic Franklin as the medium delivers messages and shares her impressions along the way,” says Franklin on Foot owner, Margie Thessin. She adds, “We’re happy to welcome Janet Lemley to Franklin. She’s a gifted psychic and I’m excited to see if she’ll connect with some of Franklin’s more colorful past residents.”
The two-hour tour will begin at 7:00pm. Cost is $60 per person, and is not recommended for anyone under sixteen.
They encourage anyone interested to act quickly, as they’re limiting this event to 25 guests. Tickets can be purchased online at franklinonfoot.com.
About Franklin on Foot: Franklin on Foot is the area’s top walking tour provider. Founded in 2003 by Margie Thessin, they lead various tours, including children’s, Civil War, general history, crime, and Southern food. Franklin on Foot has won many awards, and was recognized by Expertise as The Best Local Tour in Nashville for 2017.

Wine in the Winter
2018-02-17 16:00 - 20:00
3rd Annual Wine in the Winter!
Tickets for the 3rd Annual Wine in the Winter are on sale now at www.WineInTheWinter.com. The event will be held on Saturday, February 17th from 4:00pm to 8:00pm at the Hilton Nashville Downtown. Ticket proceeds will benefit local charity The DISTRICT.
Wine in the Winter will be modeled after its sister event, Wine on the River, now in its 16th year. Attendees will be able to take a break from the cold and sample nearly 100 different wine, beer and spirit beverages in a Winter Wonderland setting in the heart of downtown Nashville.
Lipman Brothers, the official beverage sponsor of Wine in the Winter will be providing all wine, beer and spirit tasting samples. Established in 1939, Lipman Brothers was the first distributor of wine and spirits in Middle Tennessee. For any press inquiries regarding Lipman Brothers, please contact Bethany Underwood. B.underwood@lipmanbrothers.com
Advance General Admission tickets are $69 (plus tax) per person and include a souvenir wine glass and all wine, beer, and spirit samples. Day-Of General Admission tickets are $75 (plus tax) per person and will only be available if advanced tickets have not sold out. Designated Driver Tickets are $25 (plus tax) and DO NOT include a souvenir wine glass, wine, beer, or spirit samples. VIP tickets are $125 (plus tax), only 50 spots available, and include an hour long private wine tasting instruction, beginning at 3pm, prior to the start of the event, a specialized Reidel wine glass and all wine, beer, and spirit samples. General Admission Tickets and Designated Driver Tickets, and VIP Tickets can be purchased online at www.WineInTheWinter.com.
Wine in the Winter is proud to maintain a charitable component by contributing proceeds and collaborating with The DISTRICT. The DISTRICT is a private non-profit organization dedicated to economic and community revitalization of three historic districts in Downtown Nashville. Its programs seek to foster and stimulate growth of a district identity, community spirit, civic pride and unity. Connect with The DISTRICT on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheDistrictNashville
Wine in the Winter is presented by Lipman Brothers, Hilton Nashville Downtown and iHeartRadio. This event is sponsored by Marquee Rentals, Nashville Lifestyles, and Do61
