All About the Bluebird
So, my friend Caroline Mulligan and I have done some pretty fun things together. We’re both really spontaneous and passionate and feel strongly that life should be lived every day and we definitely bring it out in each other. Lucky for me, she’s usually the first one to suggest something and I can just go right along! The best adventure we’ve had was probably sneaking into the CMA’s (which I will totally relive in another post for y’all) BUT our most recent adventure definitely comes pretty close. We went to the Bluebird Café last night!! If you’ve never heard of the Bluebird, it is an iconic, tiny music venue in the most random part of Nashville (fun fact it is actually right by the Whole Foods where I usually grocery shop). The biggest, most prestigious names in country music have at least spent one or a few nights at the Bluebird. It is also where a lot of new talent is found; there is a highly intensive audition process for performing at the open mic nights
It was actually my second time going, the first being my first ever visit to Nashville (and we wonder why I fell in love with the city…) but that time we had bought tickets ahead of time and last night we just got there a few hours early and waited in line! Also lucky for me, my friend Caroline is such a social person that we were chatting away with the two women behind us the whole time, making the wait in the cold fly by! Also, I was running late because I was at Guides on Ice, which was essentially just that Tour Guides bought us all tickets to go ice skating at the Centennial Sportsplex-so fun. Caroline got in line at the Bluebird an hour before me because she rocks. She ended up being first in line since she got there so early and we were the first ones in from the walk-in line!
And the music was just incredible. I didn’t recognize their names but I definitely recognized a few of the songs they played. Additionally, one performed a song he wrote that Lee Brice just decided to cut for his upcoming album! The song was incredible and I can’t wait to hear Lee Brice sing it, knowing I heard the original songwriter performing it at the Bluebird café. For country music lovers, it just doesn’t get any cooler than that!
