Pre-Conference Nashville Sight-Seeing Tour
Friday, June 27, 2008
8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Tickets: $38.00 per person*
* Per person cost includes admission and tour of Country Music Hall of Fame and Nashville driving tour. Tickets can be purchased with conference registration.
On this exciting tour guests will get to look at the many faces that make up our great city. First, it's a driving tour through historic downtown: see Riverfront Park, Fort Nashboro, The District, Second Avenue, The Ryman Auditorium, Printer's Alley, Bicentennial Mall, Tennessee State Museum and The State Capitol, to name a few. Before leaving downtown, guests will take a few minutes to stop at Bicentennial Mall to see Tennessee’s newest state park. The 19-acre park is designed to complement the Tennessee Capitol Building, give visitors a taste of Tennessee’s history and natural wonder, and to serve as a lasting monument to Tennessee’s Bicentennial celebration.
After viewing the sites of the downtown area, the next stop is the Country Music Hall of Fame. Rated as Nashville’s number one visitor attraction, this world-famous museum offers a behind the scenes look at country music and brings its fascinating history to life. Country music fans are surrounded by the glamour of their favorite country stars as they browse through the giant collection of dazzling costumes, personal items, rare photographs, musical instruments and recordings by major stars from Gene Autry and Kenny Rogers to Johnny Cash and Barbara Mandrell. Next, it’s a driving tour through Music Row. Guests will see such institutions as Sony Music, Broadcast Music International (BMI), Starstruck Entertainment (Reba McEntire’s production complex) and many other fundamental organizations in the music industry.
The ensuing journey takes guests to Centennial Park, home of the Parthenon; the only full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens Greece. Built for the Centennial Celebration of Tennessee, the stunning structure stands as a monument to the many educational institutions of Nashville, known as the Athens of the South.
