Destination: Tennessee Meeting & Event Planning City Guide
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Hutton Hotel
1808 West End Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, 37203
247
14,000 sq ft
Nashville's only four-star property, recipient of Smart Meetings' Platinum Choice Award and named to both the T+L 500 and the Conde Nast Traveler Hot List. 247 guest rooms and 14,000 square feet of flexible meeting space with amazing views of the Nashville skyline.
Destination Articles
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Tennessee's Perfect Pitch
By Maxine Cass
October 23, 2012
This is a tale of Nashville and Memphis, two Mid-South river cities where gospel, country music, soul music and blues made a home and rock 'n' roll laid its roots. There has been more than a century of music echoing through clubs and honky-tonks. There are museums dedicated to country stars, recording studios past and present, headliners onstage at revered music venues, and stories of stars from nowhere making it big and leaving indelible imprints- Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash among them. Today's singers, guitar pickers and bands guarantee that the wailing, crooning and plucking never stops in these two midsize meeting cities.
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The Meeting Waltz
By Josef Aukee
May 31, 2012
Pure country. Corn bread and hush puppies. Loretta Lynn and Elvis Presley. The Civil Rights Movement and the Scopes trial. Wait a minute. Downtown cool. FedEx, Nissan North America and HCA Holdings headquarters. Seared ahi, local trout and craft cocktails. A James Beard nominee at The Barn at Blackberry Farm. Jack White, Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman. What’s going on here?
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Tennessee Tradition
By Jessie Fetterling
April 30, 2012
Tucked away in eastern Tennessee is an area so enchanting that locals fought against giving it up to the national park system. Back in the late 1800s, several national parks were fashioned out of already government-owned land that no one wanted to live on, but the parts that now make up Great Smoky Mountains National Park were different. The thousands of acres of towering trees and rich soil were once owned by small farmers and a few timber and paper companies that knew the value of the land. Although it took about 30 years to come to an agreement, in 1926 a national park was born—one that to this day lures 8–10 million visitors each year, the highest number of any national park in the U.S.
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Snapshot: A Little Bit Country...
By Nikki Gloudeman
October 31, 2011
Last year, the Black Keys moved there. The Kings of Leon, Kesha and Ben Folds got their start there. And Jack White, of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs fame, lives there and runs his own music label/record store/recording space downtown.
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Rhythm & Rhapsody
By Nikki Gloudeman
May 31, 2011
In spirit and character, Tennessee evokes the music it’s famous for, with rolling green hills and rivers as achingly beautiful as a bluegrass song, bustling metropolises as vitalizing as rock ‘n’ roll, and hearty food as soulful as the blues.
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Music and Meetings
By Stephanie Green
October 28, 2010
Bluegrass music is to Kentucky what country music is to Tennessee. Both handmade and heartfelt, but distinctively different, just as the places in which they have their roots.
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In spirit and character, Tennessee evokes the music it’s famous for, with rolling green hills and rivers as achingly beautiful as a bluegrass song, bustling metropolises as vitalizing as rock ‘n’ roll, and hearty food as soulful as the blues.
Each geographic pocket in the state offers something at once unique and distinctly Tennessean. The setting shifts from culturally rich cities to vast expanses of nature framed by the Smoky Mountains to attraction-laden towns with a healthy dose of down-home charm. No matter where you go, there is a warmth of spirit that’s embracing: This is a place where drawling locals treat strangers like family, and graciousness is as ubiquitous as the sounds of fiddle, guitar and mandolin. Like the best songs, the state provides an authentic experience that invites you in and doesn’t let go.
