Sources and check dates.
Nash Hat is a Nashville guide. It matches you to real places and dated shows, lets you save them, and helps you build a day you can share.
What’s in the guide
A growing guide to real places and ongoing programs. Each listing links to an official venue, public agency, or organizer. We record each source’s review date on its listing for the general offering. Published hours are reference information, not a live open/closed check.
What we check, and what we don’t
We keep the source, check date, practical requirements, and our suggestions separate. Live music listings come from venue calendars and web search of official sources. These are a selection, not a complete city calendar. We do not have measured noise data, ticket inventory, or booking access. Source checks do not guarantee today’s hours or availability. Confirm with the organizer before making a commitment.
Your ideas and plans
Separate local profiles keep their own preferences, saved ideas and draft plans in this browser. Optional sign-in can sync supported records after you choose to import them. Without sign-in, your data stays on this device. Clearing browser data can remove it. Use the planner’s copy or calendar export for a separate copy.
How Hatch works
Hatch writes most answers with an OpenAI model, given only Nash Hat’s sourced listings and dated shows. Some questions get a fixed answer built straight from those listings with no model at all: what is on tonight, the weather, road reports, and any message about being unsafe, which always leads with 988 and 911. Your question, recent conversation, preferences, saved IDs and active plan help personalize the answer. Changes to your saved ideas and plans require a button press. Hatch cannot book, buy, or contact a venue for you.
National Weather Service forecasts help suggest weather-appropriate alternatives. Live TDOT SmartWay reports show incidents and roadwork near your stops. These are not route congestion measurements. Route travel-time estimates require a separate provider connection; Hatch never invents congestion or journey times.
The Local Mix
Recent publisher headlines help you follow local music, openings, style and culture. Your chosen interests, saved spots, quiz choices and broad activity topics shape the order on your device. You can pause learning, clear learned topics or mute a subject. Coverage counts describe our connected feeds, not social-media popularity. Explore the mix and its sources.
Commercial relationships
No paid placements or affiliate links are included in this catalog. Any future paid relationship should be disclosed where the recommendation appears.
Who checks the listings, and how
Brian Martori, who runs Martori Studio in Nashville, checks the named places in the guide by hand: each one's own website has to be live, current and dated, and its address has to match a public map record. The rest of the map comes from Metro Nashville GIS and OpenStreetMap, and those places say so on their page; they are not checked by hand. A script rereads each listed place's own site and flags anything that looks closed, moved or paused; Brian decides every change, and nothing is removed or added automatically. Show listings are read from venue calendars several times a day and show the date they were fetched. Something wrong or out of date? Write to hello@martori.studio.
How often
Venue calendars are read every six hours, and Tonight and This Weekend rebuild from them every ten minutes. A show listing older than 36 hours shows "Checking" instead of a time until the next read confirms it. Each place shows the date it was last checked; places are rechecked against their own sites oldest first.
Who makes Nash Hat
Nash Hat is built and run by Martori Studio, a small software studio in Nashville. Nobody pays to be listed.
Built by Martori. See how the studio works.
Our sources
Find the official source and check date beside each place. The coverage page explains connected directories, community calendars and the gaps we still have.
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Explore the guide
A bigger city picture. Clear sources.
Nash Hat brings 4,464 place records and editorial ideas into one guide. Coverage is growing; a record is a starting point to check, not a promise that a place is open.
Where the place details come from
- Neighborhood kitchens & bars
- 70 venue records reviewed against their official sites on October 21, 2026, across 17 Nashville areas. Existing records keep their IDs when primary sources improve the neighborhood, category and address. Reviewed Census address matches supply approximate pins; an unmatched address stays unpinned. Confirmed closures leave active discovery while previously saved links keep a closure notice. This is a growing inventory, not a complete census of restaurants or bars.
- Explore neighborhood nights
- Downtown destination directory
- 674 published dining, nightlife, shopping and arts records from Nashville Downtown Partnership, collected 2026-10-21. Matching nearby records retain their existing IDs; additional destinations join Places, search and the map. Collection does not confirm current operating status, admission or opening hours.
- Explore the source directory
- Community map
- 1,990 named public points of interest in Davidson County, collected 2026-10-14. Names, coordinates, websites and reported hours/access flags come from OpenStreetMap. Missing details stay unknown.
- Browse the dataOpenStreetMap attribution & license
- Nearby towns & day trips
- 1,670 community-mapped destinations across 10 surrounding counties, collected 2026-10-14. Nearby records carry a town or county label so you can distinguish them from Nashville city stops. This is selected regional coverage, not every destination.
- Williamson County, Wilson County, Sumner County, Rutherford County, Cheatham County, Robertson County, Maury County, Dickson County, Montgomery County, Bedford County.
- Browse the regional dataExplore nearby destinations
- Metro park records
- 129 records from Metro Nashville’s public park GIS, collected 2026-10-14. Reported amenities and hours enrich matching places; additional parks get their own record. Dataset flags do not confirm today’s conditions.
- Metro park sourceBrowse the park data
- Editorial guide & live lookups
- Focused place guides add first-visit advice and organizer links. Google Places and Foursquare lookups supplement the directory when connected. They are separate sources, with their own availability and coverage.
- Research with Hatch
What’s in the place guide
Shows and local reporting
The dated bill combines available venue calendars, stored listings and Ticketmaster when connected. A venue guide is not a claim that every event is collected. Publisher reports keep their source links and publication dates; those dates are not show dates.
Explore linked rooms and publishers
Community calendars beyond the music bill
Metro Parks’ public calendar and Nashville Public Library’s public event export add dated nature programs, crafts, book groups and family activities. Only explicit occurrences for the selected date are included. Ongoing exhibits, cancelled listings and unexpanded recurring schedules stay out; unknown prices remain unknown.
Open data for other tools
Today’s dated bill and the curated places are published as open JSON, each record with its source and check date: tonight.json and places.json. AI assistants can also read them through a read-only MCP server at https://nashhat.com/api/mcp. Please cite Nash Hat and the original source.
Check before making the trip
Hours, closures, prices, permits, accommodations and availability can change. Open the organizer’s website or the source attached to a place. Original discovery artwork shows an imagined activity; clicked place pages show actual sourced photography when available.
Send a correction or a missing placeFrom a feeling to a Nashville outing.
Find your fit starts with the kind of outing you want. Five choices follow your first answer: music, food, outdoors, art or people. Skip any question, return to edit it, or resume in the same browser.
- Get three sourced places with reasons drawn from your answers.
- Choose a starting point and save it in an untimed plan.
- Add a date and nearby stops. Check current hours, prices, entry rules and availability with the source.
What influences your picks?
Explicit activity, setting, free-only and alcohol-free requirements filter the catalog. Unknown details stay unknown; an empty shortlist does not silently relax a requirement. Your selected tastes and saves help order eligible places.
Your latest completed outing quiz can add interests to recommendations for seven days. Earlier quizzes remain in history. To keep an interest, select it in Your tastes. Outing requirements do not become permanent preferences. Music house and quiz progress belong to the active device profile. No account is required.
The optional music-house path
Find your music house for a separate room-preference match. It is not a personality diagnosis or a promise about a particular performance.
Nash Hat sorts you with a small preference model, not a personality myth. Five short questions add points to real Nashville houses. You can skip any question. We show the math.
- Each answer adds published points to one or more houses. Question 1 (sound) is weighted 1.2. The last question (range) is weighted 0.8. The rest are 1.0.
- The same answer also nudges six 0-100 scales: music taste, energy, social setting, budget, time of night, and mobility. Every scale starts at 50.
- Your house is the highest total. Ties break in this order: Songwriter Room, Roots and Records, Late Night, Honky-Tonk, Mother Church, Rooftop and Rowdy.
- Reasons come from the answers that added the most points to that house, in plain language.
- Skipped questions add nothing. One answer is enough to land a house. You can sort again from your profile.
The six scales
- Music taste. Traditional and roots to New and contemporary. Country, bluegrass, and songwriter rooms versus later, louder, or newer bills.
- Energy. Quiet and close to Loud and kinetic. How much volume and movement you want in the room.
- Social setting. Seated and intimate to Standing and social. A listening pew or table versus a packed floor.
- Budget. Free or cheap door to Ticketed night. Walk-in rooms versus reserved seats and special-night tickets.
- Time of night. Early evening to Late set. Writers' rounds and 8 p.m. shows versus rooms that wake up after 10.
- Mobility. Stay in one pocket to Cross town. One strip or neighborhood versus a ride to the right room.
The houses
- Honky-Tonk. Honky-tonks on and around Broadway: Robert's Western World, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, and Ole Red.
- Songwriter Room. The Bluebird Cafe, The Listening Room Cafe, and 3rd and Lindsley songwriter sets.
- Late Night. EXIT/IN, The End, The Basement East, The 5 Spot, and East Nashville rooms.
- Roots and Records. The Station Inn, Third Man Records, Vinyl Tap, and Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge.
- Rooftop and Rowdy. Ole Red's Lookout rooftop, Brooklyn Bowl Nashville, and Cannery Hall.
- Mother Church. Ryman Auditorium and the Grand Ole Opry House.
Published weights
What do you want to hear? weight 1.2
- Classic country from a bar stage: honky-tonk +5, rooftop-and-rowdy +1
- The person who wrote the song: songwriter-room +5, roots-and-records +2
- Bluegrass, vinyl, and old rooms: roots-and-records +5, songwriter-room +1
- A historic stage and a printed bill: mother-church +5, songwriter-room +1
How do you like the room? weight 1
- A hush and a chair: songwriter-room +4, roots-and-records +2, mother-church +1
- A stool, a band, a little bustle: honky-tonk +4, roots-and-records +2
- Standing, loud, a little late: late-night +5, rooftop-and-rowdy +2
- A big room and a view of the stage: mother-church +3, rooftop-and-rowdy +4
When does your night start? weight 1
- Early, before the city gets loud: songwriter-room +4, roots-and-records +2
- An 8 o'clock show: mother-church +4, songwriter-room +2
- Whenever the bar is already going: honky-tonk +4, rooftop-and-rowdy +2
- After 10, maybe later: late-night +5, rooftop-and-rowdy +1
What kind of night are you buying? weight 1
- No cover if I can help it: honky-tonk +3, roots-and-records +3
- A cheap door is fine: late-night +3, roots-and-records +2, honky-tonk +1
- A reserved seat: songwriter-room +4, mother-church +3
- A special-night ticket: mother-church +4, rooftop-and-rowdy +3
How far will you go tonight? weight 0.8
- Stay on one strip: honky-tonk +4, rooftop-and-rowdy +1
- One neighborhood is enough: late-night +3, songwriter-room +2, roots-and-records +1
- Across the river is fine: late-night +2, rooftop-and-rowdy +3, roots-and-records +1
- I will go where the room is: mother-church +3, songwriter-room +2, roots-and-records +2
Walking time
Walking time uses a straight-line distance between sourced map pins and 80 meters per minute. It is an estimate, not a street route, and it does not include lights, crowds, or door lines.
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