Ascend Federal Credit Union Amphitheater

About this audio guide

This guide to Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville follows an unlikely stretch of Cumberland riverbank that spent thirty years as the site of a plant that burned the city's garbage to heat downtown offices. It traces the neighborhood pushback against the plant, its two thousand four demolition, and how the same acres now feed concertgoers barbecue and hot chicken instead. Listen for what a smokestack implosion and a plate of Nashville hot chicken have in common.