Theater
The Basement East
Live music venue whose mural wall survived a direct tornado hit and still hosts touring acts.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Basement East in Nashville follows the small mural painted on its east wall, and the night in March twenty twenty when an EF-three tornado tore through the building around it. It traces the mural back to Nashville artist Adrien Saporiti and his I Believe in Nashville series, then to the venue itself, built by owners Mike Grimes and Dave Brown as a stage for touring and local acts like John Prine and Brandi Carlile. You will hear what the staff found when they returned, and what a later award called their comeback.
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