Live music in Downtown

A songwriter’s songwriter from the R&B side, in the room Nashville reserves for its own.

Daniel Donato learned this music standing on a Lower Broadway stage as a teenager; now he headlines the Ryman with it.

Brandi Carlile built an arena career out of songs that were never designed for arenas.

Family gospel sung the old way — four voices, a rhythm section, and no interest in being subtle.

Coloring Book was a gospel record disguised as a mixtape, and the Ryman is a defensible place to play it back.

Masego plays saxophone into his own R&B like a man who never agreed to pick a lane.

Taylor Momsen has spent a decade making straight-ahead hard rock in an era that mostly stopped bothering.

Ray LaMontagne revisits Trouble at twenty, in the room most likely to make that voice sound like the point.