Downtown
Ryman Auditorium
Theater · 116 5th Ave N
About This Venue
Home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974. Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Emmylou Harris — the pews are original and the acoustics were designed for the human voice before amplification existed. The most important room in American music, and it's on 5th Avenue North.
Whatever you're seeing here, the building is half the show. Even loud acts feel framed by the balcony, the pews, and 130 years of memory. The audience usually arrives knowing that.
Upcoming shows at Ryman Auditorium (101)
PickSoul / R&B
Thu Aug 27 · 9:00 PM
NE-YO
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
A songwriter’s songwriter from the R&B side, in the room Nashville reserves for its own.
PickCountry
Fri Aug 28 · 8:00 PM
Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Daniel Donato learned this music standing on a Lower Broadway stage as a teenager; now he headlines the Ryman with it.
PickHip-Hop
Sun Aug 30 · 8:00 PM
Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book 10 Year Anniversary Tour
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Coloring Book was a gospel record disguised as a mixtape, and the Ryman is a defensible place to play it back.
Rock
Tue Sep 1 · 7:30 PM
Rock The Ryman: Hosted by John Oates with Wynonna, Sam Bush, Rome from Sublime, Devon Allman, and Yola
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
PickVarious
Wed Sep 2 · 8:00 PM
Masego: Fix Your Face Tour
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Masego plays saxophone into his own R&B like a man who never agreed to pick a lane.
PickRock
Thu Sep 3 · 7:30 PM
The Pretty Reckless Dear God Tour
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Taylor Momsen has spent a decade making straight-ahead hard rock in an era that mostly stopped bothering.
PickSinger-Songwriter
Fri Sep 4 · 7:30 PM
Ray LaMontagne - Trouble 20th Anniversary Tour
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Ray LaMontagne revisits Trouble at twenty, in the room most likely to make that voice sound like the point.
PickRock
Wed Sep 9 · 7:30 PM
Roger Daltrey
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Daltrey at the Ryman is one of rock’s great voices in a room that will not let him hide behind volume.
PickRock
Thu Sep 10 · 7:30 PM
Little Feat: The Last Farewell Tour featuring Maggie Rose
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Little Feat’s last time through, playing the strangest, funkiest rhythms any American rock band ever made routine.
PickCountry
Fri Sep 11 · 8:00 PM
Paul Cauthen
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Paul Cauthen sings like a preacher who has read the whole book and decided to enjoy the bad parts.
PickSinger-Songwriter
Sun Sep 13 · 7:30 PM
The War and Treaty
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Michael and Tanya Trotter sing at each other with an intensity most duos would treat as a scene.
PickIndie / Alt
Thu Sep 17 · 7:30 PM
Ben Howard
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Ben Howard abandoned the acoustic-troubadour lane years ago, and the Ryman is a good place to hear where he went.
PickFolk / Americana
Fri Sep 18 · 8:00 PM
Alison Krauss and Union Station w/ Jerry Douglas
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Alison Krauss and Union Station back at the Ryman, playing the quietest music anyone sells out that room with.
Folk / Americana
Sat Sep 19 · 8:00 PM
Alison Krauss and Union Station w/ Jerry Douglas
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Folk / Americana
Sun Sep 20 · 8:00 PM
Alison Krauss and Union Station w/ Jerry Douglas
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
PickJazz / Blues
Mon Sep 28 · 8:00 PM
Geese - Getting Killed Again Tour
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Geese are young enough to still be figuring it out and good enough that the figuring is the best part.
PickCountry
Wed Sep 30 · 7:00 PM
Indigo Girls w/ Linda Perry
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have spent forty years proving two voices and two guitars is a complete band.
Singer-Songwriter
Thu Oct 1 · 8:00 PM
Ryan Beatty - Arms Over Armor North American Tour '26
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
PickFolk / Americana
Wed Oct 7 · 7:30 PM
Caamp
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Caamp write big-chorus folk songs for people who mostly want to sing along, and the Ryman is built for exactly that.
PickPop
Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM
Tom Jones
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
The voice is the last thing that was ever going to go, and it hasn’t.
PickRock
Thu Oct 15 · 8:00 PM
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit w/ Southern Avenue
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
The first of six Ryman nights, and opening night is when the band is still deciding what the run is going to be.
PickRock
Fri Oct 16 · 8:00 PM
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit w/ The Bo-Keys
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Six nights at the Ryman, a different opener on each one — tonight it is a Memphis soul band.
PickRock
Sat Oct 17 · 8:00 PM
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
The one night of the run with no support act, which means a longer set and fewer excuses.
PickRock
Thu Oct 22 · 8:00 PM
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit w/ Ben Nichols
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Lucero’s frontman opens solo, which sets up a night about two different ways of writing the same kind of damage.
PickRock
Fri Oct 23 · 8:00 PM
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit w/ Amy LaVere
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Amy LaVere opens with an upright bass and a voice that does not need to be raised to hold a room this size.
PickRock
Sat Oct 24 · 8:00 PM
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit w/ Tony Thomas Three
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
The final night of a six-show Ryman stand, which is usually when the setlist stops being careful.
PickVarious
Wed Oct 28 · 7:30 PM
Shenandoah
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Marty Raybon still has the voice, and those late-eighties records were better built than the format that produced them.
PickRock
Fri Oct 30 · 7:00 PM
Neko Case & Friends
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Neko Case has one of the great American voices and has always used it on songs that refuse to explain themselves.
PickCountry
Wed Nov 4 · 8:00 PM
Dwight Yoakam
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Dwight Yoakam has spent forty years proving that Bakersfield twang was never nostalgia.
PickRock
Sun Nov 8 · 7:30 PM
The Milk Carton Kids Fall Tour
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Two guitars, two voices, and a great deal of silence — the Ryman was built for exactly this.
PickCountry
Thu Nov 12 · 7:30 PM
Lauren Alaina
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Lauren Alaina came up through television and has spent the years since proving she can hold a room without it.
PickCountry
Sat Nov 21 · 8:00 PM
Punch Brothers
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Five acoustic instruments arranged like a string quartet that grew up on bluegrass and never chose a side.
Rock
Mon Nov 30 · 7:30 PM
The Allman Betts Family Revival: A DECADE OF REVIVAL
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
PickCountry
Sat Dec 5 · 8:00 PM
The Mavericks
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Raul Malo's voice is the best argument anyone has made for refusing to pick a genre.
PickVarious
Sun Dec 6 · 7:00 PM
Andrew Peterson
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Peterson's December show has become a fixture on the Nashville Christian-folk calendar, and the Ryman is where it belongs.
PickCountry
Thu Dec 10 · 7:30 PM
Little Big Town
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
Four voices that have spent twenty years proving harmony is a lead instrument.
PickPop
Wed Dec 16 · 7:30 PM
Amy Grant w/ Vince Gill
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
The longest-running Christmas residency in town, held by two people who have nothing left to prove and keep showing up anyway.
PickCountry
Mon Dec 21 · 7:30 PM
Lady A
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
A trio built on a single interlocking blend, playing the room that exposes whether a blend is real.
PickPop
Wed Dec 23 · 7:30 PM
Amy Grant w/ Vince Gill
Ryman Auditorium · Downtown
The last night of the run, on the eve of the eve, which is when this show has always hit hardest.
