Business Description from the Web
Bands and fans from pack this gritty live music locale a few blocks from Broadway.
Tips About This Business
The club offers salads, sandwiches and hot dogs to a downtown lunch crowd from 11am to 3pm and during shows in the evenings.
Check out up-and comers for no cover charge on New Artist Night each Tuesday.
As one of Nashville's few smoke-free venues, The Rutledge keeps the air clear with an outdoor courtyard for smokers.
Editorial Reviews from the web
In Short Named for Rutledge Hill where it stands, this downtown music venue's nightly calendar crosses genres from indie rock to country. Up to 250 patrons pack against this cavernous space's stacked stone and exposed brick walls, shouting orders across the long copper-topped bar. When bands take the stage in front of a black-curtained wall, fans crowd the split-level room's standing...
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Posted by Contributor
on April 21, 2009, (Edited March 06, 2007)
Other Reviews from the web
Great! This place is the first iun Nashville to compete with Mercy Lounge in my opinion. Sound was good, great atmosphere, nice outdoor area, and great lighting for the stage. Loved it.
My only complaint is that they weren't serving food... on a Friday night. That surprised me. So you may want to eat before going there.
Pros
+ Atmosphere, Stage/lighting, Sound
Cons
- Parking, No food...
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Posted by blueintn
on April 21, 2009, (Edited January 13, 2007)
Well, I have heard about this place from my husband, then it turns out that the band he plays for, Eric Lee Band, had a show there on the 30th of December. This place is awesome, the waitresses are great, & friendly, the sound is wonderful and it is clean and smoke free....let me say that again...CLEAN and SMOKE FREE! It was great...if you need a place to go to hear the best local bands...
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Posted by alicen
on April 21, 2009, (Edited January 01, 2007)
Love it, love it, love it! I would never have gone, but a friend's band was playing there and I'm so glad I did...now I'll seek out bands playing there and maybe go by for lunch. The best new music venue in town, in my opinion...CLEAN, warm, inviting, the staff is friendly and act like they're actually glad to have your business as opposed to the "we're so hip we don't give a #$%@ whether you...
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Posted by nashgrl
on April 21, 2009, (Edited December 17, 2006)