Earlier this month, Briston Maroney hosted the second annual Paradise Music Competition at Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl. Maroney, an acclaimed younger artist within the indie-alternative house, and Nashville transplant by means of Knoxville — who claims spectacular followers the likes of Jack White, and has grow to be well-known for his quirky bop “Freakin’ Out on the Interstate” — based the competition final 12 months, impressed by the concept of making a “home present” for the general public.
Within the spirit of different music and of Nashville as vibrant areas for inventive community-building, Paradise Fest was born. Although its first iteration unfold over two nights of Maroney-curated music, this 12 months supplied three nights of sold-out reveals. From Samia to Jack Van Cleaf, Skullcrusher to Hovvdy — for aficionados of indie artistry, of tapping into beloved alt musicians, and of discovering new ones, this occasion was nothing in need of paradise.
