In fall 2026, Stay Nation will open the 4,400-capacity indoor music venue The Fact in Nashville.
“Stay Nation needed to ensure that we had been including one thing that was going to talk to the core of Nashville,” Sally Williams, president of Nashville Music & Enterprise Technique for Stay Nation, tells Billboard.
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The Fact will probably be led by common supervisor Mickey Davis, and can be a part of AJ Capital Companions’ 18-acre, mixed-use Wedgewood Village improvement in Nashville’s Wedgewood-Houston.
The venue will spotlight expertise starting from international headliners to native Nashville favorites representing an array of musical genres. The Fact, designed by Stay Nation’s in-house design and improvement group Blueprint Studio, will supply a versatile ground plan with three ranges in shut proximity to the stage, with configurations capable of accommodate capacities starting from 1,800 to 4,400, together with standing-room and fully-seated exhibits.
“That is going to offer us the pliability to host every thing from comedians who possibly don’t desire a standing room viewers to greater exhibits the place folks wish to stand,” Williams says. “We’ll shine the sunshine on Nashville, however we’re going to usher in the largest stars on the planet, too, from outdoors of Nashville.”
Williams famous that Stay Nation’s Blueprint Studio crew hung out in Nashville venues and spoke with Nashville artists, music trade members and historians in making a venue design supposed to honor Nashville’s neighborhood.
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All through, the venue can pay homage to Nashville’s music creators. The Fact takes its title from a quote from late nation songwriting legend Harlan Howard, who referred to as nation music “three chords and the reality.” Howard, often known as a author on classics together with Patsy Cline’s “I Fall to Items” and the Buck Owens hit “I’ve Bought a Tiger by the Tail,” can be honored by means of the venue’s whiskey bar, named Harlan’s. Howard’s signature quote can be emblazoned on the entrance of the venue’s constructing. Having Howard’s legacy represented inside the venue is a full-circle second for Williams, who remembers that when she first moved to Nashville, one of many first occasions she attended was the annual Harlan Howard Birthday Bash.
“It represents to me the neighborhood that I’ve discovered,” Williams says. “It was all of those songwriters singing their songs, and everybody supported. To have his quote, to have folks speaking about him, means they’re speaking about songwriters normally, which suggests they’re speaking in regards to the basis of our neighborhood. I’m past pleased with that, as a result of I believe these are issues that we, as a metropolis, have to carry on to.”
The Fact’s two-level, as much as 300-person capability listening lounge, Vinyl Room, will supply an area for gathering and listening to music. Williams tells Billboard that United Document Urgent will probably be concerned in curating vinyls to be displayed in The Fact, in addition to offering music for Vinyl Room and the venue’s 5 backstage dressing rooms. Williams says the Vinyl Room may also be an area that may maintain VIP listening periods and different comparable occasions.
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The foods and drinks menus will spotlight native Nashville whiskeys and spirits. In the meantime, Stay Nation teamed with Isle of Printing’s Bryce McCloud so as to add one other visible factor to the venue.
“We’re going to have an old-school letterpress printing set lists every evening for followers to purchase and take house,” Williams says. “Set lists are going to be our type of dwelling artwork exhibit backstage, too, as a result of each time a present performs right here, we’ll put the set record up and as we transfer alongside, it would inform our story visually.”
The backstage may also be outfitted with a household and pals suite overlooking the stage, a big crew lounge, an artist sport room/lounge, a multi-use manufacturing room and an intimate trade suite.
As a part of the venue’s launch, Stay Nation has additionally partnered to help Nashville Songwriters Affiliation Worldwide (NSAI) and the W.O. Smith Music College, aiding songwriters and the following technology of musicians.
Stay Nation additionally hopes to carry native music trade occasions on the venue, equivalent to trade awards and different charitable gatherings.
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“Persons are going to start to really feel like that is their venue, which is what they’re hoping for,” Williams says. “The mission has been to create one thing aside from the type of field with a stage that you could possibly put anyplace on the earth. We needed to do one thing utterly Nashville-centric.”
The Fact will be a part of different Stay Nation venues in Nashville, together with Brooklyn Bowl Nashville and Ascend Amphitheater.
Billboard‘s Stay Music Summit will probably be held in Los Angeles on Nov. 3. For tickets and extra data, go to https://www.billboardlivemusicsummit.com/2025/home-launch.
