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The Station Inn

A compact Nashville room for bluegrass, roots and Americana, built around close listening and communal picking.

Upcoming shows
225
Capacity
140
Address
402 12th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203
Phone
(615) 255-3307
Next show
Sun, 15 Nov 2026
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The Station Inn in Nashville

About The Station Inn

The Station Inn is a roughly 140-capacity listening room in Nashville’s Gulch, with bluegrass at the center and roots and Americana on the edges. Its clearest calling card is a Sunday Bluegrass Jam: musicians form a picking circle while observers gather around it. The room also uses seats from a Flatt & Scruggs tour bus, a physical link between the club’s compact scale and its musical lineage.

Built by pickers, captured live

Seven bluegrass musicians and singers — Bob and Ingrid Fowler, Marty and Charmaine Lanham, Jim Bornstein, and Red and Bird Lee Smith — founded the Station Inn in 1974 so fellow players and fans could hear bluegrass. The owners served as its house band, with jam-session players joining the activity. In 1978, the club moved from near Centennial Park to its present 12th Avenue South home; J.T. Gray bought it in 1981 with an aim toward national recording acts alongside local artists.

One sharply preserved Station Inn night came on April 2, 1987, when the Bluegrass Cardinals recorded their live album On Stage in Nashville there. The group rehearsed in advance, recorded directly to two-track tape, and retained only one a cappella-gospel overdub. Band member Larry Stephenson recalled a packed house of fans and friends, capturing the room’s value as a place where a touring group could turn a performance into a document.

The room now

The program combines ticketed concerts with the free Bluegrass Jam, whose participation welcomes every skill level and focuses on guitar, fiddle, mandolin, dobro, bass and related bluegrass instruments. Expect bluegrass first, plus roots and Americana bills. The entire venue occupies one floor and includes front-door ramp access. The bar opens ahead of shows and serves beer, coffee, tea, soft drinks, pizza, garlic knots and snacks, making the experience feel closer to a neighborhood music room than a large-format concert hall.

Sources

  1. Information – Station Inn — The Station Inn
  2. Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Exhibition ‘The Station Inn: Bluegrass Beacon’ Will Spotlight Venerable Nashville Club — Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
  3. Earl “J. T.” Gray — Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum
  4. On This Day #64 – The Bluegrass Cardinals On Stage In Nashville — Bluegrass Today

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