As always, there are a great variety of excellent live music performances happening around town this week, as well as other cultural events to take your mind off of the dwindling daylight and decreasing temperatures.
Friday 11/10
Singer/songwriter/one man jam band Keller Williams is performing at City Hall tonight at 9 p.m. See cityhallnashville.com for tickets and details.
Andy Warhol fans will not want to miss the Films at the Frist series’s presentation of “Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture,” a documentary about the artist featuring rare audio and video clips. The screening is free and begins at 7 p.m. See fristcenter.com for details.
Saturday 11/11
Get a head start on some unique Christmas shopping at the 46th Annual Christmas Village Art and Crafts Show at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds. The show features work from over 250 artists and benefits Vanderbilt’s Bill Wilkerson Center. See christmasvillage.org for details.
Akron, Ohio-based rock duo The Black Keys are performing tonight at Mercy Lounge with The Black Angels. The show starts at 9:30 p.m. See mercylounge.com for tickets and details.
Sunday 11/12
Southern rockers Gov’t Mule are headlining tonight at the Ryman, with a supporting performance from Donavon Frankenreiter, the singer/songwriter/surfer contemporary of Jack Johnson. The show starts at 7 p.m. See ryman.com for tickets and details.
New Orleans experimental-ambient-electro-alternative rock band and Internet favorites Mute Math are performing with The Whigs tonight at City Hall at 8 p.m. See cityhallnashville.com for tickets and details.
Monday 11/13
The Friday night headliners at last year’s Rites of Spring Festival, My Morning Jacket, are in town tonight for a performance at the Ryman. The Louisville rockers are supported by Wax Fang, and the show begins at 7:30 p.m. See ryman.com for tickets and details.
Tuesday 11/14
Two new exhibitions recently opened at the Frist Center: wood sculptor Bob Trotman’s “Model Citizens” and “Extra-Ordinary,” a collection of the everyday object in art from the Whitney Museum of American Art. See fristcenter.com for more details.
Wednesday 11/15
Underground hip-hop favorites Jurassic 5 are performing tonight at City Hall at 8:30 p.m. See cityhallnashville.com for tickets and details.
NYC-based Russian singer/songwriter Regina Spektor is also in town this evening, playing an 18+ show at Exit/In at 8 p.m. See exitin.com for tickets and details.
Thursday 11/16
As a part of the International Education Week, the Vanderbilt International Student and Scholar Services department will be screening Deepa Mehta’s film “Water” in Sarratt Cinema at 6 p.m. The event also features a discussion of the film with Art History professor Jinah Kim and food from Taste of India.
