March 11, 2019

Ray Stevens CabaRay upcoming Season...

Hello one and all...a month ago I created a blog centering around the upcoming season of concerts at the Ray Stevens CabaRay dinner theater in West Nashville. I posted it on February 10th. Now that we've arrived at March 11th we're several days away from the showroom's first concert of the 2019 season. The concert will take place on March 14th (this coming Thursday). If you're seriously planning on attending that first concert of the 2019 season visit the venue's calendar and make your ticket purchase. They have a reliable Will Call service...for those not familiar with that phrase it's a service that holds purchased tickets and they're given to the customer at the box office. You'll have to supply a confirmation number, obviously, when you go and pick up the tickets at the box office...but yes, when I attended a concert there last March I used their Will Call service because I can't depend on the postal system to be timely.

Calendar you may ask? You can visit the CabaRay website by clicking HERE.

Once there you'll see the calendar. You can browse all the 2019 concert dates by simply clicking the forward arrows to flip to the next month, etc. etc. Each date that features a concert will be circled and if you click one of those concert dates you'll get more specific information. If you plan on visiting Nashville in the summer, for example, click the calendar forward to the summer months and select a date. You can also call the box office if you already have a concert date selected should you choose not to purchase through the on-line method. That number is 615-327-4630. A lot of the concerts during the first half of the 2019 season will take place every week on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Eventually the concerts will be held only on Friday and Saturday night (just like last season).


A week ago (March 4th) Ray uploaded a guided tour of the CabaRay. There have been visual tours of the showroom in the past but this is the first one that features Ray walking around the showroom and discussing the interior and the people in the photo's. The footage comes from an episode of CabaRay Nashville (originally aired on PBS in March of 2018). It was an episode titled Hall of Fame and in it Ray walks around the CabaRay and speaks of the producers. Performance clips of various guest artists singing songs associated with those producers were inserted throughout that episode which is why in the clip below you'll hear applause in between some of the edits/fade-ins.



A similar video clip emerged on YouTube a couple of days later. It was not a guided tour but more of the story of the CabaRay's inspiration with photos from the CabaRay appearing on screen. Ray speaks of the various record producers just as in the previous video clip and mentions the plaque containing his message about the showroom's purpose but each clip has it's own pace and each are distinct from the other in spite of each clip covering, more or less, the same ground.


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