Day 10 - Friday, September 19
We drove downtown and parked near the river and walked for a while. There is a huge new park being constructed along the riverfront. We wandered through the historic 2nd Avenue area which had a nice atmosphere and around midday the live music started in all Lower Broadway bars - mainly solo or duos at this time of day, so it was lower key than the more raucous feel of the previous evening. Many places were filling up with a lunchtime crowd.
We stopped at a place called Rippy's where there was a nice male/female duo playing and singing - songs which were very familiar to most of the clientele if not to us.
After lunch we left Nashville to head up into Kentucky. We were staying in Central City in order to spend the evening at a place called Rosine - it was about 30 miles away but this was the nearest decent hotel we could find.
I'd read that every Friday evening in a big barn in Rosine local musicians gather to play bluegrass music. It sounded like it might be entertaining.
Rosine is a tiny place and we had no problem finding the barn - a number of vehicles outside and the place about 3/4 full inside.
It could have been a highlight of the trip but, to be honest, the music wasn't great although the atmosphere was nice and people-watching the locals was interesting. A number of oldish guys in bib overalls with long beards - who looked like they'd come straight from the fields.
To our dismay we found that this is a dry county so the only refreshment on offer was coke and popcorn.
After a couple of hours or so we headed off to nearby Beaver Dam where we found an old chrome-style diner with red/black/white interior. Lovely.
We drove downtown and parked near the river and walked for a while. There is a huge new park being constructed along the riverfront. We wandered through the historic 2nd Avenue area which had a nice atmosphere and around midday the live music started in all Lower Broadway bars - mainly solo or duos at this time of day, so it was lower key than the more raucous feel of the previous evening. Many places were filling up with a lunchtime crowd.
We stopped at a place called Rippy's where there was a nice male/female duo playing and singing - songs which were very familiar to most of the clientele if not to us.
After lunch we left Nashville to head up into Kentucky. We were staying in Central City in order to spend the evening at a place called Rosine - it was about 30 miles away but this was the nearest decent hotel we could find.
I'd read that every Friday evening in a big barn in Rosine local musicians gather to play bluegrass music. It sounded like it might be entertaining.
Rosine is a tiny place and we had no problem finding the barn - a number of vehicles outside and the place about 3/4 full inside.
It could have been a highlight of the trip but, to be honest, the music wasn't great although the atmosphere was nice and people-watching the locals was interesting. A number of oldish guys in bib overalls with long beards - who looked like they'd come straight from the fields.
To our dismay we found that this is a dry county so the only refreshment on offer was coke and popcorn.
After a couple of hours or so we headed off to nearby Beaver Dam where we found an old chrome-style diner with red/black/white interior. Lovely.
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