creative Community

Nashville lives to build and create as exemplified by our vibrant urban core and intelligent, progressive creative community.

  Nashville’s unparalleled creative community—with a mash-up of musicians, artists, writers, developers and designers—translates into a tech scene unlike any other in America. 

Creative Community in the Nashville Region 

  • Nashville MSA is home to more than 630 arts, culture and humanities destinations

  • Nashville Made: a social enterprise celebrating and promoting Nashville makers and manufacturers

  • Nashville Design Week: annual week-long, city- wide series of events showcasing emerging design talent, making space for creative and critical conversations about our industry, and opening studio doors to the public in order to broaden and strengthen Nashville’s design community.

  • Nashville Fashion Week: an annual city-wide celebration of Nashville’s thriving fashion and retail community and its vast array of creative talent 

  • 490 downtown restaurants, bars, nightlife venues and coffee shops

  • 17,630 residents live in downtown Nashville

  • 78,000 people work in the downtown core

Vibrant tech scene

  • 62,876 tech jobs in the Nashville region with a $8 billion economic impact

  • 18% Projected Growth Rate For Tech Jobs In Middle Tennessee (2025-2027), Compared To 11% Projected National Tech Job Growth

  • 90+ tech meetups throughout the region

  • Nashville named one of Top Cities for Women in Tech (SmartAsset)

Area festivals & Events

 

3686 Entrepreneurship Festival 

African Street Festival 

Americana Music Festival 

Artober

Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival 

CMA Music Festival and Awards

Cherry Blossom Festival 

Dickens of a Christmas

Earth Day Festival

First Saturday Art Crawl

Jefferson Street Jazz & Blues Festival 

Live on the Green Music Festival 

Music City Brewer's Festival

Nashville Fashion Week 

Nashville Film Festival 

Nashville Hot Chicken Festival

Nashville Oktoberfest 

Nashville Pride 

Nashville Restaurant Week

Nashville Shakespeare Festival

Pilgrimage Music and Cultural Festival 

Taste of Williamson

Tennessee Craft Fair 

Tennessee State Fair

Uncle Dave Macon Days

Wilson County Fair

Nashville ranked #8 of Most Arts-Vibrant Communities in America

(NCAR Arts Vibrancy Index, 2023)

FRAnklin named #2 best city on the rise in the south

(Southern Living, 2024)