The Bluebird Cafe is featured in the new ABC-TV series “Nashville”, starring Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere, Robert Wisdom, Powers Boothe, Clare Bowen, Charles Esten and Jonathan Jackson.

Toby Keith performs at The Bluebird Cafe with co-writers Scotty Emerick & Bobby Pinson as part of The Birdsongs series. The show was a benefit for The Bluebird – the proceeds provide needed bathrooms upgrades.

“The Johns” (John Rich & John Anderson) perform at The Bluebird Cafe as part of The Birdsongs series, benefitting the club.

Garth Brooks is inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York where he is quoted as saying, “You might think this [induction] is it, but trust me, the way The Bluebird is run, the songwriters are king. If the whole entertainment world understood that, we’d all be so much better off, because they get it.”

The Bluebird Cafe Stage is featured on the new Country Throwdown Tour presented by 4fini, creators of the Warped tour.

Original owner and founder Amy Kurland transfers ownership of the legendary venue to the Nashville Songwriters Association International. More of a donation than a corporate sale, Kurland saw NSAI’s mission to “educate, elevate and celebrate songwriters” as a way to continue the Bluebird’s relationship to songwriters and to the community.

Kris Kristofferson performs his first BB show with members of his original band including Billy Swan, Stephen Bruton Chris Gantry and Donnie Fritts to announce the pending sale of The Bluebird to the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI). Katie Couric interviews Amy on on CBS news about her retirement and sale of The Bluebird to NSAI.

• Dreamworks Records’ Scott Borchetta sees 15 year old Taylor Swift perform for the first time and invites her to be a part of his new venture – a label to be called Big Machine Label Group.• The Bluebird Cafe partners with Vanderbilt’s Dyer Observatory to present an annual outdoor concert series, Bluebird on the Mountain.

The Bluebird Cafe begins an annual summer songwriters performance series at Robert Redford’s Sundance Resort in Utah.

Kelly Collom proposes to owner Amy Kurland in the round with a song he co-wrote with Billy Dean.