There are 18 tables, 8 bar seats and 8 church pew seats available for reservation. The remaining pew seats for this show are not reserved in advance. These seats are available on a first come/first served basis when doors open.
Ticket reservations at The Bluebird Cafe are an agreement to pay the cover charge and applicable taxes/fees and to meet the $12.00 per seat food and/or drink minimum.
Ticket holders may cancel their reservation for a full refund of the ticket price and applicable tax (excluding ticketing fees) if the cancellation is made at least 48 hours before the scheduled showtime. Cancellations made within 48 hours of the show are non-refundable. To cancel, please email [email protected] or call 615-383-1461. Phone line hours are Monday-Friday, 12-4 pm.
Note: When making reservations, choose the table you would like and then add the number of seats you need to your cart by using the + button. You are NOT reserving an entire table if you choose 1 (by choosing 1, you are reserving 1 seat). We reserve ALL seats at each table. If you are a smaller party at a larger table, you will be seated with guests outside your party.
Artists
Victoria Banks
Labeled “one of the best songwriters in the business” by Nashville’s MusicRow magazine, Victoria Banks was named Female Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year by the Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) in 2010 and has been nominated for 9 other CCMA Awards. She is an instructor of Songwriting at Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business.
Victoria - who hails from Muskoka, Canada - penned Reba’s 2024 single “I Can’t”, which was premiered on NBC’s The Voice and performed on the 59th Academy of Country Music Awards. She also co-wrote 3 songs on the ground-breaking 2020 EP Bridges by the Grammy-nominated Mickey Guyton, and 4 songs on Guyton’s 2021 Remember Her Name album, including “What Are You Gonna Tell Her” (which made history as the first original song performed by a Black woman on the ACM Awards). Guyton delivered another ACM Awards performance in 2021 with Victoria’s song “Hold On”.
In her multi-decade tenure as a songwriter on Nashville’s Music Row, Victoria has had cuts by over 100 artists, including ASCAP, SOCAN, CCMA and Covenant-award-winning hits such as the solo-written “Saints & Angels” by Sara Evans, Jessica Simpson’s Billboard record-breaking “Come On Over”, and one of the top Canadian singles of the decade: Johnny Reid’s “Dance With Me”. Her songs have been recorded by Carly Pearce, Lauren Alaina, Terri Clark, Cassadee Pope, The Shires, Isaac Slade (of The Fray), and more, and have been featured in TV and movies like Breakthrough, Nashville, American Idol, and Dancing With The Stars.
As an artist, Victoria has released four self-produced, self-penned albums, including 2020’s Uncovered (for which she produced, arranged, engineered, and played every instrument on every track). She has appeared on NBC’s Songland TV show, toured with artists from Reba to Wynonna, and performed alongside the Nashville Ballet when they choreographed several of her songs for their Attitude program, including the ballet’s title song City Of Dreams. Victoria co-hosts the podcast The Table Women, exploring the ups and downs of the female experience in entertainment through interviews with notable women.Ava Hall
Ava Hall is a rising singer-songwriter whose timeless voice and heartfelt lyrics are already turning industry heads. Rooted in the Detroit area, Ava is a senior at Belmont University majoring in Songwriting, and graduates this year. Her debut single, “Georgia Heat,” written entirely by Ava, was quickly recognized by curators and added to Spotify’s Fresh Finds Country and Apple Music’s Country Risers playlists—two platforms known for spotlighting the genre’s next generation. Her current single, “What About Yours,” co-written with breakout hitmaker Johnny Clawson, is poised to further solidify her arrival which Country Central rated as 9 out of 10 and Rolling Stone Country remarked is one of the best new songs of the year.
Thomas Baldwin
Thomas Baldwin is a Nashville based singer/songwriter from Fairfield, CT. Since moving to Nashville, he has enrolled in Belmont's songwriting program while writing, producing, and releasing music under his own name. Inspired by artists like John Mayer, Coldplay, and The Fray, Thomas takes what he loves from the music he grew up with and with his own perspective, style, and voice, looks to create something totally new.
Emily Shackelton
Emily Shackelton hails from Biwabik, Minnesota, and moved to Nashville after studying at Berklee College of Music, where she won the BMI John Lennon Songwriting Competition. Her writing catalog includes singles and cuts by Carly Pearce, Reba McEntire, Joe Nichols, Runaway June, Sara Evans, Jana Kramer, David Cook, Lauren Alaina, and more, as well as tv shows like Nashville, American Idol, and Dancing With the Stars. She celebrated her first Number 1 with the Carly Pearce breakout single "Every Little Thing” in 2018, and recently celebrated her second Number 1 with Pearce's hit song "What He Didn't Do" in April. Emily was awarded “Breakout Songwriter of the Year 2018” by Music Row Magazine and proudly writes for Winsongs Publishing. She recently made her television debut performing alongside Carly Pearce at the ACM Honors Awards, streaming now on Hulu.
