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
Jerry Vandiver
Since making the move from Kansas City to Nashville in 1984, Jerry Vandiver has seen his songs recorded by such artists as Tim McGraw, Phil Vassar, Lonestar, Barbara Mandrell, Lee Greenwood and The Oak Ridge Boys to name a few.
He scored a Billboard Top 5 single on Gene Watson's "Don't Waste It On The Blues," a Top 20 on Wild Rose's "Go Down Swingin'," and #2 on Tim McGraw's "For A Little While." Thanks to these artists, Jerry has songs on over 15 million records, two of which are hanging on the walls of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Jerry can be heard regularly at Nashville's world-renowned Bluebird Cafe, the Ford Theater at the Country Music Hall of Fame's Songwriter Series and many other venues in Nashville and surrounding areas.
He is a frequent speaker at the Nashville Songwriters Association International's Spring Training, Songposium and Song Camps as well as NSAI’s Thursday night workshops. Jerry co-authored the popular songwriting workbook, "Your First Cut, A Step-By-Step Guide To Getting There." And he presents songwriting workshops throughout the U.S., Canada and Australia.
Caitlin Evanson
Caitlin Evanson is a classically trained violinist who has traveled the world playing violin and guitar and singing background vocals behind Multi-Grammy winning superstar Taylor Swift. With Swift's tours, Evanson performed nightly for tens of thousands of fans in sold-out stadiums and arenas around the globe, demonstrating her versatility as an artist and a performer with six instrument and four costume changes over the course of each two-hour show.In her seven years with Swift, Caitlin has performed live for millions of television viewers around the globe, playing violin and singing background vocals on dozens of high-profile shows. She counts among her many television credits the Academy Awards, the Grammy Awards, the European Music Awards, the American Music Awards, the Country Music Association Awards, the MTV Video Music Awards, Saturday Night Live, 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, the Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Caitlin is a versatile vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who plays mandolin in addition to violin and rhythm electric and acoustic guitar. During her tenure with Swift, Caitlin has shared a stage with a number of high-profile artists, performing with Carly Simon, Stevie Nicks, James Taylor, Jennifer Lopez, John Mayer, Def Leppard, Usher, Nicki Minaj, Justin Bieber, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Sara Bareilles, Nelly, T.I., and Selena Gomez, to name but a few.
Steve Williams
Nashville hit songwriter, Steven Williams has had two #1 songs, “Redneck Yacht Club” and “I Get To” which was also nominated for a Dove Award. His songs are featured on 4 gold records with songs recorded by George Strait, Blake Shelton, Trick Pony, Kristin Chenoweth and The Oak Ridge Boys, just to name a few. Steven has spent the last few years working with Operation Song, helping vets with PTSD put their stories to song. Steven’s songs can be downloaded from iTunes, Spotify, ReverbNation and at OperationSong.org
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.