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19-555: The Bluebird Café is a 90-seat cafe and music venue in Green Hills, Nashville, Tennessee . The cafe features acoustic music performances and receives over 70,000 visitors annually. Amy Kurland, a former waitress, opened the Bluebird Café on June 3, 1982, using an inheritance she received from her grandmother. Initially, it was intended to be just a cafe, but Kurland agreed to allow friends to provide live music. The cafe became

38-731: A strip mall in the early 1950s. This was one of the first sizable developments of this type in Nashville. Nordstrom and the Apple Store are more recent additions to the mall. The Bluebird Cafe , a well-known live music venue, is located on Hillsboro Pike in Green Hills. Early important businesses included the Green Hills Market, one of Nashville's first true supermarkets , and the Green Hills Theater,

57-543: A cinema. Both of these businesses are now defunct. Residential development began on a small scale in the 1930s, but Green Hills was not highly populated until after World War II . Although there were some preliminary plans toward making the neighborhood an incorporated town in the late 1950s and early 1960s, these never came to fruition. Typical of its era, Green Hills is a suburban, automobile -oriented neighborhood. It originally consisted primarily of brick -veneer "ranch" style detached houses on large lots. In part due to

76-489: A loud late-night location for Nashville musicians. After the cafe hosted a "writer's night" to benefit World Hunger Year , the event became a regular fixture at the cafe, giving local songwriters a chance to showcase their latest work acoustically. In March 1983, future country star Kathy Mattea received a recording contract after playing at the cafe regularly for seven months. In 1985, songwriters Don Schlitz , Fred Knobloch , Thom Schuyler , and Paul Overstreet formed

95-584: A major thoroughfare dating from before the Civil War. It is a former streetcar suburb , and shopping and entertainment district, ntaining boutiques, the non-profit Belcourt Theatre , and numerous independent restaurants. The heart of Hillsboro Village is home to the Acklen Avenue Post Office, noted for its wall of autographed photos of country music stars. It is also home to local musicians Ben Folds and Mat Kearney . Hillsboro Village

114-401: A new setup in the cafe whereby four songwriters would play in the center of the cafe, facing each other. After the female songwriters noted that most of the songwriters performing were men, in 1988, they launched "Women In The Round"; regular performers included Pam Tillis , Karen Staley , Ashley Cleveland , and Trisha Walker. Also in 1988, Garth Brooks received a recording contract after

133-408: A performance at the cafe; he had been turned down by the same label a week earlier. The cafe is a central feature in the movie The Thing Called Love (1993), the last film of River Phoenix . In 1999, Turner South aired a program called Live from the Bluebird Café , which built awareness for the cafe. The Bluebird Café Scrapbook , written by Kurland, was published in 2002. It is a history of

152-545: Is a track from John Waite 's album When You Were Mine (1997). The cafe is also referenced in "Somewhere North of Nashville" (2019) by Bruce Springsteen . The cafe is referenced in the Foo Fighters song " Congregation ", released in October 2014. On May 7, 2014, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl performed an hour-long surprise solo acoustic set at the cafe. Green Hills, Nashville, Tennessee Green Hills

171-505: Is adjacent to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and close to Belmont University , and Music Row . The village is popular with college students. Hillsboro Road also divides the area into two neighborhoods: Hillsboro-West End to the West and Belmont-Hillsboro to the East. Through the 19th century, the neighborhood now known as Hillsboro-Belmont was then part of a single estate containing

190-562: Is impossible to calculate. The area is roughly bounded to the north by I-440, to the south by Harding Place, to the west by Estes Road, and to the east by Lealand Lane. This area is approximately coextensive with the northern half of United States Postal Service 's ZIP code 37215, designated "Green Hills Station". Even so, residents and businesses have a "Nashville, TN" mailing address, unlike some other neighborhoods in Metro Nashville. Hillsboro High School , located directly across

209-422: Is within a region extending south to Forest Hills and Williamson County and east-west to Oak Hill and Belle Meade . The neighborhood is in close proximity to three area universities – Vanderbilt , Belmont , and Lipscomb . The former streetcar suburb and urban neighborhood of Hillsboro Village is directly north across I-440 . The Mall at Green Hills is an enclosed shopping center, with its origins as

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228-644: The Belmont Mansion built in an Italian architectural style (built in 1853,) a zoo, a greenhouse, and grounds that were all open to the public. This space helped remedy the fact that there were no public parks in the area at the time. Residential development in the area began in 1890 after the sale of the Acklen Estate. In the same year, the Belmont Mansion became the central building of Belmont University . In 1865, Roger Williams University

247-433: The Belmont Mansion . Much of the land between Hillsboro Pike and Granny White Pike was farmland during this time. Hillsboro Village began to take shape in 1920, when two groceries and a pharmacy opened alongside the trolley line that ran down Hillsboro Road (21st Avenue). Residential houses were primarily built between 1910 and 1940. The Acklen Estate was established by Joseph and Adelicia Acklen and originally consisted of

266-462: The cafe from Kurland, who remained as an advisor. Bluebird , a documentary about the club, was released in November 2019. In September 2023, a musical theatre inspired by the café, titled Bluebird , was announced, to be developed by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Don Chaffer. The cafe is featured in nearly every episode of the drama Nashville on American Broadcasting Company . "Bluebird Cafe"

285-474: The club, its writers, events, and employees, as told by the writers, employees, and other witnesses. In 2002, the cafe received an Academy of Country Music Award for Night Club of the Year. In 2004, Scott Borchetta of Big Machine Records offered Taylor Swift , then 14 years old, a recording contract after seeing her perform at the cafe. In 2008, Nashville Songwriters Association International acquired

304-548: The highway from the Mall, actually predates much of the neighborhood. Another public educational institution is Julia Green Elementary School , a primary school . Major private educational institutions include Lipscomb University (along with its associated elementary and high schools), and Harpeth Hall School , a private all girls' college Prep school, (grades 5th-12th) In 2023, a mass shooting occurred at The Covenant School in Green Hills, killing three children, three adults, and

323-486: The perpetrator. Hillsboro Village Hillsboro Village is a neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee , located 3 miles southwest of downtown. Hillsboro Village is governed by the Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County , due to the fact that the government of Davidson County is consolidated with that of Nashville . The center of Hillsboro Village is located along Hillsboro Road,

342-405: The presence of subsurface septic sewage disposal systems; sewers were not added until well after the original development. In more recent years, there has been considerable infill as many larger lots and remaining open spaces have been redivided to become the sites of higher-density development. As Green Hills is neither an incorporated town nor a census-designated place , an exact population

361-587: Was founded. Its campus ran from the stream south towards Belmont Avenue. The most notable building on campus was the Social-Religious Building, constructed in 1920 on 20th Ave South, which was later renamed the Wyatt Center when the university was acquired by Peabody College and then Vanderbilt University . The building is visible from blocks away and is easily recognizable by its columned exterior and its large domed roof. The majority of

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