A Nashville Events Calender for the month of October that lists some of the current events and activities taking place in and around Nashville, Tennessee in October.
All Events are listed in the following order:
Annual Events-Holidays-Specials-Daily Events-Ongoing Events-Venues
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Calendar Last Updated - 4/29/2012
October Annual Event Guide
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Annual Events
Take a tour through our listing of the Best & Most Well-liked Annual Events that take place in and around Nashville every year in the month of October.
Halloween Fun & Autumn Events Calendar
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From September into early November, Nashville offers tons of festive opportunities during the Autumn and Halloween Season. There is an unlimited supply of Haunted Houses, Ghostly Tours, Pumpkin Patches, Fall Foliage Hikes, Festivals, and Corn Mazes to be found and explored in the Middle Tennessee Area.
Regions Free Days
Special Deal
Every month in 2012, Middle Tennesseans can experience some of the areas finest museums, attractions, and events free of charge with the Regions Bank Free Days Program.
10/4-10/6 The Sound of Enlightenment
Beethoven’s Fifth begins with the four most famous notes of music ever written and takes listeners on an epic journey from darkness to light. Expect to be equally transformed by the music of Stephen Paulus, whose work bursts with energy, rugged beauty and a uniquely American spirit. His Three Places of Enlightenment will showcase four of the Nashville Symphony’s principal string players, while Haydn’s Hornsignal Symphony will feature the mellifluous sounds of our horn section.10/5-10/6 Handmade & Bound
Artists’ books, zines and comics will be celebrated at the Handmade & Bound Nashville, a book arts festival for the entire family at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film. All events are free and open to the public.10/6 Nashville Beer Festival
The Nashville Beer Festival takes place on the weekend of Saturday, October 6th, 2012 at Public Square Park Downtown at 3rd & Deaderick from 1 to 5 pm. The Fest celebrates great craft beer, beer education, food, fellowship & more. Tickets are $35.10/11-10/13 Madame Butterfly
For more than a century, audiences have been thrilled by Giacamo Puccini's haunting, poignant music and touched by the lovely Butterfly, who sacrifices everything for love.10/12 Charlie Haden & Quartet West
Time magazine called him "one of the most restless, gifted, and intrepid players in all of jazz." As a musician, bandleader, composer, producer and educator, Charlie Haden has made an indelible mark on American music. Having collaborated with such legends as Ornette Coleman, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny and John Coltrane over the course of his five-decade career, he brings his straight-ahead quartet to Nashville for an evening of lush ballads, lilting originals and elegant, noir-infused bop.10/13 Germantown Street Festival & Octoberfest
The Germantown Oktoberfest is filled with music, dancing, arts & crafts, historic home and church tours, antique exhibits and much more. There is absolutely heaps of authentic German music, food and drinks to be found during this Annual event. This Germantown event is actually two separate events, one is the Oktoberfest and the other is the Germantown Street Festival - but both are held in Germantown and during the same weekend.
10/19-10/20 Tennessee History Festival
A living history at the annual Tennessee History Festival at Bicentennial Mall. Costumed interpreters from every era in Tennessee's history will be on hand demonstrating techniques, military tactics, cooking demonstrations and other period trades.
