Live Nation to open new 4,400-capacity Nashville venue, The Truth, on October 1

Live Nation to open 4,400-capacity Nashville venue The Truth on October 1, with sold-out Miranda Lambert show

September 28, 2026 By Music Business Worldwide

Live Nation ‘s new Nashville venue, The Truth , opens on Thursday ( October 1 ).

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The 4,400 -capacity venue, from Live Nation and AJ Capital , is located in Nashville’s Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood.

Miranda Lambert will play the opening night, a sold-out, one-night-only show, Live Nation said on Monday ( September 28 ).

Three further sold-out shows follow, from Malcolm Todd , Role Model , and Freya Skye .

The venue’s calendar through the end of the year also includes Jack White , The Chicks , Sting , The Smashing Pumpkins , HARDY , Beck , GloRilla , Tedeschi Trucks Band , Bleachers , Limp Bizkit , Foster the People , Goose , Orville Peck , Jodeci , and Stephen Wilson Jr. , among others.

The Truth takes its name from songwriter Harlan Howard ‘s description of what a good song needs: “three chords and the truth.”

“Our aspiration for The Truth is simple: to create a venue worthy of the city that inspired it,” said Sally Williams , President of Nashville Music & Business Strategy at Live Nation. “We want fans to feel connected to the music and artists to feel genuinely welcome and cared for.

“We want The Truth to feel unmistakably Nashville – rooted in its extraordinary musical legacy and reflective of the creative community shaping its future.”

Williams joined Live Nation in 2019 after nearly 20 years at Ryman Hospitality Properties and Opry Entertainment Group .

Her roles there included General Manager of both Ryman Auditorium and the Grand Ole Opry .

The Truth was designed by Blueprint Studio , Live Nation’s in-house design and development group.

The venue is built across three tiers, and Live Nation says no fan will be more than 150 feet from the stage.

In the Lyric Lobby , a custom chandelier projects the lyrics of whichever artist is performing that night.

Upstairs, the Set List Studio uses a letterpress from the 1950s to print each night’s setlist for fans.

Live Nation also commissioned five local printmakers to create original artwork for the backstage artist areas.

The two-story Vinyl Room , a listening lounge modeled on 1970s Japanese listening rooms, features artifacts selected in collaboration with neighboring United Record Pressing .

Harlan’s , the venue’s mezzanine whiskey bar, stocks bottles from 34 Tennessee whiskey makers.

Live Nation says more will be added, in what it describes as “one of the largest collections of Tennessee whiskey served at a music venue.”

The company has also made multi-year commitments to the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) and the W.O. Smith Music School .

NSAI Executive Director Bart Harbison has previously said: “Live Nation’s generous financial support for NSAI will help us continue the work we do for the songwriting profession.”

Students from W.O. Smith , which sits just up the street from the venue, will be the first musicians to play The Truth’s stage, at a soft opening ahead of October 1 .

Founded in 1984 , the school provides music education to children from low-income families, according to Live Nation.

“The Truth is a prestigious addition to Music City, and we are grateful for Live Nation’s commitment to music education,” said Dr. Valerie Cordero , Executive Director of W.O. Smith Music School. “Our student musicians have worked incredibly hard on their repertoire.

“Being the first to perform on this stage will be an achievement that they remember for the rest of their lives.”

The venue is also working with Humphreys Street , a Wedgewood-Houston social enterprise that provides jobs and mentoring to local teenagers, which will supply artists and crews backstage with custom coffee and soaps.

Live Nation first unveiled The Truth in October 2025 .

At the time, it projected that the venue would generate $74 million in economic impact each year, support 430 jobs, and contribute $6 million annually in state and local tax revenue.

The Truth sits on Chestnut Street as part of AJ Capital Partners ‘ Wedgewood Village mixed-use development.

The opening forms part of a wider US venue build-out by Live Nation .

In June 2025 , the company said it planned to invest $1 billion in 18 new and renovated US venues over the following 18 months, with Nashville among the markets it listed.

At its investor day in November 2025 , Live Nation said it had 48 large venues in its pipeline , at a capital cost of around $5.2 billion .

Of those, 28 were planned for markets outside the US.

The company has said it expects capital expenditures of $1.1 billion in 2026, with $800 million of that directed toward venue expansion and enhancement. Music Business Worldwide

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