Music City Mondays: 'The Day the Music Stopped'
Belcourt Theatre
Mon, Apr 21 8:00pm
Documenting the long-mounting battle between independent music venues and big corporate interests like Live Nation, The Day the Music Stopped focuses on longtime Nashville show space Exit/In in particular. The feature-length doc includes interviews with former Exit owner Chris Cobb, former Metro Councilmember Jeff Syracuse, former Nashville Mayor John Cooper and a host of artists — not to mention performances from the likes of Alanna Royale, JEFF the Brotherhood and more, plus some especially moving footage of scatologically named posi-punks Diarrhea Planet’s performance at Cobb and company’s run of farewell shows in 2022. The film, directed by Patrick Sheehan and produced by beloved local journalist and broadcaster Demetria Kalodimos (who also provides much of the documentary’s context), feels a bit like a time capsule, running through the multitude of hardships and complications that befell Nashville over the past half-decade — from COVID, the March 2020 tornado and the Christmas Day 2020 bombing to Music City’s rampant development boom. The documentary debuted at the Nashville Film Festival in September and will screen at the Belcourt as part of the theater’s Music City Mondays series. D. PATRICK RODGERS



















