Nashville 2026

Travel Day!

• 6:30am - Call Time at New Berlin Eisenhower High School 4333 S. Sunny Slope Road, New Berlin, WI 53151

• 7:00am - Depart for Nashville! 10 hours, 570 miles, 2 1-hour meal stops in transit, 30-minute rest stops as needed,

• Lunch and dinner in transit at participant's expense or pack snacks. It is unknown exactly where we'll stop for these meals, but it will be a place to accommodate large groups. We'll try to provide different options. Best to plan about $15-20 per meal.

• Time TBD - check into hotel Residence Inn Nashville Metrocenter (251 Venture Cir, Nashville, TN 37228) 

  • There is a pool, but it's outside, we'll have to see what the weather is like when we arrive.

• Time TBD - Light's Out / Bed Checks / Tape Doors (students must stay in hotel room until director or chaperone opens door in the morning)

• There will be an overnight security guard

updated Jan 2026

• Time TBD - Breakfast at Hotel (included, all you can eat)

• Time TBD - Call time be on the bus

• 9am - Country Music Hall of Fame

• 10:30 AM Music City Walk of Fame

• 11:00 AM Tennessee State Capitol (600 Dr. M.L.K. Jr Blvd, Nashville, TN 37243)

• Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park (600 James Robertson Pkwy, Nashville, TN 37243)

• Time TBD - visit Parthenon replica 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN 37203 

• Noon - Lunch at Nashville Farmer's Market (900 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208)

  • Cost on your own, lots of options for food, Best to plan about $15-20 per meal.

• 2:00pm - Nashville Symphony (1 Symphony Pl, Nashville, TN 37201)

  • Holst The Planets (details here) and Saxophonist Timothy McAllister (website)

• 5:15pm- General Jackson Showboat and Dinner Cruise

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• Time TBD - Dinner and line dancing at Category 10 (120 2nd Ave N, Nashville, TN 37201)

• Time TBD - Pedestrian Bridge

• 9pm - return to hotel

• Time TBD - Light's Out / Bed Checks / Tape Doors (students must stay in hotel room until director or chaperone opens door in the morning)

• There will be an overnight security guard

updated Jan 2026

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• Time TBD - Breakfast at Hotel (included, all you can eat)

• 8:30am - RCA Studio B Tour and Recording Session (1611 Roy Acuff Pl, Nashville, TN 37203)

  • We will need instruments for this event

• 9:45 AM Depart to Self-Guided tour Musician's Hall of Fame

• 10:00 AM Tour Musician's Hall of Fame

• 11:30 AM Depart to Fifth + Broadway

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• Noon Lunch at Fifth and Broadway

  • participant expense Best to plan about $15-20 per meal.

• 2:15pm Ryman Auditorium

• 3:30pm - National Museum of African American Music

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• Walk of Fame Park ??

• 5:30pm - Group Dinner at Bon Jovi's

• Time TBD - return to hotel

• Time TBD - Light's Out / Bed Checks / Tape Doors (students must stay in hotel room until director or chaperone opens door in the morning)

• There will be an overnight security guard

updated Jan 2026

• Time TBD - Breakfast at Hotel (included, all you can eat)

• 8:45 AM Clinic at Vanderbilt University

  • We will need instruments for this event

  • campus tour to follow clinics

• 1:00 PM Lunch and shopping at Opry Mills

• 2:45 PM Walk to the Grand Ole Opry Tour

• 3:15 PM Grand Ole Opry Backstage Tour

• 5:00pm - Dinner at Opry Backstage Grill

  • meal included

• 7:00pm -Grand Ole Opry Concert

• Time TBD - return to hotel

• Time TBD - Light's Out / Bed Checks / Tape Doors (students must stay in hotel room until director or chaperone opens door in the morning)

• Best to start packing some of your things this evening

• There will be an overnight security guard

updated Jan 2026

• Travel Day, wake up, pack, eat breakfast at hotel (included), load, leave. 

• Stops for lunch, dinner, and restrooms.