This is not a small space for a niche audience or a token recognition of the least recognized people in Music City’s musical heritage. Hardly the most natural place to build a museum devoted to the music of Black Americans. Among tourists, it’s known as the Honky Tonk Highway. From the storied Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, where the Grand Ole Opry performers of old once slipped in the back door between sets, right down to the Cumberland River, it’s a place where visitors go to get drunk and dance to big-hat country songs. Lower Broad is basically just one raucous bar after another.
But there’s still so much construction equipment enveloping 5th + Broad - Nashville’s sprawling new mixed-use development at the corner of Fifth Avenue North and Broadway - that the museum can be easy to miss. NASHVILLE - The long awaited ribbon cutting for the National Museum of African American Music is Monday, Martin Luther King’s Birthday, in the heart of the tourist district here.
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