{"id":2092694,"date":"2025-10-15T10:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2092694"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:45:06","slug":"nashvilles-outloud-music-festival-marks-a-glorious-return-to-live-music-melodic-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/nashvilles-outloud-music-festival-marks-a-glorious-return-to-live-music-melodic-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville\u2019s OUTLOUD Music Festival marks a glorious return to live music \u00bb \/\/ MELODIC Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_77\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How do we even \u201cfestival\u201d anymore? That was my first thought walking into the Main Event Parking Lot in Nashville, Tennessee to cover last weekend\u2019s <strong>OUTLOUD Music Festival<\/strong>. As we slowly make our way out of the pandemic, live music (I should add \u2014 the pre-COVID live music experience with no social distancing protocols) has been one of the last things to fully return. To my knowledge, OUTLOUD was one of the first, if not THE first festival to take place in the United States. All of this to say, I was pretty nervous walking in for multiple reasons, but ready to bask in the glow of the festival experience\u2019s return.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Serving as a sort of unofficial kickoff for Nashville\u2019s pride month, OUTLOUD\u2019s 2021 edition was a rousing success. There was a palpable feeling of excitement and relief in the air \u2014 finally, there was a place to truly relax and take in music as it was meant to be heard. With headliners <strong>Japanese Breakfast<\/strong> (performing on the release night of their stunning album <em>Jubilee<\/em>) and LGBTQ+ icon <strong>Todrick Hall<\/strong>, OUTLOUD brought together a remarkable combination of music, drag, and art to put on an incredibly fun two days that kicked off the summer festival season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Japanese Breakfast:<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Todrick Hall:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In addition to Japanese Breakfast, Friday brought performances from <strong>Bully <\/strong>(Nashville natives that deftly stepped in after <strong>Soccer Mommy <\/strong>had to suddenly cancel due to a family emergency,) Nashville locals <strong>The Blam Blams <\/strong>and <strong>Kenna<\/strong>, and incredible drag performances from <strong>Derrick Barry, <\/strong><strong>Cya Inhale, Alexia Noelle, <\/strong>and others. Saturday\u2019s lineup included <strong>Todrick, <\/strong>New Orleans\u2019s <strong>Tank and the Bangas<\/strong> (who put on the set of the weekend),\u00a0RuPaul All Star <strong>Coco Montrese<\/strong>, and other local drag queens and musical performers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Bully:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Tank and The Bangas:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Check out complete details for OUTLOUD Music Festival on their socials:<br \/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.outloudmusicfestival.com\/\">Website<\/a>\u00a0\/\/\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/outloudmusicfestival\/\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0\/\/\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OUTLOUDFestival\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0\/\/\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OUTLOUDMusicFestival\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.melodicmag.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do we even \u201cfestival\u201d anymore? That was my first thought walking into the Main Event Parking Lot in Nashville, Tennessee to cover last weekend\u2019s OUTLOUD Music Festival. As we slowly make our way out of the pandemic, live music (I should add \u2014 the pre-COVID live music experience with no social distancing protocols) has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2092695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2092694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Nashvilles-OUTLOUD-Music-Festival-marks-a-glorious-return-to-live.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092696,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092694\/revisions\/2092696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2092695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}