Things to Do in Nashville that Don’t Involve Country Music

I remember the first response I got from a friend of mine last year when I excitedly told her that I was *finally* going to visit Nashville, Tennessee.

“I thought you didn’t like country music,” she said.

My husband, Elliot, got a similar response from a coworker this year when he asked to take time off work so we could go to Music City together for a long weekend.

Most people seem to (erroneously) assume that Nashville is a city exclusively for fans of country music. That there couldn’t possibly be any reason to visit if you don’t own a pair of cowboy boots and know the lyrics to more than that one Garth Brooks song.

This, of course, couldn’t be further from the truth!

While my first visit to Music City did indeed revolve around Nashville’s…