Nashville Municipal Auditorium

Musicians' Hall of Fame and Museum at Nashville Municipal Auditorium
Construction
Nashville Municipal Auditorium Municipal Auditorium Municipal

Location	417 Fourth Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Coordinates	36°10′03.29″N 86°46′56.08″W / 36.1675806°N 86.7822444°W / 36.1675806; -86.7822444Coordinates: 36°10′03.29″N 86°46′56.08″W / 36.1675806°N 86.7822444°W / 36.1675806; -86.7822444
Owner	Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County, Tennessee
Operator	Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County, Tennessee
Capacity	9,700 in the round, 8,000 (basketball), 9,432 reserved in the round
Field size	Hockey - 85x185 ft Basketball - 120x60 ft
Surface	concrete
Broke ground	1959
Built	1959-1962
Opened	October 7, 1962
Renovated	1993
Construction cost	$5 million dollars
Tenants
Nashville Dixie Flyers (1962–1971) Nashville South Stars (1981–1983) Nashville Knights (1989–1996) Nashville Ice Flyers (1996–1998) Nashville Noise (1998) Belmont Bruins men's basketball (2001–2003) Nashville Rollergirls (2006–) Nashville Venom (2014–)

The Musicians' Hall of Fame and Museum at Nashville Municipal Auditorium (formerly and still commonly known as Nashville Municipal Auditorium) is an indoor sports and concert venue in Nashville, Tennessee, which also houses the Musician's Hall of Fame and Museum. Constructed in 1962, the Auditorium was the first public assembly facility in the Mid-South with air-conditioning.^[1]

Concerts

The venue continues to serve niche concert markets, such as alternative rock, rock 'n' roll, heavy metal, pop, R&B, urban, oldies and Hispanic concerts.

The NMA is the only Nashville entertainment venue to host pop singer Michael Jackson. He performed with The Jackson 5 on December 29, 1970, January 1 and August 6, 1972, August 8, 1973, and August 31, 1981. Elvis Presley performed two shows at the Nashville Auditorium on July 1, 1973.

In 1967, the auditorium accommodated the Country Music Association's first CMA Awards festivities, before the ceremonies moved to the Ryman Auditorium the following year.

Due to the damage incurred to the Grand Ole Opry House during the May 2010 Tennessee floods, the NMA hosted the June 8, 2010 edition of the Grand Ole Opry.^[2] NMA also hosted an Opry show in 1973.

The walls of the upper and lower concourses are decorated with enlarged ticket stubs for events and concerts the auditorium has hosted between the venue's debut in 1962 and 2010.

Religious events

The Auditorium is also a popular venue for religious events, having hosted Mt. Zion Baptist Church New Day Conference, Teenmania's Acquire the Fire, Dare 2 Share Ministries, and the Tennessee Baptist Convention Youth Evangelism Conference. Its first-ever event was a city-wide Church of Christ gospel meeting.

Sporting events

Strikeforce Challengers 13, a mixed martial arts event, was held in the building on January 7, 2011.

The NMA hosted the 1994 United States Gymnastic Championships as well as the 1996 Tour of World Figure Skating Championships. The Auditorium has hosted minor league hockey, with the teams known as the Dixie Flyers, South Stars, Knights, Nighthawks, and Nashville Ice Flyers. It has also hosted minor league basketball – the former Nashville Stars and Music City Jammers, and women's professional basketball – the Nashville Noise of the former (Women's) American Basketball League. It was a home court for the Belmont University basketball teams while Striplin Gym was demolished to make way for the Curb Event Center. Additionally, the NMA has hosted several Ohio Valley Conference basketball tournaments, and the Auditorium hosted the OVC again in 2008. For 2011-2015, the NMA will host the men's and women's OVC basketball tournaments in a new four-day tournament format. The capacity is set around 8,000 during these tournaments. It currently hosts the annual Magnet Madness basketball game between rivals Hume-Fogg High School and Martin Luther King Magnet.

Many Professional wrestling events were hosted in the arena including the NWA's Wrestle War 89 which featured a world title change and voted match of the year by PWI, Ric Flair vesus Ricky Steamboat. It also was the home for the World Wrestling Federation's No Holds Barred: The Match/The Movie PPV special held in December 1989 as well as the World Wrestling Federation's second In Your House PPV in 1995. It was a favorite venue over the years for World Championship Wrestling, which hosted its supercard show Starrcade there from 1994 to 1996 and its final Clash of the Champions show there in 1997. Masato Tanaka won his only ECW Heavyweight Championship by defeating Mike Awesome at Municipal at an ECW on TNN taping in December 1999. Total Nonstop Action Wrestling held their first events there June 2002 before moving to the Tennessee State Fairgrounds. The arena also hosted TNA Wrestling's TNA Slammiversary in June 2007 and Lockdown pay-per-view on April 15, 2012.

The Music City Stars, then known as the Nashville Broncs, an American Basketball Association expansion team, began its inaugural season at the NMA in November 2008.

The Professional Bull Riders association hosted a Built Ford Tough Series event at this venue from its inception in 1994 until 2001 (during this era the BFTS was known as the Bud Light Cup). In 2002, the event was moved to the Gaylord Entertainment Center (now the Bridgestone Arena). The NMA hosted Tuff Hedeman's CBR All-Star Shoot-Out on June 10, 2009 and again in 2010.

It is currently home to the Nashville Rollergirls, a flat track roller derby league, and a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association.

On November 6, 2013 the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL) announced that an expansion team would bring indoor football back to the Nashville sports market. The Nashville Venom will begin PIFL play for the 2014 season in Municipal Auditorium.

Musicians' Hall of Fame and Museum

On June 4, 2013, the auditorium began housing the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum. The museum was forced from its previous building as a result of the construction of the Music City Center. The Hall of Fame moved into the exhibition floor of the Nashville Municipal Auditorium, and the official name of the entire building changed to Musicians' Hall of Fame and Museum at Nashville Municipal Auditorium.^[3]

References

↑ Page 2-F of the Sunday Tennessean Oct.7, 1962.
↑ http://search2.opry.com/?view=events
↑ Williams, William (November 7, 2012). "Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum shoots for year-end opening". NashvillePost.com. Retrieved June 14, 2013.

External links

Nashville Municipal Auditorium

Events and tenants
Preceded by TNA Impact! Zone	Host of Slammiversary 2007	Succeeded by DeSoto Civic Center
Preceded by U.S. Bank Arena	Host of Lockdown 2012	Succeeded by Alamodome

Nashville athletic venues

In use	Allen Arena Bridgestone Arena Centennial Sportsplex Curb Event Center Dugan Field at Marsh Stadium E.S. Rose Park Ezell Park Fairgrounds Speedway Fairground Sports Arena First Tennessee Park Gentry Center Hale Stadium Hawkins Field Herschel Greer Stadium LP Field Memorial Gymnasium Nashville Municipal Auditorium Vanderbilt Stadium

Former	McQuiddy Gym Striplin Gym Sulphur Dell

Proposed	First Tennessee Field (canceled)

Belmont Bruins men's basketball

Venues	Striplin Gym (1964–2001) Nashville Municipal Auditorium (2001–2003) Curb Event Center (2003–present)

Rivalries	Lipscomb

Culture & lore	Individual career records

People	Head coaches

Seasons	1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15

Professional Indoor Football League

Teams	Alabama Hammers Columbus Lions Erie Explosion Lehigh Valley Steelhawks Nashville Venom Richmond Raiders Trenton Freedom

Venues	Columbus Civic Center (Columbus) Erie Insurance Arena (Erie) Nashville Municipal Auditorium (Nashville) PPL Center (Lehigh Valley) Richmond Coliseum (Richmond) Sun National Bank Center (Trenton) Von Braun Center (Alabama)

Seasons	2012 2013 2014 2015

Current venues in the Women's Flat Track Derby Association

East region	Aleppo Shriners Auditorium Dorton Arena Kennedy Arena Du Burns Arena CT RollerGirls D.C. Armory Haygood Skating Center Overlook Activities Center Inline Skating Club of America Hunter College Sportsplex Green Mountain Derby Dames Harrisburg Area Roller Derby Independence Family Fun Center Earls Court Exhibition Centre Skate Safe America Portland Exposition Building Le Taz John F. Kennedy Memorial Coliseum Class of 1923 Arena Rhode Island Convention Center Rainbow Rink Greater Richmond Convention Romp'n Roll Roller Skating Rink Sports Centre at MCC Suburbia Roller Derby

West region	Veterans Memorial Auditorium Castle Sports Club B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls Bellingham Roller Betties Central Coast Roller Derby 1stBank Center Albuquerque Convention Center Lane County Fairgrounds Sport Center of Las Vegas FoCo Girls Gone Derby Everett Community College Lava City Roller Dolls Skateland Pacific Roller Derby Colorado Springs City Auditorium KeyArena ShoWare Center Bladium Portland Expo Center Roller King Roseville Salt Palace Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium Silicon Valley Roller Girls Slaughter County Roller Vixens Slaughterhouse Derby Girls TISC Wasatch Roller Derby

North Central region	Midwest Sport Hockey Complex Bleeding Heartland Rollergirls UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena Wolstein Center Chicago Outfit Roller Derby Cincinnati Gardens Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Coliseum Derby City Rollergirls Masonic Temple Drill Hall Allen County War Memorial Coliseum Fox Cityz Foxz Gem City Rollergirls Rivertown Sports Dave Andreychuk Arena Killamazoo Derby Darlins Alliant Energy Center Roy Wilkins Auditorium Indiana Farmers Coliseum Indiana Convention Center Minneapolis Convention Center Central Ohio Roller Hockey Paper Valley Rollergirls Rockford Rage Swonder Ice Arena Sioux Falls Expo Building UIC Pavilion

South Central region	Austin Convention Center Rollercade Fair Park Coliseum Yaarab Shrine Center UNO Human Performance Center NYTEX Sports Centre Von Braun Center Tulsa Convention Center Knoxville Civic Coliseum Bayou Music Center Wichita Ice Center Municipal Auditorium MidSouth Fairgrounds Tennessee State Fairground Sports Arena Pershing Center Starlight Skatium Oklahoma Victory Dolls Mid-America Center North Florida Fairgrounds USA Skateplex West Texas Roller Dollz