Find places and events where you're welcome.
Nashville restaurants, hotels, attractions, music venues, and gatherings, with the accessibility details you need to plan with confidence.
You're Welcome.
Three steps.
1. Search by city, neighborhood, or venue name.
2. Filter by accessibility feature: step-free entry, accessible parking, accessible restroom, hearing loop, and more.
3. Read the full report before you go. Each venue's page describes what's there and what isn't.
Nashville venues, described honestly.
BluePath is the public directory of Nashville venues with detailed accessibility information. Search by name, neighborhood, venue type, or accessibility feature.
Verified is a trained assessment, not a self-report.
Businesses with Verified status have had a trained Access Music City assessor go through their space and complete a full BluePath assessment. The window cling and digital badge mean a person, often a person with a disability, has been there, measured, and written it up.
Verified doesn't mean perfect. It means honest. The report describes what's accessible and what isn't, so you can decide what fits for you.
Come spend the evening with us.
Access Music City Evenings are gatherings at Nashville venues that welcome the full disability community. Some are free and hosted by Empower Tennessee. Some are partner events where a Nashville venue shares a ticketed evening with our stakeholder community. Museums, performance spaces, galleries, restaurants. Come as you are.
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Your Questions, Answered
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Yes. The public directory is free for anyone to search.
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We're rebuilding the program and the directory grows every week. More than 500 venues have been assessed since the program began. We're scaling toward Nashville's 1,400+ NCVC member businesses and beyond by 2034.
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Yes. Email amc@empowertn.org and tell us where you want to go.
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Let us know at amc@empowertn.org. We'll follow up with the venue and, if needed, schedule a reassessment.
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BluePath covers physical access, sensory access, and service and information access. The report describes what's there. If a feature isn't mentioned, it wasn't assessed at that venue.
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Not yet. Spanish-language expansion is planned for a future phase of the program
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AMC is a program of Empower Tennessee, Middle Tennessee's Center for Independent Living. NCVC and BluePath are our partners.
Your experience helps keep the directory honest.
If you visited a Nashville venue and the listing matched, or didn't, we want to know. Your feedback helps us keep the directory accurate and helps other people plan their own visits.
You're welcome here in more than one way.
Come to an AMC Evening.
Our monthly gatherings are built from the ground up to welcome the full disability community. Free or ticketed, hosted or partner-run. Bring a friend, or come on your own and make new ones.
Tell a Nashville business you'd like them listed.
If there's a place you love that isn't in the directory, let us know. We can reach out.
Volunteer with us.
If you want to help assess Nashville venues yourself, or support Access Music City in other ways, we'd love to hear from you. Volunteers with and without disabilities are welcome.
Access Music City is a program of Empower Tennessee, working toward Nashville as the most accessible city in the world by 2034.
Email: amc@empowertn.org
Access Music City is one of the things Empower Tennessee does. If you or someone you know could use support from a Center for Independent Living, we offer Information and Referral, Peer Support, Advocacy, Employment Readiness and Skills Training, and Transition Services across Middle Tennessee.