The Nashville Area Chamber is celebrating National Small Business Week, May 2-5, with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). This year, we celebrate the resiliency and tenacity of America’s entrepreneurs who are doing their part to power our nation’s historic economic comeback.
Join the SBA for a 4-day virtual FREE event as they share tools and information to help further power our economic growth, strengthen our supply chains, and deliver the products and services our nation depends on every day. Register here.
The Nashville region’s economic landscape is driven significantly by small businesses with more than 60% of total businesses having less than 25 employees. Nashville ranks as the number 4 city in the country as the best place to start a small business, according to Inc.com. With such an entrepreneurial spirit and with more than 75% of the Chamber’s membership being small businesses, we will be taking each week in the month of May to recognize our small business members in Nashville’s leading industries, including music & entertainment, technology, professional services, and hospitality & tourism. This week we are featuring:
Music & Entertainment
The Nashville region’s economic landscape is driven significantly by small businesses with more than 60% of total businesses having less than 25 employees. Nashville ranks as the number 4 city in the country as the best place to start a small business, according to Inc.com. With such an entrepreneurial spirit and with more than 75% of the Chamber’s membership being small businesses, we will be taking each week in the month of May to recognize our small business members in Nashville’s leading industries, including music & entertainment, technology, professional services, and hospitality & tourism.
In the Nashville region’s music & entertainment industry, there are approximately 43,000 jobs with around $15.9 billion in total annual industry impact. With more than 190 recording studios, over 5,000 working musicians, and live music every night of the week, Nashville is a hub for creatives and the music business. Nashville’s incredibly diverse music and entertainment industry continues to expand making the city a creative core for the region and the country.
Support our music & entertainment small business Chamber members:
| 21c Museum Hotel | Mix 92.9 WJXA | 96.3 JACK-fm WCJK | i-106.7 WNFN |
| 2911 Enterprises, Inc. | Moves & Grooves, Inc. |
| A&M Agency | Mployer Advisor |
| Acme Feed & Seed | Music City Grand Prix |
| Agile Ticketing Solutions | Music City Tents & Events, LLC |
| Al McCree Entertainment | Music Makes Us |
| Americana Music Association | MusicPreneur |
| Americana Taphouse | NashComm |
| ANALOG | Nashville Ballet |
| Andrew Keithly Photography | Nashville Children’s Theatre |
| Annelise Sarah Photography | Nashville Education, Community and Arts Television (NECAT) |
| Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville | Nashville Entrepreneur Center |
| ASCAP | Nashville Film Festival |
| Bally’s Evansville | Nashville Film Institute |
| Bandit Lites, Inc. | Nashville History on Tour |
| Barlines in the Omni Nashville Hotel | Nashville Music Academy |
| BentoLiving Chestnut Hill | Nashville Musicians Association, AFM Local 257 |
| Beverly Boy Productions | Nashville Pedal Tavern |
| Bobby Hotel | Nashville Public Radio |
| Brax.MOV | Nashville Public Television |
| Broadway Entertainment | Nashville Repertory Theatre |
| C615 | Nashville Riverfront Lofts |
| City Winery | Nashville Shores |
| Convene | Nashville Songwriters Association International |
| Convention Production Rigging, Inc | Nashville Timeshare Resales and Rentals |
| Corner to Corner | Nashville Underground |
| Covert Results | Novick Law PLLC |
| Cromwell Media | Nudie’s Honky Tonk |
| Crosswind Media Advertising LLC | Old Town Trolley Tours of Nashville |
| Cruisin Tikis Nashville | Ole Red – Blake Shelton Downtown Bar |
| CSI-DMC | OZ Arts Nashville |
| D&D Events Management | Painting with a Twist |
| David’s Den | Patsy Cline Museum |
| Destinations Galore | Peggy McLain-Wallace, Photographer |
| Dick’s Last Resort | pH Craft Cocktail |
| Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row | PRA Nashville |
| Discovery Center | Premiere Transportation |
| DJ Rideout | Puckett’s Grocery & Restaurant – Downtown Nashville |
| duGard Communications | Puckett’s Grocery & Restaurant – Franklin |
| Durrell LLC | Radiant Health Institute |
| DZL Management Company with Cummins Station | Recovery Unplugged |
| Ears 4 U Hearing Services | Redneck Riviera Bar & BBQ |
| Entertainment Travel | RFD-TV |
| Essential Needs | Robert’s Western World |
| Event Logistics, Inc. | Rocketown |
| Everything But Country Music | Roland’s Photography |
| Evolution Event Solutions | Ron Sanford Productions |
| Exploration Group, LLC | Round Room Productions |
| Famous Saloon | Rudy’s Jazz Room |
| FCI Brands | Shannon Sanders Corporation |
| Fields Creatives Dance Company | Singing Lessons Nashville by Eleonor England |
| Flood, Bumstead, McCready & McCarthy Inc. | Skull’s Rainbow Room |
| futureshirts | Snapshot Interactive |
| Game Terminal Super Arcade + Bar | Song Suffragettes – Every Mon Night at The Listening Room Cafe! |
| Gigpro | Sound Royalties |
| Girls Write Nashville | Southern Games, Inc. |
| Glen Campbell Museum | Stages.Live |
| GLo Nashville Airport | Studio Bank |
| Global Songwriters Connection | Sunday School Publishing Board (SSPB) |
| Go West Creative | Team Strategies, LLC |
| Good Neighbor Festivals | Tennessee Action 24/7, LLC |
| Gospel Music Association, Inc. | Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame and Museum |
| Groups360 | Tennessee State Museum |
| H.O.M.E. Helping Our Music Evolve | The AristoMedia Group |
| Harry Butler Photography, Videography and AudioVisual Production | The Belcourt Theatre |
| Headquarters Beercade | The Change Agent.cy |
| Hemphill Brothers Coach Company | The Chef & I on Ninth |
| Hillbilly Cache LLC | The Cordelle |
| HIPPIE Radio 94.5 | The Cowan at Topgolf |
| Historic Travellers Rest Plantation & Museum | The Hermitage – Home of President Andrew Jackson |
| Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari | The Johnny Cash Museum |
| HOPE FORWARD | The Mechanical Licensing Collective |
| Horton Group | The Music City Rollin’ Jamboree |
| House of Cards | The Nashville Black Market |
| HUB International – Nashville | The Nashville Shakespeare Festival |
| HUB International Insurance Services – Brentwood | The National Museum of African American Music |
| iDreamBIG | The Studio 208 | Art Gallery & Furniture Showroom | Public Art Curator | Photographer |
| Imperial Commissary Collectors Convention (ICCCon) April 16-18, 2021 | The Wynn Network |
| Innovo Management, LLC | Timberhawk Hall |
| Iroquois Steeplechase | Tonda McKay Photography |
| Janna Landry | Treeline Bamboo Partners |
| Johnny Cash’s Kitchen and Saloon | Trixstar Entertainment |
| Judith Hill Photography | TRUE Music Room and Bar at Cambria Downtown Nashville |
| Kerry Woo Photography | Twin Oaks Guest Ranch |
| KSTV | Underground Music Collective |
| L27 Rooftop Lounge | Victor Chatman Productions & Studios |
| Layla’s | Whiskey Ghost Entertainment Law |
| Liberty Party Rental | Wildhorse Saloon |
| Lifest – A Party With a Purpose (Bon Aqua July 28-30) | William DeShazer Photography, LLC |
| Lighthouse on the Lake | Women in Music |
| Lightning 100 | Women Who Rock Nashville |
| Liquor Lab Nashville, LLC | Woolworth Theatre |
| Magnolia Golf Group | Write Songs Music Publishing |
| Make Music Nashville | Writers Studios at Hutton Hotel |
| meet + greet | WSM AM 650 |
