Not that you asked, but I have some things to say.

I attended the Partnership 2020 / Nashville Chamber Event this morning. Representatives from the city were well attended with the Mayor Karl Dean, Randy Goodman (Co-chair of the Music City Music Council), and senior leadership from The Recording Academy (you know, the Grammy guys??!!). There was a lot of talk about multiple successes our lovely city of Nashville have accrued (hit show on ABC, Top rankings for best-start-up, music scene, etc, etc) But the big talk of the morning was the landing of the first EVER Grammy Nomination Concert to occur outside of LA. (Side note, Nashville was home to the big Grammy event in 1973, making us also the only city to host the BIG event other than NY and LA...the past is precedence and more will come). Anyhoo, they spoke of the multiple things that occurred to bring the historical #grammynom (as the Twitterverse is calling it) to our town. But there was one thing that truly stuck out.... Mayor Karl Dean, as the first step in the process, asked