Some rooms just make sense for certain artists. Pat Metheny at the Ryman Auditorium is one of those pairings — a guitar legend in one of America’s most hallowed venues.
Metheny brings his Side-Eye III+ tour to Nashville on Sunday, March 22 at 7:30 PM, continuing a run that has him pushing into new sonic territory alongside pianist Chris Fishman, bassist Jermaine Paul, and drummer Joe Dyson. The set features newly written material from a forthcoming 2026 album alongside the kind of fluid, genre-defying improvisation that has made Metheny one of the most decorated musicians in jazz history. Twenty Grammy Awards across ten different categories tells part of the story. The music tells the rest.
If you haven’t seen Metheny live, the Ryman is the right room to start. The acoustics alone will do something to you — and when a player of his caliber steps into that space, it stops being a concert and starts being something else entirely. Don’t sleep on this one.
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