See the New Mural in Wedgewood Houston
Written by Nicole Brown
Located on 4th Ave. S., it’s nearly impossible to miss the stunning new 5,775-square-foot mural of concert tickets gracing the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood.
A giant love letter to Music City, the Big Tickets mural shares a bigger and often untold story of Nashville’s role in shaping multiple genres of music. From first-time visitors to locals, Big Tickets is an all-access pass to discover our city’s rich and diverse history of music-making by way of stubs from shows past.
It’s no surprise that Nashville has established itself as an integral component of the country music landscape, but as Big Tickets depicts, that role also extends into several other musical genres. A collaboration between three local teams, Adventurous Journeys (AJ) Capital Partners, Studio Delger, and Eastside Murals, the piece is a collage of 62 real concert stubs from shows involving more than 120 artists. The tickets span from the early 1900s through the present day, mapping iconic moments in Nashville’s music history with many of those artists and shows having a connection to the very neighborhood in which the mural is located.
The ticket stubs encompass a wide variety of artisits, genres, decades, and venues from years past and present. Featured artists include The Allman Brothers Band, Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, Etta James, George Clinton, Guns N' Roses, Jack White, John Prine, Loretta Lynn, Mavis Staples, Muddy Waters, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, Run DMC, Stevie Wonder, and more.
Every part of the creative process between AJ Capital Partners, Studio Delger, and Eastside Murals was intentional in bringing the vision of the Big Tickets mural to life. With so many easter eggs embessed into each of the mural's eight 50-foot panels, there's a new piece of Music City history to discover.