2019 Nashville Draft Music and Food Festival

The Nashville Draft Music and Food Festival is a two-day music and food festival coinciding with the NFL Football Draft. This is the perfect atmosphere for families and friends and will happen rain or shine.

Friday, April 26, and Saturday, April 27, doors open at 4 pm, CDT. The show begins promptly at 7 pm, CDT, on Friday April 26. Doors open at 2 pm, CDT. The show begins promptly at 4 pm, CDT, on Saturday April 27. The event is at the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway located at 625 Smith Ave, Nashville, Tenn. 37203.

Tickets may be obtained at a variety of Ticket Outlets and additional information can be found on the website .

Confirmed performances from artists:
Friday
Morris Day and The Time
Too Short
Doug E Fresh
K Michelle

Saturday
NBA Young Boy
Young Dolph
Yella Beezy
Key Glock

For more information and interviews, contact John Smith via phone at 615-573-5536 or via email at <johnsmith@johnsmithmarketing.com>.

The Draft Fest is not a NFL event. Nashville will be hosting the 2019 NFL Draft, April 25-27. The NFL Draft is the NFL’s second largest annual event. Last year’s Draft drew 250,000 fans and 1,800 media members to Philadelphia and generated an estimated economic impact of $95 million. The Nashville Draft Music and Food Festival is looking for vendors and sponsors. Visit . The goal of the festival is to create platforms from which the general public can come and retrieve life changing knowledge as it relates to health and wellness, technology, family intervention, financial literacy, professional career building and workforce development. The festival provides complimentary vending space to those professionals who have an interest in providing complimentary service and or information in any of the aforementioned categories, which will further serve the community at large. This well planned festival committee will provide complimentary tickets to various community resource agencies with a particular focus on battered women and domestic violence.

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