Music Returns to the Red Barn
~ story and photos by Jeff Tryon
Many people are working to make Brown County and Nashville a place synonymous with music in the eyes of visitors, and a place of welcome and nurturing for local musicians and the local music scene.
In that spirit, local musician Doug Talley has taken on the challenge of resurrecting a forgotten jewel of a local performance space, the Red Barn theater, as Indiana RedBarn.
Located just west of Nashville on State Road 46, the Red Barn has a long history of playing host to musical acts. For many years, The Lloyd Wood Show made a popular home stand there. More recently, performer Robert Shaw had success with his Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley tribute shows on the Red Barn stage.
Now, Talley is hoping to revive the venerable barn theater for a new generation of songwriters and performers of every kind, and to create another space for welcoming public music to Nashville.
Doug Talley at the Indiana RedBarn.
Derick Howard performs the third Thursday.
“ When we got here there were no signs of life,” Talley said recently.“ We’ ve got a lot to do. But everything is in working order now and we’ re going to run shows here Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights this year and see if the town is willing to support it. If they will, we’ ll keep doing it and have even more.”
54 Our Brown County Sept./ Oct. 2016