At the Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville (February 11–13), a stroll through the labyrinth of booths in Music City Center might bring treasure hunters face-to-face with early twentieth-century rococo-style mirrors from Kenny Ball Antiques out of Charlottesville, a stately iron urn from Charleston Gardenworks, or perhaps an eighteenth-century Spanish console from Nashville’s own Eneby Home. “We love the show because it’s our hometown crowd,” says Eneby co-owner Doug Jenkins. “We want to catch people’s eyes with something killer and then encourage them to come see more at our warehouse.” After a COVID-induced in-person hiatus last year, the show organizers expect more than fifteen thousand green thumbs and design lovers to shop among top dealers and field experts. Panels and lectures feature the greats of the industry—Martha Stewart will give the keynote address, and the Virginia-born tastemaker Bunny Williams will lecture on how she patiently layered beauty in her gardens over decades. “The antiques show recently celebrated its thirtieth anniversary, and so I wanted to give a talk about how my gardens have also grown over the course of thirty-plus years by showing them in various stages,” Williams says. “It didn’t happen overnight.” You also just might spot Williams lingering among the stalls, sifting through planters, testing wrought-iron benches, and sizing up birdbaths in the hunt for a new addition to her yard. “I never leave empty-handed,” she says. antiquesandgardenshow.com
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For a small indie label, Florence’s Single Lock Records is making big strides. In 2020, it launched the Advocacy Fund for Alabama Musicians, helping local players weather the pandemic
