CMA

The week that is the Country Music Awards is a very be=if=g deal indeed for music lover of the country kind.

This takes place in Nashville during the week we were in Nashville, we were there on the Friday of he CMA week the 8th.

Tickets to the CMA are like hens teeth and just not available to late arrivers like us. and in fact we are so 'cream crackered' by the evening we would be falling asleep at the event.  In fact for us the best thing we could hope for happened.
 Let me explain, Alvon is a keen Fiat owner and renovator of the cars, he knows of another Fiat devotee in Nashville, John, who very kindly came over with his wife, Beth, and took around.  A great place to be, Nashville in the evening during the CMA week. The place was humming, a great atmosphere and lots of live music going on.  Lots of people to photograph. So here are the snaps.  Most self explanatory so let the photos speak for themselves.

A chess player to take on all comers..

  The AT&T building reflected in the bonnet of  an old Plymouth convertible

 Yes Alvon spotters, its him!

And the best to last.....

 By the way he's checking his phone!

I guess you think its nothing but swanning around and going to pop concerts, in fact pop concerts were to pay an important part of the next day or so, more on this to follow dear reader. On this day we had a conference call at 09:00.  It would be good to have a team to deal with all this stuff, but the sea2sea operation runs on a shoe string and is staffed completely by volunteers who do a great job.

Here is Tom taking the call on the iPhone (of course)