Downtown At Sundown

Concert Series

In anticipation of our move to Clarksville Tennessee, and to pass the time as we tried to exercise patience, operation “What will all the new fun things be we will be able to do?” was underway.

While I knew realistically that moving five hours away there would be a transition period, we were excited for what it looked like on the other side of settling in. All of the restaurants, shops, activities both indoors and out -this vast amount of life experiences we were about to be surrounded by should we decide when and to what we would partake.

We moved August 1st and school for the kids started shortly after just that following week and as a person who values a place for everything and everything in it’s place -we unpacked and settled in rather quickly.

We just took the beginning days as they came, learning our new normal

what working from home looked like for me,

what school drop offs and pick ups looked like for the kids,

what grocery shopping looked like,

and what in town neighborhood life was like being used to country living.

Before we knew it Halloween was coming up, excited for trick or treaters we decorated the house and the kids actually preferred to stay home and hand out candy over going trick or treating themselves.

Then came Thanksgiving and Christmas and allowing ourselves more grace in navigating what does this all look like for us now- What traditions do we want to maintain? Where do we still involve outside relatives? Where do we want to run with it and just see what new things fall into place?

As we just relaxed into this new to us life and waited out winter a bit of hibernation as we gave ourselves time to rest from all the big things the year had blessed us with. We couldn’t wait until spring and summer to grab life with gusto and bank up those long awaited experiences.

Hello, Covid.

This was a new normal for everyone, on top of the new normal we had been embracing, and that amazing sense of community ensued.

Each day another degree of lockdown engulfed those ideas, those plans, unstoppable exciting plan after plan.

As we survived that year we once again anxiously awaited the possibilities come spring and summer.

The first Friday night concert we attended certainly delivered to our expectations. The Tennessee Pluckers started the night as the opening for the main act Keith Anderson.

Bonus with a Keith Anderson concert -when my oldest Andrew was was about 6 years old with his little boy voice and country twang, he would sing with confidence “iced down a six pack, ah ha ah”, suffice to say Keith Anderson was played a lot every where he went. I think he would have really enjoyed this experience, but as an adult now living on his own he wasn’t here for it. None the less, this Momma enjoyed and reminisced for us all.

The Downtown Commons offerings in their Downtown at Sundown do not disappoint. We had several food trucks to chose from, esthetically pleasing designed space -a cozy space. I don’t know what was more beautiful to witness, the sunset from where we sat, seeing all those around us, or that feeling of being a part of this community. It was so easy to sit there as a family in a state of being, just as I’d imagined. It has all thus far, been worth the wait.

I know a lot of work goes in behind the scenes of such events whether big or small and we are so thankful to have offerings such as this in our community, free to enjoy.

Take good care and travel safe,

Sami