Stacy Mitchhart
Show Date: Friday, June 05, 2026
Show Time: 7:30pm
Doors Open: 6:00pm
Ticket Price: $20-$30 plus applicable fees
Show Type: Blues
Restrictions: All Ages
Stacy Mitchhart’s musical journey began in his native Cincinnati, Ohio, in a home filled with jazz guitar masters like Wes Montgomery and Johnny Smith. Naturally drawn to the six-string, he was captivated early by Little Richard’s outrageous showmanship, inspiring the performer he is today.
“I heard Springsteen, Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, but that stuff never moved me,” Mitchhart recounts. “When I saw Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland and B.B. King, I knew what I wanted to do.” Another key influence was Cincinnati guitarist and singer Frank Hedges, a musical preacher. “He played guitar in a strange, almost drum-like style, which taught me to concentrate on the groove.”
A lifelong bandleader, Mitchhart rose to the top of Cincinnati’s blues scene, launching his recording career with 1993’s Blues Transfusion and releasing more than a dozen albums, including Grown Ass Man (2009) and Live From B.B. King’s (2010). After his first Nashville gigs 18 years ago, he knew he’d found his musical home. “The very first time I came to Nashville I sold 24 CDs off the bandstand,” he recalls. He was soon offered the house band slot at Printer’s Alley’s famed Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie Bar.
Now recognized as one of Nashville’s top live blues acts, Mitchhart still plays roughly 200 shows a year while performing internationally. “Every gig is important, and the audience always deserves your best,” he says. “I’m more comfortable onstage entertaining than I am in my own living room.”