Nashville approaches the holidays through its identity as Music City, with country music holiday concerts and recordings that define the season for a wide American audience. The Opryland resort's elaborate seasonal installations are unmatched in scale at any American hotel property.

• A Country Christmas at Gaylord Opryland: The resort's interior installations, including the walk-through ICE! exhibit and millions of indoor lights, run at a scale unmatched by any other American hotel.
• Christmas at the Ryman: The Mother Church of Country Music hosts a holiday concert series featuring rotating country and Americana headliners.
• Cheekwood Estate: The historic estate's Holiday Lights program transforms its 55-acre botanical garden and the 1929 Georgian-revival mansion for the season.
• Meat-and-Three and Hot Chicken: Nashville's hot chicken (Prince's, Hattie B's) and meat-and-three tradition at spots like Arnold's and Monell's give the season's eating its distinctly Nashville character, alongside Loveless Cafe's biscuits on the route out to Belle Meade.