Rend Collective in Nashville

About Rend Collective

Their shows feel like you're at a party that happens to be incredibly well-arranged musically. Crowds lean in rather than jump around. There's real connection between band and audience, and people tend to stick around after rather than immediately bail. The arrangements hit differently live.

Known for All of Me, Taste and See, Build Your Kingdom Here, Ornament of Doubt, Don't Forget to Come Back

Rend Collective in Nashville News

• Play Those Chocolate Sprinkles, Rend Collective! Christianity Today · Nov 21, 2024
• BC News News | Rend Collective releases brand new album Whosoever BREATHEcast · Aug 29, 2022
• Rend Collective Releases New Song ‘Plans’ CCM Magazine · May 20, 2022
• Rend Collective’s Gareth and Ali Gilkeson: ‘We’re a worship band for people who DON’T go to church’ Premier Christianity Magazine · May 26, 2021
• NEWS: Rend Collective To Kick Off As Family We Go Tour Gospel Music.org · Feb 23, 2016

Live Music in Nashville

Nashville's folk and Americana world runs deep, but it can feel precious. There's reverence for tradition, careful arrangements, the weight of legacy. Rend Collective operates differently—they treat folk music like it should be rowdy and congregational, less museum piece, more front-porch singalong. The city's indie and alternative venues have always been where the weirder stuff happens anyway.

Nashville road trip to see Rend Collective?

Stay in East Nashville, where the old theaters and independent venues give the area real character without the Broadway chaos. Dinner at Attaboy or The Stillery—places with actual craft to their food. Spend a day exploring The Ryman Auditorium if you haven't; it's impossible to ignore the gravity of that room. Walk through the honky-tonks on Broadway if you want context for what Shepherd's blues means in this particular music town. The Parthenon is worth an hour if you need something completely different from the music scene.