Please join us for Arts Bellevue's VUE IN THE ROUND.  VITR is a monthly showcase of Bellevue and Nashville's best songwriters/singers and performers from a variety of genres. We are working hard to bring you a wide diversity of artists, musicians, and entertainment on the 3rd Thursday evening of each month. Go ahead and put this on your calendars.

Our next showcase will be on Thursday, November 19, 7-9 pm at the Ford Ice Center located in One Bellevue Place at 7638 B Highway 70 S, Nashville, TN 37221.

ARTISTS

Don Henry

Grammy Award winner Don Henry's songs have been recorded by legends like Ray Charles, Patti Page, and Conway Twitty, country crooners like Gene Watson, John Conlee, and BJ Thomas, and young hit makers of today like Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, Lonestar, and the list goes on.
He's shared the stage with performers as diverse as Joey Ramone and Keith Urban.
The wit and wisdom of Don's songs are widely renowned whether it's campfire favorites, the hilarious "B.F.D.", and biker lullaby "Harley", to the wonderfully poignant tribute Martin Luther King, Jr., "Beautiful Fool", and of course his Grammy Award winning country classic "Where've You Been".
In addition to a Grammy, Kathy Mattea's version of"Where've You Been" won Don (and co-writer Jon Vezner) song of the year honors from ACM (Academy of Country Music), CMA (Country Music Association), and NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International).
"Where've You Been" was the first song in country music history to be awarded all four honors in the same year.

Les Kerr

Songwriter Les Kerr was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and lived in New Orleans
and Pascagoula, Mississippi before moving to Nashville, Tennessee’s Bellevue
neighborhood, where he has lived since 1987. No Depression magazine called Les a “tireless troubadour” and declared his music “both jovial and cerebral all at the same time.” Les has released twelve albums. In November 2026, Les wrote the song, “Farewell, Mister Lincoln,” and released it as a new single, “Farewell, Mister Lincoln.” Upon the release of his twelfth album in 2025, Child of Highway Ninety, Gold Mine Music Magazine called Les, “a road warrior who culls satisfaction from song” and referred to Les as, “the heir apparent to the late Jimmy Buffett.”

Upon his arrival in Nashville, Les began performing at many venues, including
the Bluebird Café. He began headlining periodically at the club since 1990, and
established the club’s annual Mardi Gras concerts in 1992. In 2026, he performed at the Folk Alliance International’s Annual Conference and the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans, the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame as part of the Southeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference and he performed for the eighth time at Nashville’s nationally known “Let Freedom Sing!” Independence Day Celebration.

No stranger to the New Orleans music scene, over the last forty years he has
performed periodically at the Maple Leaf Bar, Carrollton Station and at special concert events including opening a show for Marcia Ball on the main stage at Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Café when the club was located on Decatur Street. He was also a frequent guest on WWOZ Radio’s “Swing Sessions” program hosted by Kathleen Lee. In August, 2026, Les was asked to recount recording his Christmas album, Christmas on the Coast, with The Jordanaires, who famously accompanied Elvis Presley for many years, during “Elvis Week” in Memphis, Tennessee on the Earle Farrell 4Memphis Show.

Known for his solo folk and Americana-influenced music performances with his
acoustic guitar and as leader of “Les Kerr and The Bayou Band,” Les also writes songs that grab the attention of other performers. His songs have been recorded and performed by bluegrass groups, world music artists, Americana and performers and even the Count Basie Orchestra. Les’ music has been included on NPR’s “All Songs Considered,” CMT.com and radio stations throughout the U.S., as well as on Sirius XM, Radio A1A, Americana Country, Hootenanny Power (Baton Rouge), WSM AM (Nashville), WDVX FM (Knoxville, TN) and numerous satellite stations and networks.

Learn more about Les at www.leskerr.com

Annie Mosher

Kerrville New Folk award-winner Annie Mosher has been a longtime beloved performer at Nashville's own Bluebird Cafe, bringing her own vision to the songwriter community in out-of-the-box humor, poignant story telling, and risks in writing and performance she learned from greats like Don Henry and David Olney. British pop icon and producer Alan Parsons recorded her song Goldfish as a nod to that risk, a celebration of the nuance in engineering a modern-day folk song, spotlighting a story that needed to be told. She loves performance and travels wherever her audience will have her, singing and laughing and telling the tender truth as she knows it along the way.

Claudia Nygaard

CLAUDIA NYGAARD is a mesmerizing storyteller and cinematic lyricist whose songwriting reveals a daredevil’s vulnerability and a complete lack of self-censorship. Her songs range from the heartfelt and tender accounting of the death of her father in “His Left Side”, to the hilarious pitfalls of dating in “Dumped By A Dweeb”, the sensual and intimate “I Want To Touch You”, and the scrappy defiance of “Me Too”. Her songs are humorous, irreverent, romantic, hopeful, heartbroken, insightful, and sometimes joyously silly. She writes about life, all of it.

Nygaard has just finished recording “To Race the Wind”, a new album due to be released in early 2027. The recording is gorgeous, with cinematic lyrics, heart pounding melodies, stunning tracks provided by Nashville A-list musicians, and the best vocals of Claudia’s career so far. Many of the songs on this album are stories told in western metaphors, but this is not your grandfather’s western music.
The daughter of a California rancher, Claudia writes with a raw authenticity, and the stories have more in common with the series “Yellowstone” than a Roy Rogers film. The songs on this album are about endangered Mustangs, people who have been hurt so much they are afraid to risk love again, and people who have to make tough choices.