A new live music venue / sports bar is coming to Collierville: What to expect at Nashoba

A major part of the revitalization happening at Collierville’s The Shops at Carriage Crossing involves a roughly 10,000-square-foot “Lafayette’s Music Room”-like concept.

Wolf River Hospitality Group's Nashoba is expected to open in June in the space that was formerly Hickory Tavern restaurant, according to Kirk Cotham, co-founder of the restaurant group. Nashoba will be located in Suite 111 next to Firebirds Wood Fired Grill.

Cotham owns Wolf River Hospitality Group with his business partner, Chad Foreman. Wolf River Hospitality Group also owns local restaurant establishments Pyro's Fire Fresh Pizza, Wolf River Brisket, Levee Creamery and Limelight.

The new high-end gastropub will be a combination of a full-service restaurant and sports bar with high-definition TVs and a 20-foot-wide stage equipped with a sound system for live music. Nashoba can hold up to 325 people and will have private meeting spaces that can accommodate 80 to 150 people.

Cotham said Wolf River Hospitality Group has hired an entertainment manager, Greg Jackson, who has started to book bands for Nashoba.

Cotham noted Nashoba will have bands performing starting in June. The performers will be those widely known across the Memphis area. He said live entertainment is slated to take place every Friday and Saturday, as well as some Thursdays.

“By going into that new space, we’re going to be able to create a stage area that is really unlike anything we got certainly outside the (Interstate 240) loop, but really east of the places in Downtown (Memphis) and Midtown,” Cotham said. “We were fairly confident that people would be excited about a live music venue out in Collierville from a guest perspective.”

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Nashoba's 60 screens, menu and nanobrewery

According to Cotham, there are 60 screens planned throughout Nashoba to deliver a sports bar experience. The space will feature three LED TV screens with one side of the establishment anchored by a 20-foot-wide LED screen that can be split into two 10-foot-wide screens. On nights where there is no live music, Cotham said there's another 15-foot-wide LED screen that can be pulled to the front of the stage. The outdoor patio will have a 15-foot-wide screen on it as well.

Cotham said the menu include a variety of different foods with many of the usual sports bar items such as wings that will be smoked and grilled instead of fried.

“Those kinds of things where we will have wings because everybody has wings, but ours will be a little different,” he said. “... We’re also kind of going through how we create one of the best burgers in town or how do we do create foods that are familiar, but yet upscale.”

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Cotham said Nashoba will also be brewing its own beer on site. It was able to find a place that sold nanobrewery equipment and will have a small space at the restaurant for a nanobrewery.

“We’re not going to become a place that markets our own beer, but beer that we will sell on site,” Cotham said. “We’re excited about what that can offer and the things we will be able to bring to our guests on some really kind of unique and craft beers that we’ve done on site.”

Corey Davis is the Collierville and Germantown reporter with The Commercial Appeal. He can be reached at Corey.Davis@commercialappeal.com or 901-293-1610.

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