Kygo's Palm Tree Club Nashville: Tropical House Takes Over Broadway's Rooftop

Music City is getting a new kind of Broadway. On August 13, Palm Tree Crew — the lifestyle and hospitality company co-founded by Norwegian DJ and producer Kygo and his longtime manager Myles Shear — announced Palm Tree Club Nashville, a rooftop venue opening on top of Eric Church's Chief's on Broadway, at the corner of Second Avenue and Broadway in downtown Nashville. The roughly 300-person space, which opens to the public on Friday, September 4, pairs an indoor-outdoor layout with a dedicated DJ booth, VIP seating areas, and panoramic views of Broadway and Nissan Stadium. On paper, it is the most unexpected pairing in American music: tropical house, planted on a honky-tonk strip.

A Fifth Palm Tree Club Joins the Roster

Palm Tree Club Nashville is the fifth location for a brand that started as a festival concept and has grown into one of dance music's most ambitious hospitality projects. It joins existing clubs in Miami, Las Vegas, Orlando, and Kansas City, and it arrives at a moment when Palm Tree Crew is expanding well beyond nightlife.

This summer, the company — alongside Major Food Group and investment firm 8K Capital — acquired River Valley Ranch, the 187-acre public golf course in Carbondale, Colorado, about 30 miles from Aspen. The plan is to leave the highly regarded golf layout intact while layering in Major Food Group's high-end dining concepts and Palm Tree Crew's signature blend of music and laid-back luxury. And last September, Music Business Worldwide reported that Palm Tree Crew had raised $20 million in a WME-led Series B round that valued the company at $215 million.

It is a remarkable arc for an artist whose breakthrough single, "Firestone," arrived in 2014 and turned a then-niche sound called tropical house into a global pop language. Kygo's Firestone page is a good reminder of how far that track traveled — and of how the melodic, vocal-driven style he championed became the blueprint for a decade of crossover dance hits.

Why Nashville, and Why Now

Nashville's embrace of electronic music is less strange than it first sounds. The city's country scene and dance music have been circling each other for more than a decade. The defining moment came in 2013, when Avicii debuted his country-meets-EDM sound at Ultra Music Festival in Miami, bringing bluegrass singer Dan Tyminski onstage for "Hey Brother" — the track that became one of the most beloved crossover anthems of the 2010s. Avicii's melodic legacy remains everywhere in dance music, and fans can revisit one of its emotional peaks on the The Nights page.

Kygo has spent 2026 honoring that lineage and pushing it forward. In July, at Palm Tree Festival, he brought Tyminski out for a tribute that moved from their collaboration "Heaven on Your Mind" into the opening chords of "Hey Brother" — a full-circle moment connecting two generations of country-EDM crossover. He has also been working directly with country voices in the studio: his July single "Take Me Back," a collaboration with rising folk-country singer Max McNown, is a nostalgia-tinged track built around the question "What were you like in 2016?" And his "Kygo Jo" remix — of a joke rap song Norwegian soccer superstar Erling Haaland recorded in 2016 with his Norway youth-team friends — hit No. 1 on Spotify's Norway Top 50 within days of its July 7 release, after Haaland scored against Brazil in Norway's 2-1 win on July 5.

EDM Is the Genre to Watch in 2026

The timing is no accident. Luminate's 2026 Midyear Report, released in late July, named Dance/Electronic the top growth genre of the year, gaining half a share point compared with the first half of 2025 — with the industry data firm pointing to 2010s nostalgia as a major driver of the resurgence. That wave is visible across the festival circuit: Tomorrowland wrapped its 2026 edition in late July with an official aftermovie and headline-making sets from Martin Garrix, Hardwell, Charlotte de Witte, and Sara Landry, while Kygo's own Palm Tree Music Festival expanded its Napa edition to two days.

The melodic, vocal-led sound that Kygo helped popularize — heard everywhere from It Ain't Me with Selena Gomez to Alan Walker's global smash Faded and the festival anthem Animals — is enjoying its most commercially potent moment in years. Streaming data, festival attendance, and a wave of cross-genre collaborations all point the same way.

What Fans Can Expect

Per the official announcement, Palm Tree Club Nashville is designed as an indoor-outdoor venue with VIP seating areas, premium hospitality offerings, a dedicated DJ booth, and a prime perch at Chief's offering panoramic views of Broadway and Nissan Stadium. It is intended to be a year-round platform, not a one-season pop-up: a flexible format for artist performances, DJ sets, brand activations, sponsored events, and creator-led experiences.

"We've always believed the best hospitality experiences bring people together in iconic settings, and this unique open-air concept is designed to do exactly that," Myles Shear said in the announcement. "Nashville continues to be one of the country's most exciting cultural destinations, and we're thrilled to add a new venue that celebrates the city's incredible energy while creating something fresh for both locals and visitors."

Tropical House, Grown Up

Look at the full arc and Palm Tree Club Nashville makes perfect sense. Tropical house began as a soft, sun-drenched offshoot of deep house — Kygo's early hits like "Stole the Show" and "Firestone" defined the sound's friendly, vocal-first feel. A decade later, the same sensibility has outgrown playlists and festival stages: it now runs nightlife brands, festival franchises, and real estate plays across several states. The name on the door is Nashville's latest reminder that genre boundaries in music keep dissolving — and that the audience for electronic music in Music City has been quietly waiting for a rooftop of its own.

Palm Tree Club Nashville opens Friday, September 4, with opening-weekend programming and a talent lineup expected to be announced in the coming weeks. For fans who want to keep up with the music behind the brand, the "Stole the Show" track page is a good place to start the playlist.