Fans from around the country attend 25th annual ‘TransPerfect Music City Bowl’


NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Music City welcomed thousands of people for New Year’s Eve fun — and that included some passionate football fans.

On Saturday, Iowa took on Kentucky in the “TransPerfect Music City Bowl.” The Hawkeyes took home the win, with a final score of 21 to 0, but many fans at the Music City Bowl are really looking forward to spending New Year’s Eve in Nashville.

“Ten to 20 years ago you wouldn’t have this atmosphere. It’s overwhelming; it’s a lot to take in,” UK fan Christopher Moore said.

“We knew it was going to be the Country Music Capital, and we all love country music,” Iowa Fan Janet Sarchett said.

“I was talking to friends in Colorado and Minnesota, and they were mentioning how Nashville is the place to be for New Year’s Eve,” UK fan Terri Millette said.

This football game was a rematch between the Iowa Hawkeyes and Kentucky Wildcats.

The team in blue defeated Iowa in last year’s Citrus Bowl. Of course, Kentucky fans hoped their team would take home the win again this year, but Iowa came out on top this time.

Some fans say that when you’re attending a football game in Music City, you’re just happy to be here to ring in the New Year.

“To come here and see how vibrant the city is and everything — also, how it’s been expanded has been awesome. I think the term NashVegas holds truth,” UK Alumni Association President Antoni Huffman said.


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Creative Composer Gigi Masin Releases Album ‘Vahine’


The widely loved Gigi Masin returns with ‘Vahine’ – a mini album of beautiful and distinct music that is unmistakably his, sounding better than ever. 

Gigi always pours his heart into composing, but here it takes on a potent new level of heavy emotion – as it’s a tribute to his late wife, who sadly passed away last year.

“There is a Tahitian dance called ‘Aparima’. It consists of graceful, sinuous and fascinating movements, which tell you stories and legends about love or tradition. The ‘Vahinè’ are now dancing, the Tahitian females, with smiles and gestures that could be symbolic or descriptive but are always gentle, harmonious, charming. I was watching this documentary, it was almost four in the morning, but I couldn’t sleep; I was in front of the television for hours, my wife had passed away the day before, and I was watching hands and arms swaying. I told myself that maybe it’s so, at the end of the road it’s possible to realise dreams, and I’m sure that she is finally able to dance like never before, and is able to move without any impediment, with no suffering, free to make all the movements that she couldn’t make for so long, turning to me with a smile and a wink. So, in the clouds, you will discover and see an extraordinary ‘Vahinè’, because she will move and dance and smile until the end of time.” – Gigi Masin.

A future-retro dreamscape where stripes of early evening sun pour through partially closed venetian blinds; kalimba, piano and steel pans meet on the incredibly evocative ‘Marilene (Somewhere in Texas)’.

The Balearic/Italo house heart of ‘Barumini’ throbs throughout a celestial epiphany, whilst ‘Shadye’ is a sun blinded ambient mirage where angelic voices and electric guitar intertwine, before more heavenly music ensues on the trance-like ‘Malvina’.

A heart-wrenchingly beautiful evocation of transitioning to the other side, ‘Valerie Crossing’ is Gigi’s compelling and inspirational take on death, with a vivid evocation of something spiritual, existential and metaphysical. His exemplary approach shows death not as a cause for despair, but a philosophical and poetic exploration of where souls go, when they leave their earthly bodies.

Gigi closes with ‘Vahinè’ – a twitchy, levitational piece of sublime deep techno, which transmits high strength vibrations of powerful emotions. On both this track, and the album of the same name, there’ s no pseudo intellectual ambient posturing with cod academic angles tagged on; This is music of real substance, coming from a real place. It’s saturated with feelings, but turns mourning into affecting art, and even a beacon of hope.