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Sober Ride Assures Revellers A Safe New Year!

By Molly

Anchor Trailways & Tours is pleased to donate a motorcoach and driver for Sober Ride, coordinated by the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office. Started in 1983 with just a few volunteers providing free rides to people on New Years Eve who had a few too many drinks, the service has grown to well over 200 volunteers who [...]

Proud to Bring Our Troops Home For The Holiday

By Molly

December 23rd at 12:01 am, three Anchor Trailways & Tours motorcoaches will be parked ready for boarding by members of the 278th Calvary of the Tennessee Army National Guard eager to return home from Camp Shelby in Missisipi to Ashland City and Henderson, TN to spend the Christmas holiday with their families. As a result of confusion of [...]

Anchor Tours at NCAA Div II Championship

By Molly

Long-time Shoals-based business, Anchor Tours is pleased to be the official transportation sponsor of the NCAA Division II Championships being played in Florence, AL.  The competing teams are Grand Valley State and Northwest Missouri State and they will meet up on Saturday at Braly Municipal Stadium, the home field of the University of Northern Alabama [...]

Gospel Music Awards January 16th in Nashville

By Molly

Nominees were announced this week at the Sommet Center in downtown Nashville for the 25th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards that will be held January 16th at the Grand Ole Opry House. In the cold of January, music will be be performed right here in Nashville that will warm your soul. People always think of Music [...]

Preservationists View Nashville’s History & Heritage

By Molly

October 14-17, Music City came alive with Anchor Trailways & Tours motorcoaches transporting attendees of the 2009 National Preservation Conference.  The event was held by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a private non-profit organization focused on saving historic places and revitalizing communities.  A number of Nashville landmarks were visited by this group including The [...]

Live: Muscle Shoals to Music Row Tonight!

By Molly

Chris Weaver & Sunny Sweeney are the headliners for tonight’s concert.  But by the reports of how many artists are traveling on our VIP Motorcoach to the concert, there’s going to a whole lot more going on!  You don’t want to miss out on all this great music, so click here at 8:00 (central time) [...]

Music City Roots: Live From The Loveless Café Premieres Tonight

By Molly

Music City Roots: Live From The Loveless Café premieres tonight at 7 p.m.  Tonights’ headline performer is Emmylou Harris and she will be joined by singer-songwriters Pam Rose, Mary Ann Kennedy, Annie Crane & Robin Aigner. The show will be hosted by Grammy–winning singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale and Music City’s own Eddie Stubbs.  We are honored [...]

Nashville Named Friendliest City!

By Molly

The readers of Travel + Leisure Magazine have again named Nashville as the friendliest US city to visit (we earned that recognition in 2004 and 2005 too)!  The annual summer survey also looks at culture, shopping, restaurants, nightlife among many other features that respondents say they desire in a vacation destination.  Nashville also ranked 2nd [...]

CMA Awards Performers Announced!

By Molly

This week the Country Music Association released the star-studded list of country music performers who will be appearing during the November 11th event at Nashville’s own Sommet Center.  Included on the list are Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, George Strait, Sugarland, Brooks & Dunn, Reba McEntire and co-hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley.  How [...]

Smyrna Motorcoach Now Anchor Trailways & Tours

By Molly

We are pleased to announce the expansion of our service to the greater Nashville market through the recent purchase of Smyrna Motorcoach Services, Inc. Our company’s founder, Dr. John Stancil, and his wife, founded our company in Murfreesboro twenty years ago and they are so pleased to once again have a personal presence [...]