RIDE to The Black Rodeo ✊🏿🏇🏿
GILMORE / SHERRELL & SOATOURS
Ride to the rodeo in LUXURY! At checkout be sure to add SOATOURS in the comments to be on the bus with SOUL ✊🏿🖤 The SOATOURS bus will give prizes for the best boots, best hat, best outfit, best couple, and more. This year we've joined with the GILMORE & SHERRELL Experience so you get the best time ever!
News Worthy
Students and School Matter
It's Always Giving Back Season With Us
Experience Us 3 ways: On Bus, on-site, & online
On Bus
On-Site
On-Site
Join us on a bus to get # SoulCertified and #EduTained on a unique African-American themed sightseeing tour experience of Nashville and America.. We are now offering Church tours, Country Music Tours, and Boutique / Couture tours designed for your specific desires and to your desired location.
On-Site
On-Site
On-Site
Our team will come to your location to #EduTain you about Nashville's African-American History & HERstory. At your location, you'll experience our brand of mixing education, entertainment, and SOUL! We call this #EduTainment & getting #SoulCertified. Great for youth groups, Churches, social groups, senior living, or On-site workplace p
Our team will come to your location to #EduTain you about Nashville's African-American History & HERstory. At your location, you'll experience our brand of mixing education, entertainment, and SOUL! We call this #EduTainment & getting #SoulCertified. Great for youth groups, Churches, social groups, senior living, or On-site workplace professional development. Call us about our new offering: The Wealth Gap Simulation- a 1.5 hour experience of how government policies have caused African-Americans to be financially behind and distant from other Americans.
Online
On-Site
Online
If you need to be virtual, we do that too! We have a dedicated secure hosting platform, Zoom, so your group can be #EduTained and #SoulCertified from your individual homes or offices. This is great for monthly family meetings, as well as, youth groups, Churches, social groups, senior living, or workplace professional development sessions not at the same location.
We are glad to be giving tours. Get EduTained and SOUL Certified by booking your tour today.
Read & watch the stories about Soul of America Tours on News Channel 5, The Tennessean, and other news outlets.
About Us
We are EduTainment!
The Soul of Music City Tour is our SOULfully energetic sightseeing tour & field trip of Nashville that emphasizes the influences of African-Americans on the city’s past, present, and future. Experience the Nashville Renaissance and see many of the cultural sites that have enriched Nashville in an EduTaining way that leaves you Soul Certified!!!! EduTainment is EduTainment.
Sites of Excitement & EduTainment!
- NEW 30 Minutes Tour of the Jefferson Street Sound Museum
- TSU
- Fisk
- Meharry
- HBCUs
- Grammy Mile
- Sit-in Sites
- Civil Rights Sites
- Music Studios
- Citizens Bank
- National Museum of African-American Music (NMAAM)
- Slim & Husky's Pizza
- Churches
- Athletes
- Singers
- Monuments
- Neighborhoods
Group & Individual EduTainment!
- Vacation Tourism
- Business Travel & Tourism
- Church Outings
- Family Reunions
- Birthday Parties
- Sorority/Fraternity Bonding
- Bachelorettes & Bachelors
- Individual "Me Time"
Experienced Conductors & Guides
Our founder and CEO is the lead conductor and has nearly 30 years experience as a teacher/historian. The other conductors are local historians, storytellers, and entertainers. Every team member is focused on helping you get SOUL Certified!!!! and EduTained with a remarkable experience.
Fun, Historic, Cultural Sites
From leaders to entertainers to athletes like Oprah Winfrey, MLK Jr, Dianne Nash, John Lewis, Whitney Houston, James Brown, Little Richard, Aretha Franklin, Gary Jenkins of Silk, Jill Scott, Bobby Jones, The Rock, Beyoncé , Kevin Hart, Steve Harvey, Wilma Rudolph, & Olympic Gold Medalist African-Americans in Music City have a SOULFUL connection to America's past, present, and future.
We visit TSU, Fisk, Meharry, Civil Rights Sites, Historic Markers, Black Wall Street of Nashville, Jefferson Street, Music Row, and more.
🆕️ NEW! 🆕️
Tour of the Jefferson Street Sound Museum
Philanthropy & Donations Info
Soul of America Foundation & SOATyouth
The mission of the Soul of America Foundation & SOATyouth is twofold. First, to educate youth and people about the contributions of African-Americans to the World and secondly, to give financial support to the philanthropic endeavors of Soul of America Tours which includes providing educational curriculum, as well as, free and reduced priced tours to disadvantaged youth, elderly groups, and non-profits. Additionally, the Soul of America Foundation sponsors SOATyouth whose mission is to EduTain, Engage, & Empower youth with African-American & Nashville History/HERstory, Entrepreneurship, Character Development, Financial Literacy, Vocational Skills, Self-Esteem, Social Emotional Learning, STEAM, and Healthy Living.
Lifetime Soul Circle
$10,000 or more donation towards the endeavors of The Soul of America Foundation & SOATyouth
Soul Circle
Driving Force
$5,000 donation towards the endeavors of The Soul of America Foundation & SOATyouth
Driving Force
Wheels on the Bus
Driving Force
$1,000 donation towards the endeavors of The Soul of America Foundation & SOATyouth
Wheels on the Bus
Wheels on the Bus
Wheels on the Bus
$500 donation towards the endeavors of The Soul of America Foundation & SOATyouth
Friends of SOAT
Wheels on the Bus
Wheels on the Bus
$100 donation or less towards the endeavors of The Soul of America Foundation & SOATyouth
Our Partners
