Soundwaves and Scoreboards: An Ohio Valley Conference Fan’s Grand Tour of Live Music

Border-to-border basketball rivalries and Saturday-afternoon football may be the Ohio Valley Conference’s bread-and-butter, but the same highways that shuttle students from Cape Girardeau to Clarksville also connect a constellation of stages, arenas and amphitheaters. The towns that anchor OVC campuses—Nashville’s outskirts, river cities along the Mississippi, and coal-country foothills—pulse with genres as diverse as the league’s playbooks. This guide maps a full season of concerts you can tack onto any OVC road trip, blending superstar lore with venue backstories so every away game becomes a double-header of dunks and drum fills. Gas up, cue your streaming playlist, and let’s draft the ultimate itinerary.
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