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Taylor Swift singing in a sparkling red outfit against a dark stadium speckled with lights
The Red set, SoFi Stadium, August 2023. Paolo Villanueva (Paolo V) · CC BY 2.0
A wooden cabin with a mossy roof on a stadium stage, Taylor Swift in a pale gown on its steps
The folklore cabin, SoFi Stadium, August 2023. Paolo Villanueva (Paolo V) · CC BY 2.0
A packed stadium bowl glowing orange under the roof, the stage lit with flames
The 1989 set, Wembley, August 2024. BrigidLIS · CC BY 4.0

Nashville · Watch Hill · Glendale · Kansas City · Wembley · Vancouver · New York

Taylor SwiftThe Bluebird to the Garden

A first break in a 90-seat Nashville room; a 149-show tour that ended in Vancouver with a giant friendship bracelet on the stadium wall. Her crowds spelled words in letter beads and swapped them with strangers. Thread each city, then go and stand in it.

A bare hand. Pen ready.

Before every show

Ink a 13 on the back of your hand.

Her lucky number turns up everywhere. Ink it to see where.

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A singer with a guitar on a small low stage in a dark room strung with fairy lights
A songwriter on stage at the Bluebird Cafe, Nashville, November 2018. Uppsalaelle · CC BY-SA 4.0
A teenage Taylor Swift in a white dress and sunglasses, singing with an acoustic guitar
Taylor Swift at 17, May 2007. Brian Cantoni · CC BY 2.0

Eighth grade · 4104 Hillsboro Pike, Green Hills, Nashville

The Bluebird Cafe

Swift got her first break at the Bluebird: Scott Borchetta of Big Machine saw her play the room as an eighth grader and offered her a record deal.

In 2018 she came back unannounced. The songwriter Craig Wiseman invited her up during his acoustic set.

She played Better Man, the song she wrote for Little Big Town, used Shake It Off to show how far three chords go, and closed with Love Story.

The room seats 90. In the Round, three or four songwriters sit in the middle and take turns playing their songs and telling the stories behind them.

Amy Kurland founded it; in 2008 she sold it to the Nashville Songwriters Association International, a nonprofit, in what the café calls more a donation than a sale.

A 90-seat listening room in a small strip mall outside downtown. Two shows a night, seven nights a week: In the Round usually Tuesday to Saturday, open mic on Mondays at 6pm. Book through the café’s own site.

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The museum seen across a lawn, a long curved building with a round rotunda
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville, May 2022. Antony-22 · CC BY-SA 4.0

May 2012 · 222 Rep. John Lewis Way South, Nashville

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

In May 2012 Swift gave the museum $4 million for an education centre. Officials called it the largest gift the museum had received from an artist.

The plan was more than 7,500 square feet over two storeys: three classrooms and exhibit space, named the Taylor Swift Education Center.

Today its third floor shows Taylor Swift artefacts beside a Hatch Show Print poster and student art. On the second, a recording booth lets visitors make a video of their own.

Open daily, 9am to 5pm. The Taylor Swift Education Center’s displays and activities are included with museum admission.

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The two are 7 km apart, Green Hills to downtown.

The Bluebird Cafe

A night at the Bluebird

Green Hills, Nashville

Two shows a night, seven nights a week, in a 90-seat room. In the Round puts three or four songwriters in the middle, taking turns.

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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Taylor Swift Education Center

Downtown Nashville

Swift artefacts, a Hatch Show Print poster and a recording booth over two floors, included with museum admission. Open daily, 9am to 5pm.

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Los Angeles and the Hudson Valley · 2020

Two albums, buttoned up across a continent.

In spring 2020, after her Lover Fest tour was cancelled, Swift set up a makeshift studio in a bedroom of her Los Angeles home and called it Kitty Committee.

  1. A bedroom, spring 2020Fasten button 1.
  2. Sisk sets it upFasten button 2.
  3. Folders overnightFasten button 3.
  4. Ten of sixteenFasten button 4.
  5. September, one roomFasten button 5.

Five buttons, all undone.

Long Pond is Aaron Dessner’s self-built studio in the Hudson Valley; he has worked there since 2016.

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Taylor Swift lying on a moss-covered stage roof in a long pale dress
The folklore set on tour, Arlington, Texas, April 2023. Ronald Woan · CC BY-SA 2.0
Jack Antonoff seated beside a mixing desk, in black and white
Jack Antonoff, New York, 2023. Alex Lockett · CC BY-SA 4.0
Kitty CommitteeLos Angeles: a bedroom in a private homePrivate · not mapped
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Aaron Dessner with curly hair playing a red guitar against a dark stage
Aaron Dessner, London, August 2022. Raph_PH · CC BY 2.0
Long PondHudson Valley, upstate New York: a private studioPrivate · not mapped
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Westerly, Rhode Island · July 2020

The house on the hill.

2020: the song.

The Last Great American Dynasty, track three on folklore, is about Rebekah Harkness, a former owner of Swift’s estate in Watch Hill. Her home was known as Holiday House.

Rhode Island Monthly put Swift’s price for the estate at $17 million.

Napatree Point, at the end of Fort Road, is a conservation area. The Watch Hill Conservancy runs guided walks from its entrance, about 90 minutes long.

A seaside village: walk Bay Street past the carousel, then out along Fort Road to Napatree Point. Park free on Bay Street. Holiday House is a private home and is not on the map.

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A white lighthouse on a rocky point across calm grey water
Watch Hill Light seen from Napatree Point, Westerly, Rhode Island, December 2016. Rhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
A child on a wooden horse, blurred with speed, on an old carousel
The Flying Horse Carousel on Bay Street, Watch Hill, September 2010. vv@ldzen · CC BY 2.0
Ocean House

Ocean House, Watch Hill

Watch Hill, Rhode Island

A seaside hotel on the bluffs at 1 Bluff Avenue, Watch Hill: 49 rooms, 20 suites and a collection of cottages, with beach cabanas. Book through its own site or by phone.

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A long gilded hotel corridor with a painted coffered ceiling and a polished floor
The Galleria of the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, February 2016. P G Roy Photography · CC BY-SA 2.0

506 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles · 2018

Nobody can see you.

In it Swift wants out of being famous. An unexplained bit of luck lets her dance unseen from a luxury hotel to a dive bar to meet someone she loves.

Joseph Kahn’s video for Delicate used historic downtown landmarks, among them the Los Angeles Theatre and the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. The video had its first showing at the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards.

A second Delicate video followed: one take, shot by herself, of Swift singing in a wood.

A working hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

In plain sight in the Galleria.

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The Eras Tour · 17 March 2023 to 8 December 2024

Spell the city. Trade it on.

Bracelets were part of the Eras Tour from its first few shows. A song on Midnights encourages making them; fans spelled out words, album titles and in-jokes in letter beads and swapped them with whoever they met in the queue. Pick a city, thread its letters in order, and its stadium opens.

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GLENDALE: 8 beads in the tray. Find the G.

0 of 5 on your wrist
A silver stadium beyond a wide empty road and a row of trees
State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona, January 2025. James Larrison · CC BY 2.0

17 March 2023 · Glendale, Arizona

State Farm Stadium

The Eras Tour opens: 44 songs, ten albums, about 80,000 people.

Home of the Arizona Cardinals: go in with a ticket for a game or a show.

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Wembley Stadium

Wembley Stadium Tour

Wembley, London

A walk behind the scenes of the UK’s largest sports and music venue, into areas usually kept for the players and performers.

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Arrowhead Stadium, July 2023 · Madison Square Garden, 3 July 2026

The bracelet that never got handed over.

When the Eras Tour played Arrowhead in July 2023, Travis Kelce of the Chiefs tried to give Swift a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it. He never got to hand it over. He said he was disappointed that she doesn’t talk before or after her shows.

Kansas CityNew York

July 2023: not handed over. The Garden is 1,754 km away.

The lettered entrance of Madison Square Garden above a street of banners
The Madison Square Garden entrance on Seventh Avenue, New York, February 2016. Andrew nyr · CC BY-SA 4.0

On 24 September 2023 she was back at Arrowhead, watching the Chiefs play the Bears from Kelce’s family suite, next to his mother, Donna.

Guided tours of the arena; times and tickets on the Garden’s tours page.

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Taylor Swift in profile, hair swept back, with long drop earrings
Taylor Swift, January 2024. iHeartRadioCA · CC BY 3.0
Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden tours

Midtown Manhattan

Guided tours of the arena where Swift married in July 2026. Times and tickets on the Garden’s own page.

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Where it is now

10 places you can visit. Kitty Committee and Long Pond are private studios, and Holiday House is a private home, so none of them is on the map.

Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A 90-seat listening room in a small strip mall outside downtown. Two shows a night, seven nights a week: In the Round usually Tuesday to Saturday, open mic on Mondays at 6pm. Book through the café’s own site.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Open daily, 9am to 5pm. The Taylor Swift Education Center’s displays and activities are included with museum admission.

  1. A singer with a guitar on a small low stage in a dark room strung with fairy lights
    A songwriter on stage at the Bluebird Cafe, Nashville, November 2018. Uppsalaelle · CC BY-SA 4.0

    4104 Hillsboro Pike, Green Hills, Nashville

    The Bluebird Cafe

    Swift got her first break at the Bluebird: Scott Borchetta of Big Machine saw her play the room as an eighth grader and offered her a record deal.

    A 90-seat listening room in a small strip mall outside downtown. Two shows a night, seven nights a week: In the Round usually Tuesday to Saturday, open mic on Mondays at 6pm. Book through the café’s own site.

    Sources
  2. The museum seen across a lawn, a long curved building with a round rotunda
    The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville, May 2022. Antony-22 · CC BY-SA 4.0

    222 Rep. John Lewis Way South, Nashville

    Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

    In May 2012 Swift gave the museum $4 million for an education centre. Officials called it the largest gift the museum had received from an artist.

    Open daily, 9am to 5pm. The Taylor Swift Education Center’s displays and activities are included with museum admission.

    Sources

Stay

A room in Watch Hill.

A hotel on the bluffs in the village where Holiday House stands.

Ocean House

Ocean House, Watch Hill

Watch Hill, Rhode Island

A seaside hotel on the bluffs at 1 Bluff Avenue, Watch Hill: 49 rooms, 20 suites and a collection of cottages, with beach cabanas. Book through its own site or by phone.

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Go there

Nashville, Wembley and the Garden.

A night at the Bluebird, the education centre she paid for, two stadium-and-arena tours and Nashville music walks on the marketplace.

The Bluebird Cafe

A night at the Bluebird

Green Hills, Nashville

Two shows a night, seven nights a week, in a 90-seat room. In the Round puts three or four songwriters in the middle, taking turns.

See shows
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Taylor Swift Education Center

Downtown Nashville

Swift artefacts, a Hatch Show Print poster and a recording booth over two floors, included with museum admission. Open daily, 9am to 5pm.

Plan a visit
Wembley Stadium

Wembley Stadium Tour

Wembley, London

A walk behind the scenes of the UK’s largest sports and music venue, into areas usually kept for the players and performers.

Book a tour
Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden tours

Midtown Manhattan

Guided tours of the arena where Swift married in July 2026. Times and tickets on the Garden’s own page.

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What’s on

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Take it home

Two books and three records.

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Heartbreak Is the National Anthem

Rob Sheffield

A music critic’s book-length case for her songs.

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Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs

Annie Zaleski

A guide to the songs and how they were made.

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folklore

Taylor Swift · Vinyl, Republic B0032753-01, 2020

Sung in a Los Angeles bedroom, built in the Hudson Valley.

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evermore

Taylor Swift · Vinyl, Republic B0033439-01, 2021

Many of its vocals were cut at Long Pond in September 2020.

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Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)

Taylor Swift · Vinyl, Republic, 2023

The re-recorded third album, released during the Eras Tour.

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Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.

12 of 12 places · 14 of 14 Moments

  • The Bluebird Cafe

    4104 Hillsboro Pike, Green Hills, Nashville

    • First break

      Scott Borchetta sees her play the Bluebird as an eighth grader and offers a record deal.

    • Back in the round

      An unannounced return: Craig Wiseman invites her up, and she closes with Love Story.

  • Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

    222 Rep. John Lewis Way South, Nashville

    • Four million

      A $4 million gift for an education centre, the museum’s largest from an artist.

  • Kitty Committee

    Los Angeles: a bedroom in a private home

    • A bedroom studio

      Tour cancelled, she sets up Kitty Committee in a bedroom in Los Angeles.

  • Long Pond

    Hudson Valley, upstate New York: a private studio

    • Folders overnight

      Dessner sends tracks from the Hudson Valley; she sends back vocal ideas overnight.

    • One room at last

      Swift, Dessner and Antonoff play folklore live together at Long Pond; evermore vocals follow.

  • Watch Hill

    Bay Street and Napatree Point, Westerly, Rhode Island

    • The house on the hill

      A folklore song about Rebekah Harkness, a former owner of Swift’s Watch Hill house.

  • Millennium Biltmore Hotel

    506 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles

    • Unseen

      The Delicate video: invisible, she dances out of a grand hotel.

  • State Farm Stadium

    Glendale, Arizona

    • Night one

      The Eras Tour opens: 44 songs, ten albums, about 80,000 people.

  • Arrowhead Stadium

    1 Arrowhead Drive, Kansas City, Missouri

    • The bracelet

      Travis Kelce brings a friendship bracelet with his number on it, and never hands it over.

  • SoFi Stadium

    1001 Champion Drive, Inglewood, Los Angeles

    • Six in a row

      Six sold-out nights, then 1989 (Taylor’s Version) announced on the last.

  • Wembley Stadium

    Wembley, north-west London

    • Eight nights

      The first solo artist to play Wembley eight times on one tour.

  • BC Place

    777 Pacific Boulevard, Vancouver

    • Show 149

      The last Eras Tour show, to about 60,000 people.

  • Madison Square Garden

    4 Pennsylvania Plaza, Manhattan, New York

    • The Garden

      Swift and Travis Kelce marry at Madison Square Garden.

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