The first few years saw Ms. Carson cruising downtown’s Broadway, picking up tourists, cracking jokes and pointing out landmarks, all while driving a self-renovated former school bus.
In the years since, she’s scooped up numerous awards—including the prestigious TripAdvisor Hall of Fame and Traveler’s Choice awards—en route to being voted the #1 tour in Tennessee by BestThingsTN.com.
Nashville party buses have come under increased scrutiny lately, but that’s not what Ms. Carson’s bus tour is about. Part comedy act, part country music sing-along, the 90-minute show (note ‘show,’ not party!) has been featured on several national TV programs such as ABC’s Good Morning America and HGTV’s Flip or Flop.
Last year, Ms. Carson teamed up with eight-time Canadian Country Music Association nominee and CCMA “Male Vocalist of the Year” Gil Grand, whose traditional voice and winsome acoustic guitar are the perfect foil to her comedic mania. The Jamboree is currently billed as Nashville’s only country music and comedy bus show.
Ms. Carson’s irreverence and bawdy humor might offend some, but as entertainment writer Bethany Bowman noted in a feature for digital media outlet Main Street Nashville, “Jenny Carson is a breath of fresh air. She goes there. But when you offend everyone equally, no one feels left out.”
“You get on our bus, put everything down and have a good time for 90 minutes. You enter as a stranger, you leave as a friend…and possibly as part