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Lady Gaga Plays East Nashville Bar In Bud Light Tour; Gives Proceeds To Charity

Posted at 4:45 PM, Oct 05, 2016
and last updated 2016-10-05 23:56:20-04

Pop superstar, Lady Gaga, played her first show in the Bud Light X Dive Bar Tour at The 5 Spot in East Nashville.

Earlier in the day, she said hello to fans who waited in line nearly all morning outside the bar.

The tour locations have been a secret since its announcement. Gaga posted to Instagram that she was in Nashville Tuesday, and crews could be seen blocking roads and unloading equipment at The 5 Spot in East Nashville.

However, it wasn't officially confirmed that she was playing the small local bar until she showed up to talk to fans around 4 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.

One of the fans she made sure to talk with was a man named Clayton Thomas, who lost his leg in a recent car crash.

Thomas said Gaga had security make room for him to say hello. He said he was able to share a very special moment with her.

"I told her 'I'm so proud of you.' I'm a counselor for trauma victims, and she's done a lot for trauma victims; so I'm a little star stuck right now," said Thomas.

The show was scheduled for 9 p.m. Wednesday. It was also set to be streamed on the Bud Light Facebook page for those who can't make it into the venue.

Tickets were given away at the door first come first serve. 

The 5 Spot asked the local comedians of Broads and Brews, originally booked to perform Wednesday night, to switch locations late last week.

"Last week we got a call from one of the owners of the Five Spot and he said someone very famous had rented out the place for Tuesday and Wednesday," said Mikah Wyman Stuible, one of the comics scheduled to perform at the Five Spot. "They were great about it and asked if we'd be willing to find a new place for our show."

Broads and Brews happens is a monthly show at the 5 Spot, and half of its proceeds goes to a new Nashville charity each performance. The Oasis Center, a group that assists homeless youth in Nashville, was set to be this month's recipient.

"When the Five Spot called, the said this very famous person would donate quite a lot of money to our charity if we agreed to give them the venue," Wyman Stuibil said. "So of course we couldn't say no."

It was unclear how much that donation will be, but Broads and Brews was scheduled for Cobra, formerly known as FooBar, at 8:00 p.m. Wednesday night. The group will donate 50 percent of door fees to the Oasis Center, and are asking for donations of socks and boxers.