Mini Trees Brings Massive Sound to Music City
Nashville, Tennessee - December 5, 2025
With the neon lights of the downtown skyline to their right and a packed crowd buzzing with anticipation, Mini Trees took the stage at Row One in Cannery Hall on a frigid Friday night in Nashville. Lexi Vega, the artist behind the band, came fully prepared to play to a Tennessee crowd, sporting a vintage University of Tennessee Knoxville football jersey and a set too good to be ignored.
As the band funnelled onto the stage and the audience pressed closer, they kicked off the night with “Moments in Between”, a song off their 2021 album Always in Motion. A soft start that built upon itself – speaking of dreams and wishes with synths sparkling behind Vega’s hypnotic vocals.
Before they introduced anything from the most recent album, Slow It Down, Mini Trees reached even further back into their discography to their 2020 EP, Slip Away. There was no mistaking the crowd’s long-standing appreciation of the band, singing lyrics back to Vega as she played.
Despite the crowd’s obvious enjoyment of the first portion of the show, the energy shifted as the band played the first notes of “Close”, the first song from Slow It Down. As these notes vibrated throughout the room, the early reverence of the set quickly became something even brighter. With new melodies fresh in their heads, the audience grew louder, finding the notes as they do in music city.
Halfway through, Vega decides that trust has been established and the crowd is ready for some instructions: stop staring at pedal boards (in the way that Nashville crowds always do) and “shake some ass.” Never a hypocrite, Vega follows her own rules, abandoning her guitar as she goes into her next song. It’s her self-proclaimed popstar moment, and she finds her rhythm dancing across the stage, despite confessing she is far more comfortable behind the keys or with a guitar strapped across her chest. For the rest of the evening, the room pulses with bouncing heads and swaying bodies.
For the final song on the record, “Slow It Down”, they strip it back. Vega starts the song alone, band members looking on in admiration before joining back in, one by one: Chris West on guitar, vocals and synth; Zach Esposito on bass; and Mark Edlin on drums. Even as the set slows, the crowd continues to undulate in unison, a part of something beyond themselves.
Vega announces two more songs, and the crowd cries out in protest, one voice ringing above the rest: “No, five!” Though Mini Trees does not fulfill the request, they do come back for an encore. One more song: “Push and Pull”. Their most popular song brings the house down, and a sense of collective satisfaction settles over the room as the line for merch begins to snake across the room.
You can find tickets to the rest of the tour here.
