The Bluebird Café is a 90-seat cafe and music venue in Green Hills, Nashville, Tennessee. The cafe features acoustic music performances and receives over 70,000 visitors annually.

Amy Kurland, a former waitress, opened the Bluebird Café on June 3, 1982, using an inheritance she received from her grandmother. Initially, it was intended to be just a cafe, but Kurland agreed to allow friends to provide live music. The cafe became a loud late-night location for Nashville musicians. After the cafe hosted a "writer's night" to benefit World Hunger Year, the event became a regular fixture at the cafe, giving local songwriters a chance to showcase their latest work acoustically.

In March 1983, future country star Kathy Mattea received a recording contract after playing at the cafe regularly for seven months.

In 1985, songwriters Don Schlitz, Fred Knobloch, Thom Schuyler, and Paul Overstreet formed a new setup in the cafe whereby four songwriters would play in the center of the cafe, facing each other.

After the female songwriters noted that most of the songwriters performing were men, in 1988, they launched "Women In The Round"; regular performers included Pam Tillis, Karen Staley, Ashley Cleveland, and Trisha Walker.

Also in 1988, Garth Brooks received a recording contract after a performance at the cafe, filling in for another writer who cancelled his performance and never showed up; he had been turned down by the same label a week earlier.

The cafe is a central feature in the movie The Thing Called Love (1993), the last film of River Phoenix.

In 1999, Turner South aired a program called Live from the Bluebird Café, which built awareness for the cafe.