For a July 7:00 PM show at Carl Black Chevy Woods Amphitheater at Fontanel, the sun sits 11° up in the west at the start, so shade means getting under the grandstand roof or the deck above you. Sunset is 8:04 PM local, so an evening show gets real shade as the sun drops. By 7:05 PM the sun is only 10° up in the west, 60 minutes from setting.
Check the sun for YOUR show →We haven't verified which way Carl Black Chevy Woods Amphitheater at Fontanel faces yet, so we won't pretend to name the shady sections. A seating map pointed the wrong way is worse than no map. What's above is real: the sun's exact position for this park's coordinates and timezone. On the interactive page you get the live sun compass, sunset against your game's real start time, and the hour-by-hour forecast.
Sun & sunset check for Carl Black Chevy Woods Amphitheater at Fontanel · Satellite shadow view
Of all the numbers that describe a summer evening at Carl Black Chevy Woods Amphitheater in Whites Creek, Tennessee, the one to remember is 8:04 PM. That's the July sunset, on the early side for an outdoor venue, and it means an evening show here spends very little time contending with the sun at all. By a typical 7 PM start, the sun has already sunk to 11 degrees above the horizon, out to the west-northwest. That's grazing light, the kind that turns everything gold and disappears fast.
Eleven degrees of sun altitude is about as gentle as direct sun gets. It won't cook you from overhead; the question is purely whether it lands in your eyes, and that depends on which way you're facing during the first hour. By 8:04 the sun is gone, and from then on every inch of this open-air venue is in shade. If you've sweated through a Tennessee July afternoon to get to the show, the venue itself is where the day finally lets up.
Daytime events deserve the opposite mindset. With no roof over the crowd, a midday event at Carl Black Chevy Woods Amphitheater means hours of direct sun in muggy middle-Tennessee heat, carry water and sunscreen and don't improvise.
We haven't verified the stage orientation here, so we won't call out which seats catch that final hour of western light. The satellite shadow view can: it draws real shadows over satellite imagery for any place, date, and hour. Load the Whites Creek grounds, dial in your showtime, and see for yourself where the shade sits before the sun makes the question moot.
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