Station Inn’s Soyars Dies

After retiring from BellSouth, she moved to Nashville and began working the door at the Station Inn, quickly becoming a fixture beloved by clubgoers and artists alike. She was a booster of emerging artists – some, like Dierks Bentley, who didn’t yet know they were emerging or artists until Soyars championed them, according to the Tennessean.

As word of her cancer spread in September, her hospital floor became an unexpected concert venue with friends like Bentley, John Prine, Bobby Bare, Kathy Mattea, and Station Inn among many others bringing their instruments and performing for her before (and after) she was moved home.

Soyars “worked the door, barked orders, shushed talkers, told jokes and bolstered spirits,” the Tennessean said.