[1][3] In March 1983, future country star Kathy Mattea received a recording contract after playing at the cafe regularly for seven months.

[5][6] Also in 1988, Garth Brooks received a recording contract after a performance at the cafe; he had been turned down by the same label a week earlier.

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

[13] In September 2023, a musical theatre inspired by the café, titled Bluebird, was announced, to be developed by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Don Chaffer.

[15] On May 7, 2014, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl performed an hour-long surprise solo acoustic set at the cafe.