Each summer evening, the skies over downtown Nashville come alive with the flight of tens of thousands of Purple Martins.

Jon Bon Jovi hugs a woman after helping talk her from a ledge of a pedestrian bridge in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday. Metropolitan Nashville Police Department via YouTube ...

Police in Nashville, Tennessee, praised singer Jon Bon Jovi for helping prevent a tragedy by speaking to a woman who was on the ledge of a bridge Tuesday.