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Paco Versailles
Paco Versailles is a dynamic musical duo that seamlessly blends the rhythmic flair of flamenco guitar with modern songwriting and dance production. The name “Paco Versailles” pays homage to the legendary flamenco guitarist Paco De Lucia, while also nodding to the opulent French suburb of Versailles.
Comprised of guitarist/producer Vahagni and songwriter/producer Ryan Merchant, Paco Versailles has quickly made a name for themselves as a unique musical voice and a captivating live act. As their first two albums “Dancemenco” and “Young In California” spread organically across the globe, they are set to release a consistent flow of new music throughout 2024.
“More Than A Race” Benefit After Party
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Celebrate with us at the exclusiveSteps of Success 5K “More Than A Race” Benefit After Party on Saturday, September 14, 2024, from 7 PM to 11 PM at Analog at Hutton Hotel in downtown Nashville, TN!
Get ready for an unforgettable night with Grammy Award-winning DJ Smoke, a LIVE Band featuring some of Nashville’s great focal talent, delicious appetizers, dancing, and great company. This is more than just a partyit’s a chance to make a difference and celebrate our shared success.
Don’t miss out on this incredible evening of fun and fellowship! See you there!
Learn more about our charity beneficiary Transformation Life Center and their mission “Cultivating future leaders to positively impact the community and the world!”
Southern Rounds at AMERICANAFEST: Hosted by Dave Kennedy featuring Sean McConnell, Sonia Leigh, Ruthie Collins, and Wesley Dean
Septembers show is officially Southern Rounds at AMERICANAFEST! Some of Country musics best join our Southern Rounds stage at ANALOG in NASHVILLE on SEPTEMBER 18th. The writer’s round kicks off at 7 pm with SONIA LEIGH, RUTHIE COLLINS, and WESLEY DEAN, hosted by Dave Kennedy. SEAN MCCONNELL and his band take the stage at 9 pm showcasing his new music! Come out and see these incredible songwriters who have written hits for ZAC BROWN BAND, BRETT YOUNG, and RASCAL FLATTS.
Sean McConnell
Singer, songwriter, and producer Sean McConnells latest collection of songs A Horrible Beautiful Dream approaches the difficult task of asking questions of what one really thinks they know, in the simultaneous struggle of not being afraid of the answers that emerge. Musically, the project wraps McConnells rich voice in moments of dark intimacy as well as vivid brightness, and guests such as The Wood Brothers, Natalie Hemby, Audra Mae, and Dan Tyminski underscore McConnells versatility as creative partner and commentator. McConnells goal in the creation of A Horrible Beautiful Dream was an album reflecting the chaotic time in which it was made, but still striving for timelessness. You can look at the suffering of the world and you can look at the beauty of the world and you can hold them in your hands and just be present with that and not have to even understand it, he says.
You can learn more about Sean here:
https://www.seanmcconnell.com/
https://www.instagram.com/sean_mcconnell/
https://www.facebook.com/officialseanmcconnell/
Sonia Leigh
Sonia Leighs musical style cannot be put in a box, from Hip-Hop to Country to Pop and Rock and Roll. Her Southern Ground debut album, 1978 December, was where Leigh made her country catapult. The first single off the album “My Name Is Money,” hit Top 40 on US Country Radio. She also co-wrote the Zac Brown Band #1 singles “Goodbye in Her Eyes” and “Sweet Annie”. Leigh currently canopies several projects to umbrella her different styles, such as hip hop/rock duo TYGR TYGR AKA ELYVN: ELYVN with Daphne Willis (Position Music). Other projects include low-fi 90s hip-hop duo Indica Girlz, and the mysterious grunge-pop project Rob The Man, all pending follow-up releases in 2023. Leigh has toured the world with the likes of the Zac Brown Band, Blackberry Smoke, Amos Lee, Melissa Etheridge, Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, Joan Jett, and many more. Amongst all of this, Sonia Leigh has been writing and working in the studio on her next solo record. Her hard-hitting single Thin Ice, released in 2023, is fueled with pure rock and roll energy that calls for burning down the barriers around ones self to realize their full potential and made Apple Musics New In Rock and Women Who Rock new music playlists. In the top of 2024, her release in February Beautiful Mess featuring Rob The Man continues to showcase her rock pop side produced by Nick Furlong and Colin Brittain with a cameo on guitar highlighting guitar player Carmen Vandenberg from the rock duo Bones UK.
Gearing up for her full-length record release in August 2024 this artist will keep you on your toes stylistically but seems to return slightly to her Americana roots this time and ties it all together with a common thread which is all her own uniqueness.
You can learn more about Sonia here:
https://www.instagram.com/sonialeigh/
https://www.facebook.com/sonialeighmusic
Ruthie Collins
Ruthie Collins wears her heart on her sleeve, and pretty much always has a sparkle in her eyes. Raised on a farm in Fredonia, NY, Collins blends the vulnerable, the volatile, and the serene in her music. Her songs straddle the line between Americana, Bluegrass, and modern Country, upheld by buoyant and agile vocals reminiscent of her musical icons, Patty Griffin and Emmylou Harris. Collins music features some upright bass and traditional bluegrass instrumentation in a style thats both old-fashioned and completely modern. In her own words, the timeless quality of her music is simply a manifestation of her love for timeless objects, stories, and traditions: I am drawn to things that speak of permanence.
At home in nature as well as in Nashvilles honky tonk bars, Collins considers the Joshua Tree National Park in California the place that holds the deepest meaning for her and her music; The first single from her new album, a song called Joshua Tree, was inspired by the love-story-turned-tragedy between Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons. For Collins, the song feels like a lucky charm,” infused with the special energy of a place shes returned to many times for inspiration, recharging, and peace. This song means many things to me now. Its not only a snapshot of a great love story that almost was, but its the idea that love is never truly gone, because love cannot die. No matter where you are in the world or in time, love always exists.
You can learn more about Ruthie here:
https://ruthiecollinsmusic.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ruthiecollinsmusic/
https://www.facebook.com/ruthiecollinsmusic
Wesley Dean
Relocating from Australia to Nashville in early 2021, Wesley Dean, previously known down under as Wes Carr, felt his arrival in the country/Americana roots rock scene required a new signature to herald the maturation of his musical identity. So, his middle name Dean quickly became the new trademark stamping success over his first, and critically acclaimed, American-produced (but sixth in total) studio album Unknown, which was considered for a Best Americana Album Grammy nomination.
Earlier last year he embarked on his most recent tour, Crazy Hearts Across America, where he and his family drove over 5000 miles from Nashville to Los Angeles in an RV via towns steeped in musical history playing shows off the beaten track, from Memphis to New Orleans, Luckenbach, Marfa, Las Vegas, and more. With a director and cameraperson in tow, the tour was recorded as part of his upcoming feature ‘Crazy Hearts: The Documentary’, premiering early 2025, where the 10 tracks from his new album ‘Music From Crazy Hearts’, recorded at Nashvilles prestigious RCA Studio A, complement the soundscape to Deans personal story of breaking the industry mold to carve out his name independently.
You can learn more about Wesley here:
https://www.wesleydeanmusic.com/
https://www.instagram.com/wesleydeanmusic/
https://www.facebook.com/wesleydeanmusician
Dave Kennedy (Host)
Dave Kennedy is a storyteller above all else, and its easy to see why. His songs paint a cinematic portrait of America as his characters journey through love, heartbreak, humor, sin, redemption, revenge, and perhaps even a few of the songwriters own footsteps along the way. Bringing these songs to life is a voice so soaring and powerful you cant help but be swept away into his world by the end of the first chorus. He navigates his way through each story and each world with a dynamic presence of both strength and subtlety that appreciates both the peaks and the valleys, the highways and the backroads, the loves lost and lingering in his mind. Its for all these reasons that Dave has a reputation as one of Nashvilles most respected songwriters and artists, and why artists like TRAVIS TRITT, RILEY GREEN, WHISKEY MYERS, DRAKE WHITE, LARRY FLEET, and others are eager to continue writing and performing with Dave Kennedy.
You can learn more about Dave here:
https://www.davekennedymusic.com
AMERICANAFEST Presents Cassandra Lewis
ABOUTCASSANDRA LEWIS
Cassandra Lewis knows how to tell a story. She could go into detail about a childhood in constant motion, moving in a montage from Germany through Florida, Texas, and, eventually, Idaho among her family ofhigh mountain desert folk.She shares memories of escaping loneliness and insecurity in front of the television set or tasting her first bit of fanfare asa little yodeling cowgirlat the towns lone Walmart or retirement homes. There were moments of houselessness, working in countless restaurants, sleeping in a shared tent at a refugee camp, and selling jointsout of the back of a Subaruthat she lived out of with her rescue dog and cat after a wildfire burned down her farm in Mendocino. She found community in the Bay Area and if not for the integration of psilocybin and psychedelic medicine, she may have succumbed to the pitfalls of life instead of moving forward and using her pain to heal and forgive. She says she holds a deep gratitude for these dualities.You cant appreciate the light without living and breathing the dark.She inhaled inspiration from cut-and-dry classic country and rock n roll, smoked-out soulful psychedelia, and exhaled a shadowy signature soundeasily likened to a fever dream between Marty Robbins and Joni Mitchell. This is a new kind of cosmic Americana. She slung her songs for anyone who would listen only for a proverbial last shot to pay off by landing a deal with Low Country Sound/Elektra Records circa the Pandemic. Now, shes taking this foundation and paving her own yellow brick road on her 2024 full-length album,Lost in a Dream.
AMERICANAFEST Presents Kade Hoffman
ABOUT KADE HOFFMAN
From the plains of Colorado, Kade Hoffman brings a new voice to the contemporary Western lifestyle. His songs are rich in both tradition and the youthful adventure that is growing up on the range.
AMERICANAFEST Presents Jobi Riccio
ABOUT JOBI RICCIO
Born and raised in Morrison, Colorado, a tourist town in the foothills outside of Denver that’s home to Red Rocks Amphitheater. Jobi Riccio grew up surrounded by music and found inspiration in artists ranging from Sheryl Crow to Joni Mitchell.
AMERICANAFEST Presents T Bone Burnett
ABOUT T BONE BURNETT
Joseph Henry “T Bone” Burnett III is an American record producer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was a guitarist in Bob Dylan’s band during the 1970s. Burnett has won several Grammy Awards for his work on film soundtracks, namely O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Cold Mountain, Walk the Line, and Crazy Heart.
BMI Acoustic Lounge: Weirdo Happy Hour
Join us for Acoustic Lounge presented by BMI featuring Louis York, Kim Nicky, The Shindellas, and Gramps Morgan!
AMERICANAFEST Presents Shannon McNally
ABOUT SHANNON MCNALLY
Thom Jurek at All Music said it best, “Only Gram Parsons‘ term “Cosmic American Music” begins to touch her mercurial, changeling roots aesthetic, … McNallyis a Zen-like, post-Beat song poet. For those who have followed McNallys nearly twenty-year career the thing that most sticks with the listener about her, is the timeless effortlessness that she brings to all she does. With a long catalog and a longer list of peers with whom she has written, recorded, and toured, McNally continues to turn out great music that defies blatant genre-fication.
At home across the American (Americana) music spectrum, the Grammy nominee whose live music career began on the jam band circuit of the 1990s with bands like Robert Randolph and Derek Trucks writes as well as she interprets the songs of others, has a top tier musicality to her craft, a soul-stirring voice that immediately grabs one by the heartstrings and a troubadours wanderlust, not to mention as it turns out, she is also an excellent electric guitar player.
Like her anti-hero heroes J.J. Cale, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Dr. John, and Jim Dickinson, McNally knows who she serves. She serves the song. Her quiet but steady plodding through the many layers of the business of music hasnt ever been rewarded with massive fame and fortune but in time that slow burn has become the treasure in and of itself.
The part of McNallys narrative that is often missed is that not only has she self-managed herself for nearly all of her career but that she has also been a stout warrior-like-artist who often went toe-to-toe with label heads and A&R to defend and fight for her visions. She left the major label world after ten years at Capital/EMI to fend for herself on various smaller labels and self-release paradigms. Perhaps the business of music is finally catching up with her independent spirit. We shall see.
AMERICANAFEST Presents Kim Richey
ABOUT KIM RICHEY
Kim Richey is an American singer and songwriter.
Richey entered music in the 1990s and secured her first recording contract with Mercury Nashville at the age of 37. She spent the next few years promoting her albums and touring with Wynonna Judd and others.
Her songs have been recorded by Trisha Yearwood (“Believe Me Baby (I Lied)“), Radney Foster (“Nobody Wins“), and Brooks & Dunn (“Every River“).
AMERICANAFEST Presents Tim Easton
ABOUT TIM EASTON
American songwriter Tim Easton was born on the Canadian border in upstate New York and spent his formative years living in Tokyo, Japan, and Akron, Ohio. Traveling early and often, he learned the ways of the road and rails and spent 7 years as a bonafide troubadour, making his way around Europe, playing the streets and clubs, living in Paris, London, Madrid, Prague, Dublin, and wherever he laid his hat. It was during this period that he developed his songwriting style – folk-based storytelling and personal traveling tales, often peppered with bold confessions or “tell it as it is” reality. Rolling Stone Magazine praised him as “having a novelist’s sense of humanity.”
Returning to his roots in North America, moving to New York City and then Los Angeles, he signed with New West Records and released five critically acclaimed solo albums starting with 2001’s “The Truth About Us,” which featured three-fourths of WILCO as the backing band. Invitations to be a support act from mentors Lucinda Williams and John Hiatt arrived. Easton settled in the burgeoning art and music scene of Joshua Tree, California between worldwide tours. After becoming a Father and relocating to Nashville, Easton recorded an album for THIRTY TIGERS (“NOT COOL” 2013), which accented the stripped-down Memphis & Sun Studios sound of the Tennessee Three. His next album 2016’s “AMERICAN FORK,” was a grand departure from his previous efforts, featuring a fully flushed-out backing band with elaborate song arrangements. Next came “Paco & The Melodic Polaroids,” a stripped-down, direct-to-lacquer LP of love songs to his beloved Gibson J-45 named “Paco.” That was followed up with 2020’s full band recording “You Don’t Really Know Me,” beginning a new relationship with Oklahoma-based Black Mesa Records, which will re-release “Not Cool” and Easton’s solo debut “Special 20” on vinyl in 2023. In between composing songs for his next original album and the re-issue projects to be released, a twenty-song interim project called “NORTH AMERICAN SONGWRITER” will arrive early in 2023. This double LP–the first two volumes in a series–will feature acoustic recordings of favorite songs from his vast catalog of original material. Worldwide tour dates are a constant addition to the Tour page of TimEaston.com.
Easton reached the milestone of having 100 Published original songs which he celebrated by releasing 100 solo performance videos on 100 consecutive days, all posted on his personal YouTube channel.
AMERICANAFEST Presents Ruthie Foster
ABOUT RUTHIE FOSTER
Ruthie Cecelia Foster is an American singer-songwriter of blues and folk music. She mixes a wide palette of American song forms, from gospel and blues to jazz, folk and soul. She has often been compared to Bonnie Raitt and Aretha Franklin.
AMERICANAFEST Presents Wood Box Heroes
ABOUT WOOD BOX HEROES
Wood Box Heroes, the American acoustic super-group, is hardly anything like the bluegrass music you used to find in the cassette player of your grandads old Chevy pickup truck. Deeply rooted in tradition while melding together an eclectic array of sounds from the country, bluegrass, blues, jazz, rock, and classical varieties, paired with crafty and authentic songwriting, the band delivers a piercing listening experience that plunges deep into the caverns of the soul.
Bringing together some of the worlds most highly lauded musicians in Matt Menefee (banjo-Mumford & Sons, Cadillac Sky, Warren Haynes), and Barry Bales (bass-Alison Krauss & Union Station) backing up the vocal magic of Jenee Fleenor (fiddle-Blake Shelton, Larry Cordle) and Josh Martin (singer/songwriter/guitarist), this unit has over a century of musical seasoning between them. Yet, it is quite astonishing that the years spent on separate roads, accompanying a spectrum of incredible artists and receiving some of the most sought-after honors and awards in the business, has led to this enigmatic musical intersection.
AMERICANAFEST Presents Harper O’Neill
ABOUT HARPER O’NEILL
Maybe it’s the wrong glass ceiling to break, but I’m telling stories about the whole human experience of being a woman.
Thats Harper ONeill, sharing insight into the creation of her debut project, Dark Bar Daisy. Its a gutsy assertion. But then again, ONeill is an artist whos always favored her intuition over trends. The Dallas-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter with the powerhouse voice and versatile musical chops found her way onto Music Rows radar by trusting her gut and letting her considerable talent guide her, an increasingly rare path to success in a field crowded with hopefuls trying to recreate the sound of the moment.
I like to operate on gut instincts a lot, ONeill says. I can’t always explain why I do the things that I do, but I can tell you if it feels right.
Dark Bar Daisy is a bold, brassy statement from ONeill, with an unusually singular vision for a debut project. Produced by Jake Gear (Hailey Whitters), Dark Bar Daisy is, at its heart, a country record, but one that explores and celebrates the genres intersection points with rock, pop, soul, and even indie music. Replete with complex, larger-than-life arrangements, Dark Bar Daisy is a striking statement from one of country musics most exciting new voices.
ONeill grew up in Dallas, TX, where her parents ran a household brimming with music. ONeills mother shared her love of rock and pop acts like the Rolling Stones and James Taylor, while her father introduced her to a bevy of women songwriters, including Carole King, Susan Tedeschi, and Bonnie Raitt. The pairs tastes intersect when it comes to their mutual love for Texas country artists, as Hayes Carll, Robert Earl Keen, and Lyle Lovett. Both of her parents play the guitar and her sister sings choral music, while ONeill first came to music as part of her schools marching band, for which she played French horn and was part of the drumline.
My parents are children of the 60s and they love music, ONeill says. Music was always on in the house. We were always going to concerts. We were always going to songwriter festivals. I was just constantly surrounded by music and, in my opinion, good music. They loved good songwriters and storytellers. So, they were always really passionate about the art form.
Her parents bought ONeill her first guitar, a baby Taylor signed by none other than The Chicks. In her mid-teens, she began learning to play simple chords and songs, though at the time she only considered her musical ambitions as suited to high school talent shows or bedroom singalongs.
You don’t see a way forward in music unless you know someone that’s done it, she says. And I didn’t know anyone that had made a career of it. So, I had no idea how. I didn’t even think it was really possible. It seemed like kind of like a pipe dream.
Though ONeills family encouraged her interest in music, before pursuing a career as an artist she attended college at the University of Texas at Austin, earning a degree in communications. Upon graduation, ONeill moved back to Dallas and took a job working in financial services, which she describes as having been a blessing but also dreadfully boring. She knew she needed to make a change but wasnt sure which direction to take when she began to reflect on the weekends in Austin shed spend performing in 6th Street bars.
A brief detour for an internship in Chicago connected ONeill, by chance, with Richard Casper, the founder of the non-profit organization CreatiVets, which helps veterans process trauma through visual art and music. ONeill spent time working with Casper while in Chicago, and years later he called her out of the blue to suggest she move to Nashville to pursue music in earnest.
I was like, What? she says of the phone call. And he said, Come out. Stay with my wife and I for a few days I’ll show you around town. If you hate it, Ill leave you alone. I’ll never call you about it again. So, I came up here for five days in 2016, after I graduated. I was like, I’ve got to move there.
ONeill followed her gut and moved to Nashville in 2018, a decision she remains proud of to this day. I always call it listening to the universe, she says of trusting her intuition. You have to be open to that kind of stuff for it to happen. I had to take his call in order to be invited to come out. And sometimes I feel like that’s the hardest part, just letting yourself be open.
After putting down roots in Nashville, ONeill began finding ways into the local music scene, trying out co-writes and finding gigs to play around town. After posting a performance video to TikTok in 2022 far from being a regular TikToker, ONeill had only dabbled with the platform ONeill got a text claiming to be from Jody Williams, the renowned publishing executive and former head of BMI known for working with everyone from Maren Morris to Carrie Underwood. Williams texted ONeill on April 1st, so she couldnt help but think it was a prank. They arranged a meeting for the following week and Williams signed ONeill to his Jody Williams Songs on the spot.
While she had a stockpile of songs shed written over the years, ONeill didnt feel strongly enough about the material to use it for her first project, so she started from scratch. That decision led to the gradual birth of Dark Bar Daisy. While her demos veered more closely to traditional acoustic instrumentation, ONeill was adamant that she wanted horns on the record, which Gear made happen with the help of arranger Jordan Lehning. The addition of Lehnings arrangements helped ONeill fully realize the colorful, orchestral sonic vision she had for Dark Bar Daisy. I was really excited to paint with all the brushes in the studio musically, ONeill says. They’re really hip arrangements that Jordan did. We gave him tons of references, like Khraungbin, Silk Sonic, Lake Street Dive and some old soul references. That was the melting pot mix of sounds that I was that I was chasing.
Dark Bar Daisy opens with No Longer Mine, the sole song ONeill pulled from earlier material while making the LP. Instantly groovy thanks to a prominent, swaggering bass line, the track soon gives way to ONeills dusky vocal, which lands somewhere between Ashley McBryde and Amy Winehouse. The title track is a subtle nod to Miranda Lamberts Wildcard cut Dark Bars, with ONeills own unique take on time spent in dives.
Guilty finds ONeill co-writing with Jacob Bryant and John Davidson of the Brummies, a Nashville-based band she considers to be an inspiration to her own music. After meeting at Bonnaroo a couple of years earlier, the trio got together and found kindred spirits in one another, with Bryant and Davidson creating an open, inviting atmosphere in which ONeill could try out ideas.
A lot of people in town, if you don’t get something going in the first 30 or 45 minutes, people are like, Oh, we didn’t get one today, ONeill says. And they just kind of move on. But Jacob and John, they’re just hanging out. And they’re trying to write good songs.
When You Love Me, which ONeill wrote by herself, is one of the records most striking moments, with soulful, almost jaunty production belying the heartbreak at the tracks core. With Im Not Her, ONeill was able to team up with two renowned Music Row writers, Jim Beavers (Dierks Bentley, Chris Stapleton) and Jason Nix (Lainey Wilson, Keb Mo).
Somebody will be relatable to anyone whos nursed a crush from afar, while You Dont Love Me, co-written with Melissa Fuller and Andy Skib, offers an answer to the previous tracks starry-eyed vision of idealizing romantic prospects. The album closes with the stunning I Was Always Yours, co-written with good friend and frequent collaborator Collin Nash, an emotional ballad told from the perspective of a woman leaving her lover.
I love hearing this perspective come from a woman, ONeill says. You’re not always the one who is left. Sometimes you’re the leaver, and sometimes you’re the one who hurts.
Dark Bar Daisy is an honest, clear-eyed expression of ONeills remarkable artistry and a testament to trusting the process, no matter how winding the journey. ONeill is an unapologetically fearless artist with the music to prove it.
AMERICANAFEST Presents Darin & Brooke Aldridge
ABOUT DARIN & BROOKE ALDRIDGE
Darin and Brooke Aldridge continue to ascend to new heights in the music industry while keeping their easy-going, down-to-earth connection with audiences everywhere. Brooke is a four-time winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) award for Female Vocalist of the Year, while Darin, once a former member of The Country Gentlemen, is a former IBMA Mentor of the Year and a truly gifted singer and multi-instrumentalist. They have had numerous nominations over the years from the IBMA, the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA), the Gospel Music Association (GMA Dove Awards), and the Inspirational Country Music Association. In April 2023, they were named Bluegrass Artists of the Year at the Absolutely Gospel Music Awards. Also in 2023, the IBMA nominated the smash hit Jordan, featuring Ricky Skaggs, Mo Pitney, and Mark Fain, in the Gospel Recording of the Year category while the GMA nominated the song for its Bluegrass/Country/Roots Recorded Song of the Year award.
AMERICANAFEST Presents Ashley Monroe
ABOUT ASHLEY MONROE
Ashley Lauren Monroe is an American country music singer-songwriter. Monroe has released two solo singles, “Satisfied” and “I Don’t Want To”, that reached the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart at #43 and #37, respectively.
Analog Soul featuring Will Davenport and The South
ABOUT WILL DAVENPORT
More than words on a page or notes to a melody- William Davenport has had an intimate relationship with music that dates back to his childhood in Atlanta, GA. A soulful spirit with gospel roots, he scribes music reminiscent of mature love in its truest form. From his beginning days, William has been lauded as a true balladeer and music prodigy skilled in piano, guitar, violin, and organ. While in college pursuing a degree in Engineering, William appeared in and won several high-profile talent shows including the Embassy Records National Talent Search, and the opportunity to be a singer/songwriter for Neyos recording label, Compound Entertainment. More recently, William has continued to be recognized as an independent artist, including being spotlighted in the BET Music Matters campaign.
No stranger to the stage, William has shared a stage with legends such as India Arie, Will Downing, Boney James, Laura Izibor, Mary Mary, and Kirk Whalum. A powerful voice in his own right, William continues to pen musical stories that genuinely reflect the heart songs of everyday love and sensuality while carving a career in the industry with his unique sound and undeniable talent.
ABOUT THE SOUTH
THE SOUTH is led by bassist Jermaine Butler, who previously drummed for Louisiana-based psych-rock band Moon Honey. After MH relocated from Baton Rouge to Los Angeles, Jermaine stayed behind to develop his aesthetic as a solo artist. Now based in Bloomington, Indiana, Jermaine leads a live band that evokes the feel of sample-based hip-hop in ways that would appeal to fans of J Dilla, Sidewalk Chalk, and Khruangbin. Jermaine and his band will tour this summer to showcase material from their upcoming debut album.
Twanguero ‘Panamerica’ Release Party
ABOUT TWANGUERO
Exploratory guitarist Twanguero is coming to Nashville for a release show of his 7th album Panamerica out September 27 via Cosmica Artists.
A largely instrumental blend of electric guitar & north American rock heritage with classical guitar-based bolero, cumbia, Tejano, ranchera & rhumba influences from Latin America, the new LP also features hints of Hawaiian surf and country music.
Join Twanguero and his band at Analog at the Hutton for a night of Latin Twang, Cumbiabilly and experience with Panamerica what the artist calls new nostalgia.
2’Live Bre – Human Butterfly Tour
ABOUT 2LIVE BRE
2Live Bre, whose real name is Breion Dixon, is an American rapper, actor, and songwriter from Nashville, TN. Crossing genres between rap, pop, and hip-hop, 2Live Bre has become one of the premiere musical acts in Nashville. During his career, he has collaborated with Duke Deuce, Young Buck, Bubba Sparxxx, and many more. His music has been featured on ABC, VH1, and Netflix. Bre is known as one of the most unique performing artists out of Nashville. He has shared stages with Lil Baby, Young Thug, Jelly Roll, DaBaby, and more. Bre has toured the United States with his previous Human Butterfly tour and won many awards for his talents. 2Live Bre hopes to sell out in his hometown again at the Analog. Dont miss out.
https://www.butterflynation.me/2livebre
Apple Music curated a playlist just for this event so we can sing together:
Lexie Hayden
ABOUT LEXIE HAYDEN
Drawing inspiration from all corners of country music, ranging from royalty like Dolly Parton and The Dixie Chicks to younger trailblazers such as Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves, and Brothers Osborne, Virginia-born singer-songwriter Lexie Hayden has always sought to tap one particular attribute that these influences embody to her: honesty.
Between both Apple Music and Spotify, Hayden’s music has garnered over three and a half million total streams. Her songs have been showcased on various playlists, including “New Music Nashville,” “New Music Friday Country,” “Fresh Finds,” “New Boots,” “Country Risers” “New in Country” and “CMT Next Women of Country.”
As an independent artist, Hayden has had seven songs (and counting) featured on national radio via the Women of iHeartCountry show that airs on all 150+ iHeartCountry stations. Hayden was also named the National Spotlight Artist of the Week twice on the Top 30 Countdown with Bobby Bones. Besides being an artist, Hayden prides herself on being a songwriter as well. She co-wrote Priscilla Block’s single, “My Bar,” which went to country radio and broke the top 25 in 2022. Hayden’s songs have been featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Tamron Hall Show, The CMT Awards, The Yara Shahidi Show, and ESPN.
Hayden was on the first ever season of “Becoming A Popstar” in 2022; a brand new show put on by MTV, TikTok, and Pepsi. Following the show, Hayden was selected to be a part of the Pepsi Music Lab; a program put on by Pepsi and United Masters designed to “shine a spotlight on the next generation of superstars.”
Hayden’s debut full-length album “Countin’ Rainbows” will be released later this Fall. The first two singles “Both Yours” and “Fingertips” are already available everywhere. The record will be a blend of a few genres, paying a nod to the 70s/80s, while still channeling the country music that is coming out of Nashville today.
Analog Soul featuring Will Davenport, Jon “DJ Smoke” Lucas, and Joslyn & The Sweet Compression
ABOUT WILL DAVENPORT
More than words on a page or notes to a melody- William Davenport has had an intimate relationship with music that dates back to his childhood in Atlanta, GA. A soulful spirit with gospel roots, he scribes music reminiscent of mature love in its truest form. From his beginning days, William has been lauded as a true balladeer and music prodigy skilled in piano, guitar, violin, and organ. While in college pursuing a degree in Engineering, William appeared in and won several high-profile talent shows including the Embassy Records National Talent Search, and the opportunity to be a singer/songwriter for Neyos recording label, Compound Entertainment. More recently, William has continued to be recognized as an independent artist, including being spotlighted in the BET Music Matters campaign.
No stranger to the stage, William has shared a stage with legends such as India Arie, Will Downing, Boney James, Laura Izibor, Mary Mary, and Kirk Whalum. A powerful voice in his own right, William continues to pen musical stories that genuinely reflect the heart songs of everyday love and sensuality while carving a career in the industry with his unique sound and undeniable talent.
ABOUT JON “DJ SMOKE” LUCAS
Jon “Smoke” Lucas, a musician since age 8, is a Nashville native, multi-instrumentalist & GRAMMY Award-winning musician with a passion for curating immersive live music experiences.
Lucas is a highly sought-after drummer and DJ within the local Music City scene. He has toured the US, Canada & Europe playing various genres including Country, Soul/R&B, Funk, Rock, Gospel, and Hip-Hop/Rap. Lucas has shared a stage with artists such as Billy Ray Cyrus, Robert Randolph, Gramps Morgan, Indie Arie, Chris Janson, James Otto, Bas, Mr. Talkbox, Shannon Sanders, John Oates, Bob Weir, Meghan Linsey, CeCe Winans & more.
ABOUT JOSLYN & THE SWEET COMPRESSION
After growing up singing in the church choir, and cultivating her dynamic voice and performance skills in cover bands and stage plays, Joslyn Hampton teamed with her stepfather, Marty Charters (a touring guitarist and songwriter who has shared the stage with legends such as Junior Wells and Van Morrison), to compose a captivating set of tunes and assemble an ace band. Joslyn & The Sweet Compression (including Steve Holloman – on keyboards, Smith Donaldson – on bass, Rashawn Fleming – on drums, Trevin Little – on saxophone, and Chase Fleming – on trombone and trumpet ) combine to deliver a hook-filled mix of funk and soul on their self-titled debut album, released in 2019.
Southern Rounds
Country Musics top songwriters live from Analog at The Hutton Hotel!
Join us live in Nashville for a show that highlights why Southern Rounds consistently brings the heat as the premiere songwriter round in Nashville. Hear country musics biggest hit songs, performed by the songwriters who wrote them. Featuring hit songs from Luke Combs, Zac Brown Band, Rascal Flatts, Miranda Lambert, Johnny Cash, Luke Bryan, Tim McGraw, and many, many more!
Anthony Nunziata
ABOUT ANTHONY NUNZIATA
Take singer & songwriter Anthony Nunziatas soulful crossover tenor voice, add the soaring melodies of romantic classics, Italian arias, and his timeless original songs, and then mix in a whole lot of off-the-cuff fun – you’ve got a ticket to see Anthony Nunziata Live in Concert. Backed by some of Nashvilles finest musicians, Nunziatas tour-de-force concert includes his indelible takes on classics like The Prayer, O Sole Mio, Ave Maria, Can’t Help Falling in Love, Fly Me to the Moon, Santa Lucia, as well as his timeless original songs including I Found a Home, That’s God Talking, Will You Be My Everyday, Just One Prayer Away and many more. Anthony Nunziata’s music – and his heart – will stay with you long after you experience him live in concert.
The Brooklyn-born, Nashville-based Nunziata has performed sold-out shows at venues including the legendary Carnegie Hall with The New York Pops Orchestra and Caf Carlyle in New York City. He has performed over 400 concerts over the past eight years headlining major performing arts centers, theaters, symphony concert halls, jazz clubs, and private events across the country and around the world. His songwriting collaborations include songs written with Jim Brickman, Victoria Shaw, Blessing Offor, Tommy Karlas, and Gian Stone. Nunziata is dubbed America’s new romantic singing sensation, (Broadwayworld), a world-class pop singer, (The Wall Street Journal), and the next great pop-crossover star, (On the Aisle with Tom Alvarez, Indianapolis Star) with a gift that goes far beyond his soaring voice…he’s a captivating storyteller and holds the stage that very few artists can. His concert is truly transforming, (Jeff Whiting, Broadway director and producer.)
Follow Nunziata on instagram and tiktok @anthonynunziata_official and join his VIP mailing list and learn more at AnthonyNunziata.com.
Analog Soul
Get ready to elevate your week with Analog Soul, the ultimate show where the heartbeat of local and regional talent vibe on the Analog stage. Whether you’re a connoisseur of smooth grooves or a new fan of soulful melodies, our weekly show promises a rich tapestry of sound that will keep you coming back for more.
Discover emerging artists who are redefining soul with their unique twist. From heartfelt ballads to foot-tapping anthems, we bring you the freshest sounds from one of the most unique venues in Nashville!
Don’t miss out on your weekly dose of soulful magic. Join us for Analog Soul and let the music move you!
Featured artists TBA!
Colt Classic Presents Red Leather
Analog Soul
Get ready to elevate your week with Analog Soul, the ultimate show where the heartbeat of local and regional talent vibe on the Analog stage. Whether you’re a connoisseur of smooth grooves or a new fan of soulful melodies, our weekly show promises a rich tapestry of sound that will keep you coming back for more.
Discover emerging artists who are redefining soul with their unique twist. From heartfelt ballads to foot-tapping anthems, we bring you the freshest sounds from one of the most unique venues in Nashville!
Don’t miss out on your weekly dose of soulful magic. Join us for Analog Soul and let the music move you!
Featured artists TBA!
Cassandra Lewis
Cassandra Lewis knows how to tell a story. She could go into detail about a childhood in constant motion, moving in a montage from Germany through Florida, Texas, and, eventually, Idaho among her family of high mountain desert folk. She shares memories of escaping loneliness and insecurity in front of the television set or tasting her first bit of fanfare as a little yodeling cowgirl at the towns lone Walmart or retirement homes. There were moments of houselessness, working in countless restaurants, sleeping in a shared tent at a refugee camp, and selling joints out of the back of a Subaru that she lived out of with her rescue dog and cat after a wildfire burned down her farm in Mendocino. She found community in the Bay Area and if not for the integration of psilocybin and psychedelic medicine, she may have succumbed to the pitfalls of life instead of moving forward and using her pain to heal and forgive. She says she holds a deep gratitude for these dualities. You cant appreciate the light without living and breathing the dark. She inhaled inspiration from cut-and-dry classic country and rock n roll, smoked-out soulful psychedelia, and exhaled a shadowy signature soundeasily likened to a fever dream between Marty Robbins and Joni Mitchell. This is a new kind of cosmic Americana. Now, shes taking this foundation and paving her own yellow brick road on her 2024 full-length album, Lost in a Dream.
Analog Soul
Get ready to elevate your week with Analog Soul, the ultimate show where the heartbeat of local and regional talent vibe on the Analog stage. Whether you’re a connoisseur of smooth grooves or a new fan of soulful melodies, our weekly show promises a rich tapestry of sound that will keep you coming back for more.
Discover emerging artists who are redefining soul with their unique twist. From heartfelt ballads to foot-tapping anthems, we bring you the freshest sounds from one of the most unique venues in Nashville!
Don’t miss out on your weekly dose of soulful magic. Join us for Analog Soul and let the music move you!
Featured artists TBA!
Analog Soul
Get ready to elevate your week with Analog Soul, the ultimate show where the heartbeat of local and regional talent vibe on the Analog stage. Whether you’re a connoisseur of smooth grooves or a new fan of soulful melodies, our weekly show promises a rich tapestry of sound that will keep you coming back for more.
Discover emerging artists who are redefining soul with their unique twist. From heartfelt ballads to foot-tapping anthems, we bring you the freshest sounds from one of the most unique venues in Nashville!
Don’t miss out on your weekly dose of soulful magic. Join us for Analog Soul and let the music move you!
Featured artists TBA!
Analog Soul
Get ready to elevate your week with Analog Soul, the ultimate show where the heartbeat of local and regional talent vibe on the Analog stage. Whether you’re a connoisseur of smooth grooves or a new fan of soulful melodies, our weekly show promises a rich tapestry of sound that will keep you coming back for more.
Discover emerging artists who are redefining soul with their unique twist. From heartfelt ballads to foot-tapping anthems, we bring you the freshest sounds from one of the most unique venues in Nashville!
Don’t miss out on your weekly dose of soulful magic. Join us for Analog Soul and let the music move you!
Featured artists TBA!
Analog Soul
Get ready to elevate your week with Analog Soul, the ultimate show where the heartbeat of local and regional talent vibe on the Analog stage. Whether you’re a connoisseur of smooth grooves or a new fan of soulful melodies, our weekly show promises a rich tapestry of sound that will keep you coming back for more.
Discover emerging artists who are redefining soul with their unique twist. From heartfelt ballads to foot-tapping anthems, we bring you the freshest sounds from one of the most unique venues in Nashville!
Don’t miss out on your weekly dose of soulful magic. Join us for Analog Soul and let the music move you!
Featured artists TBA!
Analog Soul
Get ready to elevate your week with Analog Soul, the ultimate show where the heartbeat of local and regional talent vibe on the Analog stage. Whether you’re a connoisseur of smooth grooves or a new fan of soulful melodies, our weekly show promises a rich tapestry of sound that will keep you coming back for more.
Discover emerging artists who are redefining soul with their unique twist. From heartfelt ballads to foot-tapping anthems, we bring you the freshest sounds from one of the most unique venues in Nashville!
Don’t miss out on your weekly dose of soulful magic. Join us for Analog Soul and let the music move you!
Featured artists TBA!
Analog Soul
Get ready to elevate your week with Analog Soul, the ultimate show where the heartbeat of local and regional talent vibe on the Analog stage. Whether you’re a connoisseur of smooth grooves or a new fan of soulful melodies, our weekly show promises a rich tapestry of sound that will keep you coming back for more.
Discover emerging artists who are redefining soul with their unique twist. From heartfelt ballads to foot-tapping anthems, we bring you the freshest sounds from one of the most unique venues in Nashville!
Don’t miss out on your weekly dose of soulful magic. Join us for Analog Soul and let the music move you!
Featured artists TBA!
Colt Classic Presents The Surfrajettes
Whats thicker, our eyeliner or our guitar strings?
The Surfrajettes are a four-piece instrumental combo from Toronto, ON, Canada. Sinceforming in late 2015, the band has charmed audiences with their clever mix of psychedelicrock and reverb-drenched surf music, sky-high beehives, go-go boots, and eyeliner as thick astheir guitar strings.
The band achieved viral online notoriety from their homemade performance videos and their feature by Normans Rare Guitars in LA. The debut 45 single Party Line / Toxic was released in late 2018 on Hi-Tide Recordings to immediate success. The band has toured extensively in its support, including performances on The Beach Boys Cruise, The Melissa Etheridge Cruise, at Sea.Hear.Now, Nashville Boogie, Wild O Fest in Mexico City, The New England Shake-Up!, Surf Guitar 101 Convention, Tiki Oasis & Hi-Tide Summer Holiday: Asbury Park.
They spent the rest of 2020 and most of 2021 writing and recording their debut LP Roller Fink from Hi-Tide Recordings/Virgin Music, released in 2022. Amidst touring throughout the last couple of years, they wrote their highly anticipated second LP, Easy as Pie, which is set to release on October 4th, 2024.
The Surfrajettes are guitarists Shermy Freeman and Nicole Damof, bassist Sarah Butler, and drummer Annie Lillis. When not on tour, the group is busy woodshedding in their secret beach hut, sewing new miniskirts, debating vintage gear, and daydreaming about performing in a Quentin Tarantino movie.
Southern Rounds
Country Musics top songwriters live from Analog at The Hutton Hotel!
Join us live in Nashville for a show that highlights why Southern Rounds consistently brings the heat as the premiere songwriter round in Nashville. Hear country musics biggest hit songs, performed by the songwriters who wrote them. Featuring hit songs from Luke Combs, Zac Brown Band, Rascal Flatts, Miranda Lambert, Johnny Cash, Luke Bryan, Tim McGraw, and many, many more!
Joseph Wooten’s Annual Holiday & Birthday Celebration
ABOUT JOSEPH WOOTEN
Joseph Allen Wooten, aka The Hands of Soul a loving husband and father, keyboardist, writer, arranger, producer, educator, motivational speaker, and author, is a 3-time Grammy Award-nominated artist. Born to Dorothy and Elijah “Pete” Wooten, Joseph is the 2nd youngest of the 5 Wooten Brothers, all musicians: 5-time Grammy Award Winning bassist, Victor Wooten; 5-time Grammy Award Winner and drummer/inventor Roy “Futureman Wooten; guitarist Elijah “Regi” Wooten aka “The Teacha,” and the late saxophonist Rudy Wooten.
Josephs early elementary school years were spent with his siblings playing nightclubs and sharing the stage with Curtis Mayfield, War, and other major artists of the time as The Wooten Brothers.” In the 70s, there were more major artists to share the stage with: The Temptations, The SOS Band, Stephanie Mills, Dexter Wansel, Ramsey Lewis, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, and others.
As the 80s arrived, the brothers caught the ear of the popular R&B artist/producer Kashif who recorded an album entitled “The Wootens” for Artista Records. Josephs unmatched talent and undeniable groove landed him the position of band leader, musical director, and keyboardist for Kashif. During that time with Arista Records, Joseph sang background vocals for Whitney Houston on her debut and Kenny G, and co-wrote with Kashif and brother Roy “Call Me Tonight” which was Grammy nominated for Instrumental of the Year. Joseph contributed numerous compositions to Victors Grammy-nominated CD, “Yin Yang”. During this time, when the family moved East, Joseph and his brothers had a residency at Busch Gardens, where Joseph honed his skills not only as a keyboardist, but, also as an accordion player, arranger, and composer as he composed over 40 pieces of music for every individual cast member.
Joseph is now the keyboard player/vocalist for the legendary Steve Miller Band, playing in large venues around the world. Whenever his extensive touring schedule allows, he also serves as keyboardist to his brother Victor Wooten and fronts his own band, Joseph Wooten & The Hands of Soul. Joseph is also a member of an elite group of hand-picked musicians called Freedom Sings, organized by the First Amendment Center in Washington D.C., presenting a multi-media experience celebrating The First Amendment and free expression. In addition to releasing several of his own albums and singles, Joseph continues to be very active in composing, producing, and recording vocals and keyboards for other artists.
In 2017, he published his book, It All Matters: What I Believe, Words That I Live By. This collection of thoughts and concepts, originally recorded over the years in Josephs personal journal, is intended to make people think and give insight into who Joseph Wooten is as a person. When he is not traveling from city to city, Joseph can often be found speaking to students in middle school, high school, and college, about character development, self-esteem, self-respect, and personal growth using his own life experiences as examples. Recently Joseph played for career military Veterans and Gold Star families at the Field Of Dreams movie site. He also had the privilege to do a TEDx Talk in Memphis, Tennessee called “Why It All Matters.”
In 2019, he was chosen as the celebrity mentor, coach, and MC for the first annual Opening Act online competition. The winner played at the Hollywood Bowl in LA for the sold-out We Can Survive show.
I Matter! You Matter! is a non-profit organization founded by Joseph Wooten and his wife, Stephanie, with the goal of creating positive change through speaking to and working with young people of all ages, giving scholarships to deserving young people, and providing aid and support to the homeless and Veterans. Visit imatteryoumatter.com for more information.
Joseph currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, Stephanie.
Keep up with all the latest news at:
JosephWooten.com
facebook.com/jwootensoul
instagram.com/jwootensoul
twitter.com/jwootensoul
youtube.com/user/handsofsoul
Mr Sun Plays Ellington’s Nutcracker
Mr Sun has translated the legendary and mind-blowing Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker Suite into Acoustic String Band Language and recorded it. Tchaikovskys extraordinary Nutcracker Suite contains some of the most beloved and familiar melodies in the Western world.
Mr Sun (Darol Anger, Joe K. Walsh, Grant Gordy, Aidan O’Donnell) has seized upon the inspiration of Duke Ellingtons brilliant, swinging & urbane re-interpretation of Tchaikovskys Suite as an opportunity to salute and re-invent this wildly multi-faceted work anew, through the lens of the American String Band, a musical form which now contains many styles and is presently engaged in a marathon upheaval of innovation and expansion.
The Project was generously underwritten by the Freshgrass Foundation, and was recorded at the new Mass/MOCA recording studio #9 in Massachusetts with legendary recordist Dave Sinko, and features soloist contributions from Compass Records Founder Alison Brown on banjo, Silk Road Cellist Mike Block, and Dobro Legend Jerry Douglas.
Mr Sun premiered the work at the Freshgrass Festival in North Adams, MA in October 2023, and has also performed it at the Big Ears Festival, Wintergrass, and the Mendocino Music Festival.
Mr Sun Plays Ellington’s Nutcracker
Mr Sun has translated the legendary and mind-blowing Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker Suite into Acoustic String Band Language and recorded it. Tchaikovskys extraordinary Nutcracker Suite contains some of the most beloved and familiar melodies in the Western world.
Mr Sun (Darol Anger, Joe K. Walsh, Grant Gordy, Aidan O’Donnell) has seized upon the inspiration of Duke Ellingtons brilliant, swinging & urbane re-interpretation of Tchaikovskys Suite as an opportunity to salute and re-invent this wildly multi-faceted work anew, through the lens of the American String Band, a musical form which now contains many styles and is presently engaged in a marathon upheaval of innovation and expansion.
The Project was generously underwritten by the Freshgrass Foundation, and was recorded at the new Mass/MOCA recording studio #9 in Massachusetts with legendary recordist Dave Sinko, and features soloist contributions from Compass Records Founder Alison Brown on banjo, Silk Road Cellist Mike Block, and Dobro Legend Jerry Douglas.
Mr Sun premiered the work at the Freshgrass Festival in North Adams, MA in October 2023, and has also performed it at the Big Ears Festival, Wintergrass, and the Mendocino Music Festival.
Analog Soul
Get ready to elevate your week with Analog Soul, the ultimate show where the heartbeat of local and regional talent vibe on the Analog stage. Whether you’re a connoisseur of smooth grooves or a new fan of soulful melodies, our weekly show promises a rich tapestry of sound that will keep you coming back for more.
Discover emerging artists who are redefining soul with their unique twist. From heartfelt ballads to foot-tapping anthems, we bring you the freshest sounds from one of the most unique venues in Nashville!
Don’t miss out on your weekly dose of soulful magic. Join us for Analog Soul and let the music move you!
Featured artists TBA!
Analog Soul
Get ready to elevate your week with Analog Soul, the ultimate show where the heartbeat of local and regional talent vibe on the Analog stage. Whether you’re a connoisseur of smooth grooves or a new fan of soulful melodies, our weekly show promises a rich tapestry of sound that will keep you coming back for more.
Discover emerging artists who are redefining soul with their unique twist. From heartfelt ballads to foot-tapping anthems, we bring you the freshest sounds from one of the most unique venues in Nashville!
Don’t miss out on your weekly dose of soulful magic. Join us for Analog Soul and let the music move you!
Featured artists TBA!
Analog at Hutton Hotel is an intimate music venue showcasing the industry’s most inspired musicians, giving you an up close and personal experience in a comfortable living-room style setting. It immerses audiences in Nashville’s unrivaled live music scene, where storytelling is prized above all else.
Located just steps from the famed Music Row, Analog was designed to provide some of the best venue acoustics in all of Nashville while providing an intimate, interactive, and engaging experience for audiences and talent. From the artists, to the design of the lounge seating, to the advanced, innovative technology, to the mixologist providing crafted cocktails—the artistic spirit inspires a unique experience nightly.
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