The Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) revealed the lineup for this year’s virtual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival on Oct. 19–24. The five-day event will feature more than 20 pre-recorded performances from 70-plus singer/songwriters, including Josh Osborne, Lori McKenna, Shane McAnally, Carly Pearce, Liz Rose, Jimmie Allen, John Paul White, Trevor Rosen, Matthew Ramsey, Ernest,…… MORE
A troupe of Nashville’s top songwriters will embark on a 25-city Hit Makers & Rum Chasers Tour to benefit the Charley Foundation, a non-profit that supports poor, sick and neglected children—and in this case will provide funding for music and arts programs to the hurricane-devastated U.S. Virgin Islands. The tour will feature songwriters JT Harding…… MORE
Hit songwriter J.T. Harding is just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit—just like is says in Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” a band that comes up later in our hour-long conversation at Nashville’s Crema coffee shop. We’ll get to that in a minute. But first, a little more about J.T.’s city-boy mentality, which…… MORE
Leonardo DiCaprio’s friends think his new girlfriend, 26-year-old Italian model Vittoria Ceretti, has him WHIPPED. But he doesn’t care, because he’s never been, “this in love or this devoted to a woman.” The first round of performers for the Grammys have been announced and it looks like Lainey Wilson and Brad Paisley will be holding…
Dolly Parton just announced that the world premiere of “Dolly: An Original Musical” will take place in NASHVILLE this summer, before heading to Broadway in New York City next year. That’s big news for the Nashville area, because NYC and LA always seem to scoop up every major premiere. Dolly said, “I am Tennessee born…