HISTORIC VENUES. HIT SONGS. AND THE TALENTED ARTISTS THAT WROTE THEM. The Wild West Songwriter’s Festival i s a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the lyrical creation of some of today’s hit songs, and the writers w ho penned them. Discover the moments that inspired your favorite hits and hear the songwriters themselves put their original spin on what came to be a radio smash. This event features o ver 20 songwriters and numerous panels by industry insiders. The Wild West Songwriters Festival is October’s prime entertainment destination.
6th Annual Wild West Songwriters Festival
CASINO • DINING • ENTERTAINMENT • SPA
ATZ KILCHER
Atz Kilcher was born and raised in Homer, Alaska. His father and mother, Yule and Ruth emigrated from Switzerland in the late 1930’s, joining some of Homer’s earliest pioneer/homesteaders. On the remote homestead, with no road in the early days, wood and coal for heating and cooking, and a Coleman lantern or kerosene lamp for light, the Kilcher family entertained themselves and each other with songs, stories, plays, and poetry, as well as many arts and crafts. Atz’s mother home schooled all of the children until a road was built, allowing the children to attend public school. Teaching creativity was an important part of the curriculum. Ruth was also a trained classical singer, who had great promise herself, before coming to Alaska. In the 50’s and 60’s, the Kilcher family performed in Alaska and Europe. All of Atz’s seven siblings are musical. Many of them have recorded original songs, and have performed. Many of the third, and even fourth generation, are also quite talented as well. Best known perhaps is Jewel, the singer, who also happens to be Atz’s daughter. His grand niece, Q’orianka, recently made her film debut as Pocahontas, starring Colin Farrell, in the film, “The New World”.
CLAYTON BELLAMY
Clayton Bellamy is a celebrated Canadian singer-songwriter was born in Bonnyville Alberta, before his family later settled in Nashville Tennessee. As a solo artist, Bellamy won the SOCAN Songwriter of the Year Award, as well as a nomination for Roots Artist of the Year. He has released 2 solo records, Everyone’s A Dreamer in 2012 and Five Crow Silver in 2013. Songwriting continues to be a passion for Bellamy, as he draws inspiration for lyrics from personal experiences and everyday encounters, with the goal of creating songs that will both inspire and uplift audiences. Bellamy has had songs recorded by Jason Blaine, Matt Anderson, Wille Mack, Big Sugar, Grady, and his own band, The Road Hammers. Most recently, two of Dan Davidson’s singles, Found, which was a top 15 on the charts, and Barn Burner, which continues to climb the charts. Bellamy has just signed a publishing deal with ole, which will see his work grow to a whole new level. Outside of music, Bellamy continues to surprise fans with a vast mixture of personal and professional interests. He was the drive home host on CISN 103.9 for a number of years, in 2015 he hosted the series, Ice Racer Showdown which aired on CMT, and 2016 has seen him take to the small screen to act in the HBO series Tin Star. Bellamy is also an avid motorcycle rider, who rides with Triumph motorcycles.
DANNY MYRICK
A little bit muddy water Mississippi, a little bit California beach bum, Danny grew up playing, singing and writing for his family gospel band while being consumed with 70’s FM radio. He achieved his first #1 gospel song as a writer at age 17 before moving to Nashville and spending the 90’s singing lead in country rock band, Western Flyer. After Western Flyer disbanded, Danny’s vocal talent lead to singing 100’s of songwriter demos as well as adding background vocals to numerous albums by the likes of Blake Shelton, Montgomery Gentry and Keith Anderson before focusing on his passion for writing songs. As a writer, Danny’s musical diversity has lead to cuts by artists ranging from Tim McGraw to Joe Cocker and he has celebrated numerous hit songs, including Craig Morgan’s “International Harvester” Tim McGraw’s “Truck Yeah” and 2009’s most played country song, “She’s Country” by Jason Aldean. In addition to Billboard Top 5 song “I Love This Life” with LoCash, Danny is enjoying success on the following current projects: Waste Another Beer - Old Southern Moonshine Revival (Top 5 on SiriusXM The Highway Hot 45), Waiting On A Plane - Maddie & Tae (Opening track on their hit debut album “Start Here”), It’s On Tonight - Gloriana (ESPN’S 2015 College Basketball promo), Brand New Song - Old Southern Moonshine Revival (Top 40 on SiriusXM The Highway Hot 45), Pretty Little Cemetery - Dean Alexander (New single on iTunes and Spotify) When not working, Danny spends his time being an obsessive sports fan and hanging with his 2 sons.
DEAN ALEXANDER
Dean Alexander moved to Nashville with a dream and a hundred dollars in his pocket. Finding work landscaping during the day, he started playing Layla’s on lower Broadway at night. He enhanced his live performance playing classic country covers as well as originals and was soon discovered and offered a publishing deal by the late Barbara Orbison, the widow of American musician Roy Orbison. A year later, Dean began working as a touring guitarist for a number of artists. This put the wheels in motion towards a recording contract with Electra/Warner Brothers in 2012. Dean has opened for acts like Little Big Town, Dwight Yoakam, John Fogerty and Blake Shelton to name a few. He’s had a Billboard TOP 40 song called “Live A Little”, “Life Ain’t Fair”, featuring Sheryl Crow hit #13 on Sirius XM ‘The Highway’, his song “If Your Heart Can Handle It” was featured on the hit television show Nashville, “Dangerous” on the television series Good Christian Belles, and “Black Crow” has been recorded by Brent Cobb for his upcoming debut record. Currently, as an Independent artist, he is creating a new path with producer and writer Danny Myrick (She’s Country, International Harvester, I Love This Life) for Dean’s new project with an original darker, edgier sound with his band The Voodoo Revival. “I know its pushing the limits of Country but I’m trying to make music without boundaries and keep the voice of my artistry true. No one ever made a true mark on history by being the same as everyone else”.
JAMES ELLIOTT
James Isaac Elliott is the Chair of the Songwriting Department at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Also an awardwinning songwriter, Elliott’s compositions have sold over 10 million copies and been recorded by Steven Curtis Chapman, The Oak Ridge Boys, Newsong, Shenandoah, Ginny Owens and others. His honors include a Dove Award and multiple awards from ASCAP, American Songwriter Magazine and the Nashville Songwriters Association International. Elliott’s songs have been included on 5 Grammy Award winning albums.
JEWEL
Jewel is a singer-songwriter, actress, author, mother and wellness advocate who is passionate about health, equality, the relentless pursuit of wisdom and sharing it with others. Thru her career, she has earned four Grammy Award nominations and sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Heralded by the New York Times as “one of the best singer-songwriters since Joni Mitchell,” Jewel credits her great mentors Bob Dylan, and Neil Young who took the time to groom and encourage her as a young artist. She was recently chosen to finish Johnny Cash‘s half written songs for a forthcoming posthumous CD created by Cash’s son, John Carter Cash. Jewel’s unique story began on an Alaskan homestead - with no electricity - where her family survived off the land. Her New York Times best-selling memoir Never Broken chronicles how she used hard work, grit and grace to survive and thrive under extreme circumstances. Her families’ story is now documented in the successful Discovery Channel TV show, “Alaska, The Last Frontier.” Jewel started singing in bars at eight years old. She left home at fourteen and provided for herself until the age of seventeen when she received a partial scholarship to Interlochen Fine Arts Academy. She got the support of her hometown, whom all chipped in to pay the rest of her tuition and travel to Michigan for school. During her first year at Interlochen, she began writing songs and documented her inner journey with lyrics that were considered artful and profound. One of Jewel‘s earlier hits, “Hands,” spoke of her personal discovery of “mindfulness”...a good 20 years before the term would become popular in social vernacular. Her lyrics calmed a generation of listeners with the phrase, “If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we’re all ok.” At age nineteen, Jewel found herself in a bidding war between record companies wanting to sign her. Rather
than take the largest advance, she bet on herself, making an aggressive back-end deal, which generated millions of additional dollars. Jewel ventured into the acting world with her first role coming in Ang Lee’s civil war drama, Ride With The Devil. She then starred in the lead role of June Carter Cash in the Lifetime original movie, Ring of Fire. In early 2017, Jewel assumed the lead role of Shannon Hughes in “The Fixer Upper Series” movies (based on the best-selling series of books of the same name) for Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. Jewel recently founded a new online platform JewelNeverBroken.com where she shares the mindfulness tools she developed to convert her pain into resilience. For this foray, she teamed up with Dr. Judson Brewer of Yale University and University of Massachusetts and other leading medical doctors to offer this information to the public in a free interactive website. She is also building a “WHOLE HUMAN” curriculum for public schools, corporations and consumers. The content emphasizes mindfulness and emotional intelligence to give everyday people a “psychology for life,” so they can do what she has done - be the architects of their own life, rather than a passenger in a life they’ve inherited. Jewel’s lifelong passion for her own personal growth and health is helping her to become the spokesperson of modern day wellness and mindfulness by sharing those same practices she used from the age of fourteen. Jewel’s “WHOLE HUMAN” philosophy is designed to help people gain tone and strength in all areas of their lives including emotional intelligence, physical and fiscal health, interpersonal relationships and nutrition and, most importantly, as friends, associates and contributors to society.
KELSIE MAY
Singer/Songwriter Kelsie May is someone many describe as an old soul. Her dynamic vocals and distinct ability to write songs that captivate audiences from every age group sets her apart from the mainstream, causing many to believe that she is destined for a broader scene. By fourteen, Kelsie found herself in the company of Pam Tillis and Tom T. Hall – two staples in the Country Music genre now mentoring her craft. Those hours by their side created an atmosphere that led Kelsie to believe in her talent, not only for the time being, but for the continuing years to ensue. One year was all Kelsie needed to perform on the historic Wheeling Jamboree, become an artist involved with Tunes for Tots with the Make A Wish Foundation, and have three chairs turn for her on the popular and Emmy Award winning show The Voice. Ultimately choosing Blake Shelton as her coach and Meghan Trainor as her mentor, her career soon began to grow. After a successful run on the show, May joined forces with industry veteran Bob Kinkead, CEO of the Kinkead Entertainment Agency and was introduced to GRAMMY nominated songwriter and producer, David Malloy. Performing along side of Jo Dee Messina, Jewel, Craig Campbell, Montgomery Gentry, Marty Stuart, Ray Stevens, Bucky Covington, Raelynn, Angaleena Presley, Eric Paslay, John Michael Montgomery, Travis Tritt, and Sara Evans is yet another honor she can add to her long list of accolades. Now freshly eighteen, Kelsie finds herself signed to Blue Sapphire Music (a division of Universal Music Group), gearing up for a tour in support of her anxiously awaited, new record. One thing remains the same, though. Whether she’s in a vocal booth or in one of the many states she’s performed and headlined her own shows in (Las Vegas, California, Missouri, Indiana, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, New York), her gift shines through each time she sings and will ultimately transcend through time.
KEVIN KADISH
Kevin Kadish is a 3x Grammy Nominated songwriter/producer/ engineer/multi-instrumentalist, best known for co-writing, producing, and mixing the 2014 multi-platinum debut album “Title” by Meghan Trainor (including the hits “All About That Bass”, “Lips Are Movin’”, and “Dear Future Husband”). Over the years, Kadish has worked with the likes of Jason Mraz, Miley Cyrus, Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, A Great Big World, Fifth Harmony and many more. Kadish is the current co-chair of the P&E Wing of the Nashville Chapter of the Grammy Association, as well as an outspoken advocate for songwriter rights. Most recently, Kadish’s passion for nurturing young talent has inspired him to start an artist development company with Taylor Swift producer, Nathan Chapman, called Starts With Music.
LARKIN POE
“A Sister Act with Staying Power” - NPR Rebecca & Megan Lovell of Larkin Poe are singer/songwriter, multiinstrumentalist sisters creating their own brand of Roots Rock ‘n’ Roll: gritty, soulful, and flavored by their southern heritage. Originally from Atlanta and currently living in Nashville, they are descendants of tortured artist and creative genius Edgar Allan Poe.
MARC BEESON
Marc Beeson is an American country music singer and songwriter. Beeson’s list of songs written and recorded could fill up a cross country road trip. With over 100 cuts in his span of living in Nashville, Beeson is guaranteed to be behind some of the biggest hits on your iPod. As an artist, Beeson has recorded albums for Warner Bros, BNA, and Curb Records. As a writer, he’s had over 100 cuts by Blake Shelton, Reba McEntire, Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Pat Green, Restless Heart, Billy Currington, Martina McBride, Chicago, Love and Theft, Kenny Rogers, Peter Cetera, LeAnn Rimes and others. Beeson’s songs have been recorded by music legends from all genres. In addition to winning 10 ASCAP awards, the song “When She Cries” won both ASCAP country and pop song of the year awards. As a board member for NSAI and a mentor in the MTSU music business program, Beeson is involved in all aspects of the business from recording to songwriting, to educating. Beeson continues to be the best writer he can, and believes his best song still has not been written.
MEGAN LINVILLE
Megan is no newcomer to the Nashville music scene. Her Nashville roots wind back to her grandfather, the late Jerry McBee, who penned songs for many of Nashville’s great country artists. Musically, those roots cross all genre boundaries and can be traced back to the noted hymn composer, Jonathon Edwards and a great-grandfather, once a Vaudeville singer who performed with the likes of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. With a family tree intertwined so deeply with these musical roots, according to Megan, “there simply was no way out…the trail that I absolutely had to follow led me right back to where I started out… straight to Music City… my hometown!” Megan Sloane Linville recorded her Freshman album in 2007 at the famed Cash Cabin Studio under the production of Grammy winning John Carter Cash. Megan’s show schedule includes fan concerts, anthems and performances for groups of as few as 30 people to over 17 million televised viewers. Megan’s songs are being played on radio stations around the world and she has been featured in several publications including CountryStarsOnline.com, Today’s Country Magazine and in the “Listen Up!” section of Country Weekly Magazine. Her performances include; The Cincinnati Reds, The Indy 500, Atlanta Braves, Watkins Glen International NASCAR, Daytona Coke Zero 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, The Allstate Brickyard 400 Sprint Cup Series, The Kentucky Derby, The Kansas City Royals, Tioga Downs Resort and Casino, The Chicago White Sox and The Nashville Superspeedway. When Megan is not writing songs with some of Nashville’s most talented hit songwriters, she is either performing at one of the city’s landmark venues, hop-scotching across the country on acoustical gigs or traveling with a band and delivering spirited, dynamically-packed performances while showcasing her strong vocals and captivating audiences with self-penned lyrics that are relatable.
NATHAN CHAPMAN
Three-time Grammy awarding winning producer and songwriter Nathan Chapman is a rarity in Music City; he was born and raised right in Nashville. Only son to two working musicians Nathan began playing drums and guitar at age three, sang on his first commercial album at age six, and was recording music by the time he turned fourteen. It is no surprise he wound up making music his living; what is surprising is that he would produce a multi-platinum selling album on a brand new artist, Taylor Swift, his first time at bat. All five of Taylor’s albums (Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, and 1989) have solidified Nathan’s place among the great producer/artist combinations in music history and he hasn’t stopped there. Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear, Thompson Square, The Band Perry, Lionel Richie, Shania Twain, Colbie Caillat, Cassadee Pope, Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, and Jewel are just some of the artists Nathan has worked with since Taylor’s first single “Tim McGraw” hit the charts in 2007. Since then he’s had 17 number ones as a producer. Nathan credits his love of songwriting and songwriters as the main ingredient which drives his production work. That fondness for the craft shows in his over 30 major label cuts as a songwriter. In the last eight years Nathan has written songs recorded by Kesha, Avicii, Phillip Phillips, Kylie Minogue, Robin Schulz, Michael Ray, Dan and Shay, Eric Paslay, Martina McBride, Colbie Caillat, Lauren Alaina, Sara Evans, Rascal Flatts, O.A.R, Mickey Guyton, Lea Michelle, Jake Owen, Tyler Farr, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, and Darius Rucker to name a few. His first number one as a songwriter was “Homegrown Honey” by Darius Rucker and cowritten with Darius Rucker and Charles Kelley. He’s currently in the studio with Jake Rose working on his debut album and writing songs for Warner Chappell Music Publishing.
NEW NORTH
NEW NORTH is a dynamic duo derived from a common love to create, play & connect through the universal language of music. Krista and Damien have united to record New North’s debut album which is undeniably rooted in contemporary country, yet unpredictably eclectic as they bend through various genres and their musical influences. KRISTA MARIE: NEW York gal... It is a magical and humbling experience when you finally begin to find yourself, your inner peace... your “NEW NORTH” and accept yourself for who you really are. For me, it has been through years of hard work, determination and becoming more open minded in the journey towards self discovery. I have had a few angels along the way to guide me... AJ Masters helped me find myself at a time when I really needed a friend... our therapy... MUSIC! Marc Oswald, who not only saved my life from a near fatal wreck 8 years ago, but also has helped show me the real meaning of life & how precious it really is. With a NEW, positive, bright outlook to the future...Damien and I have had fun making this music together and for the first time in my career, I feel like I am a part of something that is TRUE, raw & honest... I hope everyone listening gets the same wonderful feeling I got when “D” and I brought it to life in the studio... Here’s to finally finding a clear path to MY true North... and our NEW NORTH. DAMIEN HORNE: NORTH Carolina boy... My mama always says, “keep joy in your heart and a smile on your face because the Lord Jesus is with you!” Well I’ve been on a roller coaster ride most my life and sometimes that’s not the easiest thing to do. However, this gift of music has always been a place of refuge and source of happiness for me! The music I have been able to create with my amazing sister Krista Marie has only increased my passion and elevated my purpose. NEW NORTH is a musical statement on that passion and purpose! My prayer is that this music does just what my mama wants... plants joy in the hearts of all who hear it and a smile on their faces...
PAUL JENKINS
Paul Jenkins is an American songwriter. Born and raised in Southeast Texas, Paul has called Nashville Tennessee home since 1994. In 2009, he signed to Sony ATV. Throughout his career, his songs have garnered Grammy, ACM, CMT, and ACA awards and nominations. To date, his compositions have sold in excess of 10 million copies.
RACHEL REINERT
Rachel Reinert spent her formative years in Santa Ana, California before moving to Nashville after signing a publishing deal at the age of 16. She became a founding member of the band Gloriana in 2007. Over the course of the following 8 years, the band released three albums, and had several top 20 songs at country radio including the #2 platinum selling song on the country charts, “Kissed You Goodnight”, and the gold selling top #15 “Wild at Heart”. The band toured around the world and performed on TV shows such as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Hart of Dixie, Ellen and The Bachelor. They went on to be nominated for 11 different awards, winning an American Music Award, Academy of Country Music Award and a Country Music Television award. In January 2016, Rachel left Gloriana to pursue her solo career and is currently writing and recording her debut album.
SASHA MCVEIGH
Born in a small, rural city in England, Sasha garnered a love of Country music from her Father who used to “dance me around the living room to CMT when I was just 18 months old.” With a strong passion and ear for music she began playing keyboard at age 10 and writing songs in the years that followed: “Songwriting is extremely important to me, I cherish every song I write because each one is so personal; they’re like rhyming diary entries.” Her professional music journey started in July 2012 when she took a two week trip to Nashville, with a plan to perform just a handful of shows. What resulted was two weeks of solid bookings at venues such as Tootsies Orchid Lounge, The Rutledge, The Bluebird and various others up and down Broadway. The reception she received meant Sasha, subsequently, returned to Nashville numerous times for extended periods in 2012 and 2013. Sasha’s music has also been making an impact on her “home-turf” in the UK. She was chosen as “Best of the Best” by BBC Introducing on BBC Radio and recently won “Female Vocalist of the Year” at the UKCountryRadio Awards. She has also performed at various festivals across Great Britain, including the prestigious Hay Festival, where she sold out and was invited to perform live and be interviewed on BBC Radio 3’s “The Verb” alongside Stephen Fry. In 2016, Sasha decided to start the year off by releasing a brand new single, which had been recorded in Nashville in November 2015. ‘When I’m Over You’ was an immediate success. It was debuted by Bob Harris on his BBC Radio 2 show and was added to the ‘Wild Country Playlist’ on Spotify, subsequently amassing over 100,000 streams in 3 weeks. “These past few years have been part of a journey, a journey that’s far from over. I feel incredibly blessed for all the opportunities that continue to present themselves and for the support of my fans, friends and family. There’s a lot to look forward to in 2017 and I just can’t wait to get started!”
THE SISTERHOOD
The Sisterhood are an organic blend of the open melodies of classic West Coast folk and the magnetic swagger of timeless rock n’ roll, powered by Alyssa and Ruby’s soaring richly textured harmonies and effortless chemistry. Both ladies have strong musical DNA. Alyssa is the daughter of Kathie Baillie & Michael Bonagura (the core of country band Baillie & The Boys) and Ruby’s father is rock icon Rod Stewart The pair met through a group of musical friends while both working on their solo careers. Immediately bonding over growing up in the music business and sharing a mutual love and idolization of folk goddess Joni Mitchell. It wasn’t obvious to them that their friendship should turn professional until they were jamming on some Joni songs backstage after seeing a Rod Stewart gig together. He listened to their glistening harmonies of a song or two and told them “You two should start a band.” After only a year of knowing each other, the duo are capturing attention immediately all over the globe, and recently signed their first record deal with Sony Music Nashville on stage at their 3rd & Lindsley show. They’ve written and recorded their first EP which features the theme song “Tenderize My Heart” for the Stewarts & Hamilton’s show on E!, performed at Fashion Weeks in Milan and Miami, landed a slot on the main stage at CMC music festival in Australia, opened for Gary Clark Jr. & Steven Tyler, made guest appearances at Rod Stewart‘s Vegas show at Caesar’s palace and were the opening act on Sir Rod’s summer and winter stadium tour, while headlining their first club tour in the U.K. After making their Grand Ole Opry Debut on the eve of the historic solar eclipse, the girls are currently recording and producing their debut album in Nashville, TN.
TRAVIS HOWARD
Travis Howard didn’t exactly grow up in the big city. Chalybeate Springs, Georgia, his pinprick hometown some 80 miles south of Atlanta, offered little more than a cotton mill and a brassiere factory. When Howard was 13, he wrote his first song, a ballad about a grade-school crush. Neither the song nor the romance went anywhere, but his blossoming passion for music made him realize he wanted out of his confining little town as soon as possible — so the moment he graduated high school, he hit the open road, eschewing college to get a degree in real life: singing in a country band, traveling the world, learning how to perform in front of an audience. He earned little but honed his skills. Eventually the open road led to Hollywood, and for perhaps the first time, Howard felt at home. “It felt like it’s a town full of misfits,” he says, recalling his prevailing thought at the time: “I can get this. I feel like a misfit.” A serendipitous encounter in a coffeehouse; Howard was performing when two TV producers popped in; landed him on USA Network’s reality show Nashville Star in 2003. He was reluctant to participate, wary of being pigeonholed, but it paid off: One of his fellow contestants was future country superstar Miranda Lambert, who was just 19 at the time. The two forged a strong bond and a songwriting partnership that would produce the hits “Heart Like Mine,” “Crazy ExGirlfriend” and “Famous in a Small Town.” Up next: Ghost Town Troubadours, a documentary he’s making with several other songwriters about what a peripatetic journey theirs can be — and, for Howard at least, why that’s vastly more satisfying than soul-killing megastardom. “I’ll make records the rest of my life, and whatever they do, they do. If you’re just out there for commercial purposes, something inside of you dies — I believe that. I’m not famous, and I’m not a millionaire,” he muses. “But I can’t stop doing this.”
TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN
Nashville’s Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown find themselves at the epicenter of an advanced rock ‘n’ roll adventure that continues to take them around the world, appearing at some of the biggest venues along the way... The quartet – Caleb Crosby on drums, Noah Denney on bass and backing vocals, Graham Whitford on guitar and Texas-born Tyler himself on vocals and guitar, a musician immersed in blues music from an early age – have continued to share events and stages with some of rock’s most legendary names, including Guns N’ Roses, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Aerosmith, Deep Purple and ZZ Top. Rewinding back to 2008, Tyler moved to Nashville by himself at the ripe age of 17 to write songs and form a band. It was here he met Caleb, and together they put together what would become The Shakedown... The next addition to the ranks was Graham Whitford, a young guitarist from Boston, Massachusetts. Introduced to Tyler as the guy who could put him out of a job, it was clear from the start that Whitford was a force to be reckoned with. As soon as Tyler heard him play, he asked him to uproot and move to Nashville to join the band. All that was needed now was the right bassist: enter Noah Denney, who instantly added a whole new dimension to The Shakedown’s sound. As Tyler recalls, “his bass sound scared me and he brought an edge and an attitude to the band that we didn’t even know we needed.” “It’s no secret that there’s crazy stuff going on all over the world right now. There’s madness all around and people are constantly picking sides. Every night when the Shakedown takes the stage, I’m amazed that music brings people together. Nobody is thinking about what side they’re on when they’re singing at the top of their lungs next to a complete stranger. I thought maybe through music I could remind myself and our TBSD family that when one person falls, the rest of us do, too. I wanna get together with a bunch of folks and sing that sentiment because it’s one I strongly believe in.”
SCHEDULE :: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12 7:00-8:00pm
LOCATION: PADDY O’NEILL’S
RACHEL REINERT TRAVIS HOWARD MEGAN LINVILLE 7:00-8:00pm
LOCATION: WILD BILL SALOON THEATER
MARC BEESON NEW NORTH 8:30-10:00pm
LOCATION: SALOON #10
**ALL TIMES/VENUES/ARTISTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
7:00-7:30pm
LOCATION: MAIN STAGE, DMG
THE SISTERHOOD*
8:00-9:00pm
LOCATION: MAIN STAGE, DMG
JEWEL*
:: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 11:30am-12:30pm
LOCATION: SANTANA’S AT DMG
PANEL: BRING YOUR OWN DEMO
THE SISTERHOOD LARKIN POE TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN
3:00-4:00pm
:: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13
3:30-4:30pm
2:30-3:30pm
LOCATION: SILVERADO FRANKLIN
JAMES ELLIOTT PAUL JENKINS CLAYTON BELLAMY 3:00-4:00pm
LOCATION: SCOTT JACOBS GALLERY
ATZ KILCHER NEW NORTH 3:30-4:30pm
LOCATION: WILD BILL SALOON THEATER
LOCATION: WILD BILL SALOON THEATER
DEAN ALEXANDER LARKIN POE ATZ KILCHER LOCATION: EAGLE BAR
KEVIN KADISH RACHEL REINERT CLAYTON BELLAMY 4:00-5:00pm
LOCATION: SCOTT JACOBS GALLERY
JAMES ELLIOTT KELSIE MAY SASHA MCVEIGH 4:30-5:30pm
LOCATION: PADDY O’NEILL’S
4:00-5:00pm
DANNY MYRICK TRAVIS HOWARD PAUL JENKINS 5:00-6:00pm
DEAN ALEXANDER DANNY MYRICK MEGAN LINVILLE 5:00-6:00pm
NATHAN CHAPMAN MARC BEESON THE SISTERHOOD 7:30-8:15pm
TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN LOCATION: PADDY O’NEILL’S
LOCATION: SALOON #10
LARKIN POE KEVIN KADISH NATHAN CHAPMAN 5:30-6:30pm
LOCATION: EAGLE BAR
CLAYTON BELLAMY KELSIE MAY SASHA MCVEIGH
LOCATION: SALOON #10
LOCATION: MAIN STAGE AT DMG
TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN*
8:30-10:00pm
LOCATION: MAIN STAGE AT DMG
SONGWRITERS JAM*
ALL SONGWRITERS ROUNDS ARE FREE!
* Ticketed event. Ticket required for entry. For tickets or more info: www.WildWestSongwriters.com • 605.559.1188