Chuck Cannon

Durango Songwriters Expo: Asheville, NC

2008-05-31T12:56:00-05:00

12th Annual Durango Songwriters Expo is a blend of music business seminars and workshops, song listening/critique sessions, live songwriter showcases, and a live hit-writer concert to close the event. It's what some are calling "the premier songwriting event in America."

Co-sponsored by BMI, it will take place May 29-31 at the Asheville Crowne Plaza Resort, Asheville, NC.

With registration limited to 200 attendees, the Expo is a networking and relationship-building bonanza. BMI members will receive a 10% discount on their registration fee.

For more information, click here: Durango-Songwriter-Expo or call 970-259-9747.

Durango Songwriters Expo: Asheville, NC

2008-05-30T12:56:00-05:00

Co-sponsored by BMI, it will take place May 29-31 at the Asheville Crowne Plaza Resort, Asheville, NC.

With registration limited to 200 attendees, the Expo is a networking and relationship-building bonanza. BMI members will receive a 10% discount on their registration fee.

For more information, click here: Durango-Songwriter-Expo or call 970-259-9747.

Durango Songwriters Expo: Asheville, NC

2008-05-29T12:56:00-05:00

Co-sponsored by BMI, it will take place May 29-31 at the Asheville Crowne Plaza Resort, Asheville, NC.

With registration limited to 200 attendees, the Expo is a networking and relationship-building bonanza. BMI members will receive a 10% discount on their registration fee.

For more information, click here: Durango-Songwriter-Expo or call 970-259-9747.

Key West Songwriters Festival Mixes Roots Music Royalty with Mainstream Songwriting Elite

2008-04-23T17:27:01-05:00

Lineup Includes Robert Earl Keen, Raul Malo, Kim Richey & Jeffrey Steele

The 13th Annual Hog's Breath Key West Songwriters Festival looms enticingly on the horizon. Presented by Cherry Heart Music and proudly supported by charter sponsor BMI, the event is slated for April 30 through May 4 in Key West, Florida. The festival revolves around five days and nights of more than 20 free shows, staged at an array of the island's most popular drinking holes and hot spots. Informal adaptations of Nashville's signature in-the-round acoustic showcases dominate much of the schedule, while this year, a street concert Saturday, May 3 featuring the Jeffrey Steele Band and Robert Earl Keen adds a Mardis Gras fillip to the mix.

Robert Earl Keen
Raul Malo
Kim Richey

BMI songwriters dominate the diverse lineups. Americana trendsetters including Robert Earl Keen, Raul Malo, Kim Richey and John Oates will perform alongside Nashville's most engaging and prolific hitmakers, including Jeffrey Steele (Rascal Flatts' "What Hurts the Most"), John Scott Sherrill (Steve Wariner's "Some Fools Never Learn"), Wendell Mobley (Rascal Flatts' "Fast Cars & Freedom"), Jamey Johnson (George Strait's "Give It Away"), Scotty Emerick (Toby Keith's "As Good As I Once Was"), David Lee (Tim McGraw's "I Need You," featuring Faith Hill), Keith Follese (Tim McGraw's "Something Like That"), Jim Beavers (Gary Allan's "Watching Airplanes"), Heather Little (Miranda Lambert's "Gunpowder and Lead"), Steve Bogard (Dierks Bentley's "Every Mile A Memory"), Bobby Pinson (Sugarland's "Want To"), Doug Johnson (Randy Travis's "Three Wooden Crosses"), Chas Sandford (John Waite's "Missing You"), Chuck Cannon (Toby Keith's "How Do You Like Me Now"), Max T. Barnes (Diamond Rio's "That's How Your Love Makes Me Feel"), Chuck Jones (Chris LeDoux's "Cadillac Ranch"), Rodney Clawson (Jason Aldean's "Why"), Gary Hannan (Joe Nichols's "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off"), Billy Yates (George Jones's "Choices"), Jerrod Niemann (Garth Brooks' "Good Ride Cowboy") and Dallas Davidson (Trace Adkins's "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"), with Curb recording artist Lee Brice (Garth Brooks' "More Than A Memory"), singer/songwriters Heather Morgan, Stephanie Chapman and Lauren Lucas and Orange County rock outfit Lit's Jeremy Popoff.

Jeffrey Steele
John Oates
Jamey Johnson

For a complete list of sponsoring hotels, local businesses, schedules and participating songwriters, please visit www.keywestsongwritersfestival.com or call 305.296.4222.

BMI Sponsors Atlantis Songwriters Festival

2007-12-17T20:06:00-05:00

BMI invaded paradise with a dazzling array of Nashville's finest songwriters in tow for the Atlantis Songwriters Festival in the Bahamas. From November 28 through December 3, the event celebrates Music City hitmakers through nightly acoustic performances, pool parties and beach picnics. Held exclusively at the Atlantis Resort, the live music attracted hundreds of tourists and locals.

BMI presented Kerzner's Murray Bannon with a new guitar. Kerzner constructed and currently operates the Atlantis Resort, along with other destination hotspots worldwide. Pictured are (l to r): BMI's Mark Mason, Kerzner's Murray Bannon and BMI's Mary Loving.

Pictured on the beach are (l to r): BMI's Phil Graham, Marv Green, Eric Church, Lari White, Steve Cropper, Jeffrey Steele, Bob DiPiero, Chuck Cannon and BMI's Jody Williams, with BMI's Mark Mason, Kylie Sackley, Sarah Buxton and BMI's Mary Loving, kneeling in front.

BMI Presents . . . Atlantis Songwriters Festival: Bahamas

2007-12-03T19:49:00-05:00

Award-winning BMI songwriters from Music City will bring the Nashville sound to the Atlantis on Paradise Island, Bahamas, November 29 through December 3, 2007.

Scheduled to appear is Sarah Buxton, Chuck Cannon, Eric Church, Bob DiPiero, Marv Green, Jeffrey Steele, Keith Stegall, and Lari White.