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Key West Songwriters Festival Slated for April 29 – May 3
The 14th Annual Key West Songwriters Festival will invade the venues of its paradisiacal namesake April 29 through May 3, 2009, offering eclectic show lineups that introduce crowds to the faces, voices and stories behind the songs. The festival features more than 100 top songwriters and revolves around five days and nights of more than 20 free concerts, staged at an array of the island’s most popular drinking holes and…
Nassau Hosts Nashville Songwriter Invasion Led by BMI
BMI co-sponsored the 5th Annual Nassau Songwriters Festival in the Bahamas’ namesake December 5 and 6. Staged at local hotspot the Green Parrot, a cross-section of Nashville’s songwriting veterans and buzz-generating new voices performed. Lineups featured Booker T. & the MG’s Steve Cropper (Otis Redding’s “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay”); Bobby Pinson (Sugarland’s “All I Want…
2008 Nassau Songwriters Festival Stacked with BMI Songwriters
Two-Night Event in Bahamas Slated for Dec. 5 & 6 BMI will proudly present the Nassau Songwriters Festival December 5-6, 2008, in the Bahamas. The 5th annual installment of the paradisiacal music festival will revolve around two shows slated for 8 p.m. Friday, December 5 and Saturday, December 6 at local hotspot The Green Parrot (East Bay Street). A cross-section of Nashville's songwriting elite and most promising new voices will…
12th Annual Key West Songwriters’ Festival Picks and Grins May 2-6
BMI will head south with a slew of Music City’s ace songwriters in tow for the 12th annual Key West Songwriters’ Festival in Key West, Florida, May 2-6. Designed to thrust the writers behind today’s country hits into a deserved spotlight, the festival boasts intimate live performances in the midst of paradise. The neighborhood’s favorite live music venues will host performances daily, while the beloved Hog’s Breath Saloon…
Country Hitmakers Make Music for a Good Cause in the Caribbean

BMI songwriters and artists hopped a few islands and sang more than a few songs Jan. 13 and 14 during the 3rd Annual Country in the Caribbean. Anguilla hosted two nights of intimate acoustic shows attended by native islanders and tourists alike, featuring sets by Grammy Award winner and 2006 BMI Country Songwriter of the Year Vicky McGehee (“All Jacked Up”), along…
Nashville in Nassau: BMI Songwriters Play the Bahamas
Another successful Nassau Songwriters' Festival soothed busy, creative minds and perhaps even planted the seeds for future No. 1 hits as BMI sponsored the festival in the Bahamas for the third consecutive year. Chad Warrix (left) and D-Tox (right) of Halfway to Hazard perform…
Pat Green & Music Row’s Hit Songwriters Tackle the Caribbean
Live country music drops anchor in Anguilla this month as top notch Music City songwriters head south for the 3rd Annual Country in the Caribbean Music Festival being held Jan. 13-14. Grammy Award-winning and 2006 BMI Country Songwriter of the Year Vicky McGehee ("All Jacked Up"), Wendell Mobley ("Fast Cars and Freedom"), Chuck Jones ("Cadillac Ranch"), James Slater ("In My Daughter's Eyes"), Chuck…
Hit BMI Songwriters Hit the Bahamas for 3rd Annual Nassau Song Fest
The Nassau Songwriters' Festival invades paradise again this year Nov. 10-12. BMI will sponsor the event for the third consecutive year, as the Bahamian town for which the festival is named plays host to an exciting mixture of BMI Nashville's premiere songwriters, artists and stars on the rise, including singer-songwriter Sherrié Austin ("Lucky in Love"), Curb recording artist Lee Brice, up-and-coming artist Mitzi Dawn, MCA recording artist and…
‘These Days,’ It’s Good To Be Jeffrey Steele
2006 just keeps getting better for Jeffrey Steele-and the bar for "better" doesn't get much higher than his. Named Music Row's 2006 Songwriter of the Year and author of the magazine's Song of the Year, "What Hurts the Most," Steele's status as the genre's go-to guy for chart-toppers has long since been cemented.
BMI Sponsors 11th Annual Key West Song Fest
During the first week of May, it's highly possible that not a single hit song will be written in Nashville; that week, the hits will instead pour out of a more tropical songwriting oasis as the Key West Songwriters' Festival invades Key West, Fla., May 3-7, 2006. The festival continues its successful run at the world-famous Hog's Breath Saloon, the rowdy home base for festivities.
