Red Lodge Songwriter Festival Preview
Gretchen Peters
Do you like to listen to the songs "Independence Day", "On A Bus To St' Cloud", "When You Love Someone"? If you do, you'll want to come listen to them from the Songwriter who wrote them. Don't miss Gretchen Peters at the 8th Annual Red Lodge Songwriter Festival.
For over two decades, Gretchen Peters has been one of Nashville’s most beloved and respected artists. “If Peters never delivers another tune as achingly beautiful as ‘On A Bus To St. Cloud,'” People Magazine wrote, “she has already earned herself a spot among country’s upper echelon of contemporary composers.” Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October 2014 by singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell, who called her “both a songwriter and a poet (who) sings as beautifully as she writes,” and said her song “The Matador”, “moved me so greatly, I cried from the soles of my feet”, Peters has accumulated accolades as a songwriter for artists as diverse as Etta James, Bonnie Raitt, The Neville Brothers, Patty Loveless, George Strait, Bryan Adams and Faith Hill. Her song “Independence Day”, recorded by Martina McBride, won a CMA Song of the Year award in 1995. She has been nominated for 2 Grammys (“Independence Day/Martina McBride, “You Don’t Even Know Who I Am”/Patty Loveless), a Golden Globe (“Here I Am”/Bryan Adams), and numerous other awards. Her 2015 album, Blackbirds was awarded International Album of the Year and Song of the Year by the UK Americana Association. In 2015, The Telegraph named her one of the greatest 60 female singer-songwriters of all time. In 2021 she was awarded The Poets Award by the Academy of Country Music. Peters’ latest release is The Show: Live from the UK, recorded while on tour in the UK in 2019 with her band and an all-female Scottish string quartet.
website: https://gretchenpeters.com/
Gretchen performs "On A Bus To St. Cloud" live for Music Fog, with Barry Walsh on keyboards, during the 2011 Americana Music Festival & Conference in Nashville
Listen to Gretchen on Spotify
To see Gretchen & all the other hit songwriters you will need either a Multi-Day pass or a Saturday at the Festival Pass.
Buy Tickets
Weekend Passes, Thursday, Friday & Saturday
Multi Day Pass – $125 ( LOW TICKET ALERT, less than 10 remaining)
Your Multi Day Pass includes admission to all songwriter shows, Nashville Hit Songwriters and Rising Stars on Friday & Saturday.
Rising Star Weekend Wristband – $55
Your Rising Star All Shows Wristband includes admission into all nineteen Rising Star Shows, Thursday 6/20, Friday 6/21 and Saturday 6/22.
Thursday 6/20
Rising Star Wristband, Thursday – $20
Your Thursday Rising Star wristband includes admission to all Rising Star shows on Thursday 6/20.
Friday 6/21
Rising Star Wristband, Friday - $25
Your Friday Rising Star wristband includes admission to all fourteen Rising Star shows on Friday 6/21.
Saturday 6/22
Saturday at the Songwriter Festival – $65
Your Saturday at the Festival wristband includes admission to all fourteen Rising Star shows and the Hit Songwriter Show on Saturday June 22.
Festival Box Office
Passes, wristbands and cool merchandise can be picked up at the Red Lodge Songwriter Festival Box Office at at Coal Creek Realty, 15 N Broadway. The Box Office is open during the festival 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Thursday 6/20, Friday 6/21 and Saturday 6/22.