Paul Pace, Zach Neil and Eric Von

Head on out to Margaritaville Nashville for live music with Paul Pace at 1:00pm. You walk into a bar, and there's this guy on a stool by the window, crouching over his guitar. And you just know he's going to try to cut through all that noise with something like 'Boot Scootin' Boogie' or 'It's Five O'Clock Somewhere,' anything to grab the crowd's attention. But this one doesn't. Instead, with the softest of strums, he eases into a satin-smooth version of Don W...illiams' 'Lord, I Hope This Day Is… Show more Good.' Slowly the chatter at the bar trails off, and heads begin turning his way. Now he's got them. The singer is Paul Pace, and this is the kind of vocal magic he works every time he performs. To top it all off, he knows country music like a librarian knows books. Two songs later, he's resurrecting Bobby Bare's 'Tequila Sheila,' a song so seldom heard these days that even Bare has probably forgotten it. Pace grew up on a farm near Cattletsburg, Kentucky, in the same area that spawned Ricky Skaggs, Keith Whitley, the Judds, Loretta Lynn, Patty Loveless, Dwight Yoakam and Billy Ray Cyrus. At home, he was steeped in music. 'My dad and mom had a big record collection and this old console stereo,' he recalls. 'Dad had all of the Merle Haggard, George Jones, Marty Robbins and Buck Owens records. Mom had the Ray Charles, Peter, Paul & Mary and Perry Como stuff. I was watching TV once and saw Merle Haggard singing in front of all those people. Right then I decided that's what I wanted to do.'
Zach Neil performs at 5:00pm. All Zach Neil ever set out to do was to learn to play his guitar so he could play along with his favorite songs. But then after his first few attempts at singing in front of a crowd he saw how people responded to him, so he thought that music could be something he needed to explore a little further. All that landed Neil in Nashville, where the 23-year-old singer just completed work on his l...atest studio project. In Nashville, it all begins with songs, said Zach, who has been writing songs ever since arriving in the music city at age 18. If you ve got a great song, everything becomes much easier. Of course, you also need a great voice. And Zach has already passed that test with flying colors. He s created quite a buzz on Music Row by playing regularly with his band at some of the most prestigious country music clubs in town.
Eric Von takes the stage at 9:30pm. I have had the opportunity to meet and work with a lot of great people, but some of my best moments were when I opened for Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Jake Owen, Aaron Tippin and John Anderson. I also had the chance to meet David Lee Murphy and to sit down and write with Nashville s own Kim Tribble. One of the biggest moments that I have had so far came in 2008 when I was named the winner of Kenny Chesney s Next Big Star contest for the Tampa area of Florida, under Country radio station WQYK and The Dallas Bull. As the winner of that contest I had the honor to open for Kenny Chesney and play in front of 13,000 people at the Ford Amphitheater in Tampa, Florida. I have also donated my time and talent to numerous charitable causes such as, The American Red Cross and The American Cancer Society just to name a few.

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