'Songwriters In The Round' Hosted By Craig Carothers, With Special Guests Randy Sharp & Don Henry

In this special event, nashville's own craig carothers will gather with other local musicians to play "in the round," a tradition that goes a long way back. The singer-songwriters will sit in a circle and will discuss their lyrics and share the stories behind their original compositions. It's a truly intimate and old-time way to experience the music. Come early for dinner and drinks in the courtyard restaurant or cyrpress room before taking your seat in the gym.
Craig carothers
as a singer-songwriter, craig carothers has played nightclubs and concerts from los angeles to stockholm for the last 20 years.he has shared the stage with more than 100 acts including mose allison, jonatha brooke, bruce cockburn, paula cole, ry cooder, crash test dummies, donovan, robben ford, john hiatt, leo kottke, patty larkin, little feat, little river band, michael mcdonald, anne murray, boz skaggs, toad the wet sprocket, richard thompson, jethro tull, loudon wainright iii and warren zevon.
Points of moderate interest: carothers received the portland music association's crystal award for both "best folk act" and "best single." in the fall of 1995, he signed a publishing contract with nashville-based crossfire entertainment/almo irving music about the same time mca country recording artist trisha yearwood recorded his song "little hercules." that same year, carothers was a winner at both the napa valley music festival's emerging songwriter showcase and the austin songwriters contest. Since then kathy mattea and lorrie morgan have also recorded his songs.
Carothers has spent a fair amount of time producing albums for other independent artists and has also created original soundtracks and written and performed songs for a number of films -- redline, claire of the moon, wee sing under the sea, and living with cancer. In addition, he has been the singing or speaking voice for solo-flex, nike, nordic-flex, waltham pet foods and random house "books on tape."
"...the right mix of weary-eyed cynicism and helpless hearted romanticism..." - performing songwriter magazine
"he has a voice that should be famous." - patty larkin
visit craigcarothers.com or myspace.com/craigcarotherspage for more information.
Randy sharp
randy sharp is a tremendous singer/songwriter and has many #1 country hits with songs like: "why does it have to be wrong or right" and "a tender lie" recorded by restless heart, "nobody's talking," "even now" and "yet" with exile, "then what" recorded by clay walker , "i won't stand in line" recorded by reba mcintyre, and "a home," recorded by both the dixie chicks, and co-writer (and daughter) maia sharp. He's a member of the million-airs club: (songs played more than 1 million times) with songs like "why does it have to be wrong or right" (two million) "you will" and "then what." he was also the president of the board of directors of the national academy of songwriters for three years, and is a current board member of the songwriters guild of america.
Visit randysharp.ws for more information.
Don henry
grammy award-winner don henry's songs have been recorded by legends (ray charles, patti page, conway twitty), country crooners (gene watson, john conlee, b.j. Thomas) and young hit-makers of today (blake shelton, lonestar and kathy mattea, but his songs shine most when heard by the very artist who wrote them in the concerts he performs across the country.
Henry is a veteran of 28 years in the music business, and his experience in writing, publishing, producing and engineering has evolved him into the singer/songwriter/guitarist and entertainer he's become today. He's shared the stage with joey ramone, al gore, pete seeger, steve earle, graham gouldman, ray price, livingston taylor, emmylou harris, jimmy webb, guy clark, david crosby, p.f. Sloan, john prine and michael mcdonald, just to name a few.
Visit donhenry.com for more information.