Night With Nashville Songwriters
An intimate evening of songs and stories from some of Nashville’s most exciting artists and hit songwriters.
Where Songwriters and Supporters Meet
Join us next Wednesday at Mack’s Prairie Wings for A Night With Nashville Songwriters, an intimate evening of stories and songs benefiting Ducks Unlimited. Enjoy live performances from Austin Williams, Josh Phillips, Beau Bailey, and Michael Rotundo. Every donation made during the event will be matched up to $9,000, doubling your impact for wetlands and wildlife.
Reserve your spot and be part of a special night in Stuttgart.
Artists
Austin Williams
Born and raised near Nashville, TN in the small town of Pleasant View, Austin was faced with a life changing surgery at the age of fifteen. During this down time, he discovered his passion for writing and singing. He taught himself to play the guitar and went after his new found love. He has been honored to play and write with Chase Matthew, Mo Pitney, Kevin Denney, Craig Campbell, Darius Rucker, and others. Fans have quickly gravitated to Austin’s sound, songs, and personality on TikTok gathering over 200,000 followers in a three week time period after first teasing songs. Williams' release “90s Rap Mashup” debuted at #1 on the iTunes country charts and #3 on the iTunes all genre charts, later landing on Pandora's Top Hits Station. Recently, he has toured with Warren Zeiders, Larry Fleet, Austin Snell, and Tyler Hubbard just to name a few. Now with a following totaling over 800,000 across platforms and over 110 million cumulative streams, Williams is actively releasing new music.
Austin Williams
Josh Phillips
Josh Phillips is a multi-award-winning songwriter whose work has been recorded by some of country music’s biggest names. With over 80 songs cut to date, his credits include “Dirt Cheap” by Cody Johnson, “Giving Her Away” and “The Man He Sees in Me” by Luke Combs, “Small Forever” by George Birge & Brantley Gilbert, and “I’m Over You” and “Small Town Small” by Jason Aldean and MANY more. Josh’s songwriting has earned him major accolades including ACM Song of the Year, NSAI Song of the Year, Music Row Song of the Year, and the People’s Choice Song of the Year. Known for his authentic storytelling and emotional depth, Josh continues to shape the sound of modern country music from behind the scenes.
Josh Phillips
Beau Bailey
Louisiana native Beau Bailey is making a name for himself as one of Nashville’s fastest-growing hit songwriters. He has penned songs for artists like HARDY, Blake Shelton, Kane Brown, Dierks Bentley, Cole Swindell, Parmalee, Hudson Westbrook, Graham Barham, Chase Matthew, Dylan Marlowe, and many more in just a few short years. His writing carries the weight of someone who’s lived the life he writes about, with hooks that stick and stories that hit home. Bailey has two hit country songs climbing country radio charts: HARDY’s “Favorite Country Song” and Blake Shelton’s “Stay Country or Die Tryin’.” Additional standout releases include Dierks Bentley’s title track, “Broken Branches” featuring Riley Green and John Anderson, “Sober” and “Weatherman” by Hudson Westbrook and “Oil Money” by Graham Barham—further showcasing Beau’s ability to craft emotionally charged, resonant tracks across today’s diverse country landscape.
In August 2023, Beau signed a publishing deal with hit songwriter Ashley Gorley’s Tape Room Music in partnership with Red Light Management. Tape Room Music SVP of A&R Kelly Bolton praised Beau’s “tenacity, creative instincts, and passion”—qualities that make him a standout in a competitive field. Beau calls working with the Tape Room team “an absolute honor,” adding that it feels like exactly where he’s meant to be. Raised in Monroe, Louisiana, Beau grew up duck hunting in the flooded timber, fishing oxbow lakes off the Mississippi River, and playing baseball. These experiences laid the foundation for his songwriting voice—honest, textured, and rooted in real life. He began writing songs at age 15, drawing from his upbringing and love of music to craft lyrics with emotional impact and commercial appeal.
Beau Bailey
Michael Rotundo
Country artist ROTUNDO has entered his desperado’s era: having released 12 songs in the first year and a half since his career debut, ROTUNDO’s debut album has arrived. The first single from the record “Memory Lane” is the first page of the sonic flip book that culminates to the multi-genre influenced country album. Raised on his grand-parent’s farm in Ohio, ROTUNDO grew up singing and playing piano as a hobby, until high school graduation when he joined the US Army to serve four years on active duty. Growing up in an environment wherein country music was king, but listening to other genres was considered cool, ROTUNDO discovered his love for other genre’s early on and found himself particularly inspired by R&B melodies vocally.
He rediscovered his love for country music and storytelling during his last year of service while stationed in Georgia, where he taught himself how to play guitar and started writing songs before moving to Nashville to begin his music career. ROTUNDO’s country roots are evident in his music as he brings a modern western-inspired sound that he describes as, “Screen-door R&B”. Packaging his singer-songwriter/country lyricism in an art-focused vision – each song released adding another brush stroke to the canvas of his soundscape – ROTUNDO releases music that is founded on his unique writing sensibility in presenting common phrases that lead into double entendre hooks.
