Hit Songwriters In-the-Round with Hannah Dasher

Showings

Mars Theatre Sat, Jan 31, 2015 8:00 PM
Event Info
Doors Open:1 Hour Before Show Time
Run Time:2 Hours
Ticket Price:$25.00
More Info
Website:reverbnation.com/hannahdasher
rogercook.com
wynnvarble.com
jamesleblancsongs.com

Description

Top Nashville Songwriters Invade The Mars Theatre

 Effingham County native Hannah Dasher has a way of bringing out the “country music” in everyone. Though a modern stylist, her songwriting and vocal delivery have been steeped in traditional country, soul, rock, and blues. Hannah’s producer Jeff Stevens, who has written numerous #1 country singles and who has enjoyed enormous success as the sole producer for genre superstar Luke Bryan, was instantly knocked out by Hannah's vocal prowess, her personality, and her potential to become a hit songwriter and artist. Other top collaborators of Hannah’s include Wynn Varble, Dean Dillon, James LeBlanc, Chris DuBois, Mark D. Sanders, Terry McBride, and more. She recently received the ASCAP Harold Adamson award and was honored at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Hannah is currently signed to BMG Chrysalis in Nashville and is actively recording material for her debut album. She is already garnering interest from several labels.  

Joining Hannah will be super stars of country music writers Roger Cook, Wynn Varble and James LeBlanc.

 

Roger Cook, was born in Bristol, England but has spent most of his professional songwriting career in Nashville, Tennessee, Roger has received many accolades, including five Ivor Novello awards.

 

Roger is a member of SODS (Society of Distinguished Songwriters)

and is the only British songwriter ever to enter The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Roger has written so many hit songs that we can’t list them all, but everyone remembers “I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing” (World-wide hit and Coca Cola commercial) as well as The Hollies hit “Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress”.  A few of the artists that have recorded Roger’s songs are Elton John, Ray Charles, John Prine, Johnny Cash and Don Williams.

 

Wynn Varble came to love country music at a very young age.  He discovered his father’s collection of classic country albums.  He even traded his big brother’s “Grand Funk Railroad” for a copy of Jimmy Dean’s “Big Bad John”.  He still has a scar to prove it. Wynn decided to make the move to Nashville. His first radio single was “Fit To Be Tied Down” by Sammy Kershaw.  Since then he has had dozens of hits including three number ones…all three were nominated as Song Of The Year by either CMA or ACM and sometimes both.  Those songs are:  “Have You Forgotten” by Darryl Worley, “Waiting On A Woman” by Brad Paisley, and “I’m A Little More Country Than That” recorded by Easton Corbin.

 

Wynn received Nashville Songwriters Association’s Songwriter of the Year Award in 2009 and has three songs on the new Garth Brooks CD “Man Against Machine”, including the current hit single, “Mom”. Wynn made his Grand Ole Opry debut in 2011.

 

Singer-songwriter, James LeBlanc was born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana. James picked up the guitar at the mere age of three years old, inspired by his father, James Sr., who played guitar on a daily basis around the LeBlanc household. “My dad had guitars sitting everywhere around the house growing up. I guess you could say I had no other choice but pick up the guitar and learn how to do what he was doing. I wanted to be just like him.” Being influenced by eclectic musicians such as The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac and Jimmy Page, in 2001 James decided to move to Muscle Shoals, Alabama where he gained the interest of the legendary Rick Hall and signed his first publishing deal to Fame Music.  James spent his time traveling back and forth to Nashville to write. While at Fame James gathered cuts and singles on such artists as Rascal Flatts, Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean, Sara Evans, Martina McBride and Travis Tritt to name a few. James’ songs are about the soulful truth of real life that always leaves you with the since of hope.