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Description:  The final day of the Pensacola Beach Songwriters Festival is Sunday, October 9, 2022 and Bamboo Willie's is a featured venue featuring some of the country's best singer songwriters. 
                   
Sunday's Schedule:

2:00 PM on the Bamboo Willie's Stage

Cody Copeland
For multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and abstract painter, Cody Copeland, one crucial talent has remained at the forefront: to connect with the listener. With every performance, he brings to the stage a raw vulnerability, singing his heartfelt lyrics and playing his guitar in a unique style you won’t want to miss. Cody grew up in Freeport, FL where he released his debut album, Luster (2009) from which his song “Call Me” won a prized headlining show in Chicago. Vocally, he was trained as a jazz singer and continues to draw inspiration from soft-spoken crooners of the 50’s and 60’s. After acquiring his first synthesizer, he honed his signature style that can be heard on his sophomore album, Two States (2013) and has graced stages small and large across the country.

Riley Roth
Riley Roth is a 23-yr-old recording artist in Nashville, TN. Riley sings what she writes, and she writes what she knows. She is relatable, a communicator, and an artist. Riley graduated high school early, moved to Nashville, and was offered her first publishing deal just four months later. She was also the first signing to Altadena, a publishing company and label owned by hit producer, Busbee, who produced Carley Pearce and Maren Morris, among many others. Riley was working with Busbee until his untimely passing. Riley has released many singles and this summer, she released her debut EP. You can find her music on most streaming platforms.

Ava Paige
For several years now, even the most experienced songwriters in Nashville have been both astonished and thankful they were put in a room with 17-year old country music artist Ava Paige. Paige is simply not your average up-and-coming young hopeful. She is an entire world apart.

Writing songs since she was small and taking guitar lessons for over eight years now, she is decidedly unique from other teenagers. Her idols have always been the creators of songs and she has never wavered in her desire to be one of them. An innate understanding of lifetimes past with her naturally young perspective has proven beneficial in her delivery of any song. A marvel at conveying the emotion necessary to allow audiences to truly feel the lyrics. This skill is especially reflected in her writing, which is why she continues to work with some of the industry’s best, including Marla Cannon-Goodman (“Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo”/Tracy Byrd), Terri Jo Box (“American Scandal”/Ashley McBryde), Kessy Timmer (“Yeah Boy” / Kelsea Ballerina) Drake White (Making me look good again) and Emily Shackelton (“Every Little Thing”/ Carly Pearce).

Paige has come away with several music industry awards, including being named Best Singer/ Songwriter in the 2019 Nashville Scene Readers Poll. She has been playing live shows in Nashville for many years and has held a standing gig at The George Jones since she was 13- years old. She has played iconic venues such as The Listening Room and The Bluebird Cafe, and is a frequent participant in songwriter shows around town that include hitmakers.

3:00 PM on the Bamboo Willie's Stage

Baillie and the Boys
Emerging as one of the best known bands of the late 80's and early 90's, "Baillie And The Boys" was an integral part of forever shaping the direction of today's Country Music. The release of their first RCA single, "Oh Heart" which by blending a California Folk Rock style with an East Coast pop flavored attitude became one of BillBoard Magazine's' most performed Hot Country Singles of 1987 and 1988. An "out of the box" Top Ten Single once heard it's hard to deny the echoes of this unique musical sound in groups like "Little Big Town" and "Lady Antebellum" yet a style all their own. The three part vocal harmonies that distinguished the groups hypnotic sound can be heard on many of the biggest names in country music including; Vince Gill, Marie Osmond, Randy Travis, Mo Bandy, Dan Seals, Lynn Anderson and others to become a major part of the most significant and memorable recordings of 90's in country music.

Alyssa Bonagura
Alyssa Bonagura is ready to fly again. A songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, she's spent the past decade fine-tuning a sound that reaches far beyond her Nashville roots. It's a sound that blurs the boundaries between genres, mixing the southern storytelling of country music, the free-thinking spirit of rock & roll, and the cinematic sweep of Brit-pop into its own hybrid. For Alyssa — a lifelong road warrior who spent her infancy aboard a tour bus, recorded a duet with Kenny Rogers at 10 years old, received her college diploma from Sir Paul McCartney, and currently balances her critically-acclaimed solo career with an ongoing gig writing songs for Jessie James Decker, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, and others — it's also a sound that's every bit as diverse as her own story. Years before releasing 2021's single “New Wings,” Alyssa grew up in Tennessee, an only child raised by parents who sent nearly a dozen songs toward the top of the Billboard charts as leaders of the country band Baillie & the Boys.

4:00 PM on the Bamboo Willie's Stage

Greg Crowe
Raised in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, Greg Crowe brings a compelling blend of blues, rock and country to Music City. Crowe is an award winning songwriter; credits include artists Montgomery Gentry, Sammy Kershaw, Adam Gregory, Will Hoge, Chuck Mead, Lonestar and most recently with Trace Adkins. His writing, production skills have also been put to use in many television commercials and Independent artists projects as well. Crowe is a SESAC affiliated writer/publisher who has been living in Nashville for the past 32 years.

Dave Gibson
Songs from the soul, songwriting from the heart Dave Gibson have been a professional singer/songwriter in Nashville since 1982 and was born with a song (or two) in his heart.

His songs have taken to the airwaves and taken off, becoming #1 hits with groups like Alabama and legendary country singers like Tanya Tucker. Other country greats like Reba McEntire, Marie Osmond, Randy Travis and Ronnie Milsap have sung Dave’s classic songs. When Dave was lead singer of the Gibson/Miller Band, his group earned an Academy of Country Music Award for Top New Vocal Duo or Group.

Dave’s music passion continues in his work with rising, new-generation singer-songwriters like Josiah Siska (“World Gone Mad”) and Chad Bushnell (“Baby I Love You”). He’s also the music director for Gibson/Miller Band, a digital marketing firm specializing in sonic branding.

Earle Bud Lee
Earl Bud Lee moved to Nashville in 1979. Four plus decades later he is still going strong...writing with his old pals and with the fresh faces that come to town with the same hopes and dreams he had way back when.

Earl Bud has been blessed with three big Number Ones starting in 1990. His first being the ever popular FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES for Garth Brooks. Then came ONE NIGHT AT A TIME for George Strait and then WHO ARE YOU WHEN I’M NOT LOOKING for Blake Shelton. All of these were co-written with some amazing songwriters here in Nashville. A few years back his song LOOK OUT YONDER (a thirty years ago solo write) was recorded by Texas artist Randy Rogers featuring Alison Krauss and Dan Tyminski.

Jeff Silvey
The 2018 and 2021 Producer of the Year, Jeff Silvey has grownup in the music business. This Indiana native joined his first gospel quartet at 14 and in 1986 moved to Nashville to pursue his dream of music.

During Jeff’s 36 years in Nashville , the Grammy nominated songwriter has made his mark in the Christian and Country music industry. Having over 300 songs that were recorded by The Gaither Vocal Band, Dallas Holm, 4 Him, Oak Ridge Boys, George Strait, DC Talk, Easton Corbin and more.

He earned 4 RIAA certified Gold and 2 Platinum albums in the Christian Industry.

1997 Winner of the Dove Award as an artist for Country Album of the Year, “Little Bit of Faith”. 2012, Jeff was the music supervisor for “The Last Ride” soundtrack for the Hank Williams Sr. film.

Jeff currently writes for Wimberly Music, owned by Erv Woolsey.