The 15th Annual 30A Songwriters Festival in Ft Walton Beach FL, on the Panhandle between Panama City and Pensacola. More than 200 songwriters perform in two dozen venues all up and down famed Highway 30A. Starts Friday evening January 12 and runs throughout MLK Weekend, finishing with closing performances on Monday Jan 15.

PERFORMANCES: Fri Jan 12 @ 7pm - Fonville Press (with Rachael Kilgour & Adeem the Artist) / Sat Jan 13 @ Noon - Central Square Records (solo) / Sun Jan 14 @ 6pm - Watercolor Boathouse (with Trisha Jean Brady & Pete Muller) / Mon Jan 15 @ 3:30pm Closing Party at The Bay (solo, with Grace Pettis and Robby Hecht playing before me).

Featured artists include headliners JEFF TWEEDY, GRACE POTTER, ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS, ROSANNE CASH, KT TUNSTALL, and RODNEY CROWELL...

First-timers KELLY WILLIS, SHANNON WHITWORTH & WOODY PLATT, SUNNY WAR, CHAPEL HART, JOHN MUQ, JACK BARKSDALE, THE PINK STONES, DAVID CHILDERS, MEGAN BURTT, RACHAEL KILGOUR, PETE FRANCIS, DEREK and KATELYN DRYE, MATTHEW KILLOUGH, MIKE KINNEBREW, ADEEM THE ARTIST, CAITLIN CANNON, UNCLE DAVE GRIFFIN, and BAYLEE LITTRELL...songwriting legends STEVE EARLE, JOHN OATES, SHELBY LYNNE, SHAWN MULLINS, BLACK OPRY REVUE, VICKI PETERSON & JOHN COWSILL, MINDY SMITH, PETER YARROW, MATTHEW SWEET, AARON LEE TASJAN, PARKER MILLSAP, MARY GAUTHIER, DRIVIN N CRYIN, AMY LAVERE & WILL SEXTON, JOHN PAUL WHITE KIM RICHEY, ROBYN HITCHCOCK, DAVID LOWERY (CRACKER), JOHN FULLBRIGHT, SARAH LEE GUTHRIE, DAN NAVARRO, KEN BLOCK & DREW COPELAND (SISTER HAZEL), IRENE KELLEY, THE REV. SHAWN AMOS & THE BROTHERHOOD, FASTBALL, TOMMY STINSON, JEFFREY STEELE, LARRY CAMPBELL & TERESA WILLIAMS, EMERSON HART (TONIC), BETH NIELSEN CHAPMAN, CHUCK PROPHET, STEVE POLTZ, RYANHOOD, BOB SCHNEIDER, WILL HOGE, CHAPEL HART, FLORENCE DORE, DAN BERN, and ABE PARTRIDGE...

Other confirmed artists Gretchen Peters, Garrison Starr, Will Kimbrough, Toby Lightman, Joe Leathers, Brian White, Karyn Williams, Grayson Capps, Liz Longley, Michael Farren, Paul McDonald, Eddie 9V, Jeff Black, Darden Smith, Heather Maloney, Jill Andrews, Jonathan Singleton, Jaren Johnston, Scooter Caruose, Brent Anderson, Austin Jenckes, Caylee Hammack, Bryce Leatherwood, Jeremy Lister, Ben Gallaher, Charlie Mars, Mary Bragg, Eliot Bronson, Kristy Lee, Pat Byrne, Amilia K Spicer, Robby Hecht, David Ryan Harris, Alice Peacock, The Kennedys, David Childers, Mike Kinnebrew, Ben Chapman, Laney Jones, Sara Jean Kelley, Scott Miller, Grant-Lee Phillips, Webb Wilder, Jaimee Harris, Gurufish, Cooper Carter & The Royal Senders, Martha's Trouble, Danni Nicholls, Diane Durrett, Wyatt Edmondson, The Rough & Tumble, Becky Warren, Cat Ridgeway, Levi Lowrey, Madeline Hawthorne, Bradley Cole Smith, Trisha Gene Brady, Meaghan Farrell, Jesse Lynn Madera, Jon Muq, Pete Francis, Caitlin Cannon, Grace Pettis, Michaela Anne, Lilly Winwood, Meg McRee, Brendan Abernathy, Vanessa Peters, Humbird, Sarah Holbrook & Shannon LaBrie, Casey Kearney, Clare Cunningham, The Water Kickers, Mackenzie Roark, Crys Matthews, Heather Mae, Honeyboy and Boots, Okay Kenedi, Adrian & Meredith, Red Harp, Joy Clark, Pete Muller, Roberta Lea, The Tall Pines, Jennifer Lynn Simpson, Sammi Accola, Sara Hells, Chris Alvarado, Dave Franklin, Kurtis John, and Casey LeVasseur... and an addition 100+ artists to be named soon.

Simply put, they don't f*** around.