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An audience watches a nighttime outdoor concert at an amphitheater. The stage, illuminated with blue lighting, features a group of musicians performing under a white canopy. Trees and dark night sky form the backdrop, creating a serene, open-air setting.

Experience the rich legacy of music at Sundance Mountain Resort, where we’ve cultivated a nurturing environment for musicians, songwriters, and performers for generations. In collaboration with Nashville’s esteemed Bluebird Cafe, our cherished Bluebird Cafe Concert Series has illuminated the vibrant songwriting community for over two decades. Complementing this tradition is our second year of Bluebird Bands, a plugged-in concert experience. Our complimentary Sounds of Summer and Lowkey Vibes Concert Series showcase both emerging talents and local bands, fostering a sense of community. Join us in celebrating the power of music to entertain, connect, and inspire at Sundance.

Bluebird Bands – 2024

Sundance Resort is proud to present Bluebird Bands: A Plugged In Concert Experience

Now in its second year, Bluebird Bands features the best of Nashville bands. The actual Bluebird Cafe is located in Nashville, TN, and has been in partnership with Sundance for 22 years.

Thursday, August 29 | Kendell Marvel’s Honky Tonk Experience

Acclaimed solo artist. Grammy-winning songwriter. Road warrior. By the time Kendell Marvel moved into a 200 year-old farmhouse in the Tennessee countryside in 2021, he’d already spent more than two decades expanding the boundaries of modern-day country music.

Albums like Lowdown and Lonesome and Solid Gold Sounds were showcases for his blend of southern twang and super-sized vocals, filled with songs that split the difference between honky-tonk country and roadhouse rock & roll. Marvel’s catalog reaches far beyond his solo work, too, with artists like George Strait, Gary Allan, and Chris Stapleton all landing Top 40 hits with his compositions. The man had clearly left his mark. If he’d chosen to celebrate his new home by taking a few months off, the vacation would have been well-earned.

Of course, you can take the man out of Nashville, but you can’t take the Nashville out of the man. Hours after moving in, Marvel unpacked his guitars and quickly got to work in his new space, writing songs that blended timeless textures with contemporary insight. He began with “Younger Me,” a nostalgic ode to young manhood and resilience that became a Grammy-winning hit for the song’s co-writers, Brothers Osborne. He kept writing during the months that followed, fine-tuning the mix of country-rockers, soul standouts, and bluesy ballads that now fill his third solo effort, Come On Sunshine.

Recorded in Dallas, TX, with producer Beau Bedford — ringleader of The Texas Gentlemen, as well as the sonic architect behind albums by Paul Cauthen and Leah Blevins — Come On Sunshine burns as brightly as its name. These are songs for Saturday night hell-raising and Sunday morning comedowns. They’re stand-your-ground anthems and help-your-neighbor rallying cries. They’re sharply-written tunes about booze and breakups, true love and false prophets, bad habits and proud traditions, delivered by a songwriter who’s lived enough life to confidently chronicle its ups and downs.

“I’m 51 years old, which means I’m long past the point of catering to anybody,” Marvel says. “I’m just telling the stories I want to tell, whether it’s a song like ‘Come On Sunshine’ — which Devon Gilfillian and I wrote at the height of the pandemic, looking to pour some light into the people who were shut in, shut down, and struggling with the doom and gloom we were all seeing on TV — or “Keep Doing Your Thing,” which argues that the world would be a better place if we just let people be who you are.”

He even zeroes in on money-hungry televangelists with “Put It In The Plate,” a southern-fried stomper that’s already become an audience favorite during Marvel’s ongoing tours with Chris Stapleton. “It’s got that sound I grew up loving, like Hank Jr’s songs in the ’80s,” he explains. “It’s not country, it’s not rock; it’s just a perfect mixture of all of it. It’s an interesting song because it’s calling out the righteous gemstones of the world! Maybe it’ll piss people off, but sometimes, the truth does that.”

The truth goes down a little easier when it’s set to a soundtrack of greasy funky-tonk and nuanced Tennessee twang, though. At its heaviest moments, Come On Sunshine leans closer to the rock & roll side of the country-rock divide, with Marvel delivering amplified anthems like “Don’t Tell Me How To Drink” with the gruff growl of a lifer who’s earned the right to call his own shots. “Brother, I’ve spilled more on the barroom floor than you’ve ever had, so let me do my thing,” he barks in his deep baritone, backed by cymbal crashes and ringing power chords. If those moments nod to the ZZ-Top-meets-Merle-Haggard sound of his Keith Gattis-produced debut, Lowdown and Lonesome, then tracks like “Hellbent on Hard Times” and “Dyin’ Isn’t Cheap” salute the vintage warmth of 2019’s Solid Gold Sounds, which Marvel recorded with The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach. Come On Sunshine finds the middle ground between those two records, its diversity mirrored by Marvel’s broad list of collaborators.

Auerbach makes another appearance, this time as the co-writer of the piano-driven drinking song “Off My Mind.” Mickey Raphael, longtime harmonica player for Willie Nelson, adds atmosphere and ambiance to “Dyin’ Isn’t Cheap,” while Stapleton serves as a co-writer and backing vocalist on two tracks. Finally, solo artists like Dee White, Waylon Payne, Dean Alexander, Kolby Cooper, NRBQ’s Al Anderson, and Josh Morningstar all contribute to the remaining songs. Such a lengthy guest list brings with it a number of different perspectives, which Marvel insists is the whole point.

“I like to work with people who are different than me,” he notes. “Working with Beau Bedford in Dallas meant that I was playing with guys I’d never met before. Guys who had different ideas, different tones, and different ways of playing than my friends back home. We recorded the album live, finishing the whole thing in four days. That’s how you capture magic. The same thing can be said for the people I write with. I prefer left-field people — people who come from different backgrounds and different genres. Devon Gilfillian comes from the R&B world; he hears different melodies than I do. Waylon is a gay man, so he has some experiences that are different than mine. I love to surround myself with people like that, and sit in the writing room with someone who isn’t just like me. Because that’s how you capture magic, too.”

It’s been nearly 25 years since Marvel — a native of southern Illinois, where he began playing barroom gigs at 10 years old — moved to Nashville and wrote Gary Allen’s Top 5 hit “Right Where I Need To Be” during his first day in town. With Come On Sunshine, he proves that one’s day in the sun can last a lifetime, as long as you’re willing to listen to the muse, challenge your perspectives, and chase down the magic in front of you.

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Bluebird Cafe Concert Series 2024 – SOLD OUT

Bluebird Cafe Concert Series features Nashville’s finest singer-songwriters and musicians, brought to Sundance in partnership with the renowned Bluebird Cafe. Each show features three artists, who sing and tell the stories behind their songs. Artist lineups coming soon.

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Dylan Altman
Originally from the great state of New Jersey, Dylan Altman has been writing and performing in Nashville since 1994. He has had three #1 songs: Tim McGraw’s “Watch The Wind Blow By”, Jake Owen’s “Barefoot Blue Jean Night”, Jason Aldean’s “Take A Little Ride” as well as Chase Bryant’s top ten hit “Take It On Back”. Other artists who have recorded his songs include Trace Adkins, Eli Young Band, Joe Nichols and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

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Marshall Altman
Marshall Altman is a Nashville-based record producer, songwriter, and A&R executive for Nettwerk Music Group. As a record producer and songwriter, he has worked & written songs with Natasha Bedingfield, Matt Nathanson, Brooke Fraser, Trevor Hall, Ingrid Michaelson, Marc Broussard, Eric Paslay, Frankie Ballard, Cheryl Cole, Billy Gibbons, Abby Anderson, Zebrahead, Tom Morello, Amy Grant, and Nettwerk’s own artists, William Fitzsimmons and Morgxn. In addition to writing the #1 Pop song “Parachute,” he has had #1’s w Marc Broussard (“Home”) & Shawn Mullins (“Beautiful Wreck”), as well as many other hits on the charts. As an A&R Person, he has worked with Katy Perry, OneRepublic, Citizen Cope, Switchfoot, Paris Paloma, Old Sea Brigade, …. Additionally, he’s a regular performer at the storied Bluebird Cafe, and was the frontman in the alternative band Farmer, as well as being a member of the band The Overstory.
His most recent production, writing, and A&R work includes the Josh Abbot Band’s gold album, “The Highway Kind,” featuring the hit “Settle Me Down,” in addition to the signing of Nettwerk Music Group’s latest breakout artist, Paris Paloma. Additional production and writing projects include the album “Love Ain’t Pretty,” from Charles Esten (who starred as Deacon Claybourne on ABC’s “Nashville, and as Ward Cameron on Netflix’ series “Outer Banks”), King Falcon’s eponymous debut LP, the album “Incidental Contact” from renowned singer / songwriter William Fitzsimmons, and the album “Beacon” from indie pop artist, Morgxn.

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Brice Long
Brice has enjoyed a successful 25+ year music career. As a songwriter he has had well over 200 of his songs cut with artists such as Garth Brooks, George Strait, Chris Stapleton, Hank Williams Jr, Randy Houser, Josh Turner, Reba McEntire, Gary Allan, Chris Young, Jon Pardi, Cody Johnson, Casey James, Randy Travis, Trace Adkins, John Michael Montgomery and many more.
Brice’s songwriting hits include the #1 singles “Heartache On The Dance Floor” by Jon Pardi and “Nothing On But The Radio” by Gary Allan. Randy Houser’s “Like a Cowboy”, a song that also garnered Brice a CMA nomination for Song of the Year. Other hits include Randy Houser’s debut single, “Anything Goes”, “Today” from Gary Allan, Casey James’ “Let’s Don’t Call It A Night” and Jon Pardi’s, “What I Can’t Put Down”.
Brice Long is signed to Sony Music Publishing. He is a native of Hopkinsville, KY. His self-titled album is available wherever digital music is streamed and sold.

Lori McKenna
From her home base in Boston, Lori McKenna has carved out an enviable niche for herself as one of Nashville’s most in-demand songwriters, all while maintaining a prolific and remarkably consistent career as a solo artist. The release of heranticipatedalbum,1988, adds to a series of landmark years for McKenna and follows three widely acclaimed albums:2016’sThe Bird &The Rifle, 2018’sThe Treeand2020’sThe Balladeer, of which the Associated Press praised, “McKenna has by now long established herself as one of the best songwriters working in any genre. And she does it again and again,” while The Tennessean asserted, “one of the sharpest pens in modern country and folk songwriting.”
In addition to her career as a solo artist, McKenna continues to enjoy success as one of the music industry’s most in-demand songwriters. In 2023, she was nominated for a Grammy for Best Country Song for co-writing “I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault),” performed by Taylor Swift. In 2017, McKenna became the first woman to win the Academy of Country Music’s Songwriter of the Year award and the first woman to win the Country Music Association’s Song of the Year award two years in a row. She also won back-to-back Grammys for Best Country Song: for “Girl Crush,” performed by Little Big Town, in 2016 and “Humble and Kind,” performed by Tim McGraw, in 2017. In 2021, McKenna won her third Best Country Song Grammy for co-writing “Crowded Table” performed by the Highwomen, with Brandi Carlile and Natalie Hemby. In addition to writing songs for a multitude of award-winning artists—including Hunter Hayes, Faith Hill, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Reba McEntire, Tim McGraw and Carrie Underwood—McKenna also co-wrote “Always Remember Us This Way,” which was featured in the Oscar-winning 2018 film “A Star Is Born.”

Lee Thomas Miller
Lee Thomas Miller is a songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee.
Since moving to Nashville in 1991 he has had 19 top 20 singles with 7 reaching #1 and has earned 13 BMI radio performance awards. His songs have reached radio play in excess of 25 million spins with streaming numbers reaching into the hundreds of millions.
He won both a CMA and an ACM award for Song of the Year with “In Color” as recorded by Jamey Johnson. “You’re Gonna Miss This” won Song of the Year at both the ASCAP and NSAI awards and single of the year at the CMA awards.
His accomplishments include 3 Grammy nominations, a teen choice award, 13 BMI awards and has had 4 different songs nominated for ‘Song of the Year’ at the major industry awards. (CMA, ACM and/or Grammys)
Miller has also been given 4 “Songs I Wish I Had Written” trophies as voted on by the professional membership of NSAI (the Nashville Songwriter’s Association).
Miller has had success also as a record producer producing a pair of top 20 hits on recording artist Steve Holy including his #1 record “Brand New Girlfriend”He cowrote the most recent Scotty McCreery top 5 hit “It Matters To Her”.

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Josh Osborne
After years of honing his craft, Grammy and ACM award winning songwriter Josh Osborne has become one of the go-to songwriters on the Nashville music scene. After scoring his first #1 song in 2012 with Kenny Chesney’s “Come Over”, Osborne has been on quite an amazing roll, scoring a total of 30 #1 songs so far, in addition to winning 41 ASCAP awards for most performed songs as well as three ASCAP Song of the Year awards for his hits “Leave The Night On”, “Body Like A Back Road” and “One Man Band”.
In 2014 Osborne was awarded the coveted Grammy award for Best Country Song for “Merry Go ‘Round” recorded by Kacey Musgraves. He has since gone on to be nominated 3 more times for Best Country Song at the Grammy awards. Also in 2014, Josh was honored by having his name added to the prestigious Country Music Highway which runs through the state of Kentucky and near his hometown of Virgie.
Josh is the 2021 ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year, 2019 NSAI Songwriter of The Year, 2016, 2021 and 2022 Music Row Magazine Songwriter of the Year, a 7-time nominee for ACM Songwriter of The Year, ACM Song of the Year winner for his song “One Man Band”, a multiple CMA award nominee and multiple CMA Triple Play Award Winner.

Chase McGill
Chase McGill is one of Nashville’s premier songwriters. With 13 No. 1 chart toppers and counting, Chase’s work is a steady presence on country radio. His songs have been recorded by a variety of artists, including Morgan Wallen, Tim McGraw, Thomas Rhett, Cole Swindell, Lainey Wilson, Tyler Hubbard, Florida Georgia Line, Dustin Lynch, Jelly Roll, Luke Combs, Jordan Davis, Russell Dickerson, Mitchell Tenpenny, Cody Johnson, Luke Bryan, and more.
Chase was awarded the Country Music Association (CMA)’s prestigious Triple Play award in 2019, 2022, and 2023. This award is presented to songwriters who achieve the unlikely feat of authoring three or more No. 1 songs on the country radio charts within a single year.
In addition to his commercial success, Chase’s work is also critically acclaimed, with recent nominations from the Recording Academy (Country Song of the Year 2019), the Country Music Association (Song of the Year 2024), the Academy of Country Music (Songwriter of the Year 2024 and 2019, Song of the Year 2024), and the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) (Song of the Year).

Emily Weisband
Grammy award winning singer-songwriter Emily Weisband has proven to be competitive across all genres penning pop songs like “Consequences” for Camila Cabello, “Boy With Luv” for BTS ft. Halsey, Country songs like “Sinning With You” for Sam Hunt, “Cool Anymore” for Jordan Davis ft. Julia Michaels, and Christian songs like “Thy Will” for Hilary Scott and the Scott Family; which ended up winning Emily her first Grammy for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song. She has also had songs recorded and released by many other artists including Keith Urban, Sam Hunt, Gabby Barrett, Chris Young, Nate Smith, Dan + Shay, Lady A, Darius Rucker, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Thomas Rhett, Danielle Bradbery, Hunter Hayes, Lauren Alaina, Ashley Cooke, Tenille Arts, Natalie Grant, Danny Gokey, Tauren Wells, Anne Wilson, Madison Beer, Camila Cabello, Pink, Kehlani, Noah Cyrus and more. Emily’s other singles include “Looking For You” by Chris Young, “Glory Days” by Gabby Barrett, “Jealous Of Myself” by Tenille Arts, “Can’t Break Up Now” by Old Dominion ft. Megan Moroney, & “Love You Back” by Lady A.

Tony Arata
Tony Arata was born in Savannah, Georgia and grew up on nearby Tybee Island. While studying for a journalism degree from Georgia Southern University, he began performing his original songs in local bands. In 1986, he and wife Jaymi moved to Nashville where his unique, soulful style began to get the attention of people like Allen Reynolds and Garth Brooks. Garth to date has recorded seven of Tony’s songs, and “The Dance” won song of the year at The Academy of Country Music and received both a Country Music Association and a Grammy nomination, as well as a most performed song in Radio and Records Magazine.
He has also had No. 1 records with “Here I Am” for Patty Loveless, “I’m Holding My Own” for Lee Roy Parnell, and “Dreaming With My Eyes Open” for Clay Walker. Other artists who have recorded his songs include Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, Trisha Yearwood, Delbert McClinton, Don Williams, Reba McEntire, Suzy Bogguss, and Hal Ketchum.
Tony has also done three solo albums featuring new songs, covers, and guest appearances by many of Nashville’s finest musicians as well as folks who have recorded his songs, including Garth, Patty, and Lee Roy.

Marc Beeson
This Illinois native and 30 year Nashville veteran has had songs recorded by Jason Aldean, Sam Hunt, Garth Brooks, Martina McBride, Little Big Town, Willie Nelson, Blake Shelton, Reba McEntire, Tim McGraw, Lady Antebellum, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood and Chicago, among others. He has won 12 ASCAP awards including both Country and Pop Song of the Year for his #1, “When She Cries”. He co-wrote the title track and Billy Currington #1 single, “We Are Tonight”, the title track of Ashley Monroe’s Grammy nominated record,”The Blade”, Blake Shelton’s “She’s Got a Way With Words”, Josh Turner’s #1, “Hometown Girl” and “The Bullet” from Carrie Underwood’s Grammy nominated record, Cry Pretty. He also co-wrote the title track to Willie Nelson’s record, “First Rose of Spring”, Rascal Flatt’s, “How They Remember You” and Tim McGraw’s single. “One Bad Habit”.
As an artist, he has recorded for Warner Bros., BNA and Curb Records… He has served on the Board of NSAI, the NARAS education committee and as a mentor with GRAMMY U as well as the MTSU music business program. He currently writes for Smack Songs in Nashville

Gretchen Peters
For over two decades, Gretchen Peters has been one of Nashville’s most beloved and respected artists. “If Peters never delivers another tune as achingly beautiful as ‘On A Bus To St. Cloud,'” People Magazine wrote, “she has already earned herself a spot among country’s upper echelon of contemporary composers.” Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October 2014 by singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell, who called her “both a songwriter and a poet (who) sings as beautifully as she writes,” and said her song “The Matador”, “moved me so greatly, I cried from the soles of my feet”, Peters has accumulated accolades as a songwriter for artists as diverse as Etta James, Bonnie Raitt, The Neville Brothers, Patty Loveless, George Strait, Bryan Adams and Faith Hill. Her song “Independence Day”, recorded by Martina McBride, won a CMA Song of the Year award in 1995. She has been nominated for 2 Grammys (“Independence Day/Martina McBride, “You Don’t Even Know Who I Am”/Patty Loveless), a Golden Globe (“Here I Am”/Bryan Adams), and numerous other awards. Her 2015 album, Blackbirds was awarded International Album of the Year and Song of the Year by the UK Americana Association. In 2015, The Telegraph named her one of the greatest 60 female singer-songwriters of all time. In 2021 she was awarded The Poets Award by the Academy of Country Music.

Trannie Anderson
A product of Waco, Texas, Trannie Anderson has a knack for painting poetic portraits of small town living set to dynamic, heartfelt melodies in a fresh yet timeless way. The ability to artfully walk the line of deeply authentic storytelling in a universal fashion has made her a key collaborator for many artists. She signed a co-publishing deal with Sony Music Publishing in 2018 and since then has had songs recorded by artists such as Lainey Wilson, Dan + Shay, Gabby Barrett, Nate Smith, Meghan Trainor, Pentatonix, Reba McEntire, Lauren Alaina, Tenille Arts, and others. Trannie co-wrote Lainey Wilson’s hit single “Heart Like A Truck” which reached #1 on the Mediabase country radio chart in April of 2023. She has also had songs placed in ads/tv shows with T-Mobile, Dodge Ram, Tractor Supply, Marshall’s, CW’s Riverdale, Netflix’s Maid, Fox’s Proven Innocent, American Ninja Warrior, American Idol, Fox Sports, and Lifetime.

Josh Jenkins
Josh Jenkins is a Nashville based singer-songwriter and lead singer of the band Green River Ordinance. Throughout his 15 year tenure as the lead singer of GRO, he has had several records top the Billboard Heatseakers Chart and many songs placed in TV/Film. Jenkins’ songs have been recorded by artists such as Dustin Lynch, Walker Hayes, Jordan Davis, Randy Houser, and more. He co-wrote the viral, RIAA certified 6x Platinum, grammy nominated smash hit “Fancy Like” by Walker Hayes, which has spent more than 20 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, reached Top 5 on Billboard’s Hot 100, and ruled every country sales and streaming chart for several weeks. It has been used in a national Applebee’s campaign, featuring the TikTok dance that helped it reach viral status. Jenkins is also a co-writer of CMA song of the year “Buy Dirt” with Jordan Davis featuring Luke Bryan, which is Davis’ fastest rising single to date. He also recently celebrated his 3rd number one with a song called “Tuscon Too Late” performed by Jordan Davis. These successes contributed to Jenkins being named the No. 1 Billboard Hot Country Songwriter for multiple weeks straight.

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Matt Jenkins

Matt Jenkins is a singer/songwriter from Ft Worth, Texas. Perfectly riding the line between cool and commercial, Jenkins’ songs always leave the listener wanting more. A 2017 CMA Triple Play Award Winner, he has earned 8 #1 singles, including “Buy Dirt” by Jordan Davis and Luke Bryan “Happy Anywhere” from Blake Shelton ft. Gwen Stefani, “Do I Make You Wanna” by Billy Currington, “Song For Another Time” by Old Dominion and ”Setting The World On Fire” by Kenny Chesney ft. Pink.. He also wrote Florida Georgia Line’s “Confession”, Dustin Lynch’s “Where It’s At” and Keith Urban’s hit single “Cop Car.” Not only do his songs top charts but they also set the mood for TV’s biggest shows including his song “Fade Into You” placed in ABC’s show Nashville. Jenkins has also appeared multiple times on the Grand Ole Opry played shows with Zac Brown Band, Lady Antebellum, Taylor Swift and Old Dominion.

Poster for "Sounds of Summer" at Sundance Mountain Resort, held on Sundays from 6:30 to 8 PM on the lawn at Sundance in 2024. Band dates listed are: The Proper Way on 8/4, Bad Frances on 8/11, The Hardy Brothers on 8/18, and Michelle Moonshine & Co on 8/25. Event is complimentary.

Sounds of Summer – 2024

Sounds of Summer is a complimentary music series on Sunday evenings in August from 6:30 – 8pm.

8/4 – The Proper Way
8/11 – Bad Frances
8/18 – The Hardy Brothers
8/25 – Michelle Moonshine + Co

With limited lawn space, please leave dogs at home. Only short beach chairs and blankets allowed (no folding or lawn chairs), and as always, no outside food or drink.

Low Key Vibes – 2024

Low Key Vibes is a pop-up music series. Stay tuned on social media for dates and artists.

Outside food and drink are not allowed at Sundance Resort

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