Nashville Songwriter Show with Mark D. Sanders, Shawn Camp, and Verlon Thompson

‘I HOPE YOU DANCE’ SONGWRITER MARK D. SANDERS JOINED BY SHAWN CAMP AND VERLON THOMPSON TO HOST NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS WEEKEND AT THE PRESS

Famed songwriters Mark D. Sanders, Shawn Camp, and Verlon Thompson have no doubt made their mark on the music industry with a combined total of 20 No. 1 hits and collaborations with Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson, Blake Shelton, Guy Clark, Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Rogers, George Strait, and Lee Ann Womack. Their notable works include “I Hope You Dance,” “Heads Carolina, Tails California,” “Blue Clear Sky,” “Boats to Build,” and “Nobody But Me.” They’re coming to share their songwriting stories and perform their original works with the Steamboat community for a two night special at the press August 5^th at 7:30pm and August 6^th at 5:00pm.

Pre-sale tickets will NOT be available. Ticket purchases are only available at the door the day of the event. Doors open one hour before the show.

Mark D Sanders is an American country music songwriter. He has written 15 No. 1 hits, 50 singles, and over 200 cuts, including the famous Lee Ann Womack single “I Hope You Dance“, co-written with Tia Sillers. With almost three decades in the music business Mark Sanders has forged a resplendent career from his innumerable successes and accomplishments as a songwriter. As one of the most respected and honored songwriters in Nashville, Sanders has compiled an extensively impressive list of hits that have yielded a career that is nothing short of amazing. Since his beginnings on Music Row, Sanders has accumulated a multitude of awards from respected publications including Nashville Songwriter’s Association International, Billboard Magazine, Music Row Magazine and American Songwriter Magazine. In addition to these awards, Sanders has also received numerous industry honors including four Country Music Association Triple Play Awards (three No. 1’s in a twelve month period), ASCAP’s 1997 Song of the Year, “No News” and Writer of the Year awards, the 2000 CMA Song of the Year for “I Hope You Dance” and the 2001 Grammy for Country Song of the Year, also for “I Hope You Dance.”

Verlon Thompson has thirty years as a professional songwriter and traveling troubadour. As a solo performer, and as the trusted sidekick of Texas Americana songwriting icon Guy Clark, Verlon has viewed the world from stages everywhere from Barcelona to Binger (his hometown in Oklahoma). Along the way Verlon Thompson compositions have been recorded by Jimmy Buffett and Alan Jackson, Dierks Bentley, Anne Murray, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis, Del McCoury, Sam Bush, Trisha Yearwood and many more. Verlon has co-produced Guy Clark’s Grammy nominated cd “Cold Dog Soup” as well as “The Dark”, “Workbench Songs” and “Somedays the Song Writes You”.

Shawn Camp is a bold and distinctive singer, a songwriter who’s provided material for artists ranging from Ralph Stanley, Del McCoury and Ricky Skaggs to Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Porter Wagoner, Loretta Lynn and Brooks & Dunn, with hits such as “Two Pina Coladas” (Garth Brooks), “Nobody But Me” (Blake Shelton), “Would You Go With Me” (Josh Turner), “River Of Love” (George Strait), and Billy Currington’s hit single “Love Done Gone”. Along with being a hit writer, he is a gifted multi-instrumentalist who’s played as a touring/recording musician with everyone from Jerry Reed, Trisha Yearwood, Shelby Lynn, and Alan Jackson to the Osborne Brothers, Guy Clark and John Prine. Camp also co-produced a compilation tribute album for his friend and hero Guy Clark, which was #1 on the Americana Charts for several weeks in the spring of 2012, and voted Americana Album Of The Year 2012.

Courtesy of https://www.markdsanders.me/about | https://verlonthompson.com/bio | https://shawncamp.com/bio