Songwriter's Stage: Shootout is the culmination round of the past three Songwriter's Stage events and features the top four from each round. This is a bracketed, single-elimination, tournament style competition! This means each songwriter will go head to head with one other songwriter until only one remains!
Lineup:
KIMI CARTER // CONRAD RATCHFORD // RACHELLE BARR
ERIK SIMPSON // CHRIS FOWLER // BEN STRAWN //
DRAKEFORD LANIER // KYLE MACKILLOP // CANNON HUNT SOPHIE LOCKHART // MICHAEL DEBACKER
Judges:
Michael Gray - as producer, director and performer he developed the concept for The River City Sessions: a collaboration of spoken word and traditional music recorded and broadcasted live over WUTC the fourth Sunday of each month.
Kristy Graves - creator of Chattanooga House Shows. Check out Chattanooga House Shows on Facebook.
Joshua Pickard - writer for Nooga.com where he covers local and national music, film and other aspects of pop culture. He is also one of the hosts of Please, Be Quiet Please, on the University of Tennessee Chattanooga’s radio station WUTC.