Harlan Howard 99th Birthday Bash Hosted By: Jim Lauderdale And The Game Changers with Radney Foster , Lee Ann Womack , Mandy Barnett , Kostas , Beth Nielsen Chapman , Pat Alger , The Band Loula , Colton Dawson , Matraca Berg , Naomi Carman , Gareth Dunlop , Belle Frantz , Waylon Payne , Will Banister , Jonell Mosser , Charles Wigg Walker , Hadlie Jo & surprise guests!

The Read

Howard wrote or co-wrote a staggering share of the country canon — the kind of catalog where you recognize half the titles before anyone plays them. The birthday bash is a Nashville ritual built around handing those songs to writers who understand the craft rather than singers chasing the biggest note. Jim Lauderdale hosts, which sets the tone: reverent about the material, unserious about everything else. The bill is long — Lee Ann Womack, Matraca Berg, Mandy Barnett, Radney Foster, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Kostas, Waylon Payne, and more, plus the guests that always materialize. Expect a slow start, a lot of stage traffic, and two or three moments where a song you have heard a thousand times suddenly sounds like it was written yesterday. Those moments are the reason to sit through the rest.

The Room

3rd & Lindsley

818 3rd Ave S

One of Nashville's steadiest professional mid-sized rooms — just outside the Broadway crush, built for roots, session-player, and Americana bills.