The Franklin Theatre Songwriters Series: Clare Bowen, Brandon Young, Ryan Kinder, Justin Halpin, and Cale Dodds

The Read

A round is the oldest Nashville format and the most honest one. Everyone takes a turn, plays the song, tells the story behind it if they feel like it, and passes to the left. Nothing is hidden. Clare Bowen brings a theatrical background and a voice built for a quiet room; the rest of the bill covers the working end of country songwriting. The Franklin Theatre is a restored single-screen movie house — seated, small, acoustically kind, and about twenty miles from downtown. That distance filters the crowd toward people who came deliberately. Expect a listening room in the true sense, expect the between-song talk to be half the value, and expect at least one song written for someone else’s record to sound better in the writer’s hands.

The Room

The Franklin Theatre

419 Main St, Franklin TN

A restored 1937 Main Street theater that still anchors Franklin's downtown on nights when the right artist plays it.