Husband-and-wife duo Thom Shepherd and Coley McCabe Shepherd will perform from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, May 1, at the Bloody Mary Brunch Bash, Oceanside Bar and Grill, 1848 S. Ocean Shore Blvd., Flagler Beach. The performance is part of the Palm Coast Songwriters Festival. Admission for the brunch is free. (thomandcoley.com)
The Palm Coast Songwriters Festival, which runs through Sunday at various area venues, will feature performances by 31 songwriters who have penned hits for such country stars as Garth Brooks, George Jones, Faith Hill, Toby Keith and many others.
The festival is now in its fourth year, counting last year’s last-minute switch from live in-person to virtual YouTube event, courtesy of the Covid lockdown. But for Garry Lubi, the president and founder of the event “with the help of several friends,” its origins go much further back: “I had a sixth-grade teacher, and I think maybe that’s where the grassroots of all this began and I didn’t realize it at the
County singer and songwriter Paul Overstreet, who penned such hits as “Same Ole Me” for George Jones, “Forever and Ever, Amen” for Randy Travis and “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy” for Kenny Chesney, will perform Thursday, April 29, at European Village as part of the Palm Coast Songwriters Festival. (Ben Pearson)
In 1981, 26-year-old Paul Overstreet – a struggling, wanna-be country singer and songwriter – was on the verge of moving back to the place where he had lived when he arrived in Nashville as an 18-year-old with a guitar, a few songs and a laundry basket for a suitcase. That place? His car.