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CREATIVE NATION TAKEOVER FEAT. LUKE LAIRD, BARRY DEAN, LORI MCKENNA, & STEVE MOAKLER

CREATIVE NATION TAKEOVER FEAT. LUKE LAIRD, BARRY DEAN, LORI MCKENNA, & STEVE MOAKLER

October 21, 2025 - 8:30pm
$25.00
WRITERS ROUND: MAIN STAGE
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Artist Details
Tonight's songwriters have written for:
  • Eric Church
  • Kenny Chesney
  • Lady Gaga
  • Tim McGraw
  • Little Big Town
  • Parker McCollum
  • Jordan Davis
  • Walker Hayes
  • Jon Pardi
  • Megan Moroney
  • Thomas Rhett
  • Luke Bryan
  • Luke Combs
  • Michael Ray


Luke Laird:

Spending all day, working on a song––that’s Luke Laird. Quiet but full of music, hard-working but playful, quick-witted but kind: he has long-since joined the country music ranks he idolized as a kid growing up in tiny Hartstown, Pennsylvania. The numbers are staggering: 52 radio singles –– 24 of which were Billboard No. 1 hits and 5 of which were in the Top 5 –– 2 Billboard No. 1 singles as a producer, and more than 125 released cuts fill his catalog. In four separate years, every single released that Laird wrote peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. Laird has earned 2 Grammys, clinched Songwriter of the Year titles from BMI and the Academy of Country Music, and taken home too much more industry hardware to gracefully list here. But while music’s top-tier and liner-notes lovers know his name, Laird has typically shirked spotlights––until now. With his album Music Row, Laird offers an intimate look into his journey from Hartstown to Nashville. The first-ever record from one of music’s most trusted creators and collaborators, Music Row is a songwriter’s story, traversing childhood, grief, addiction, family, and the community he loves. The songs are deeply personal and sometimes raw, all delivered by the songwriter himself.


Barry Dean:

Barry Dean takes nothing for granted. Even after earning a GRAMMY nomination for Tim McGraw's "Diamond Rings and Old Barstools" and topping charts with four No. 1 singles, he remains awestruck each time he hears a song he wrote on the radio. Dean still can’t help but think of how he seemed destined to work a 9-to-5 in Kansas––a fate that now seems preposterous, given his track record: two No. 1 singles for Little Big Town, "Pontoon" and "Day Drinkin'"; "Think a Little Less," which topped the charts for Michael Ray; "Heartache Medication" which hit #1 for Jon Pardi; Ingrid Michaelson's Top 40 smash "Girls Chase Boys"; and an ever-growing list of country and pop successes prove Dean is doing exactly what he was made to do.


Lori McKenna:

From her home base in Boston, Lori McKenna has carved out an enviable niche for herself as one of Nashville's most in-demand songwriters, all while maintaining a prolific and remarkably consistent career as a solo artist. The release of her anticipated album, 1988, adds to a series of landmark years for McKenna and follows three widely acclaimed albums: 2016’s The Bird & The Rifle, 2018’s The Tree and 2020’s The Balladeer, of which the Associated Press praised, “McKenna has by now long established herself as one of the best songwriters working in any genre. And she does it again and again,” while The Tennessean asserted, “one of the sharpest pens in modern country and folk songwriting.”

In addition to her career as a solo artist, McKenna continues to enjoy success as one of the music industry’s most in-demand songwriters. In 2023, she was nominated for a Grammy for Best Country Song for co-writing “I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault),” performed by Taylor Swift. In 2017, McKenna became the first woman to win the Academy of Country Music’s Songwriter of the Year award and the first woman to win the Country Music Association’s Song of the Year award two years in a row. She also won back-to-back Grammys for Best Country Song: for “Girl Crush,” performed by Little Big Town, in 2016 and “Humble and Kind,” performed by Tim McGraw, in 2017. In 2021, McKenna won her third Best Country Song Grammy for co-writing “Crowded Table,” performed by the Highwomen, with Brandi Carlile and Natalie Hemby and was also nominated as a co-writer for (all-genre) Song Of the Year at the 2021 Grammys for "Beautiful Noise" performed by Alicia Keys and Brandi Carlile. In addition to writing songs for a multitude of award-winning artists — including Hunter Hayes, Faith Hill, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Reba McEntire, Tim McGraw and Carrie Underwood — McKenna also co-wrote “Always Remember Us This Way,” which was featured in the Oscar-winning 2018 film “A Star Is Born.”


Steve Moakler:

Steve Moakler is a country music singer/songwriter with Pennsylvania roots. More than 15 years into his career, with a series of acclaimed albums, co-written hits and cross-country tours in the rear view, his new album Make A Little Room (released on CN Records in August 2022) presents a recipe for something different. A life of unforgettable moments, savored in the spaces between. Writing or co-writing all 10 songs on Make A Little Room, what emerged was a set steeped in uncommon wisdom, and delivered with a spark of enlightened electricity. Just as spacious in approach as it is in theme, it features an easy-going spirit and the rootsy rhythms front-porch pop, as tender vocals alive with gratitude join a bare minimum of bright, breezy guitars. And all throughout, Moakler wraps himself in the freedom of the here and now. His 7th studio album features the title track and lead song “Make A Little Room” as well as tracks “Let’s Go To The Lake,” “Numbered,” and “’You Being You,” all available now!





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