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BMI Acoustic Lounge Nashville: Eclipse Music Group Takeover with Lee Starr, Ronnie Bowman, Hayden Blount and Jim McCormick
Tue, 21 Oct, 6:00 PM CDT
Doors open
5:00 PM CDT
The Bluebird Cafe
4104 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville, TN 37215
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There are 18 tables, 8 bar seats and 8 church pew seats available for reservation. The remaining pew seats for this show are not reserved in advance. These seats are available on a first come/first served basis when doors open.
Ticket reservations at The Bluebird Cafe are an agreement to pay the cover charge and applicable taxes/fees and to meet the $12.00 per seat food and/or drink minimum.
Ticket holders may cancel their reservation for a full refund of the ticket price and applicable tax (excluding ticketing fees) if the cancellation is made at least 48 hours before the scheduled showtime. Cancellations made within 48 hours of the show are non-refundable. To cancel, please email info@bluebirdcafe.com or call 615-383-1461. Phone line hours are Monday-Friday, 12-4 pm.
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Age Limit
All Ages
Refund Policy
Ticket holders may cancel their reservation for a full refund of the ticket price and applicable tax (excluding ticketing fees) if the cancellation is made at least 48 hours before the scheduled showtime. Cancellations made within 48 hours of the show are non-refundable. To cancel, please email info@bluebirdcafe.com or call 615-383-1461.

Country
Lee Starr
Lee Starr
Country
Lee Starr is a songwriter and producer originally from Texarkana, Arkansas. Arriving in Nashville in 2014, he brought with him a passion for song craft fostered by time spent as a working musician in and around Austin, Texas. Since his arrival in Nashville, Lee has worked with up-and-coming artists as a writer/producer in both Pop and Country with a goal of helping them find their unique perspective and sound.

Music
Ronnie Bowman
Ronnie Bowman
Music
Ronnie Bowman has earned a great deal of respect among Bluegrass, Country, Rock 'n' Roll and Gospel music professionals. Kenny Chesney, Brooks & Dunn as well as multiple Bluegrass artists have brought Ronnie's originals to #1.
In addition to Kenny Chesney and Brooks & Dunn, Ronnie has seen continued songwriting success with songs recorded by such artists as Wynona Judd, Jake Owen, Lee Ann Womack, Dan Seals, Don Williams and many others including 3 songs recorded on Chris Stapleton’s multiplatinum selling album “Traveller “. The single “Nobody To Blame” won him the ACM award for “Song of the Year”. The album received the ACM and CMA award for “Album of the Year” as well as a Grammy award for “Country Album of the Year”.
As an artist, the International Bluegrass Music Association has awarded Ronnie with Male Vocalist of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year, Gospel Performance and Recorded Event of the Year multiple times for each category. He’s also been awarded Songwriter of the Year from the association.
As a vocalist, Ronnie has recorded with various artists including, Alan Jackson, Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Lee Ann Womack, Del McCoury, Chris Stapleton, and John Fogerty to name a few.
When Ronnie's not on the road performing, he resides in Nashville, TN where he's still writing songs and living the life.

Country
Hayden Blount
Hayden Blount
Country
With a distinctly raw, plainspoken form of instinctual song craft, 21-year-old Hayden Blount is the real-deal epitome of a next-gen country outsider, with a growing legion of dedicated fans. And in a world defined by the surface level, he’s got no intentions of changing that up.
A committed solo songwriter now earning breakout acclaim, the self-taught talent wields a no-B.S. sound and a drive to cut his own path, with the God’s-honest-truth as his only creative requirement. Because where Blount comes from, a man’s word is still his bond.
“Just authenticity – that is the biggest thing I care about,” he explains. “There’s feelings that I have and there’s experiences I have, and I want to tell that in the most authentic way possible. … Plus, if I put something in a song that didn’t happen that way, people will see me at Walmart and be like, ‘Oh, there’s that guy.’ It’s a double-edged sword.”
A native and current resident of Savannah, Tennessee – a small town of about 7,000 on the east bank of the Tennessee River – Blount grew up living out the lines of countless country songs. He played baseball throughout high school and dreamt of going pro, but admits there was little else to do in his sleepy hometown – other than hang at the lake or drive around in beat up trucks, singing alone to twangy tunes and trading unlikely tales. But then an injury (and a girl) derailed his plan, leaving a major gap in the teenager’s life. And out of that gap, an opportunity grew.
“It’s the classic small town cliché – which I hate, but it’s the truth,” Blount says with a laugh.
He had no musical background – other than an early appreciation for stars like Eric Church – but in his directional limbo Blount discovered Zach Bryan and Tyler Childers, a pair of innovative country superstars who play exclusively by their own rules. Pulled in by the vivid characters and confessional touchstones of songs you have to live to understand, their spirit spoke to Blount like nothing had before, opening up a path he’d never consider possible.
“I’m one of those people that just hearing the words isn’t enough, I wanted to say it myself,” the tunesmith explains. “And the only way was to pick up a guitar and start learning.”
Beginning in 2022, Blount proved a quick study with a gift for rural realism. Working alone to express the challenge and charm of his changing small-town world, six months of steady D.I.Y. effort put a few early tracks on TikTok, but he kept digging deeper. The next year saw Blount record and release his first independent songs, and in 2024 the romantic rough edges of “To Know You Were Mine” cut through. Its digital success led to a distribution deal with Santa Anna, and a flurry of writing which became Blount’s nine-song EP debut.
Dropped in late 2024, Up, Out, and Leaving solidified Blount’s rustic sound and stripped-down melodic instincts, driven by a vocal built on character, not theatrics. Likewise, brutal honesty formed the bedrock of a unique creative vision, with solo-written songs keeping Blount focused – and never chasing trends. Looking to expand his horizons, without losing his roots, the singer-songwriter admits it’s tough living in a world where “everybody knows everything” … especially when you keep ending up “overly dramatically in love.”
In the summer of 2024, the burning desire behind “Good God Hot Damn” pushed Blount to the next level – and then the follow-up, “Heaven on Earth,” became a bonafide hit. Built on a dusky but propulsive guitar-and-fiddle pairing, it’s racked up more than 5 million streams with placement on influential playlists like Spotify’s New Boots and Next From Nashville, standing in sharp contrast to the mainstream. Far from an idealistic ode of romantic perfection, or a surface level tailgate anthem, it signals a different guiding force – the truth.
“We’re not perfect, so I don’t want to hear somebody sing about being perfect,” Blount says.
Still based in Savannah, the truth is that Blount’s story is just beginning. He’ll spend early 2025 on the road, working to perfect a solo-performance style to match his uncomplicated roots-country sound. And with new music in the works, that style is bound to evolve … but never change.
He’ll still be singing of the small-town world he knows – and you can ask the people there if the stories are true. He’ll still be doing things his way and ignoring the charts, and he’ll still be working alone. In fact it’ll probably always be like that … as long as he’s in charge.
“It’s just me, and I’m going to keep it that way,” Blount says. “I’m not trying to write a ‘good’ song – I’m trying to write a song that means something to me. If it ends up being good, then that’s fantastic. But I’m not sitting down for the purpose of writing a hit.
“I just want people to know the things they’re going through aren’t unique to them,” he goes on. “They’re not the only one going through whatever it is.”

Country
Jim McCormick
Jim McCormick
Country
Jim McCormick is a 5x Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum selling songwriter who has had three #1 songs on the Billboard Country Charts: Jason Aldean's "Take A Little Ride," which spent 3 weeks in the #1 position; Brantley Gilbert's "You Don't Know Her Like I Do," and, most recently, Gabby Barett's "The Good Ones."
Current releases written by McCormick include Kelly Clarkson's "Minute," Gabby Barett's "The Good Ones," Luke Bryan's "All My Dreaming There," Jason Aldean's "Lights Go Out," Harry Connick Jr's "I Do Like We Do," Jon Pardi's "Lucky Tonight," Charlie Pride's "Standing In My Way," Shenandoah's "Noise," Trace Adkins' "Jesus and Jones," and four songs on the new Samantha Fish record. His songs also have been recorded by Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, Trisha Yearwood, Randy Travis, Ronnie Milsap, Jamey Johnson, Smash Mouth, Tyler Farr, Cody Johnson, Emily Reid, Balsam Range, Sister Hazel, Kristin Chenowith, Josh Abbott and many others.
He has served as board governor and vice-president for the Recording Academy and on the board of the Nashville Songwriters Association International. He is also an alumnus of Nashville's Leadership Music.
McCormick is a faculty member at Loyola University in New Orleans where he teaches the craft and business of songwriting. He has lectured extensively on songwriting at Berklee College of Music, Georgetown University, Vanderbilt University, and Tulane University, as well as at GrammyPro and NSAI events.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in English from Georgetown University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the University of New Orleans. A native New Orleansian and graduate of Jesuit High School, he divides his time between Nashville and New Orleans, where he lives with his three sons.