17th Annual Key West Songwriters Festival Dates Revealed

Here’s something to make you eager for Spring, now that the cold is arriving in Nashville.

The Better Angels Music Key West Songwriters Festival Presented by BMI will return to the southernmost point in the Continental US for its 17th iteration May 2-6, 2012. Benefiting Operation Homefront, the festival will feature more than 100 performing songwriters in various venues around the island including the San Carlos Theatre and the Tropic Cinema. Additional sponsors include SunTrust, Comcast, Beam Global Wine and Spirits, The Recording Academy, and Hearts Bluff Music.

Full band concerts will open and close the festival. The kickoff party will feature the World Famous Headliners (Al Anderson, Pat McLaughlin, and Shawn Camp) at Ocean Key Pier on Wednesday, May 2. To wrap up the weekend on Saturday, May 5, the Jeffrey Steele Band will play a free show on Duval St., a festival first.