Ozone Songwriter Festival
A celebration of local, regional, and national songwriters in Mandeville, Louisiana
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Mandeville Trailhead 675 Lafitte Street, Mandeville, Louisiana 70448

The Ozone Music Foundation returns with its annual Ozone Songwriter Festival, spotlighting over one hundred local, regional, and national songwriters—from skilled amateurs to #1 chart topping Nashville songwriters with songs you'll be surprised to recognize (Tim McGraw and Keith Urban don't write all of their songs)—while raising money for music youth education. The Ozone Songwriter Festival is the first of its kind, a two-day, Nashville-style songwriter circle music festival. The melodies start with songwriter rounds on two stages at Slidell's Wine Garden at 6 pm on Thursday. Mandeville's Old Rail Brewing Co. hosts the showcase on Friday at 8 pm. And Saturday brings the heart and soul of the thing to the Mandeville Trailhead and surrounding venues—with two days of live performances featuring genres ranging from Country to Folk to Pop to Afro-Caribbean and everything in between. All in all, the festival features over 180 performances over the course of its four days. And it's all free. ozonemusic.org.
Read more about the festival's head Greg Barnhill in this series of songwriter profiles from our April 2018 issue.