An Evening with Johnny Hayes & Garrett Howell

Johnny Hayes is a Singer/Songwriter/Artist/Husband/Daddy from Mobile, AL. Over the course of his career, Johnny’s written songs with writers such as Aaron Raitiere, Jon Decious, Drew Nix, Eric Erdman, and many more. He’s shared stages with Major Label Artists and bands such as ERNEST, The Red Clay Strays, Lukas Nelson, Band of Heathens, Them Dirty Roses, JJ Grey & MoFro, and Blues Traveler.
In 2017, Johnny appeared several times and finished as a Top 24 Finalist on NBC’s The Voice. His audition performance earned chair turns from coaches Adam Levine and Gwen Stefani.
In July 2025, Johnny’s single “Broken Bow”, written with Kapali Long, won 2nd place in the Alt. Country category for the Wide Open Country Song contest by American Songwriter.
In 2021, Johnny released an EP entitled Voodoo Country. And in January of this year released a full production EP entitled Suitcases & Stolen Hearts and recently released single, “Alabama Sun” on April 2nd.
Johnny was awarded “2025 best male vocalist” from the FloraBama and has been invited to perform in the Frank Brown Songwriters Festival for the last 3 years performing with renown songwriters from all over the country.
For more info visit JohnnyHayes.com

Garrett Howell is a southern working man by day and a songwriter with a gift for creating melody at night. He carries forward his songs with a room-stopping vocal. Every day, he dons his hard hat and work boots and climbs into his clay-covered work truck to lead a team of fellow construction workers in and around Mobile, AL. When the day's work is done, Garrett trades his work truck for a guitar and gets his soul clean, playing his original music in clubs around the city.

Mixed by Grammy winning producer Trina Shoemaker (Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow, Charlie Crockett) ‘Born in the Summer' is the first single off a forthcoming album that has been growing from Garrett's life experiences—working hard to earn a living, looking in the mirror at night between a couple of cold beers to ask what his dream is, what he has learned, and whether he should follow his heart and go for this music thing. He has wanted to quit, but time and time again, his soul won't let him stop dreaming.

Garrett's first break came two years back when a national band called The Record Company played The Soul Kitchen in Mobile, and Garrett was a last-minute addition as the opening act. Chris Vos, singer of TRC, took note of the talent he was hearing and offered Garrett to join the rest of their tour. Garrett called his boss, threw his guitar in the truck, and followed The Record Company tour to TX. That run of shows started a friendship between Howell and Vos that encouraged Garrett to continue to find his voice, write more songs, and begin to believe he had to get his own material out into the world.

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