Blues and Bluegrass Beach Bash

Casino Beach Bar & Grille presents BLUES & BLUEGRASS BEACH BASH, a Pensacola Beach Songwriters Festival Special Event. Featuring Grammy award-winning Bluegrass stars, and National Blues Artists.

Featuring:

Ronnie Bowman: Grammy award winner & IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Awards) Male Vocalist of the Year three times, has twice earned the IBMA Song of the Year and Gospel Performance of the Year. As a songwriter- #1 cuts by Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney, & Chris Stapleton ACM Song of the Year.

Billy Droze: Multi Grammy-nominated with eleven #1 radio singles. He’s the reigning Inspirational Bluegrass Music Artist of the Year.

Jerry Salley: Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Salley is the 2018 & 2019 IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Songwriter of the Year and was named the 2003 SESAC Country Music Songwriter of the Year. Salley has had over 500 different songs recorded and his songs have sold in excess of 18 million records worldwide.

Larry Cordle: Grammy award-winner, singer-songwriter, producer, recording artist, and Kentucky Music Hall of Fame member. He’s written multiple hits in country, bluegrass, and gospel music and may well be the most successful songwriter to have earned equal in all three genres.

Bill Whyte: Grammy award winning artist, songwriter, comedian, Hall of Fame radio announcer, and more.

Marija Droze: Singer, Songwriter, instrumentalist. She met & married artist Billy Droze, and they recorded multiple albums together, including the hit song “Raging Rivers”, that has been on the Bluegrass Charts for more than a year, topping out at #5.

Josh Garrett- one of the most popular blues artists on the Gulf Coast, Garrett’s “String of Problems”,

hit #1 on the Roots Music Louisiana Blues Charts, and #1 two weeks in a row on American Blues Scene “Blues Top Five”.

Tina Jackson - 2024 PBSF National Blues Winner, and popular Los Angeles blues artist.

Kiersi Jolie- 2024 PBSF Jim Pasquale Award Horizon Winner, 16 year old blues phenom singer, songwriter, and harmonica player.

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