Gary Nicholson, Beth Neilson Chapman, Rafe Van Hoy
Chief's on Broadway
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Nashville
Saturday, September 21 at 7:30 pm CDT
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Saturday, September 21 at 7:30 pm CDT
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GARY NICHOLSON is a number one hit songwriter, two time Grammy winning producer, recording artist, and world traveling performer. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame in 2022, and the Texas Heritage Songwriter’s Hall of Fame in 2011. There are over seven hundred recordings of his songs in various genres including country, rock, blues, folk, bluegrass, and pop by Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Chris Stapelton, BB King, Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, John Prine, Fleetwood Mac, Buddy Guy, Stevie Nicks, Waylon,Jennings, Robert Plant, George Jones, Guy Clark, Keb Mo, Emmylou Harris, Billy Joe Shaver, Marty Stuart, Kenny Chesney, Delbert McClinton, The Dixie Chicks, Dierks Bentley, Patty Loveless, The Mavericks, Wynonna, Trisha Yearwood, Brad Paisley, Michael McDonald, Joe Bonamassa, Del McCoury, and the list goes on. See garynicholsonmusic.com/discography
In addition to his two Grammy winning records with Delbert McClinton, he has produced records for Billy Joe Shaver, Marcia Ball, The Judds, Wynonna, Pam Tillis, T Graham Brown, Chris Knight, Seth Walker and many others. As a guitarist he has played live and recorded with Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, Asleep at the Wheel, Bobby Bare, Joe Ely, and extensively with Delbert McClinton - participating Delbert’s Sandy Beaches Cruise for twenty seven years.
His songs have been included in many major motion pictures and television, the song “Falling and Flying" is featured in the Oscar winning film “Crazy Heart” performed by Jeff Bridges. Recent songwriting credits include the co-written title of Ringo Starr’s release “Give More Love” and the Grammy winning title song of Buddy Guy’s “The Blues is Alive And Well”, also a tribute to Merle Haggard recorded by Willie Nelson, “He Won’t Ever Be Gone”, “Worry B Gone” is featured on Chris Stapleton’s recent release.
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BETH NIELSEN CHAPMAN's co-written “This Kiss,” recorded by Faith Hill, earned the songwriter a Grammy nomination and Song of the Year honors from both the Country Music Association and ASCAP. Chapman has also provided major hits to Martina McBride (“Happy Girl”), Willie Nelson (“Nothing I Can Do About It Now”), Lorrie Morgan (“Five Minutes”), Alabama (“Here We Are”), Tanya Tucker (“Strong Enough to Bend”) and many other top Nashville stars.
Chapman’s songs have been recorded by such diverse talents as Bette Midler, Neil Diamond, Barbara Mandrell, Michael McDonald, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, Roberta Flack, Olivia Newton-John, Waylon Jennings, Keb Mo, Brenda Lee, Amy Grant, Anne Murray, Mary Chapin Carpenter and The Indigo Girls. As a solo recording artist, Chapman has been a regular visitor to the adult-contemporary charts singing her own self-penned tunes.
Her songs have appeared on the soundtracks of such films as The Rookie, Where the Heart Is, Practical Magic, Calendar Girls, We Were Soldiers and Message in a Bottle. The television series Dawson Creek, ER, Touched By an Angel, Providence and Felicity also included her compositions. Chapman’s “All I Have” became familiar to millions as the recurring love theme on NBC’s Days of Our Lives.
After her husband died of cancer in 1994, Chapman worked through her grief by writing ever more emotionally profound songs. One of them was “Sand and Water,” which was picked up by Elton John. Then she was diagnosed with cancer, herself.
These experiences deepened her spiritual side. Her albums Beth Nielsen Chapman (1990), You Hold the Key (1993) and Sand and Water (1997) were followed by the even more contemplative Deeper Still (2002) and Look (2005). She also released Hymns (2004), a collection of Catholic liturgical tunes sung in Latin. Prism (2007) was an album of devotional songs from a variety of the world’s religions.
She entered the new millennium with Back to Love (2010), The Mighty Sky (2012) and Uncovered (2014), which contained her own versions of her songs that others had popularized.
Chapman is also a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.
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RAFE VAN HOY began his music career as a songwriter, landing his first publishing contract at 17. In the next 7 years he would become one of Nashville's emerging songwriters with 10 number one songs and as many top 10 singles, along with nearly 200 cuts by other artists. In one three- year period he had between 50 and 60 songs cuts each year. During this early time Rafe also worked as a session musician on many hit records, and then began adding producer to his list of credits, with songwriting always as his first passion.
Rafe has been active and successful as both writer and producer over four decades with credits in several categories and genres of music, including a Grammy Nomination, 11 BMI One Million Airplay Awards, 3 BMI Two Million Airplay Awards and beyond, and songs recorded by George Jones and Tammy Wynette (including the classic “Golden Ring”), Oak Ridge Boys, Michael Martin Murphy's “What's Forever For”, John Conlee, Patti Loveless, Brooks and Dunn, Reba McEntire, Leann Rimes, Fleetwood Mac, Diana Ross, Issac Hayes, Paul Carrack, and a long long list of others, including Trick Daddy (“I'm A Thug”). His songs have been on records selling well over 50 million copies.
Rafe loves working in all styles of music and continues to stay current creating music in all formats. For more information follow this link:
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