Established in 1967, The Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) is the world’s largest not-for-profit songwriters trade association consisting of thousands of professional and developing songwriters from all genres. NSAI maintains the steadfast commitment, set by its founding songwriters, to protect the rights and future of the profession of songwriting and to educate, elevate and celebrate the songwriter. With more than 90 chapters throughout the U.S. and beyond, NSAI acts as a unifying force within the music community and the community at large.
With an all-songwriter board of directors and dedicated staff, some of NSAI’s legislative, judicial, regulatory, and marketplace advocacy work includes: restoring Capital Gains tax treatment to songwriter catalogue sales, being at the forefront of the creation and adoption of the Orrin G. Hatch Music Modernization Act, victorious Copyright Royalty Board trials, ensuring songwriters were eligible for federal relief and state unemployment benefits during the Covid pandemic and recent state and pending federal legislation to put guardrails around generative artificial intelligence including adoption of the ELVIS Act.
NSAI is the proud owner of The Bluebird Cafe, and the historic Music Mill studios—our headquarters located on Roy Acuff Place in the heart of Nashville’s Music Row. We stage the world’s largest songwriter festival called Tin Pan South each Spring and the Nashville Songwriter Awards each Fall.
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About Cliff Goldmacher: In his years of songwriting, Cliff has built a catalog of over a thousand songs. He’s worked as a staff songwriter for a Nashville publisher and his songs have been cut by major label artists across genres from country, pop and jazz to classical crossover. Cliff’s songwriting collaborators include GRAMMY-winning artist, Keb’ Mo’, multi-platinum selling artists Ke$ha, Lisa Loeb, Chris Barron (Lead singer of the Spin Doctors) and Grateful Dead drummer, Mickey Hart. His musi...
About Jennifer Schott: Jennifer Schott is a songwriter at Parallel Music Publishing Nashville. Jenn was born and raised in Pittsburg, Kansas. She does have a family background in music, specifically her grandfather who was the concert master violinist for the CBS orchestra including the Ed Sullivan show. Her father was a university professor of woodwinds, and her mother is a flutist. She is an alumna of Leadership Music and proudly sits on the Board of Directors for NSAI and Girls on the Run Nas...
Today’s episode features the ladies of NSAI’s Membership Team. Katie, Dana and Erin will be sharing their expertise and perspective on music business etiquette, publishing do’s and don’ts and projects they’re working on within the organization. If you are a member and need some guidance on how to utilize your membership, this is the episode for you. And if you are thinking about becoming a member, this episode will give you insight on what benefits you have as a member. If you’re neither the abo...
Boy Named Banjo, described by Sonicbids as, "Tennessee's Americana apostles," is creating a lot of buzz in the southeastern music scene. The Nashville natives founded the group in 2011 and released their debut album, The Tanglewood Sessions, before graduating high school. Boy Named Banjo has since released its sophomore album, Long Story Short, performed at Bonnaroo, and received a nomination for "Best local Band (Nashville)" By The Tennesseean for the year 2015. Boy Named Banjo is currently tou...
Gordon Kennedy and Karla Davis share why they chose music to be their ultimate career path, the beginnings of working together and why being nice to everyone you meet just might "Change The World." To hear an extended version of this podcast with performances by Gordon and Karla, visit nashvillesongwriters.com/nsaicoffeebreak! About this podcast: NSAI Coffee Break is a series featuring legendary and modern-day songwriters, artists and music industry executives. Each episode highlights their crea...
In this second podcast edition of NSAI Presents: Coffee Break, Grammy nominated music icon, Kathy Sledge talks about the global impact of "We Are Family" her latest Dance/EDM projects and more! About this podcast: NSAI Coffee Break is a series featuring legendary and modern-day songwriters, artists and music industry executives. Each episode highlights their creative journeys, including the successes and the in-betweens, and where they are headed to next! About Kathy Sledge: Grammy nominated art...
In this first podcast edition of NSAI Presents: Coffee Break, Contemporary Christian artist/songwriter Lauren Daigle discusses what led her to the realization that music was her ultimate calling. About this podcast: NSAI Coffee Break is a series featuring legendary and modern-day songwriters, artists and music industry executives. Each episode highlights their creative journeys, including the successes and the in-betweens, and where they are headed to next! About Lauren Daigle: Daigle is the fas...
