Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Show time: 9:00 pm
Location: Ole Red Nashville
Strap on your boots, put on your cowboy hats and come see Alyssa Bonagura & friends the night before CMA Fest kicks off. This FREE event will feature performances by Nashville favorites; Kree Harrison, Jackie Lee, Caroline Jones, Frank Ray, Presley & Taylor, Shane Stevens, Scott Mulvahill, Taylor Hogan, Tiera, Dallas Wilson and Maggie Baugh. A portion of tips raised will fund the CMA Foundation.
ABOUT ALYSSA BONAGURA:
A celebrated songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Alyssa Bonagura has spent the past decade fine-tuning a sound that reaches far beyond her Nashville roots. It’s a sound that blurs the boundaries between genres, mixing the southern storytelling of country music, the free-thinking spirit of rock & roll, and the cinematic sweep of Brit-pop into its own hybrid.
For Alyssa — a lifelong road warrior who spent her infancy aboard a tour bus, recorded a duet with Kenny Rogers at 10 years old, received her college diploma from Sir Paul McCartney, and currently balances her critically-acclaimed solo career with an ongoing gig writing songs for Jessie James Decker, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, and others — it’s also a sound that’s every bit as diverse as her own story.
Nowhere is that clearer than on 2021’s “New Wings.” Recorded during the pandemic, it’s a song about struggle, survival, and the soaring feeling of flight, delivered by a multidimensional musician who’s never shied away from unexplored territory.
