You're Invited to The Nash News' 32nd On The Verge Writer's Round

The Nash News is excited to host its 32nd writer's round with independent and up-and-coming artists this Thursday, July 20th from 6-9 p.m. in downtown Nashville at Assembly Food Hall in the Fifth and Broad complex.

Artists performing include Macartney Reinhardt, Brockwell Nason, Elisabeth Ann, Wolf Mahler, Fran Litterski, Alex Meingast, Julia Larkin, Taylor Borton, and Court Taylor. Get to know the artists and their music below.

Macartney Reinhardt

Macartney Reinhardt is a 16-year-old country singer-songwriter from Atlanta, GA now residing in Nashville. Her latest single "Coming Home" was released this past fall.

Brockwell Nason

Brockwell Nason is a singer-songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee who has been writing and releasing music for the past three years. He graduated with a music degree at Middle Tennessee State University and has loved getting to apply what he learned in school as an artist. Writing songs, playing guitar and singing is something that he has always loved to do, and recording his recent music has finally made his lifelong dream a reality. He believes that his music, an acoustic pop sound, reflects his personality as an outgoing and positive guy. He wants his music to be easy for people to listen to and relate to, as well as catchy enough to get stuck in someone’s head (in a good way of course).

Elisabeth Ann

Elisabeth Ann grew up in a small, rural town in central Illinois. After college, she moved to Southwest Florida where she played music full-time. Eight months ago she moved to Nashville where she has been pursuing music through writing, playing local venues, and doing local writer's rounds.

Wolf Mahler

Fran Litterski

Fran Litterski is a Nashville-based songwriter & vocalist originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. She bounces between pop and country writing seamlessly, racking up major label cuts & placements with network series and brands.

She started out writing & singing for Indie Pop bands (Magic Man, Panama Wedding) before diving head first into the pop & country songwriting world. She has cuts with artists like Lydia Sutherland (Universal Music), Londin Thompson (Republic Records), Jax Anderson (Neon Gold/Atlantic), Wyatt Flores, Logan Michael, and Big Wild and has landed Sync Placements with X-Games, ESPN, Showtime, The Edge Of Seventeen, MTV and A&E.

Alex Meingast

Alex Meingast is an up-and-coming singer/songwriter who hails from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Originally a jazz guitarist, Alex started writing songs in college, inspired by the likes of the Beatles, Bruno Mars, and Taylor Swift. He has lived in Nashville for two years, writing, singing, and recording to his heart’s content.

Julia Larkin

Originally from New York, Julia was raised on a mix of pop, rock, and folk music. She credits her vast musical palette for her unique take on pop country. With a breathy, emotional sincerity in her voice, Julia has the ability to capture audiences of all kinds.

Taylor Borton

Nashville-based country and folk singer/songwriter/guitarist Taylor Borton is creating a stir with the release of her debut single, “Give A Damn.” The song illustrates her true demeanor and independence and was featured on Nashville's local Radio Sobro and written about by Anchor Publicity. Her single "Native" promotes a sense of belonging in a new place. This song features a harmonica, in which she added to her sound in 2020. She wrote it for her friends and fans to relate with her and remember they're never alone. Today's Country Magazine wrote about her ability to silence a whole room during her live performance in 2022, in their words "turning a crowded bar into a true listening room. " Her singles are available on leading streaming music platforms.

Putting her own twist on traditional country, folk, and Americana styles, some of Taylor's influences include John Prine, Loretta Lynn, and songwriter Lori McKenna. Taylor says: “I'm a strong believer in fate and my gut told me to travel the road of music, so I had to.” That was enough reason to buy her first guitar, at age twelve. Having a guitar in her hands and the strength of her voice gave her confidence, and by the age of fifteen, she began to write down her own stories for everyone to hear. In her free time, she mentored students at a local music store, up to high school graduation.

With a yearning desire to live in "Music City," Taylor moved from Youngstown, OH to Nashville, TN at age nineteen. She graduated from The Blackbird Academy, where she studied audio engineering. The learning experience is one she said she’ll never forget, meeting so many influential people. Taylor plans to stay in Nashville to focus on her songwriting career. With music festivals like American Roots Festival, Water Lantern Festival, and Motorcycle Revival at Loretta Lynn's Ranch already under her belt, her biggest goal is to tour and perform around the world. “Chasing a music career is more of a challenge than anything, but that’s what makes it so worthwhile," says she. Taylor Borton is poised to gracefully continue that chase, with hope you'll come along for the ride.

Court Taylor

Raised in rural Georgia, Court Taylor fell in love with storytelling through music while dancing around her grandparents’ pool table. From Hank Williams Sr to Loretta Lynn, Brandy Clark, Chris Stapleton, Miranda Lambert, The Allman Brothers, and Ashley McBryde, Court practiced singing their songs alone in her room or in her kitchen when no one was home.

Court found her voice and passion for singing and songwriting in 2020 while living in Tucson, Arizona after mustering up the courage to sing a song for her friends in the backyard. They encouraged her to pursue a career in music and share her stories with the world.

In 2022, she began performing consistently after moving back home to Richmond Hill, GA. Since then she’s performed at The Great Ogeechee Seafood Festival, Enmarket Arena at the Truly Terrace stage opening for Kane Brown, and many places around Nashville, TN.

Currently residing in Nashville, Court has melted all of her influences together to create a bluesy, gritty, heartfelt Americana sound unlike any other.

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