Name: ROCKPORT SONGWRITER FESTIVAL
Start: 2024-11-07T10:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-11-10T22:00:00-06:00
Location: 202 N Fulton Beach Rd

The 3rd Annual Rockport Songwriter Festival is back November 7-10! Lots of amazing artists including headliner Robert Earl Keen!
About this Event

We are back bigger and better!

Thursday night starts with a seated fundraiser dinner/auction for the RSA followed by a performance by Larry Joe Taylor and Friends (separate ticket). Festival signed guitars, posters and much more will be available to bid on.

Friday night features Robert Earl Keen in a special solo performance with Kelly Willis opening.

Saturday day features The Resentments, Jeff Plakenhorn/Michael O'Connor plus Kimmie Rhodes and Happyland. Saturday night is sponsored by the Guy Clark Family Trust with Terry Allen and Friends including Bukka Allen, Richard Bowden and Mike Hedwick.

Sunday day features Libby Koch, the all women songwriter group Paack, Shake Russell/Michael Hearne and Gary Nicholson. The festival winds up Sunday night with our regular closers Shawn Camp and Verlon Thompson.

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Lots os extras including two lunchtime boat cruises with lunch and special performances by Michael O'Connor and guests. A great Saturday AM workshop by Bill and Bobbie Malone with Kent Calder on songwriter legends Felice and Boudleaux Bryant and a Sunday AM screening of "Without Getting Killed or Caught". There will be an upstairs stage at Charlotte Plummer's for VIP ticket holders with dinner performances and late night afterpicks hosted by Michael O'Connor and special guests.

VIP tickets include upfront reserved table seating, access to upstairs at Charlotte Plummer's for food and extra performances etc.

New Side Tier seating are slightly elevated,reserved seats with drink rails on either side of the stage.

General Admission is open chair seating with some optional picnic tables around the sides.

The Thursday night dinner/auction includes dinner and wine/beer with live performances followed by a live auction benefitting the RSA education and scholarship program, and includes the Thursday evening show.

The Thursday evening show features Larry Joe Taylor and friends and proceeds benefit the RSA educational programs.

The Inn at Fulton Harbor is sold out! Our friends at The Lighthouse Inn, situated 3 blocks from the festival site, are offering a discount on rooms during the festival. Call them for more details.

https://www.lighthousetexas.com/