4th Annual Sips & Sounds

This year’s Sips & Sounds features an all-star lineup of singer-songwriters whose work has been nominated for GRAMMYs, featured on GRAMMY Award-winning albums, and taken #1 spots on the Billboard Country charts:

✨ Teri Jo Box
✨ Dave Pahanish
✨ James Slater

Step into an evening where music, friendship, and Middle Tennessee charm come together. These musical poets will take you on a journey of storytelling and song, all while you enjoy a laid-back, end-of-year celebration filled with good food and an array of “sips” to savor.

Our incredible lineup of artists will fill the stage with soulful melodies and high-energy performances, delivering something for every taste—whether you love country, jazz, rock, pop, or Christian music.

Invite your friends, and get ready for a night of unforgettable music, refreshing sips, and memories you’ll treasure long after the final encore.

VIP Experience & Ticket – $150
Check In - 5:30 pm

General Admission Ticket – $100
Check In - 6:00 pm

Attendees must be 21+ and present a valid ID.

Terri Jo Box

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Raised in Nacogdoches, Texas, singer-songwriter Terri Jo Box has spent the last 26 years as a forerunner in the flourishing Nashville music scene. Growing up writing poetry, singing in church and inspired by country music, Box moved from East Texas to Music City in 1999 and immersed herself in the Nashville writing community. She wrote for MERF Music Group from 2010-2016. In 2019, she became the flagship writer signed to Jonas Group Publishing. She has earned placement on four GRAMMY-nominated albums including two cuts on Lainey Wilson’s ACM, CMA and GRAMMY Award-winning Bell Bottom Country, Miranda Lambert’s 2018 ACM Album of the Year, The "Weight of These Wings", bluegrass group Sister Sadie’s "Sister Sadie II" and Ashley McBryde’s debut, "Girl Going Nowhere", who also earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for her performance of “American Scandal” which Box co-wrote. She has also written songs recorded by Eric Church, Cody Johnson, Gary LeVox, Joe Nichols, Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, Trent Tomlinson, Gwen Sebastian, Gary Chapman, Wade Hayes, Michelle Wright, Annie Bosko, Bryan Martin, Tyler Halverson, Pryor Baird and many more. Honoring her humble beginnings Box created the popular Music Row Freakshow writer’s round in 2014 which she hosts twice weekly. With appearances around the nation and internationally, a slew of writing accolades and a stacked writing calendar, Box remains one of the most sought-after assets in a writer's room and shows no signs of slowing down as she continues to set the bar yet higher for herself.

Dave Pahanish

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Dave Pahanish is a 30 year veteran of the music industry working as a musician, artist, songwriter, singer, performer, and producer. As a songwriter, Dave has had three #1 songs on the Billboard Country Charts...Keith Urban’s “Without You”, Toby Keith’s “American Ride”, and Jimmy Wayne’s “Do You Believe Me Now” He has also had tunesrecorded by Tim McGraw, Collin Raye, Whiskey Myers, Del McCoury Band, Lila McCann, Vince Herman (Leftover Salmon), Jake Hoot, Tyler Halverson, Meg McCree and many others. As a performer/artist, Dave is a 2 year veteran of the Country Throwdown Tour with Willie Nelson, Eric Church, Little Big Town, Jamie Johnson, Eric Paslay, and Montgomery Gentry. He has also shared the stage with Todd Rundgren, Leon Russell, and many others. Most recently in 2023, Dave was featured on the AXS reality tv how competition called “Banded” as one of the producer/songwriter dave pahanish on facmentors for the competitors.

James Slater

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James T. Slater is a two time, grammy nominated, piano-playing, bilingual singer-songwriter of Bolivian American descent signed to BMG Music Publishing in Nashville, Tennessee. Born in Durham, North Carolina, and raised in the tropics of the Panama Canal Zone in Central America.

Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Luke Combs, Enrique Iglesias, Rascal Flatts, Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum, Willie Nelson, Kelly Pickler, Alabama, Reba McEntire, Gloriana, Runaway June, Martina McBride, Chris Brown, Chris Young and a host of others have all recorded his songs. His Grammy nominations include Jamey Johnson's "The High Cost of Living", country song of the year, and Martina's “In My Daughter’s Eyes”, which has become a modern day standard.

James wrote Keith Urban’s hit single, God Whispered Your Name, and Tim McGraw’s God Moves The Pen...Kenny Chesney’s Wasted and Guys Named Captain as well as new songs on Old Dominion and Hootie and the Blowfish albums as well as Warner Brother’s Shy Carter’s first single, Good Love. James calls Nashville home. James lived in Zurich Switzerland for six years touring, and recording with Belgian super group Vaya Con Dios and has traveled the world from Panama to Dublin, from Spain to Havana.

James’ “Key West Address” is a love letter to the island, so much so that the mayor of Key West has awarded James the "keys to the city" and proclaimed the song "Key West Address" the island's official theme. And his song “Cafe Con Leche” is regularly featured on No Shoes Nation Radio...

His latest solo album is Famous In Key West, Shrimp Boat Sessions which is available on Spotify and I Tunes....featuring new songs recorded at Jimmy Buffett’s Legendary Shrimp Boat Studios in the Conch Republic, Key West, Florida...