COSMIC
SONGWRITER
FESTIVAL
4 VENUES • 4 NIGHTS
Listening Room Environment
Bloomington, Indiana
May 15-18, 2024
4 VENUES • 4 NIGHTS
Listening Room Environment
Bloomington, Indiana
May 15-18, 2024
Oliver Wood • Carrie Newcomer • Emily Nenni • Gabe Lee
Tré Burt • Melissa Carper • Kassi Valazza • Jeremy Pinnell
Austin Lucas • Chicago Farmer • Hank Ruff • Blue Cactus • Spectator Bird
Caleb Stine • Chris Dollar • The Hammer & The Hatchet • Dandelioness
Chris Sutton • Rodeola • Kay Krull • Derrick Weidner & Olivia Doyle • TV Mike • The Monon Troubadours • Oso Blues
Carrie Newcomer
Buskirk-Chumley • May 18
Carrie Newcomer is a songwriter, recording artist, performer, educator and activist. She
has been...
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Emily Nenni
The Bluebird • May 16
The sun sets over the ranch, a can of beer cracks, and an acoustic guitar wrangles the
day’s thoughts and memories...
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Gabe Lee
The Bluebird • May 16
Equal parts classic songwriter and modern-day storyteller, Gabe Lee has built his own
bridge between country, folk...
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Tré Burt
Blockhouse • May 17
Tré Burt was standing on a stage in Philadelphia in early 2023 when the latest bit of bad
news arrived: His grandfather...
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Melissa Carper
Blockhouse • May 17
After the success of her critically-acclaimed 2021 release Daddy' s Country Gold,
Melissa Carper, dubbed...
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Kassi Valazza
Buskirk-Chumley • May 18
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Jeremy Pinnell
The Bluebird • May 16
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Spectator Bird
Orbit Room • May 15
Sisters, Rachel and Lindsey FitzGerald, make their home in the mountains of Virginia,
where they also host the...
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Caleb Stine
Orbit Room • May 15
Caleb Stine is a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and visual artist. His songs seek to uncover
the mysteries of our shared...
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Chris Dollar
Orbit Room • May 15
Bio Coming Soon
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The Hammer &
The Hatchet
Blockhouse • May 17
Bio Coming Soon
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Derrick Weidner
& Olivia Doyle
Blockhouse • May 17
Bio Coming Soon
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TV Mike
Blockhouse • May 17
Bio Coming Soon
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The Monon Troubadours
Buskirk-Chumley • May 18
Bio Coming Soon
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Oso Blues
Buskirk-Chumley • May 18
Oso was born in land far far south, and he has lived the life of a rolling stone in over a dozen places...
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Caleb Stine • Spectator Bird
Kay Krull • Rodeola
Chris Dollar • Chris Sutton
Emily Nenni • Gabe Lee
Dandelioness • Austin Lucas
Jeremy Pinnell • Hank Ruff
Melissa Carper • Tré Burt
Chicago Farmer
The Hammer & The Hatchet
TV Mike • D&O
Oliver Wood • Carrie Newcomer
Blue Cactus • Kassi Valazza
Oso Blues • Monon Troubadours
Access to
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
& Saturday Shows
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The Orbit Room @ 7 PM
Cosmic Songwriter is a non-profit dedicated to connecting songwriters to audiences as well as other songwriters.
All events take place in the Cosmic Format. Original music only. Please see our list of upcoming events.
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4. Share links to your original songs *Required*
The second annual Cosmic Songwriter Festival is set to
kick off on May 15th. This year, it spans four days and
four venues—the Orbit Room, the Bluebird, the Blockhouse,
and the Buskirk-Chumley Theater—and features exciting
new combinations of songwriting talents from across
the country. Cosmic Songwriter’s Club co-founder Pablo
Fuentes explains the showcase as a “combination of a
music festival and behind-the-music insights into the
songs;” a carefully curated selection of acts paired up...
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Interview on May 12, 2023 with IndyNow on Fox59 discussing the upcoming Cosmic Songwriter Festival.
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When he moved to Bloomington in 2021, Pablo Fuentes says he found a community of talented musicians. Fuentes, 42, connected with songwriter Shaun McDermott soon after and together were looking for a new way to harness that talent. Thus, the Cosmic Songwriters Club was born, a showcase of musicians as excited to talk about their music as to perform it.
They based the club on The Bluebird Cafe in Nashville...
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What began in the small space inside the downstairs Orbit Room in downtown Bloomington is ready to be launched as the Cosmic Songwriters Festival across four venues May 17 through 20.
Co-founders Pablo "Oso" Fuentes and Shaun McDermott are songwriters and musicians who love their craft and want to share the collaboration and synergy that comes when songs and songwriters spend time on a stage together, crafting...
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