The all-female showcase in Music City has had success (34 recording contracts, 60-plus publishing deals) but country radio still gives women short shrift.
Song Suffragettes founder Todd Cassetty, singer-songwriter Kelsea Ballerini, songwriter Nicolle Galyon and Song Suffragettes event director Maddie Lenhart.played Nashville’s weekly Song Suffragettes show for the first time in December 2014, the experience was enlightening.
She had moved to Nashville over three years prior, just in time to watch country music shift into the bro-country age, when guys singing about beer parties and bonfires in rural fields made it even more difficult for women to find a place on country radio. Song Suffragettes, a songwriter round specifically for female writer-artists, helped Wilson find a sense of community in a heartbreak town.
“For me, it made me feel like I wasn’t alone in Nashville, and it made me feel like there’s an army of women who all want the same thing,” she recalls. “It’s important for us to hold hands and run to the finish line together. That’s what it’s about. It’s about lifting each other up and encouraging each other and telling each other the truth.”The truth is times are still tough for women in music now that bro country is no longer the genre’s hot trend.
“There has been very little movement in the artistic progress of women in this genre,” says Suffragettes president/founder. “But you just keep getting up and fighting the fight. I’m always looking for other avenues to expand or to provide opportunities. It’s like, can we just grow this so that there are more opportunities [for women], even if the industry is not going to provide them itself?”
It’s not like the opportunities are undeserved. Nashville is a magnet for musical talent, and the latest installment — May 22 at The Listening Room, which recently added a second Suffragettes show every Monday night — demonstrated the depth of quality. Six women conveyed their artistic individuality when they performed, with most playing three songs apiece.
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