You must be an active NSAI member to pitch.

LOCATION: 1710 Roy Acuff Pl. Nashville, TN 37203

TIME: Doors will open at 5:00pm CT / Event will begin at 5:45pm CT

PLEASE PLAN TO ARRIVE EARLY - SPOTS ARE LIMITED AND FILL UP QUICKLY!

If you are unable to attend this workshop in person, please note that it will NOT be streamed or-distributed for later viewing.

ABOUT ASHLEY NITE:  

Nite is a Nashville native with publishing A&R executive experience. She most recently serves as Head of A&R at Eastside Avenue Publishing where she spearheaded strategy and secured cuts alongside company founder Andrew DeRoberts. With Eastside, she helped writers secure cuts with Justin Timberlake, Tate McRae, Blake Shelton, Alexandra Kay, Hudson Westbrook, The Fray, Kip Moore and more.

Other career stops include Concord Music Publishing and JRM Publishing & Mailbox Money Music. Nite graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a B.S. in Music Business with a Minor in Marketing.

ABOUT KOBALT: 

Founded in 2000 by Swedish entrepreneur Willard Ahdritz, Kobalt took a bet on digital music and won.  The startup built a platform to maximize efficiency, accuracy, and transparency across the billions of micro-payments collected in today’s highly complex digital world. As traditional music companies fought technology and contracted, Kobalt embraced it and grew, building a global digital music infrastructure and world-class creative team purposely designed to usher in the streaming era and a more fair, rewarding music business for creators.

Now in operation for over 20 years, Kobalt has become a destination for songwriters, artists, publishers, and rights holders. With its unique one global roster, one territory approach, the company represents some of the most iconic and exciting songwriters in the world, including Roddy Ricch, Max Martin, FINNEAS, Karol G, Andrew Watt, Stevie Nicks, Phoebe Bridgers, The Lumineers, Gunna, Justin Quiles, The Foo Fighters, Paul McCartney, and many more. Today, the company, on average, represents over 40% of the top 100 songs and albums in the US and the UK.

The company’s mission as a positive transformative force for the benefit of all creators remains. As the music industry hurdles forward, Kobalt continues as a steadfast change agent to ensure creators and rightsholders are paid fairly. Its latest innovation, AMRA, the only global digital society, continues to remove the frictions and spillage in the last mile of paying songwriters and rights holders. Through AMRA and Kobalt’s award-winning publishing business, the company will continue to build as a premier destination for creators and won’t stop until all the friction in the collecting world is removed. 

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

You must be an NSAI Member to fully participate in pitch / feedback workshops.

Bring an MP3 version of your song that you can easily play from your phone, along with two lyric sheets for the song you chose.(Cassette tapes will not be accepted.)

*Members are more than welcome to attend and simply observe the event even if they do not want to submit a song for pitch!

We will play the first verse and first chorus of each song and the guest will "pass" or "take a copy".

Up to 50 members can participate and will be played in order of arrival -Members traveling greater than 75 miles or 2 hours from Davidson County will be given priority to participate.*

If you arrive earlier than 5:00 pm, please join the line on our covered porch on the Roy Acuff side of building. Once doors open you will sign in and submit your lyrics sheets of the song you chose, to the receptionist for the event.

Song submission must be the original work of the Songwriter, and must not infringe upon the copyrights, rights of privacy, image or likeness, publicity or other intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity, or be otherwise contrary to applicable laws and regulations.  To the extent any generative or other forms of artificial intelligence was used in the creation of the song related to the submission, a detailed description of the scope of that use must be disclosed upon submission, for any NSAI-sponsored service or event.

*Please note, any songs containing generative AI content affecting the composition of the song will not qualify for any competition or merit-based recognition opportunities (i.e. Ones to Watch, NSAI Member Awards, Top 40, NSAI Song Contest, Chapter Challenge, live pitch, live feedback events, etc.) 

• To understand melody in music, think about some music you’re familiar with. If you were asked to hum it, what would that sound like? The part of the music that you’d hum is the melody.  According to: Hoffmanacademy.com
• Our policy speaks to the writing/creation of a song, not the production component.

*ATTENTION OUT-OF-TOWN MEMBERS:

Members traveling greater than 75 miles or 2 hours from Davidson County are considered "out-of-town". You must be in the Priority Line prior to the time that doors open at 5:00 pm. If you arrive after 5:00 pm, you will be asked to join the end of the "Nashville/Local Line". At that point, there is no guarantee that you will be able to participate.

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GUEST ATTENDEES:

NSAI non-members are permitted to observe two workshops prior to joining to experience what NSAI is about. If you have attended more than two workshops as a non-member, you will be asked to join NSAI as a member to fully benefit from membership and attend future events.

PARKING:

Limited parking will be available in the NSAI parking lot.

Additional parking is available on the street (paid) and in neighboring (paid lots.)