Mercer Music at Capricorn will host a Songwriting Seminar on March 29, 2025, as the next program in its ongoing Professional Development Series. The one-day seminar will feature award-winning music industry leaders and artists from Nashville who will address topics such as songwriting techniques, how to make songs commercially successful, how to write songs and music for film and television, and how to copyright and license music.

Co-sponsored by Mercer’s Townsend School of Music, seminar presenters include:

· Kim Albritton, an author, musician, music executive and entrepreneur with extensive experience in music licensing at Universal Music and Music Reports who currently serves as licensing manager at ClearBox Rights, a Nashville-based independent IP rights management company.

· John C. Barker, founder, president and CEO of Clear Box Rights who has worked with a variety of clients including Marty Robbins, Roy Orbison, Kenny Loggins, Garth Brooks, Loretta Lynn, Amy Grant and Seals and Crofts.

· Cameron Bedell, a Nashville-based singer/songwriter and producer who was featured on Season 14 of American Idol and has written songs for Chris Lane, Jimmie Allen, Lauren Alaina, Dylan Scott, Hailey Whitters, Nate Smith, Nelly and many others.

· Steve Ivey, a Mercer graduate and Nashville-based musician, songwriter, producer and studio owner/executive who has produced/recorded/mixed more than 325 albums, working with such artists as Dolly Parton, Carly Pearce, Oak Ridge Boys, Bill Anderson, Vince Gill, Crystal Gayle, Willie Nelson and many others.

· Jason Nix, a Nashville-based, award-winning songwriter whose work has been featured on GRAMMY-nominated albums with artists including Keb’ Mo, Vince Gill, Darius Rucker and Lainey Wilson, including the Academy of Country Music Song of the Year “Things A Man Oughta Know” and “Hang Tight Honey, one of Billboard’s Top 25 songs of the year in 2024.

· Maggie Renfroe Reeves, a 24-year-old singer/songwriter and Macon native who has opened for Jason Aldean, Chuck Leavell, Scotty McCreery and Randall Bramblett, among others.