Coming to the Straz Center for the Performing Arts on February 28, Nashville Night will bring master songwriters to the big stage in Tampa. Nashville Night brings the songs, the songwriters and the stories behind the music to country music’s biggest fans. This event happens February 28, with future events planned for March and potential ongoing options in the future.
Stepping “into” the recording booth
FOX 13 Tampa interviewed Jay Peeper, Founder and CEO of Nashville Night (Tampa and Orlando), who discussed how this is not your standard country music concert. This is a view behind the curtain, learning from Ray Fulcher, the writer behind Luke Combs’ “When It Rains It Pours,” and Scooter Carusoe, the creator of Kenny Chesney’s “Anything But Mine.”
Event tickets cost $90 and offer an intimate style experience to learn directly from the songwriters in their own voice. Fan-favorites sung with their original guitars and specific artist cadence. These songwriter’s top hits include:
- “The Fall” – Cody Johnson
- “When It Rains It Pours” – Luke Combs
- “Does To Me” – Luke Combs featuring Eric Church
- “Drinking Problems” – Dillon Carmichael
- “Anything But Mine” and “Better As A Memory” – Kenny Chesney
- “Darkest Hour” and “Hands Of Time” – Eric Church
- “Drunk Girl” – Chris Janson
- “For The First Time” – Darius Rucker
March 28, Nashville Nights Tampa
Monty Criswell and Derek George will headline the March 28 event. Some of Criswell and George’s top hits include:
- “Bottle Rockets” – Scotty McCreery
- “Country’d Look Good on You” – Frank Ray
- “Making Me Look Good Again” – Drake White
- “Handle on You” – Parker McCollum
- “Drink to that All Night” – Jerrod Niemann
- “Little Bit of You” – Chase Bryant
- “So Much for Pretending” – Bryan White
- “Smell Like Smoke” – Lainey Wilson
Tickets for the February and March events are available now.

