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NASHVILLE NIGHTS

INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITERS FESTIVAL

ODENSE, DENMARK

September 11 – 14  2025

A unique festival

Spanning Odense’s many venues, theaters, and cafés, audiences, songwriters, and musicians from around the world gather to experience a festival that touches the hearts of most.

The Nashville Nights Festival is a unique celebration of music, songwriting – and the community that arises in those magical moments where artists and audiences meet in intimate settings and share their stories through music.

We call it a Songwriters Festival because the idea stems from the American songwriting tradition, which today is widely loved from Nashville to Næsby. It’s three days where visitors, locals, and musicians meet on equal terms and move around Odense’s charming streets, going from concert to concert – from venue to venue. This creates an atmosphere that cannot be experienced anywhere else in Denmark.

For the 5th year, Nashville Nights puts Odense on the world map as a center for vibrant singer-songwriter music. With artists from the USA, Europe, and Denmark, the festival creates an international atmosphere that brings Nashville to Funen. Our guests come from all over Denmark and abroad to experience the special encounter between talent, tradition, and new music.

The Nashville Nights Festival is not just a three-day festival – it’s a movement. We inspire young and established musicians, bring people together across borders, and create lasting connections between artists and audiences. All right in the heart of Odense.

(Photos by Line Svindt)

WRITERS ROUNDS

The festival’s unique brand. Three artists sitting on stage, each with an acoustic guitar and a microphone. The songs and the stories behind are in focus, and the delivery is honest. No glamorous wrapping, but straight from the heart, vulnerable and open, and very intimate. It can be touching, heartbreaking, sad or funny – and the audience is always captivated. The bar is raised to the highest level at the Nashville Nights writers rounds.

(Photo by Jens Fricke: Tony Lane, Bobby Pinson, Lee Thomas Miller, Trick Savage)

CONCERTS

Of course, we also have lots of concerts as we know them! Both Danish and international stars who deliver experiences in a class of their own. We even have tailor-made concerts you wont be able to see anywhere else but at The Nashville Nights International Songwriters Festival in Denmark.

(Photo: The Bros Landreth / Photographer: Line Svindt)

(Photo: Martha Wainwright / Photographer: Line Svindt)

COMMUNITY - A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU!

Come be part of the Nashville Nights family! If you are a songwriter or musician NNISF is a unique opportunity for you. At the Nashville Nights festival you get the chance to meet and mingle with songwriters and musicians from many various different countries. Start new networks, meet new co-writers, get advice and guidance from experienced producers and songwriters, and maybe even write songs with amazing writers you have never met before or perhaps even some of those you have always dreamt of writing with. Already in the festival’s first year, we saw new friendships and professional collaborations across boarders get established!

With a festival ticket, you get access to all shows, all venues, all days – and the opportunity to network with other songwriters, musicians, producers, and publisher.

(Photo below: Chelsey Stallings, Emma Zinck, Jessie Wilson, Chancie Neal)

CONTACT:

Press/Accreditation: signe@nashvillenights.dk

Booking inquiries: booking@nashvillenights.dk

General inquiries: info@nashvillenights.dk

 

TEAM DENMARK

Stefan Mork – Festival Director / Head Promoter

Kenneth Mork – Chief Operating Officer & Communications

Louise Frohe – PA 

Louise Ellekrog – Lead Event Promoter 

Signe Bønsvig – Press Coordinator / Head of Accreditation

Kenneth Mathisen – Head of Stage Production

Anders Sejdelin – Tech Coordinator

Camilla Hedenhoff – Volunteer Coordinator

Hanne Prier – Partnerships and sponsors

Label & 5th – Tour Manager

 

 

VENUES

Morten Østlund – Posten & Dexter

Niels Christian Vejby Geil – Magasinet & Frølageret

Anja Følleslev – Studenterhus Odense

Katrine Christiansen – Anarkist Beer & Food Lab

Rasmus Rudbæk – Storms Pakhus

 

TEAM NASHVILLE

Blue Foley – Head Promoter, Nashville