![]() ![]() “They’ll say ‘Oh my god, Jimmy Buffett’ and I say, ‘I’m the guy who wrote it,’ and they go, ‘No way,’” he said. Which leads to exchanges that sometimes go like this: Someone will mention the “Buffett” song and Walker will say he knows it fairly well. There is something magical about pulling back the curtain on songs everyone knows - letting people know that the voice singing it might not be the person who penned it, he said. Bojangles,” Django has written for folks like Jimmy Buffett, including “Something ‘Bout a Boat.” The son of country legend Jerry Jeff Walker who was perhaps best known for penning “Mr. Walker has been in on the Songwriters in Paradise concept with Davis from the beginning. Helena and Calistoga, Davis said.ĭavis said the Healdsburg Education Foundation and Sonoma County Humane Society will be recipients of donations from the Healdsburg event this year. Over the three years the series has been held in Napa, event organizers have donated more than $35,000 to the Boys & Girls Club of St. “If you love Django Walker, whose father was Jerry Jeff Walker, Django is going to be hanging out at the bar.”Īnd there is a charitable component to the event. “They don’t go from the green room to the stage,” he said. You will say, ‘I love your music’ to them and they’ll take a picture and they usher you out,” he said. “If you purchase a meet-and-greet at a normal show, you are going to spend a lot of money and you are going to get around 15 seconds. I want it for the folks who want the best things in life.”Īnd that is far different from a meet and greet ticket at a big arena show, he said. Rafanelli, Aperture, Robert Young, Bella, Bricoleur and La Crema, are included. The idea is this: Attendees pay top dollar (individual ticket prices for one night start at $425 and top out at $5,000 for VIP all-access plus bonus meals) to sit in proximity to songwriters gathered together to discuss their craft, but mostly to play their songs.Įach night is at a different winery and seating each night is capped at 150 people, Davis said. “This is a place that SIP will be for a long time.” “It’s staggering how amazing it is,” Davis said of the settings the group plays over five nights at a variety of wineries. This year’s Healdsburg event runs from July 18-22. There are events in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in Napa, and as of last summer, in Healdsburg. He thought it’d be more fun if he brought some friends. The Songwriters in Paradise concept has been alive for a decade, ever since Davis was invited to a do a series of intimate performances in the Bahamas. “He’s going to play a few songs and even if you don’t listen to country music, it will be ‘Oh sh**, I know that song,’” Davis said. This device is unable to display framed content. ![]()
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