(CST) on Saturday at Bud & Alley’s in on the beach in Seaside. More about the Taylor show later, but you can catch Olney at 11 a.m.
Taylor, who played at last year’s Seaside summit, is taking a pass on the beach party this year for a solo tour of Florida, which will bring him to Tallahassee on Tuesday night. “Find out where David Olney is playing and go see him,” is how Texas singer-songwriter Eric Taylor answered the question of what to do at this year’s 30A Songwriters Festival. Some of the other performers in this year’s gathering of musicians include Graham Nash, Leon Russell, Jason Isbell, The Indigo Girls, Rodney Crowell, Chely Wright, Deana Carter, Bobby Bare Jr., former Tallahassee artist Pierce Pettis and Tallahassee troublemaker-troubadour-poet Grant Peeples, to name but a few. “Yes, you can say that I am taking a working vacation,” Dickinson said. The mega-fest kicks off Friday, runs through Sunday night and features more than 150 songwriters playing 200 shows on 25 stages in and around Seaside. Oh, yeah, and Dickinson, who turns 42 on Saturday, is also playing a three-night run as part of the three-day 30A Songwriters Festival. “So I asked her if she wanted to go to the coast and she said yes.”
“It’s my mom’s 70th birthday,” Dickinson said during a phone chat from Seaside on Wednesday afternoon. Luther Dickinson, the rather phenomenal slide guitar player and lead singer for the North Mississippi Allstars, is taking his wife, two young kids and mom to the beach in nearby Seaside for the weekend.