On the Road
Southwest Florida
Thursday, October 29 • Punta Gorda, Florida
Punta Gorda Grind.
Oct 29, 2026The date
Show 7:00Eastern time
Military Heritage MuseumPunta Gorda, FL
One night, four writers
You know the songs.
You’ve never heard the stories.
Mark Addison Chandler
Songs recorded by
Ella Langley • Luke Bryan • Lee Brice • Braxton Keith • Kashus Culpepper • Randall King
Started Grindhouse Nashville in 2017 and has hosted the Thursday round ever since. This is his room — on the road.
Jason Duke
Songs recorded by
Kelsea Ballerini • Keith Urban • Luke Bryan • Chris Young • LOCASH • RaeLynn • Hannah Ellis • Alexandra Kay • Mac Powell
Started out plugging other people’s songs, then wrote his own for Dan Hodges Music and BMG Nashville. He co-wrote Kelsea Ballerini’s platinum #1 “Dibs” and the title track of Luke Bryan’s Signs, with two more #1s in Australia. Now writes for Chris DeStefano’s WinSongs.
Chris Sligh
Songs recorded by
Rascal Flatts • Bailey Zimmerman • Josh Ross • Nate Smith • Mary Kutter • Austin Giorgio
Most people met him on Season 6 of American Idol. He has spent the years since writing and producing — more than 200 cuts, ten Billboard Top 25 songs and multiple #1s, including Rascal Flatts’ “Here Comes Goodbye.”
Josie Sal
Her own songs
“Cowboys & Barbies” • “Another Gun” • “Daddy’s Little Girl”
Nashville artist and writer, past a million career streams. Named one of Holler Country’s 10 Artists to Watch, with the “Cowboys & Barbies” video at No. 1 on Taste of Country’s weekly countdown. She has played the Bluebird with BMI, Key West and CMA Fest.
Getting there
The Gulf Theater.
At the Military Heritage Museum, 900 West Marion Avenue, Punta Gorda, Florida 33950 — two blocks east of Fishermen’s Village.
247 seats, every one with a fold-up writing table. Park underneath the museum or in the Fishermen’s Village lots and walk the harbour path over.
Doors at 6:00 PM, show at 7:00, two rounds with a fifteen-minute intermission, out by 9:30.
Thursday, October 29. Doors at 6:00.
Gulf Theater at the Military Heritage Museum, Punta Gorda, Florida.