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Cosmic Songwriter Festival

Cosmic Songwriter Festival 2025, May 14 through 17 in Bloomington, Indiana, presents four nights of live original music in the Cosmic format, pairing artists to trade songs and share the stories of their craft, creating magical moments that are the signature of this unique concert series.

We are pleased to have Rodney Crowell headlining our 3rd Cosmic Songwriter Festival! He will be performing alongside Laurel Lewis on Friday, May 16th, 7pm at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.

Failed bull-rider turned seminal songwriter, Rodney Crowell is regarded as a Texas troubadour, trailblazing icon, and songwriter that good songwriters reverently admire.

Alongside his well-decorated career as a performing artist, one that has awarded him multiple Grammy’s and fifteen number-one hits, Crowell has written songs covered by artists ranging from Johnny Cash to the Grateful Dead. The gravity of his talent and prolific body of work is made all the more interesting in the context of life-long friendships that shaped the path of his songs and career. Waylon Jennings, Keith Urban, Willie Nelson, Etta James, Emmylou Harris, Van Morrison, Jeff Tweedy, Foghat, Vince Gill, Jimmy Buffet, Bob Seger, and John Denver are a few examples of the ever-expanding list of friends and artists he has worked with or who have taken one of his songs and made it their own.

Learn more at cosmicsongwriter.com/festival