A new festival is coming to Dallas this Labor Day weekend. The lineup includes singer-songwriters from around the Dallas-Fort Worth area, who will join for a day of camaraderie, music, food and an emphasis on stylistic lyricism.

The Dallas Songwriter Festival is celebrating its inaugural year, organized and hosted by Zounds Sounds B-Side , a new venue that opened in January 2024 next door to the Zounds Sounds School of Music. The festival emphasizes singer-songwriters in the area with a lineup that includes local Dallas favorites Emmeliene Smith, veteran artists who are performing solo for the first time in a while, such as Benn Autrey and Billy Law, and up-and-coming voices out of Booker T. Washington High School, including Indigo Hye and Frances Moth. click to enlarge

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