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30A Songwriters Festival is excited to announce that tickets are now available for the 2021 Virtual 30A Songwriters Festival scheduled to debut Friday, January 29th at 6:00 p.m. EST, Saturday January 30th at 6:00 p.m. EST, and Sunday January 31st at 6:00 p.m. EST. The Virtual Festival is a three-part series with each episode running approximately one hour. The presentation is a documentary of the past decade of Festivals edited from film footage shot at Festivals together with recent recordings of many of your favorite artists performing songs for our online 2021 Festival. Many of the festival s performers contributed special content: Jason Isbell, performing with his band the 400 Unit, contributes a remote recording presented in multiple frames to highlight the band. Rosanne Cash and her husband John Leventhal contribute a personal greeting to the 30A crowd and perform a beautiful acoustic rendition of Seven Year Ache, and rock legend Graham Nash contributes a versio
Remember When Sugarland Were a Trio?
The group showed up for a live appearance on
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno minus one member on Jan. 12, 2006, and within days an announcement came with little fanfare, a simple statement that Hall had split with Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush because she wants to stay home and write songs. Since then, rumors have spread that Hall was forced out for image reasons, or that the co-writer of many of the group s early hits was paid to leave the band.
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If any of that is true, no one from the band has ever commented on it. Hall filed a lawsuit on Aug. 8, 2008, asking for millions of dollars from her former bandmates, but she has mostly disappeared since then. She did release a six-song EP called
One of the bigger mysteries of the last several decades of country music is why Kristen Hall left Sugarland when the then-trio seemed to be on the brink of stardom.