Songwriters of North America Reveals Warriors Week Slate with Sarah McLachlan, Maxwell Frost and Award Show Honoring Chappell Roan

Songwriters of North America (SONA) person firmed up the last lineup for its 5th yearly Warrior Awards and 2nd yearly SONA Warrior Awards Week, taking spot Oct. 7-12 successful Los Angeles.

“Warrior Awards Week is simply a almighty infinitesimal to bring unneurotic each country of the euphony manufacture to observe songwriters, grant their impact, and guarantee their enactment is valued and protected,” SONA enforcement manager Erin McAnally tells Billboard. “These events enactment the spotlight connected songwriters who are often down the curtain and admit the indispensable relation they play successful creating the euphony that inspires and unites the world.”

The week starts Oct. 7 with a backstage location performance featuring Sarah McLachlan and Katie Gavin. The invite-only lawsuit volition rise wealth for the SONA Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)3 that provides songwriters and composers with enactment done intelligence health, fiscal wellness and vocation improvement enactment arsenic good arsenic exigency funding.

On Oct. 10, the SONA Foundation continues its Music & Money Financial Wellness bid with “From Songwriter to C-Suite,” an acquisition seminar astatine BMI’s Beverly Hills office featuring SONA co-founder/Emmy and Peabody Award-winning songwriter Kay Hanley moderating a sheet featuring Academy Award-nominated shaper and Primary Wave founder/CEO Larry Mestel, Grammy-nominated songwriter/Pulse Music Group co-founder Anne Preven, Grammy-nominated songwriter and IWP CEO Bruce Waynne [CQ] and SONA Foundation co-founder John Bitrick. Tickets to the seminar, which includes lunch, are $10 for SONA members and $25 for non-members.

SONA volition big 2 events connected Oct. 11 starting with a Songwriter Summit astatine noon astatine The Village Studios. The day, successful summation to panels with songwriters including Autumn Rowe, KOLE, Emily Warren, METTE and J. Hart, arsenic good arsenic manufacture leaders, volition see a keynote with U.S. Representative Maxwell Frost (D-Orlando) moderated by Billboard elder writer Kristin Robinson. SONA members be free, portion tickets are $25 for non-members.

“Congressman Frost has rapidly proven himself a existent champion for creators,” says McAnally. “His passionateness for euphony and heavy knowing of the manufacture marque him a almighty state for songwriters. We’re thrilled to item his enactment and sermon wherefore it’s truthful important for songwriters to advocator for themselves.”

Later that evening, a nighttime celebrating Songwr...