Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility
event-img
Writers Night with Special Guests Jerry Vandiver & Caitlin Evanson - hosted by Jeff Pearson
with Jerry Vandiver, Caitlin Evanson
CDT (Doors: )
No cover / $10 food/bev min Buy Tickets
THIS IS A PREPAID SHOW, REFUNDS ARE NOT AVAILABLE.

There are 18 tables, 8 bar seats and 8 pew church seats available for reservation. The remaining pew seats for this show are not reserved in advance. These seats are available on a first come/first served basis when doors open. 

Ticket reservations at The Bluebird Cafe are an agreement to pay the non-refundable cover charge and applicable taxes/fees and to meet the $10.00 per seat food and/or drink minimum.

Note: When making reservations, choose the table you would like and then add the number of seats you need to your cart by using the + button. You are NOT reserving an entire table if you choose 1 (by choosing 1, you are reserving 1 seat). We reserve ALL seats at each table. If you are a smaller party at a larger table, you will be seated with guests outside your party.


Artists

Jerry Vandiver

Since making the move from Kansas City to Nashville in 1984, Jerry Vandiver has seen his songs recorded by such artists as Tim McGraw, Phil Vassar, Lonestar, Barbara Mandrell, Lee Greenwood and The Oak Ridge Boys to name a few.

He scored a Billboard Top 5 single on Gene Watson's "Don't Waste It On The Blues," a Top 20 on Wild Rose's "Go Down Swingin'," and #2 on Tim McGraw's "For A Little While." Thanks to these artists, Jerry has songs on over 15 million records, two of which are hanging on the walls of the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Jerry can be heard regularly at Nashville's world-renowned Bluebird Cafe, the Ford Theater at the Country Music Hall of Fame's Songwriter Series and many other venues in Nashville and surrounding areas. 

He is a frequent speaker at the Nashville Songwriters Association International's  Spring Training, Songposium and Song Camps as well as NSAI’s Thursday night workshops. Jerry co-authored the popular songwriting workbook, "Your First Cut, A Step-By-Step Guide To Getting There."  And he presents songwriting workshops throughout the U.S., Canada and Australia.

Caitlin Evanson

Caitlin Evanson is a classically trained violinist who has traveled the world playing violin and guitar and singing background vocals behind Multi-Grammy winning superstar Taylor Swift. With Swift's tours, Evanson performed nightly for tens of thousands of fans in sold-out stadiums and arenas around the globe, demonstrating her versatility as an artist and a performer with six instrument and four costume changes over the course of each two-hour show.
 
In her seven years with Swift, Caitlin has performed live for millions of television viewers around the globe, playing violin and singing background vocals on dozens of high-profile shows. She counts among her many television credits the Academy Awards, the Grammy Awards, the European Music Awards, the American Music Awards, the Country Music Association Awards, the MTV Video Music Awards, Saturday Night Live, 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, the Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
 
Caitlin is a versatile vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who plays mandolin in addition to violin and rhythm electric and acoustic guitar. During her tenure with Swift, Caitlin has shared a stage with a number of high-profile artists, performing with Carly Simon, Stevie Nicks, James Taylor, Jennifer Lopez, John Mayer, Def Leppard, Usher, Nicki Minaj, Justin Bieber, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Sara Bareilles, Nelly, T.I., and Selena Gomez, to name but a few.