Welcome to Song Sessions, your brand-new singer-songwriter concert series in The Mockingbird. Led by Nashville musician and Greenville fan favorite Maia Sharp, these intimate sessions of stories and songs feature a rotating lineup of guest songwriters each month. This is the place to be for anyone who deeply connects with music and enjoys tales about the musician's life.
This session has a lot of musical-influence wild cards and can go anywhere. Buckle up as Maia Sharp drives this multi-faceted music journey with genre-defying songwriter David Ryan Harris and literary master lyricist Adam Wright.
ABOUT MAIA SHARP
Maia Sharp has had her songs recorded by Bonnie Raitt, The Chicks, Cher, Edwin McCain, David Wilcox, Art Garfunkel, Lizz Wright, Lisa Loeb, Terri Clark, Keb’ Mo’ (including his recent single "Junkyard Dog" with Taj Mahal) and Trisha Yearwood (including her recent single “The Wall or the Way Over”) and many more. And through it all, Maia has continued to record her own albums; nine solo releases, one collaborative project with Art Garfunkel and Buddy Mondlock and her duo project, Roscoe & Etta. Maia is also an adjunct professor at NYU and has been writing for Songwriting With: Soldiers for eight years. Her latest album Tomboy was released in September 2025.
ABOUT NATALIE HEMBY
Since signing her first publishing deal at 19, Nashville’s Natalie Hemby has become one of most successful and sought after songwriters in music, with countless hit songs recorded by artists such as Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris, Sheryl Crow, Miranda Lambert, Lady Gaga, Yola, Dierks Bentley, Rag'n'Bone Man, Lady A, Kelly Clarkson, Little Big Town, Ed Sheeran, and Labrinth, to name a few.
Hemby has accumulated eight No. 1 Billboard singles during her career. Hemby's cuts include "White Liar", Automatic”, and “Bluebird” by Miranda Lambert, “Pontoon" and "Tornado " by Little Big Town, “Downtown” by Lady A, “You Look Like I Need a Drink” by Justin Moore, and "Heartache Medication” by Jon Pardi.
On January 13, 2017, Hemby released her first studio album, “Puxico”, named after the Missouri town where her grandfather lived, via the label GetWrucke Productions which she runs with her husband, music producer Mike Wrucke. On October 8, 2021, she released her second album, Pins and Needles, also produced by Mike Wrucke.
Hemby became a member of the group known as The Highwomen, along with Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris and Amanda Shires. They released their critically acclaimed self-titled album in 2019. As a result, Hemby earned a Country Song of the Year GRAMMY, following her first GRAMMY, win for Best Song Written for Visual Media for Lady Gaga’s “I’ll Never Love Again,” from A Star Is Born, among five career nominations.
Hemby won an ACM Award for her song “Automatic” by Miranda Lambert, and has also been recognized by the CMA, CMT and NSAI Awards for her prodigious and versatile contributions to songwriting.
