Join us as we welcome Collins Horton (winner of the Harvester's 2023 TN Songwriters Qualifying Round) and Bobby Kropp (keep scrolling to read his accolades) to the Burlap Room for another round of Bert's on Thursdays.

Gates and Tio's Taco Truck open at 4pm. Live music at 6pm. $10 cover online or at the door. All ages welcome - 10 & under are free.

We have limited seating throughout the venue, but feel free to bring your own camping chair. In the event we have to move inside the Solstice Sage area, no personal chairs are allowed inside the Solstice Stage/Greenhouse #3 (but there is limited seating inside the Solstice Stage). Venue seating is first come, first serve.

More about Collins Horton...

Collins was the winner of the Harvester's 2023 TN Songwriters Qualifying Round and we're so excited to have him back in Smithville! Born and raised in Brandon, MS, Collins has been writing songs since the age of 11 when his parents gave him his first guitar. He taught himself to play and his sisters can recall him locking himself away in his room for hours while learning to put 3 chords with the truth. He recently moved to Nashville, TN, and has been pursuing his dream and passion of being a singer/songwriter and telling his stories and life experiences through song. Being a baritone himself, it’s not much of a surprise that his country influences are Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Randy Travis. You can hear Collins’ roots of family and faith in his lyrics as he paints vivid stories in the songs he writes. He hopes to one day sign a publishing/record deal and go on tour across the U.S.

More about Bobby...

Bobby Kropp is an award winning singer/songwriter and executive producer with radio airplay in major US cities and all over the world. Together with partner, singer songwriter and executive producer Pamela Lack, they create country, Contemporary Christian and SYNC music in multiple genres at Makin Mayhem Music.

*First Major Label Cut 9/23: Bobby and Pam got their first major label cut when Other Plans, a cowrite with contemporary Christian artist Ben Fuller, signed with The Sony Provident Label, was released September of 2023. Other Plans has been played at churches, festivals and Recovery Events all over the country and the music video has over 35,000 views on YouTube.

*With almost 2 Million Streams, and rising by 1500+streams a day, Find My Faith was co-written and produced by Pam and Bobby when Ben was an independent artist in 2020. During that time they cowrote and produced a twelve song album called Witness for Ben. Many of those songs are posted on Ben streaming sites. Artist and cowriter, Ben Fuller has just completed a 54 city tour with Zach Williams in 2022 and has just begun a 40+ city tour Casting Crowns in 2023.

*500,000+ YouTube views on Helluva Ride the MUSIC VIDEO: Pam and Bobby cowrote and produced this video features authorized footage from the The PBR ProBull Riders Circuit.

*100,000+ Streams on cowrites with up and coming artist country Jacob Rice, who has interest from several major record labels, and regularly plays at The Bluebird Café and The Listening Room in Nashville as well as playing at The Key West Songwriter Festival and other great venues.

*Smoky Mt Songwriter’s Festival 2016: Won 1st place in the Country Music Category for our song “That Old Screen Door” written with cowriters Pamela Lack and Jean Nolan.

* The Frank Brown Songwriter’s Festival 2017 Honorable Mention: Between The Bible And The Bottle. cowritten with Chris Garner and Pamela Lack. She also received an Honorable Mention for “Heartache Callin’ My Name” cowritten with Pamela Lack and Dustin Herring.

*Nashville Dreamin 2017: “Between The Bible and The Bottle” (cowritten with Chris Garner and Pamela Lack) was chosen as a finalist and is on the compilation CD for the competition.

Previously signed to Geffen Records, with his band, Rash Of Stabbings after winning a national band talent search, Bobby is an accomplished guitar player and bassist who opened for U2 on a 5 city tour on the East Coast. He also opened for The Pixies, Squeeze and The Pretenders. Bobby is accomplished on acoustic and electric guitar as well as bass guitar and 6 string banjo.