2025 Singer-Songwriter Night featuring Phillip Coleman and Friends
Apr 17th @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
The popular Singer-Songwriter Night featuring Phillip Coleman and friends returns to Discovery Park on Thursday, April 17, 2025. Coleman’s special guests will be Tony Arata and Don Henry. The performances will take place in Discovery Park’s ATA Traveling Exhibit Hall with a cocktail hour at 6 p.m., followed by the show at 7 p.m.
Tickets are now on sale. A sponsor table is $1,500, while a premier tables are $2,500. Both sponsor level tables seat 10. Individual tickets are $50. Interested in sponsoring a table? Contact Bethany Brock at bbrock@discoveryparkofamerica.com.
Tony Arata, a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame since 2012, has had his songs recorded by Dolly Parton, Patty Loveless, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, Garth Brooks, Delbert McClinton, Hal Ketchum, Don Williams, Lainey Wilson, Charlie Worsham, Del McCoury, Mountain Heart and others.
With four No. 1 songs to his credit, including Brooks’ “The Dance,” for which he received a Grammy nomination and won ACM Song of the Year in 1991, and Loveless’ “Here I Am,” Arata has called Nashville home for nearly 40 years.
Grammy Award winner Don Henry has written songs recorded by legends such as Ray Charles and Patti Page, as well as hitmakers Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert. He has performed in-the-round with artists ranging from Joey Ramone at New York’s Bottom Line to Keith Urban at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe. Kathy Mattea’s version of the Grammy-winning “Where’ve You Been” also earned Henry and co-writer Jon Vezner song of the year honors from the ACMs, CMAs, and NSAI—the first song in country music history to win all four in the same year.
In 2013, Lambert had a hit with “All Kinds of Kinds,” written by Henry and Phillip Coleman. (That’s Henry on background vocals.) He tours extensively as a solo performer, as half of The DonJuans with Vezner, and with folk legend Tom Paxton.
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In addition to the 2025 Discovery Awards Gala, this evening of great music, food and fellowship will be the second event of the year where proceeds go to the Kirkland Scholarship Fund. The Kirkland Scholarship Fund is available for schools where 50% or more of the students qualify for the free or reduced lunch program. This fund was created to help ensure that all children can discover inspiration at Discovery Park.
Save the date for the third Kirkland Scholarship fundraiser of 2025 when Discovery Park hosts a night of dueling pianos on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. To donate to the Kirkland Scholarship Fund, visit discoveryparkofamerica.com/give/.
