Peacemaker Festival's emerging artist for 2024, Taylor Hunnicutt, to play April 26 show

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Taylor Hunnicutt, the Peacemaker Festival’s emerging artist of the year for 2024, will sing at the Majestic Fort Smith at 8 p.m. Friday, April 26, 2024, at 817 Garrison Ave.
Taylor Hunnicutt, the Peacemaker Festival’s emerging artist of the year for 2024, will sing at the Majestic Fort Smith at 8 p.m. Friday, April 26, 2024, at 817 Garrison Ave.

Singer/songwriter Taylor Hunnicutt, who has been named as the Fort Smith Peacemaker Festival’s emerging artist of the year for 2024, will play a show Friday, April 26. Doors open at 7 p.m. at the Majestic Fort Smith, 817 Garrison Ave.

The Peacemaker Festival this year is collaborating with Sol Studios and the Majestic Theatre for the upcoming 2024 event, said Trent Goins, Peacemaker Festival spokesman and co-founder.

Hunnicutt played the Peacemaker Festival in 2023, and her talent was noticed, Goins said.

Goins said downtown Fort Smith has a state-of-the-art recording spot in Sol Studios.

“This project allows for the festival to showcase our community while helping up and coming artists," said Hunnicutt, who called the project a “magical experience.”

“Sol Studios, with the help of their sound engineer Anton Rasmussen, allowed us the creative freedom to bring our sound and ideas to the studio and the team helped us craft and create an upcoming EP which will be released leading up to the festival," Hunnicutt said. "To have a music festival offer to record our material and give us 100% creative freedom and ownership of our masters is not something that happens in the musical landscape today.  Peacemaker is not just another music festival; it is a family, and we are proud to be a part.”

Hunnicutt and her band are from Alabama, and they have been touring throughout the country for the past several years.

Their music fits into the genres of country, Americana, blues and soul.

Hunnicutt and band members Josh McKenzie, Ethan Perkins, Tyler Treadwell and Bobby Sanders, have released their debut album “Alabama Sound.”

The festival’s previous emerging artists of the year were Tanner Usrey, 2021, Graycie York, 2022, and the Joe Stamm Band, 2023.

The 2024 Peacemaker Festival at 121 Riverfront Drive along the Arkansas River in downtown Fort Smith will be Friday, Oct. 11 to Sunday, Oct. 13. The festival celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2024.

Tickets to see Taylor Hunnicutt’s April 26 show at the Majestic Fort Smith can be purchased at www.majesticfortsmith.com.

This article originally appeared on Springfield News-Leader: Taylor Hunnicutt returns to Majestic Fort Smith for April 26 concert