09/21/2026
Whitefish, you did it again.
Three days. Thirty songwriters. Rooms so close you could hear a guitar breathe. The 6th Annual Whitefish Songwriter Festival just wrapped, and downtown still feels like it is holding the last chord.
Caught Emma Zinck on stage this weekend — platinum hair, mint-green guitar, that blue work shirt, writing the room in real time. She is part of the new Nashville wave they call Electric Country, and she brought it all the way to the mountains. You know the hits. This weekend you met the people who wrote them.
To every writer who flew in, every local who opened a door, every volunteer, every kid who sat in a school workshop, and every hat in the front row: thank you. This town does not just host music. It listens.
See you in year seven.
ElectricCountry