PENSACOLA, Fla., September 2, 2025 ― WSRE has announced the artists selected to perform for the 16th season of the public television station’s “StudioAmped” music series and invites the public to join the studio audience for the recording of six concerts. The concerts, starting Oct. 3 with the annual Pensacola Beach Songwriters Festival show, will be performed in the Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio at Pensacola State College.
From the songwriters festival, performing in the round, will be Gary Nichols, Billy Droze and The Burney Sisters. Nichols is a Grammy-winning producer, singer-songwriter and guitarist from Muscle Shoals, Ala.; Droze is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter with 11 No. 1 hits; and The Burney Sisters are a multi-instrumentalist indie-folk duo based in Huntsville, Ala.
The free concert series will continue with Pensacola’s Katie Dineen on Monday, Oct. 6; The Tree-Oh (Ocean Springs, Miss.) on Wednesday, Oct. 8; About to Sweat (Fort Walton Beach) on Tuesday, Oct. 14; Ben Loftin & The Family (Pensacola) on Wednesday, Oct. 15; and Blue Mother Tupelo (Como, Miss.) on Thursday, Oct. 16.
All shows start at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Admission is free, and donations for Manna Food Pantries are collected at the door.
Presenting the original music of regional artists, “StudioAmped” airs weekly at 9 p.m. Thursday on WSRE PBS with livestreaming and on-demand access on wsre.org and the free PBS app. The new season is sponsored in part by The Bear Family Foundation and Blues Angel Music.
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