The Swallow At The Hollow

Mark D. Sanders

California native Mark Daniel Sanders was a literature major, basketball player and a surfer who, at age 29, came to Nashville to write songs. After 10 years, his career skyrocketed in the early 1990s, thanks to hits by Diamond Rio (“Mirror, Mirror”), Tracy Lawrence (“Runnin’ Behind”) and John Anderson (“Money in the Bank”), and he’s gone on to rack up 14 #1 singles. Mark has twice been named NSAI Songwriter of the Year (in 1995, with 5 #1 songs that year alone, and in 1996) and has won two of ASCAP’s highest awards: Country Songwriter of the Year (1997) and Country Song of the Year (1996) for writing “No News” (recorded by Lonestar). He’s also collected four CMA Triple Play Awards, given for charting three #1 songs in a 12-month period. His “I Hope You Dance” (recorded by Lee Ann Womack) won a Grammy Award in 2000 for Best Country Song, and was declared Song of the Year by virtually every music industry awards organization — NSAI, ASCAP, BMI, the ACM and the CMA. He and co-writer Tia Sillers later authored a book inspired by the song that has sold two million copies. Additionally, Mark’s songs have been hits for artists such as George Strait (“Blue Clear Sky”), Ricochet (“Daddy’s Money”), Faith Hill (“It Matters to Me”) and Jack Ingram (“That’s a Man”).

Sarah Majors

Sarah Majors has been a professional songwriter since 1994. She has enjoyed the success of having songs recorded in country, pop, bluegrass, contemporary folk and gospel genres. Some of the artists that have cut her songs include Trisha Yearwood, Trace Adkins, Tracy Byrd, The Kinleys, Rissi Palmer, Michelle Wright, No Secrets, Michael Peterson, Maia Sharp, Matt King, Megan Mullins, Valerie Smith and Liberty Pike, just to name a few. Sarah’s songs have also been featured on the hit ABC show, Extreme Makeover, the horror film, “Trailer Park of Terror”, and the cd/documentary project “This Is My America” features two of her tunes.

Megan Mullins

In her relatively short lifetime, Megan Mullins has mastered seven instruments and genres, won numerous musician championships, and worked as a model and actress.
The Indiana native began taking violin lessons at the age of 18 months, and won the Indiana State Fair Showmanship Award at the State Fiddle Championship at age three. Mullins comes from a family of professional musicians who toured the country in a van together playing shows through much of her childhood. She began performing with her brother Marcus, and at age 14, they played the Grand Ole Opry. As if she weren’t busy enough, Mullins began taking dance, gymnastics, theater, and swimming classes. Since graduating high school at the age of 15, Mullins has worked at perfecting her fiddle playing and singing talent, playing numerous gigs throughout the United States and abroad. At the age of 18, she released her first single on Broken Bow Records, called “Ain’t What It Used to Be.” The single was met with immediate and overwhelming public response.

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The Swallow at the Hollow is a Barbeque Restaurant/Country Music Venue where the philosophy is that “If you can make it homemade, you do make it homemade”. And that holds true with everything, from any one of our delicious Hickory smoked meats, homemade sausage, homemade macaroni and cheese, homemade bread and butter pickles, homemade sauces on the tables to our yummy homemade chocolate chip banana pudding, buttermilk biscuits and loaf of bread Our music philosophy is that if you are going to spend that much time and effort to make the food so good, you’d better keep the entertainment on that same level. So, on Friday and Saturday nights each week, we present Nashville’s premier singer/songwriter/artists in shows that begin at 10:00 pm. See the Live Music page for upcoming shows! We also feature some of the most talented local artists, with no cover charge, on Wednesday nights-inside, Thursday nights-outside in the picnic area, weather permitting, and the wonderful duo Tom and Julie every Sunday night-inside. So when you just want to hear some good music while you eat, and maybe see the next big up and comer, visit us on one of those nights. We also have an event facility called The Yellow House, which is right next door. This charming Victorian house is perfect for wedding rehearsal dinners, wedding receptions, bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs, corporate dinners or luncheons, birthday parties, Christmas parties, divorce parties, parties to celebrate a 40 year-old son finally moving out of the house…or whatever special occasion warrants having a really large time! A great big canoe full of beer, hot homemade barbeque, the best music you ever laid your ears on and the sweetest and most attentive wait staff ever, (except for that one kid)… How can you NOT have fun?!?