Festival Artwork

The poster design for the 32^nd annual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival was inspired by the legendary ‘Tin Pan Alley’ on West 28^th St. in New York City, honoring a landmark building that housed a group of music publishers in the late 1800’s. Many of those passing by would hear all of the piano sounds filling the streets of Manhattan, and would often described it sounding similar to banging tin pans, thus the name was born!

The official 2022 Tin Pan South poster was created by Charlie Hartrich, a freshman at Watkins College of Art at Belmont University). 
 
“When designing this poster I wanted to focus on the songwriting aspect more so than music or Nashville. I was inspired by the idea that songwriters across America are all a part of this festival, and that is what music is all about. Bringing people together and encouraging empathy.” Hartich adds, “Music and the city are a part of one another here so I also wanted to mix the two together and that drove most of the subject choices. But, lastly my main inspiration for my work was music itself. As a musician, music can be such a crazy, other-worldly thing and I tried to convey how expressive it can be in the poster although nothing beats the real thing!”

Thank you to all of the students at Watkins College of Art who submitted artwork for consideration, they were all wonderful designs, the decision was not easy!