{"id":407374,"date":"2026-09-22T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/407374\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:20:08","slug":"island-hopper-songwriter-fest-brings-10-days-of-live-music-to-swfl-wink-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/407374\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Hopper Songwriter Fest Brings 10 Days of Live Music to SWFL | WINK Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Florida is getting ready for 10 days of live music as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?f=html&amp;t=article&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;l=25&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=Island+Hopper+Songwriter+Fest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Island Hopper Songwriter Fest<\/a> returns Sept. 18-27.<\/p>\n<p>The annual festival brings more than 60 BMI-affiliated singer-songwriters to intimate venues across Southwest Florida, giving music fans the chance to hear the artists perform their own songs and share the stories behind them.<\/p>\n<p>The festival moves through four locations over 10 days:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Captiva Island: Sept. 18-20<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Cape Coral: Sept. 21-22<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Downtown Fort Myers: Sept. 23-24<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Fort Myers Beach: Sept. 25-27<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Florida is getting ready for 10 days of live music as the Island Hopper Songwriter Fest returns Sept. 18-27.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the performances are free, with special ticketed experiences also available throughout the festival. This year&#8217;s lineup includes headliners such as Edwin McCain, LOCASH, Alexandra Kay and Michael Ray.<\/p>\n<p>Special events include a songwriter dinner, sunset cruises, a show featuring LOCASH and Alexandra Kay at the Caloosa Sound Amphitheater, and the Pink Shell Pool Party featuring Michael Ray.<\/p>\n<p>For the full schedule, performers and ticket information, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.island-hopperfest.visitfortmyers.com\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official Island Hopper Songwriter Fest website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southwest Florida is getting ready for 10 days of live music as the Island Hopper Songwriter Fest returns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[161795,209,211,210,1695,161794,1521],"class_list":["post-407374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-caloosa-sound-amphitheater","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-fort-myers-beach","tag-island-hopper-songwriter-fest","tag-southwest-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}