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Ben Balmer
Dripping Springs Songwriter Festival 2025
Dripping Springs Visitors Center
509 W Mercer St
Dripping Springs, TX 78620
Oct 17–19, 2025
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You are invited to the heart of the beautiful Texas Hill Country to come and enjoy an exciting weekend of phenomenal singer/songwriter showcases. This 3-day music festival treats music lovers to a wide variety of amazing songs and the people and stories behind the finely crafted tunes.
The songwriting showcases give attendees the opportunity to experience tomorrow’s headliners in small-stage "listening room" performances at unique venues in historic downtown Dripping Springs. On 7 stages, featuring 70 shows, 35+ songwriters will perform in an “in the round” Nashville-style song-swap format. In its essence, the Dripping Springs Songwriters Festival is all about finely-crafted SONGS, and the talented folks who have written them. All shows downtown are FREE.
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Jeff
February 25th 2024
Ben is creative, funny and has a huge range of style and vocals. This was a great show. He is superb.
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Ben Balmer Biography
Ben Balmer, raised in Ypsilanti, Michigan, started his musical journey with the harmonica at 13, quickly adding guitar and performing in clubs by age 16. In 2008, he hit the road, busking across the U.S. before settling in Austin for 14 years. He has released 3 albums in the rootsy, Folk, Americana genre: Dug In (2012), Loose Lips (2015), and Honky-Tonk Macbeth (2021).
Post-pandemic, Ben sought change and relocated to Asheville, NC in 2022. Embracing the local scene, he's performing across the Southeast, playing house concerts and songwriters festivals, and continuing his involvement in the international harmonica community. Currently crafting his fourth album, Ben anticipates releasing singles in 2024, drawing inspiration from Asheville’s rich musical setting.
Read MorePost-pandemic, Ben sought change and relocated to Asheville, NC in 2022. Embracing the local scene, he's performing across the Southeast, playing house concerts and songwriters festivals, and continuing his involvement in the international harmonica community. Currently crafting his fourth album, Ben anticipates releasing singles in 2024, drawing inspiration from Asheville’s rich musical setting.
Americana
Contemporary Folk
Blues
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