Victoria Banks brings her songbook to 3rd & Lindsley on Nov. 30

The Canadian-born, Nashville-based writer behind cuts for Reba, Sara Evans and Carly Pearce takes a Monday midday slot at the Gulch's sit-down listening room.

There is a particular kind of Nashville show where the person on the stool has written songs you already know, sung by voices that aren't theirs. On Monday, Nov. 30, that person is Victoria Banks, and the room is 3rd & Lindsley.

The show was announced Nov. 3. Music starts at 12:30 p.m., and tickets run $22.16 to $32.20 through TicketWeb, which lists the date under the Bluebird on 3rd banner. The room holds about 700, which for a writer-forward bill on a Monday afternoon means you can still get a decent seat if you don't sleep on it, but the cheaper tier is the one that goes first.

If the name doesn't ring a bell, the catalog probably will. Banks is a Canadian singer and songwriter who has made Nashville home, and her songs have been recorded by Reba McEntire, Sara Evans, Jessica Simpson, Lauren Alaina, Carly Pearce and Mickey Guyton. That is a run across three decades of country radio, from Reba's era through the current generation of women carrying the format.

She came up as an artist first. Back home, the Canadian Country Music Association named her both Female Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year in 2010, a double that says something about how the industry up north saw her: not just a pen for hire, but someone who could stand in front of the song herself.

In Nashville she has built the other half of that career. Sony Music Publishing signed her to an exclusive worldwide administration deal in February 2022, according to Music Row, and she teaches songwriting at Belmont University's Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business. So if you're a Belmont student, there is a fair chance the person on stage graded your last co-write.

The catalog spans Reba's era through the current generation of women carrying the format.

That combination is what makes this kind of show worth a Monday afternoon. Writers' rounds and songwriter showcases are the town's native form, and the good ones give you the story behind the song along with the song, stripped down to the shape it had in the writing room before a label and a producer got to it. Banks has played those rooms around town, including The Listening Room Cafe in 2024, and she has taken the act overseas too, with a June 2026 date at London's Green Note.

3rd & Lindsley is a good fit for that. It's a sit-down room in the Gulch with real sound and real sightlines, built for listening rather than for shouting over a bar crowd, and a 12:30 start means you can catch the set on a long lunch or make it the reason you finally took that afternoon off.

Get tickets now through the link on this page; a writer with this many radio cuts tends to draw a crowd of other writers, and they talk.

Then go, sit close, and listen for the song you didn't know she wrote.

Sources: Victoria Banks - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Victoria Banks - Belmont University profile (belmont.edu); Victoria Banks Inks Admin Deal With Sony Music Publishing - Music Row (musicrow.com); Victoria Banks - Short Biography (victoriabanks.net); Victoria Banks & Jeff Cohen live at Green Note (countrymusic.co.uk); TicketWeb: Bluebird on 3rd - Victoria Banks (ticketweb.com); JamBase listing (jambase.com)