Westhaven Songwriter Night with Rachael Thibodeau and Rebecca Lynn Howard

Welcome to Westhaven Songwriter Night with Rachel Thibodeau and Rebecca Lynn Howard! Join us at the Westhaven Residents Club on October 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM (Central Time) for an evening of amazing music and talent. Doors open at 6pm and music starts at 6:30pm.

Rachel Thibodeau BIO

Rachel Thibodeau had her first taste of success when Billy Currington recorded “Good Directions,” a song she penned with friend and co-writer Luke Bryan. It soared to the top of the Billboard country singles chart and spent 3 weeks at #1. Rachel took home ASCAP's Song of the Year and she was honored with the NSAI’s prestigious "One Of The Ten Songs I Wish I'd Written" award.

Her catalogue spans over 100 cuts recorded by top artists Luke Bryan, Reba McEntire, Martina McBride, Tim McGraw, Josh Kelley, Parmalee, Marie Osmond & Katharine McPhee.

She has reached international chart topping success in Country and Pop with two Platinum #1’s -“Thank You for Cheating On Me”(Country Music Single Of The Year and Most Played Country Song of the Year) & “ Then There’s Me” – by Australian artist Diana Corcoran. Twice again Platinum with The X Factor’s Tommy Fredvang and Sweden’s Jill Johnson. Her latest international cut “Fading,” recorded by Edyta Gorniak of Poland, will be released in 2022.

Always taking it to the next level, Rachel has signed a new publishing deal with BMG The New Music Company, where she will continue to build on her success as a songwriter and expand into film and television.

Rebecca Lynn Howard BIO

Eastern Kentucky native Rebecca Lynn Howard showing grace and mindfulness to her lived experiences and stellar talent allows the GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter’s album I'm Not Who You Think I Am to reflect her best and most honestly realized work.Produced by Elisha Hoffman and executive produced by CMA and ACM award winner Lee Brice, I'm Not Who You Think I Am features the most relatable “gems” within what Howard  believes to be thousands of songs she’s written in the past two decades.Signed to Pump House Records in April 2020, faith and independence and a love of life best define her work of late. Country’s popularity creating unprecedented depth and scope has created a space for Howard’s well-earned wisdom and lyricism favored — to the tune of chart-topping and country radio success — by the likes of Runaway June, Martina McBride and Trisha Yearwood. . .

“Rebecca Lynn is one of the most talented humans I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with,” says Brice, who co-founded Pump House Records with Rob Hatch and Elisha Hoffman. “She has a voice that has been touched by God and I can not wait for the world to get the chance to hear her new music.”Howard’s career includes working with Country Music Hall of Famers Patty Loveless, Ronnie Dunn, Vince Gill, and Nashville Songwriting Hall of Famer Roger Murrah (Alan Jackson’s “Don’t Rock The Jukebox”). In the past, she’s also toured with Kenny Rogers, while with country-rock sextet Loving Mary, she traveled the world as a bass player supporting Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler’s solo work. 

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