The Franklin Theatre is proud to host Stephanie Chapman in celebration of her recently released album, "Under An August Sky." Throughout this special evening, Stephanie will walk the audience through the process of creating the record, and be joined by special guests, Nathan Chapman, Natalie Hemby, and Emily West, with others to be added.
Stephanie Chapman is a singer and songwriter whose lyrics employ many of the scenes from her pastoral childhood in rural West Virginia to form a painterly landscape in story and song. Stephanie credits this fertile soil and her dad’s eclectic taste in music with shaping her song style.
In 2001 a fortuitous meeting in Normandy, France led to 22 years of marriage and musical collaboration with her husband Nathan Chapman. A Nashville-born son of Steve and Annie Chapman, revered and celebrated Christian singer songwriters, Nathan had decided to leave the music industry in his past until he met his wife and they formed a duo, got a record deal and started recording music together.
Stephanie’s songs seem to keep finding homes with some of the best artists in music and now she has had songs recorded by Bonnie Raitt, Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White, Eric Church, Mickey Guyton, Martina McBride, and Lady A and more. After a long absence on music row to tend to her three children she released a full-length album called Under An August Sky on May 24th, 2024.