WAMCon Nashville 2025 | August 2nd, 2025

🎧 Join Us at WAMCon Nashville – August 2, 2025!Â đŸŽ¶
Empowering the next generation of women and gender-diverse creatives in audio, WAMCon Nashville is a dynamic one-day educational event packed with hands-on workshops, mentorship, and networking opportunities with industry leaders.

Presented by Women’s Audio Mission in partnership with Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival and EqualizeHer at Gold Pacific Studios, Nashville, this event creates a safe, inclusive space to learn, grow, and connect—no matter your experience level.

Whether you’re just starting out or leveling up your audio career, WAMCon Nashville is your gateway to building skills, confidence, and community in an industry ready for your voice.

🗓 Date: August 2, 2025
📍 Location: Gold Pacific Studio, Nashville

đŸŽ€Â Confirmed Speakers:

Gena Johnson is a Nashville-based producer, recording and mix engineer, originally from Mankato, MN.

Gena has been nominated in 2021, 2022 and 2023 for “Audio Engineer of the Year” by the Academy of Country Music Awards. Johnson is honored and grateful to be among such brilliant engineers, standing beside them as the first female to be nominated in this particular category three years in a row. Gena received her second Grammy Award at the 2024 Grammy Awards Ceremony for engineering Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s album ‘Weathervanes’, which won for Best Americana Album. This follows her first Grammy Award for engineering Chis Stapleton’s album ‘Starting Over’, which won for Best Country Album at the 2022 Grammy Awards Ceremony held in Las Vegas. Gena engineered and mixed Ashley McBryde’s album ‘Lindeville’ that was nominated at the Grammy Awards for Best Country Album in 2023 and is also nominated for a 2023 CMA for Album of the Year. 

Gena is a true patron of the journey of sound — she is passionate about fostering new voices as well as protecting and expanding legacies. She considers writing, playing, engineering, mixing & all the elements of producing to be a privileged part of shepherding great art into being and feels personally connected to that role. 

Gena’s engineering and production contributions have supported artists such as Chris Stapleton, Morgane Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Dolly Parton, Amanda Shires, Lawrence Rothman, Brandi Carlile, John Prine, Anderson East, Marcus King Band, Lori McKenna, Rival Sons, Brent Cobb, Brittney Spencer, Colter Wall, Corrina, A Star Is Born Soundtrack, The Oakridge Boys, Lillie Mae, A Thousand Horses, Chris Shiflett, .Kaleo, Kacey Musgraves, Lee Henke, Ruston Kelly, Dillon Carmichael, Randy Rogers Band, Gloria Gaynor, The Highwomen, Ashley Monroe, Jillette Johnson, Corrina, The Lone Bellow, Ben Folds, Jim Lauderdale, Hunter Hayes, Lyle Lovett, Malcolm Holcomb, The Revivalists, Lee Brice, Zac Brown Band, Yola, Tenille Townes, Caitlyn Smith, Brent Eldredge, Christina Perri, Tommy Prine, Ashley McBryde and more. 

Her most recent note-able projects include producing, engineering and mixing Jason Isbell’s solo album ‘Foxes In The Snow’ at the infamous Electric Lady Studios in NY, John Prine’s last recorded song which won two GRAMMY awards in 2021 for ‘I Remember Everything’, Jason Isbell’s albums ‘Weathervanes’, ‘Reunions’ and ‘Georgia Blue’, Ashley Monroe’s album ‘Rosegold’, Chris Stapleton’s Grammy winning album ‘Starting Over’, Corrina’s single “Too Much”, Brittney Spencer’s single “Sober & Skinny”, Caitlyn Smith’s album “High & Low”, Ashley McBryde’s Grammy nominated album “Lindeville” and Blind Boys of Alabama’s Grammy nominated single “The Message” Featuring Black Violin. 

 

 

WAMCon is made possible by our sponsors:

   

🌟 Venue:

Located in the heart of the famed Berry Hill in Nashville, Tennessee, Gold Pacific Studios (GPS) is unparalleled in vibe and gear selection. This 5,145 square foot recording studio boasts an impressive array of vintage and modern equipment, centered around a stunning, one-of-a-kind, 48-channel, white API AXS Legacy console. The console was commissioned directly from API and made exclusively for GPS. The extensive collection of microphones, both vintage and modern, add to the sonic versatility, while the Yamaha C7 grand piano and Hammond A100 with a Leslie 147 speaker provide rich, classic tones.

The studio also features a Studer Gold Edition A827 2” tape machine, delivering unparalleled sound. With a large collection of guitars and amps, the creative possibilities are endless. Another unique feature of GPS is the underground echo chamber, built as a replica to Abbey Road Studio 2, as well as a stereo EMT 140 tube plate reverb. These features make GPS one of the most unique studios in Nashville.

GPS offers (4) distinct spaces: Studio A, the sizeable live room with large picturesque windows that let in ample natural light, and a spacious control room that includes a separate vocal booth, making the space as visually inspiring as it is acoustically impressive. Studio B, a mixing room with an additional isolation booth, perfect for tracking vocals and mixing projects. And lastly, GPS offers (2) professionally-designed, dedicated writing rooms, providing ample space for creativity. Rooms are designed with a balance of vintage and contemporary aesthetics, making the vibe at GPS unmatched.

Pricing and Refunds:
Attendees can receive refunds up to 7 days before the event start date. Registration is non-transferable and will not be available once the event begins. If you are a WAM member or Academy student, please email education@womensaudiomission.org for your discount code.

Important Note:
Women’s Audio Mission focuses on increasing the gender balance in audio production and technology sectors. Less than 5% of the population employed in these sectors are women or gender-expansive people. Though we will not turn anyone away, there are limited spots available in our events, and they often sell out, so we ask that if you are not a woman (transgender or cisgender), non-binary, gender-expansive, or gender non-conforming, you reconsider registering or, alternatively, donating the price of a ticket. We thank you for your understanding in advance and for joining us in our mission to advance women, girls, and gender-expansive people in music production and the recording arts.

Photo Release:
Please note that by purchasing a ticket for this event, you are granting Women’s Audio Mission and its staff, volunteers, professional photographers, and the media the absolute right and permission to take during the event and to use and publish photographs of you, still or moving, with or without your name, and to reproduce same through any media, for artistic, promotional, advertising, web content, or other commercial and non-commercial purposes, and you shall not be entitled to any monetary compensation of any kind in respect thereof. We appreciate your support of WAM and our ability to share with our funders the work that we do to serve women and gender-expansive artists in audio.