California Stages to the Heart of CMA Fest | Presley Tennant
Presley Tennant is back on Heart of the Gulch — and a lot has changed since her first appearance.
This time, we caught up with the California country artist in the middle of CMA Fest 2025, where Presley spent the week performing across Nashville, meeting fans at Fan Fair X and experiencing one of country music’s biggest weekends from the artist side of the festival.
Country artist Presley Tennant returns to Heart of the Gulch for an interview during CMA Fest 2025 in Nashville.
It’s another milestone for an artist who continues to build her career one stage, one song and one fan at a time.
Inside Presley Tennant’s Heart of the Gulch Interview
Welcome to Heart of the Gulch, a Nashville-based interview show and country music platform featuring artists, singer-songwriters and personalities shaping music and entertainment. Host and creator Tony Mendoza sits down with Presley Tennant during CMA Fest 2025 to discuss her latest music, performing throughout Nashville, connecting with fans and what she has planned for the road ahead.
For a returning guest, the conversation also gave us a chance to see just how much has changed since Presley first sat down with the show.
Heart of the Gulch host Tony Mendoza interviews Presley Tennant during CMA Fest 2025.
Coming Back to CMA Fest
CMA Fest is a completely different experience when you’re bouncing between performances, appearances and conversations with fans.
Presley talks about embracing every part of the weekend, from spending time at Fan Fair X to taking stages throughout Nashville and meeting listeners who have followed her music from across the country.
Those face-to-face moments have become an important part of the career she’s building.
Presley Tennant discusses her latest music, career and CMA Fest experience with Heart of the Gulch.
Finding What Comes Next
Since her first Heart of the Gulch appearance, Presley has continued developing her music and evolving as an artist.
She opens up about her latest projects, her creative process and how every new release and performance is helping shape the direction she wants to take her country sound.
Rather than rushing the process, Presley continues learning from the road and allowing those experiences to influence what comes next.
Taking the Journey to Sea
There’s already another major experience waiting on Presley’s calendar: the 2026 Country Music Cruise.
The upcoming appearance will give her another opportunity to bring her music directly to country fans, this time in an entirely different environment.
From hometown stages in California to Nashville during CMA Fest and now the Country Music Cruise, Presley’s world keeps getting a little bigger.
And if this return to Heart of the Gulch showed us anything, there’s still plenty more ahead.
Watch Presley Tennant on Heart of the Gulch
Watch the full Presley Tennant interview from CMA Fest 2025 as she joins Tony Mendoza to discuss her latest music, her evolving sound, connecting with fans, performing across Nashville and her upcoming appearance on the 2026 Country Music Cruise.
Tony Mendoza is the Nashville-based host and creator of Heart of the Gulch, featuring conversations with country artists, singer-songwriters and personalities from Nashville and beyond.
