The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) will be featured on the hit ABC television drama Nashville on Wednesday, January 22nd at 10pm ET/9pm CT. The successful series stars Connie Britton as fading country music superstar Rayna Jaymes, Hayden Panettiere as young rising country star Juliette Barnes, longtime ASCAP members Charles Esten (Deacon Claybourne) and Jonathan Jackson (Avery Barkley), Kimberly Williams-Paisley and more. The series, created by Academy Award-winner Callie Khouri and co-produced by Nashville’s own Steve Buchanan, Executive Vice President of Opry Entertainment Group, filmed several scenes at ASCAP’s Nashville office at 2 Music Square West in November of last year.
The episode will also feature a commercial in the New York City and Nashville viewing areas for the ASCAP short film, Why We Create Music, and its accompanying song, “More Than the Stars,” and music video. The commercial debuted during the 2014 Grammy nominations television special in December and will also be aired during the Grammy Awards telecast this Sunday, January 26th.
Why We Create Music was commissioned by ASCAP as the centerpiece of the campaign to celebrate the performance rights organization’s 100th birthday on February 13th, 2014, and features an extraordinary collaboration among 15 top songwriter and composer members, including Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood, Amy Grant, Josh Kear, Dan Wilson and more.
Watch the film and music video at ASCAP100.com.
- Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood with ASCAP Country Music Songwriter of the Year Josh Kear during the filming of Why We Create Music
ABOUT ASCAP
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a professional membership organization of songwriters, composers and music publishers of every kind of music. ASCAP’s mission is to license and promote the music of its members and foreign affiliates, obtain fair compensation for the public performance of their works and to distribute the royalties that it collects based upon those performances. ASCAP members write the world’s best-loved music and ASCAP has pioneered the efficient licensing of that music to hundreds of thousands of enterprises who use it to add value to their business – from bars, restaurants and retail, to radio, TV and cable, to Internet, mobile services and more. The ASCAP license offers an efficient solution for businesses to legally perform ASCAP music while respecting the right of songwriters and composers to be paid fairly. With more than 480,000 members representing over 9 million copyrighted works, ASCAP is the worldwide leader in performance royalties, service and advocacy for songwriters and composers, and the only American performing rights organization (PRO) owned and governed by its writer and publisher members. www.ascap.com
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