ASCAP Founders Award Honoree George Strait with ASCAP President and Chairman Paul Williams at the 2013 ASCAP Country Music Awards. Photo by Ed Rode.
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) will host the 52nd annual ASCAP Country Music Awards on Monday, November 3rd at downtown Nashville’s Music City Center for the second consecutive year. The venue, which opened in May of 2013, boasts the largest grand ballroom in the state, with breathtaking views of downtown Nashville and the Cumberland River. The invitation-only, black-tie event will honor the songwriters and publishers of ASCAP’s most performed Country music songs of the past year.
The 52nd ASCAP Country Music Awards will include the announcements of the ASCAP Country Music Songwriter of the Year, Song of the Year and Publisher of the Year. The evening will feature live performances of the top five most performed songs of 2013 by the award-winning songwriters and the artists who recorded them. Special awards will also be given out in honor of ASCAP’s 100th anniversary.
Recent ASCAP Country Music Awards honorees include George Strait, Alan Jackson, Ben Hayslip, Josh Kear, Lyle Lovett, Bob McDill, Brad Paisley, Don Williams and many more.
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 over 500,000 members representing more than nine 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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