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Vibrant new Arista Nashville singer/songwriter Cam may be a country artist, but that doesn’t mean she can’t serve up a little “Uptown Funk” as she covers the Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars blockbuster in a version heard exclusively on Spotify. The “My Mistake” songstress recorded it live as part of her performance at the Spotify House earlier this year at SXSW. You can hear it at http://smarturl.it/spotifycoverscam.
Travellers Rest will host Behind the Scenes History: A Gentleman’s Death – The Deadly Jackson – Dickinson Duel on Thursday, May 28 at 6 p.m. This behind the scenes tour will showcase information and artifacts that are not part of the routine tour of the historic home available to the general public. This event is suitable for ages 12 and up, and tickets are $15 per person.
Historic Travellers Rest will host the BBQ + Brew summer event on Sunday, June 28 from 12 to 3 p.m. with BBQ and beer on the grounds outside the historic home. All proceeds from ticket sales will benefit Travellers Rest.
Crowder, Danny Gokey, Jeremy Camp, Kari Jobe, Matt Maher, Matthew West, MercyMe, Plumb, Sidewalk Prophets and Tenth Avenue North are among the second slew of celebrated performers to bring their chart-toppers to the 2015 K-LOVE Fan Awards stage, taking place at the iconic Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tenn. on May 31, 2015. Tim Hasselbeck, Louie Giglio, Kristian Stanfill, The Benham Brothers, Lysa TerKeurst, Jan Harrison, Britt Nicole, Kevin Streelman, Mike Weaver of Big Daddy Weave, Natalie Grant, Tyler Zeller and Tom Crean have been unveiled as the first group of presenters.
Not many artists can claim to have sold-out Madison Square Gardens three nights in a row, held a farewell outdoor concert that attracted over 110,000 fans from 25 countries, making it the largest independent music event in history (outdrawing Phish’s swan song by 50,000 and the multi-band fest Bonnaroo by almost 20,000), but not many are Pete Francis. As one third of the visionary indie band, Dispatch, he inspired legions of fans with an aesthetic that was as accessible and inviting as it was artistically uncompromising. Now, he embarks on a new era of inspired creativity with a multitude of new projects, including an invigorating hip-hop flavored band, Dragon Crest Collective, whose debut, Volume 1, drops June 23; a vibey studio open to the public; and through offering his own unique production services to recording artists.
Keith Urban’s FUSE is one of the four-time Grammy Award winner’s most successful album releases to date. It marked the only time in history that a male Country artist had captured the #1 all-genre album chart simultaneously in the U.S., Canada and Australia, spawned four #1 songs, including Urban’s 18th #1 “Raise ‘Em Up,” extended his historic streak of Top 10 singles to thirty-three and garnered nearly two dozen Award nominations from around the globe.
What would you do if someone STOLE your most valuable possessions?
Zane Williams wrote them a song and shared it on social media!
Country music singer/songwriter Zane Williams and his band fell prey to a random act of “unkindness” this weekend when they stopped for lunch just outside of Houston, TX. The musicians’ van and the trailer full of equipment and instruments were stolen from the parking lot of the restaurant where they had stopped for a bite to eat. In true Zane Williams fashion, the prolific songwriter penned a tune speaking directly to the thieves and posted his calm, yet stern, acoustic delivery on his social media pages. We have been informed that the trailer has been located and recovered, but the van containing some heirloom instruments remains stolen.
You can see and hear Zane’s performance here: https://youtu.be/2DicXacaBtI
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www.zanewilliamsmusic.com
L to R: Dallas Davidson, Luke Bryan, Randy Houser, Austin Marshall, Maggie Rose, Ben Hayslip and Rhett Akins
Credit: Getty / Rick Diamond
With the help of A-List friends and performers, the Peach Pickers raised more than $100,000 at the second annual “Jameson® Irish Whiskey Presents Georgia On My Mind” concert on May 12, 2015 at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. The intimate evening featured performances by ACM Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan and Cole Swindell as well an acoustic performance by Randy Houser, eliciting two standing ovations in the Mother Church of Country Music.
Credit: Danny Clinch
Dead Inside” the first single from Muse’s forthcoming seventh studio album – Drones – holds its reign on the top of the Mediabase and Billboard Modern Rock Charts this week. “Dead Inside” is the trio’s fourth #1 song. Muse holds the record for number of weeks at #1 with their song “Madness” which set the record back in 2012. Warner Bros. Records will release Drones on June 9th.
Maxx Recordings, a full service label founded and led by Maximum Artist Group’s Mitchell Solarek, introduced it’s first signing, buzz band 3for3, at a star-studded launch party in Nashville tonight. The group is set to launch a single next month, as well as a tour this fall. Additionally, Solarek announced that the full-service entertainment group is partnering with Sony RED and New Day Christian for distribution of the multi-genre enterprise and has also signed Kolby Koloff and Riley Clemmons. Maximum Artist Group is home to award-winning artists such as Natalie Grant, Donald Lawrence, Danny Gokey and award-winning producer Bernie Herms.
