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Award-winning, husband and wife country music duo Joey+Rory received their first GRAMMY® nomination for Best Country Duo/Group Performance. According to the announcement by The Recording Academy, the couple have been honored for their recording of “If I Needed You,” written by Townes Van Zandt and featured on their current project, Country Classics, A Tapestry of Our Musical Heritage (Gaither Music Group).
Arista Nashville/RCA Records singer/songwriter Cam is celebrating a huge week with a Top 5 single, an album release, and the first GRAMMY® Award nomination of her career. Cam was nominated for Best Country Solo Performance for her compellingly powerful smash single, “Burning House.”
The winners were announced Monday for CMA’s touring industry honors known as the SRO Awards. The trophies were presented at an industry event at Marathon Music Works in Nashville hosted by Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts.
Gary Allan, Big & Rich, Frankie Ballard, Eric Paslay, Chris Janson, Old Dominion, Neal McCoy, The Swon Brothers, The Cadillac Three, Jana Kramer, Outshyne, William Michael Morgan and Annie Bosko will perform at the 4th Annual Taste of Country Music Festival, the Northeast’s premier 3-day country music festival. The Festival will be held June 10-12, 2016 at Hunter Mountain Resort (Hunter, NY) in the Great Northern Catskills of Greene County. This star-packed list of performers will join Kenny Chesney and Jake Owen – who were previously announced as headliners – on the TOC stage in 2016.
In spirit of the holiday season, Country Radio Seminar is offering a $100 discount on CRS 2016 registrations, available now through Jan. 7. Following the deadline, the $529 per person rate will increase to $629. To register for the three-day event, held Monday, Feb. 8 through Wednesday, Feb. 10 at the Omni hotel, visit www.CountryRadioSeminar.com today.
Columbia Records’ country sensation Home Free’s new music video for the Christmas classic “Do You Hear What I Hear?” has hit over 130,000 real-time views in under 48 hours. The harmony-rich arrangement of the holiday favorite is featured on the band’s Christmas release, FULL OF CHEER. The stunning video was filmed at night in the frigid cold at an ice castle in Eden Prairie, MN.
Check out Home Free at www.homefreemusic.com
Worldwide Executive of Electronic Arts, Steve Schnur, is featured in Variety’s ‘Music City Impact Report’ and is among an elite group of Nashville executives and artists labeled as being some of Music City’s most influential.
Following the release of their #1 Billboard Bluegrass charting album, “Dailey & Vincent – ALIVE! In Concert,” and the premiere of their first national TV series The Dailey & Vincent Show on RFD-TV, the multi-Grammy nominated duo celebrate their nomination for a 2015 Midsouth Regional Emmy® nomination. The award winning duo is nominated in the Entertainment Program category for their Dailey & Vincent – ALIVE! In Concert, which has been aired on PBS in over 84 markets with an estimate of over 1 million impressions.
Following the exclusive streaming premiere on The Boot, Texas Country Rocker, Cameran Nelson, releases his highly anticipated sophomore album, “Good Thing Going,” Friday, December 4. The album is available on iTunes here.
Country Radio Seminar (CRS) and the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum will partner to offer CRS 2016 attendees a private reception and free tour of the museum on Tuesday, Feb. 9 from 5-7 p.m. CT. This keystone event is one of the many new events planned to launch, “The New CRS Experience.” In addition, CRS attendees can visit the museum on Monday, Feb. 8 from 9 a.m to 3 p.m. CT.
