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AT&T* is giving Country Music fans a front row seat at “The 50th Annual CMA Awards” red carpet. AUDIENCE® Network presents an exclusive look at the “AT&T CMA Awards Red Carpet” show hosted by Bobby Bones, host of iHeartRadio’s nationally syndicated radio program “The Bobby Bones Show,” and a performance by Country Music star Chris Janson. Janson’s “Buy Me A Boat” was named Country Song of the Year at the iHeartRadio Music Awards in May. Continue Reading →
During an October 4th surprise performance at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium that sent social media into a frenzy, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill announced “Soul2Soul The World Tour 2017” kicking off in New Orleans on April 7, 2017. The 65-city tour celebrates the 10th anniversary of the record-breaking “Soul2Soul II” tour, the highest-grossing multi-year country music tour of all time, and the first time Faith Hill has toured since 2007. And yesterday, the tour announced two Nashville shows added to the itinerary. See additions in tour routing below.
Photo credit: Donn Jones
Three visionary iconoclasts, whose creative skills altered the direction of commercial country music, were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame during a star-studded, profoundly emotional Medallion Ceremony on October 16, 2016. Continue Reading →
WHO KNEW, sponsored by MusicRowSearch and the College of Media and Entertainment at Middle Tennessee State University, will present “The Pitch: An Evening With Music Supervisors” on Tuesday, November 15, at City Winery. The event will mirror last year’s hugely successful Pitch event that featured music supervisors representing television, film, trailers, video games and advertising, listening to live bands perform their material in hopes that a song may be selected for a synch placement right on the spot.
Ty Herndon’s much anticipated, full-length album House On Fire is now available for pre-order on iTunes and Amazon. From track to track, Herndon has made the most engaging, meaningful and fulfilling music of his career. Featuring Herndon’s powerful trademark vocals, the new album is already receiving critical accolades and showcases a deeper, greater strength from a man who has been there and back and has lived to tell about it. House on Fire is the next evolution of Ty Herndon. Continue Reading →
The online education platform MasterClass announced today that one of the most acclaimed entertainers of all time, Reba McEntire, will be joining its roster of instructors to teach her MasterClass on Country music. Pre-enrollment for the class opens today at www.masterclass.com/reba. Continue Reading →
The United States of America’s top selling solo artist of all time and current CMA Entertainer of the Year nominee Garth Brooks revealed “Baby, Let’s Lay Down And Dance” as the first single from his upcoming 11th studio album set to be released later this year by Pearl Records, Inc. Available now at Country radio, the uptempo track embodies Brooks’ unmatched energy and trademark sound, while remaining undeniably timeless. Continue Reading →
Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation will present its first Nashville Ice Show and After Show Celebration on Sunday, November 20 at Bridgestone Arena. “An Evening with Scott Hamilton & Friends” will include a live musical concert by 9-time Grammy Award winner Sheryl Crow, who will be joined onstage by other incredible artists (to be announced at a later date). The event will simultaneously feature live music and ice skating from the biggest names in figure skating including show host Scott Hamilton and co-host Kristi Yamaguchi and figure skating performances by Olympic champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Brian Boitano, Jeffrey Buttle and more (to be announced at a later date). Continue Reading →
Pictured (L-R): ASCAP's Mike Sistad, Black River Publishing's Dave Pacula, ole's John Ozier, ASCAP's Beth Brinker, co-writers Kelsea Ballerini, Jesse Lee and Forest Glen Whitehead, producer Jason Massey, Black River Entertainment's Gordon Kerr, and BMI's David Preston. Photo credit: John Shearer
Celebrating her high flying, third consecutive #1 single surrounded by planes and parachutes, Kelsea Ballerini and her music industry supporters toasted to the success of “Peter Pan” at a massive party held yesterday (10/12) in a Nashville airplane hangar. Continue Reading →
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BRANTLEY GILBERT has quietly built himself into a back-to-back platinum selling underdog. By tapping into the gut of the outlier, the roughneck, the downhome and the downtrodden, the songwriter/rocker from Jefferson, Georgia has written songs torn from their lives – and delivered hard hitting performances that made his TAKE IT OUTSIDE TOUR one of the summer’s biggest tours. Continue Reading →
