[Updated]: Industry Ink (7/8/14)

Branden Bosler

Branden Bosler has been added as Promotion Coordinator for Warner Music Nashville’s Team WMN. Bosler replaces Tyler Wall, who will exit July 25 to pursue his MBA at Vanderbilt.

Atlanta native Bosler interned with WMN through May 2013, and graduated from University of Georgia before earning his Master’s degree in Education from Vanderbilt.

He can be reached branden.bosler@wmg.com. He will eventually assume Wall’s direct line at 615-214-1525.

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Pictured (L-R): Dolly Parton, Hope Powell

A memorial service for Nashville photographer Hope Powell will be held on Saturday, July 12.

Billed as, “A Going Home Celebration,” the event will held at Christ Church, 15354 Old Hickory Blvd. in Brentwood. It will begin with a visitation at noon, followed by the service at 1 p.m. Christ Church Choir, of which Powell was a longtime member, will sing.

One of Music City’s premiere celebrity photographers, Powell died at age 90 on July 3 after a bout with lung cancer. She created iconic album jackets for Dolly Parton, Conway Twitty, Tom T. Hall, Porter Wagoner and others and won a 1974 Dove Award for her work with The Blackwood Brothers. Hope Powell was given a SOURCE Award in 2007 as a pioneering woman in the Nashville music business.

-submitted by Robert K. Oermann

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Wendy Newcomer

Wendy Newcomer, former Sr. Editor at Great American Country, has joined Country Aircheck in the newly created position of Managing Editor. Prior to her nine years with GAC, Newcomer was an associate editor with Country Weekly. Newcomer can be reached at wendy@countryaircheck.com.

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The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum honored rock and soul pioneer Buzz Cason recently during its Poets & Prophets series. Cason, a Nashville native, was a member of Nashville’s first rock band, The Casuals, and co-wrote numerous hits including “Everlasting Love” during his 60-year career. The program featured a performance by Cason as well as an in-depth interview led by museum editor Michael Gray.

Pictured are (L-R): Wayne Moss, Chip Young, Scotty Moore, Sonny Curtis, Jerry Chesnut, Buzz Cason, Bob McDill, Allen Reynolds, Dickey Lee, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Michael Gray, Dallas Frazier, and Bergen White.