Category: Featured
McMurry Entertainment Opens On The Row
Longtime music businessmen Howard Fields and Everett Zinn have launched McMurry Entertainment Group, an independent music company based in Nashville. The enterprise is a three-way partnership between Fields, Zinn and Wyoming entrepreneur Doris McMurry, and is comprised of a record label and management company all under the MEG moniker. In the works are a distribution […]
CMA Update: Kid Rock Duets W/ Jamey Johnson; Martina Sings
The carefully managed 43rd Annual CMA Awards info stream continues to tantalize with new details regarding performers and presenters. Just announced is a duet with Kid Rock and four-time nominee Jamey Johnson—their first ever on TV, and Martina McBride will perform during the show. Newly announced presenters include nine-time CMA Award winners The Judds, Country […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Organizations
Reba Makes Media Rounds, Wy Joins Tribute Show
Reba is busy on the talk show circuit this week. She will make her first visit to Rachael Ray’s kitchen table today (11/5) as the show’s only celebrity guest. Later in the evening, she visits ABC’s Nightline to discuss her musical influences, career and new album. Earlier this week she stopped by Live! with Regis […]
Tracy Lawrence Turkey Fry, Guitar Center Food Drive
Tracy Lawrence’s 4th annual Mission Possible Turkey Fry will take place Tues., Nov. 24 from 8 AM-5 PM at the Nashville Mission parking lot (639 Lafayette St.). Lorrie Morgan, Burns and Poe, Sarah Darling, and Brad Arnold are among the guests who will join Lawrence that day. Since the food drive’s inception, Lawrence and celebrity […]
Free LimeWire Compilation Of Nashville Acts
The LimeWire Store has unveiled a compilation featuring promising indie talent straight out of Music City. The Ear to the Ground: Nashville compilation is a free digital download available exclusively at store.limewire.com/ettg. Curated by the staff of Nashville Scene, Ear to the Ground: Nashville is a 17-track compendium featuring rising talents including Cortney Tidwell, Those […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Sales/Marketing
Cracker Barrel Opens Store Downtown For CMA Awards
A temporary Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® will be open from Nov. 7-12, at 1st & Broadway in downtown Nashville in conjunction with the CMA Awards. The retail shop won’t have a restaurant, but it will have an appearance by Alan Jackson. The superstar just released a new collection of signature merchandise exclusively via Cracker Barrel. […]
Category: Artist, Featured, Sales/Marketing
CMA To Host Marketing Summit
The Country Music Association will host its fourth annual Marketing Summit next week, designed to inform executives from national corportations about entering successful partnerships with country music and its artists. Brown-Forman, Chevy, Coca-Cola, Cotton Inc., Cracker Barrel, Dollar General, General Mills, Nissan, Shoney’s, Tasti D-Lite, TIAA CREF and Wrangler are among the big name companies […]
Category: Featured, Organizations, Sales/Marketing
3 Doors Down Local Side Project, Golf Tournament
Local musicians Todd Harrell (3 Doors Down), Jon Nicholson (Muzik Mafia), Kenny Olson (Kid Rock’s band), and Shannon Boone have formed a new band called 7dayBinge. They recorded their self-titled debut album recently at the Sound Kitchen and will release it via Rock Ridge Music. The self-produced album will be available digitally on Dec. 8, […]
Industry Poll: Who Will Win Entertainer?
MusicRow.com has just posted an industry poll on the home page. Vote anonymously and tell us who you think will take home the big prize at next week’s CMA Awards. A new fan poll by CMT.com says Taylor Swift will win Entertainer of the Year on Nov. 11. If Swift wins, she’ll become the youngest […]
Artists Lend Names To Charity
Buddy Jewell, Stella Parton and Adam Gregory will be the Ambassadors of Goodwill for World Orphans Day 2009 on Nov. 9. They will hold a candlelight vigil to raise awareness at the The People’s Church East Lawn in Franklin, TN at 4:00 p.m. CST. Gregory will also lead students and youth groups in a mile walk […]
Currington To Macy’s Parade, Martina on Oprah
Billy Currington will perform during the 83rd annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The event in New York City will be co-hosted by Today’s Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, and Al Roker, and will air on NBC from 9:00 a.m.-noon in all time zones. Other guests include Andrea Bocelli, Boys Like Girls, Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, Gloria […]
