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CMA Songwriters Series Expands to U.K. and Ireland with BMI in Feb. 2012

The Country Music Association's very popular CMA Songwriters Series is coming to the U.K. and Ireland for the first time with special performances in February 2012 scheduled for London, Belfast, and Dublin, CMA Chief Executive Officer Steve Moore announced today. The international tour will be known as CMA & BMI Present the CMA Songwriter Series. DATES Wednesday, February 22 London Islington Assembly Hall…
New Performers Announced for Better Angels Music Key West Songwriters Festival

Presented by BMI, Perennial Favorite Slated for April 27-May 1 The Better Angels Music Key West Songwriters Festival, presented by BMI, is exploding, surpassing even the biggest dreams of its founders and longtime supporters. The 2011 lineup is unprecedentedly deeper: genre-hopping singer/songwriters Raul Malo, Marshall Chapman, and Robert Earl Keen; serial country chart-toppers Lori McKenna,
A.R. Rahman Leads BMI List of 2011 Oscar Nominations

A.R. Rahman leads the list of BMI composers and songwriters nominated to take home statuettes at the 83rd Academy Awards, announced Tuesday morning. Rahman earned an impressive two nods: the first in the original score category for “127 Hours”; the second, in the original song field for “If I Rise,” also from “127 Hours.” Atticus Ross’s Golden Globe-winning score for “The Social Network” was…
Better Angels Music Key West Songwriters Festival Preps for 16th Year

The Better Angels Music Key West Songwriters Festival, presented by BMI, will make paradise even sweeter during the event’s 16th annual installment in its island namesake. Benefiting the Muzak Heart & Soul Foundation, the festival will feature more than 100 top-tier performing songwriters. Anchor sponsor BMI will continue its widespread support of the fest, leading Key West’s annual transformation into a music mecca Wednesday, April 27 through Sunday, May 1,…
Golden Globe Nominations Stacked with BMI Composers

Good news poured in early this morning from Los Angeles: Eighty percent of the 2011 Golden Globe nominations in music categories went to BMI composers and songwriters. Alexandre Desplat’s music for The King’s Speech, the film which garnered the most nominations overall, was tapped in the Best Original Score for a Motion Picture field, as was Danny Elfman’s vibrant score for Alice in Wonderland.…
Nashville Songwriters Feted During Annual NSAI Dinner

The Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame joined forces to toast a year’s worth of hit-worthy craftsmanship and several lifetimes’ worth of genre-building during the 40th Anniversary Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Dinner & Induction Ceremony, presented by AT&T, on Sunday, October 17, at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel. BMI songwriters were called to the stage again and again. Game-changer Taylor Swift…
Inaugural Sandestin Music Festival Slated for August 13 & 14

Steve Cropper, Jeffrey Steele, Lee Roy Parnell, Delbert McClinton and More to Perform The weekend of August 13-14, Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort will be the place to be for music lovers of all ages when the first ever Sandestin Music Festival hits multiple stages throughout the resort. Co-sponsored by BMI, the event will feature legendary…
The Better Angels Music Key West Songwriters Festival Announces Schedule

The Key West Songwriters Festival will make paradise even sweeter during the event’s 15th annual installment Wednesday, April 28 - Sunday, May 2, 2010. Presented by Better Angels Music and benefiting the Muzak Heart & Soul Foundation, the festival will feature more than 100 top-tier songwriters performing most-loved hits. Anchor-sponsor BMI will continue its widespread support of the fest, leading Key West’s annual transformation into a music mecca. Full band…
Key West Songwriters Festival Preps for 15th Year

The Better Angels Music Key West Songwriters Festival will make paradise even sweeter during the event’s 15th annual installment Wednesday, April 28 - Sunday, May 2, 2010. Benefiting the Muzak Heart & Soul Foundation, the festival will feature more than 100 top-tier songwriters performing most-loved hits. Anchor-sponsor BMI will continue its widespread support of the fest, leading Key West’s annual transformation into a music mecca. Full band concerts will bookend…
Tim McGraw’s ‘Southern Voice’

When Tim McGraw first arrived in Nashville 20 years ago, he was just one more gung-ho foot soldier in the city’s perpetually teeming ranks of country music aspirants, battling it out on nightclub stages and facing tremendous odds against ever making any headway. Yet within several years, the Louisiana-born singer-guitarist had established himself as Nashville royalty. Despite his mind-bendingly successful track record, with sales topping 40 million…
