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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…
From News, posted 1.10.12
Crested Butte Songwriters Festival Brings Hit-Makers Together to Beat Breast Cancer
The inaugural Crested Butte Songwriters Festival will feature performances by a collection of the best performing songwriters in the world. Slated for January 13-14, 2012 at the elevation-hotel-and-spa Crested Butte Mountain Resort in Colorado, the festival will revolve around two nights of performances staged at local hot spots. Crowds will experience the faces, voices and stories behind hit songs during signature in-the-round acoustic performances and raucous, dance-inducing sets will dominate…
From News, posted 11.28.11
David Lee, Lessons Learned
Over the last 20 years, David Lee has emerged as reliable Nashville hit songwriter, with cuts by George Strait, Lee Ann Womack, Trace Adkins, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. But the story behind Lee's latest songwriting success, Lady Antebellum's “Hello World,” stretches back to his earliest days in Music…
From MusicWorld, posted 1.28.11
Randy Rogers Band: It’s Always About the Songs
“It’s frustrating to me sometimes when people classify us as Texas music,” says Randy Rogers, lifting his cowboy hat to drag a hand through cropped curls. Ah, but Randy, the association’s just too easy to make. The Randy Rogers Band frontman was born and raised in Cleburne as the son of a Baptist preacher; honed his chops out of high school with open mic nights at San…
From MusicWorld, posted 12.15.10
Taylor Swift, Liz Rose, Billy Sherrill & More Honored at 2010 BMI Country Music Awards
BMI saluted the songwriters and publishers behind country music’s most-performed songs of the past year tonight during the 58th annual BMI Country Awards. The ceremony was held in the company’s Music Row offices. BMI President & CEO Del Bryant hosted the gala with Jody Williams, Vice President, Writer/Publisher Relations, Nashville. At 20 years old, Taylor Swift became the youngest person ever to win the…
From News, posted 11.09.10
Jamey Johnson, His Way
The year was 2008. In the bowels of Nashville's LP Field stadium, the stars of the CMA Music Festival were making their media rounds. One after another, country music's elite stepped to the microphone and said that everything they do is for their fans, smiling humbly as they explained that coming to the festival was a way to give their thanks for this support. Every performer, that is, except one.…
From MusicWorld, posted 9.13.10
Country and Pop Collide at 2nd Annual Martha’s Vineyard Songwriters Festival
The second annual Martha’s Vineyard Songwriters Festival will take over the famous East Coast playground September 24 and 25. Staged at both Mansion House in Vineyard Haven, MA and Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs, MA, the festival will combine pop and country BMI hit-makers in exclusive live music lineups and intimate settings, adopting the overwhelmingly successful approach of the popular Key West Songwriters Festival. Advance tickets for each show are…
From News, posted 7.28.10
Hank Cochran Dies
Iconic songwriter Hank Cochran died Thursday morning at his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. The writer behind country standards including “Make the World Go Away,” “She’s Got You,” “I Fall to Pieces,” “The Chair,” “Ocean Front Property,” “Don’t You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me,” “Is It Raining at Your House,” “That’s All That Matters,” “Set ‘Em Up Joe,” “This Ain’t My First Rodeo,” and many more, Cochran…
From News, posted 7.15.10
Troy Olsen, More Than a ‘Summer Thing’
Growing up in rural Arizona, Troy Olsen’s family always kept the radio dial on a small-town country station. As a result, the aspiring singer-songwriter still has a soft spot for 80s country – particularly George Strait and Don Williams. But about halfway through that decade, a new class arrived on the country charts that changed his life. “Dwight Yoakam and Pete…
From MusicWorld, posted 4.22.10
Jason Aldean Kicks Doors Wide Open
When Jason Aldean recorded “Crazy Town,” a pummeling, riff-heavy country-rock number about the dizzying, and often demoralizing, gamble of trying to make it in Nashville’s country music business, for last year’s Wide Open, he was already among the still-young country acts who can fill arenas. Even so, for him, the song was no fiction. “I moved to Nashville in 1998 and in ’99 I signed with Capitol…
From MusicWorld, posted 3.26.10
Recent George Strait events
| Jan 15 2012 | Crested Butte Songwriters Festival |
| Jan 14 2012 | Crested Butte Songwriters Festival |
| Jan 13 2012 | Crested Butte Songwriters Festival |
| Oct 25 2008 | Saxon Pub’s Platinum Songwriter Series: Austin |
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