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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…
From News, posted 1.29.10
BMI Stage Performers Announced for 2009 Lollapalooza
BMI boasts a line-up of eclectic, must-see, hear-it-first performers on its 2009 Lollapalooza stage. Running August 7-9 at Grant Park’s Hutchinson Field in Chicago, IL, BMI’s stage will kick off performances at 11:15 a.m. each day, setting the pace at the mammoth music festival. Presenting acts from stateside and abroad, the stage will showcase myriad bluegrass, rock, electro-pop, and singer/songwriter acts. Performers on the BMI Lollapalooza stage range from storytelling…
From News, posted 7.17.09
Key West Fest Enjoys Record-Setting Year
The 14th Annual Key West Songwriters Festival invaded the Florida hotspot April 29 through May 3. Presented by Better Angels Music and benefiting the Muzak Heart & Soul Foundation, the industry- and fan-favorite launched another year of songs in the sun Wednesday, April 29 with BMI’s kick-off party at La Concha Hotel, which was followed by a slew of intimate songwriter showcases and Key West-only moments. This year's lineup boasted…
From News, posted 5.12.09
Key West Songwriters Festival Slated for April 29 – May 3
The 14th Annual Key West Songwriters Festival will invade the venues of its paradisiacal namesake April 29 through May 3, 2009, offering eclectic show lineups that introduce crowds to the faces, voices and stories behind the songs. The festival features more than 100 top songwriters and revolves around five days and nights of more than 20 free concerts, staged at an array of the island’s most popular drinking holes and…
From News, posted 2.05.09
Key West Fest Boasts another Red-Letter Year
The 13th Annual Key West Songwriters Festival presented by Cherry Heart Music drew enthusiastic crowds of music industry insiders and country music fans to the Florida hotspot April 30 through May 4. A charter sponsor of the festival, BMI arrived with a slew of Music City’s finest singer/songwriters in tow, and performances throughout the five-day musical feast struck a unique balance between intimate acoustic song swaps and rollicking band sets.…
From News, posted 5.10.08
Key West Songwriters Festival Mixes Roots Music Royalty with Mainstream Songwriting Elite
Lineup Includes Robert Earl Keen, Raul Malo, Kim Richey & Jeffrey Steele The 13th Annual Hog's Breath Key West Songwriters Festival looms enticingly on the horizon. Presented by Cherry Heart Music and proudly supported by charter sponsor BMI, the event is slated for April 30 through May 4 in Key West, Florida. The festival revolves around five days…
From News, posted 4.23.08
Key West Calling
13th Annual Hog's Breath Key West Songwriters Festival Presented by Cherry Heart Music and BMI Key West and country music’s thirteen year love affair is anything but secret, and the Hog’s Breath Key West Songwriters Festival, presented by Cherry Heart Music and BMI, serves as the 13th annual spring rendezvous. Jeffrey Steele Jamey Johnson Scotty Emerick Live music bliss and a…
From News, posted 2.17.08
BMI Sponsors First Annual Big State Festival
The Big State Festival commandeered Texas World Speedway in Bryan/College Station, Texas, on October 13 & 14. BMI proudly sponsored the inaugural festival, which married country lifestyle and music through two days of nonstop barbeque, stock-car racing and performances by over 50 artists, including BMI's Willie Nelson, Tim McGraw, Robert Earl Keen and Miranda Lambert.
From News, posted 11.20.07
BMI Sponsors 2006 Austin City Limits Music Festival
From Sept. 15-17, BMI will sponsor the Austin City Limits Music Festival for the fourth consecutive year in Austin, Texas. Produced by Capital Sports & Entertainment and Charles Attal Presents, the ACL Festival evolved from the PBS award-winning televised concert series Austin City Limits. Held in Austin's sprawling Zilker Park, the festival is undiluted aqua vitae for lovers of live music. BMI's stage proudly spotlights some of…
From News, posted 8.25.06
Robert Earl Keen Sings What He Means
Ask those who know legendary Texas troubadour Robert Earl Keen, and they’ll tell you he doesn’t mince words in real life. So it’s just a creative device when he explains himself in the title track of his newest Koch Records release, What I Really Mean . It’s a postcard travelogue turned love song: “What I really mean,” he sings, “is I wish you were here.” …
From MusicWorld, posted 7.21.05
Country in the Rockies XI Supports Martell Foundation Efforts ‘To Change and Save Lives’
Country in the Rockies XI Supports Martell Foundation Efforts 'To Change and Save Lives' Country in the Rockies, the signature fund-raising event for the T.J. Martell Foundation's Nashville Division, brought music fans to Club Med Crested Butte, Colorado (February 16) with a mission to change and save lives. Supported by founding sponsor BMI, presenting sponsors Chevrolet and Club Med, and nearly 50 other corporate, musical,…
From News, posted 2.09.05
Country Stars Head to Colorado for CITR
Country in the Rockies XI, the premier celebrity ski event of the country music industry, adds performances by Big & Rich and Gretchen Wilson presented by Chevrolet to a stellar lineup of singers and songwriters gathering at Club Med Crested Butte, Colo., February 1-6, 2005.
From News, posted 1.24.05
Pat Green
It may be Pat Green’s breezy, easygoing sound that has hooked thousands of listeners, but it’s the breakneck pace he’s kept since his 1998 self-released debut, Dancehall Dreamer, that has catapulted him onto the national stage. Green’s consistently solid releases and incessant touring, as well as his electrifying live show — part honkytonk, part frat party — drove his independent albums sales to well over 200,000 before…
From MusicWorld, posted 7.25.04
Country in the Rockies X: The Ultimate Backstage Pass
Country In the Rockies X lived up to its billing as "The Ultimate Backstage Pass," bringing legendary artists like Mel Tillis, Charlie Daniels and Kenny Loggins together with a new generation of singers and songwriters to make music and make money for cancer research. The event, chaired by BMI's Tom Annastas and Paul Corbin, is held at Club Med in Crested Butte, Colorado. …
From News, posted 3.07.04
Country in the Rockies: The Ultimate Backstage Pass
Country in the Rockies X will be the perfect blend of old and new, as a bevy of artists and songwriters return to Crested Butte, Colorado, in January to have fun raising funds for cancer research. Co-sponsored by BMI, the ski-and-music event - the Ultimate Backstage Pass - is slated for Jan. 27 through Feb. 1, 2004. It is the signature fundraiser for the
From News, posted 1.04.04
Austin City Limits Festival Shares Stage with BMI Singer/Songwriters
The 2nd Annual Austin City Limits Music Festival was bigger and better in every way: more music, more stages, greater attendance - even one more day. The event, produced by Capital Sports & Entertainment, was held September 19-21 across 15 acres in Zilker Park, and drew nearly 150,000 music fans total during the long weekend. BMI…
From News, posted 9.30.03
Musicians Take BMI Stage at ACL Music Fest
BMI will host a singer/songwriter stage at the 2nd Annual Austin City Limits Music Festival, to be held September 19 - 21 in Austin's beloved Zilker Park (2100 Barton Springs Road). Writers featured on the BMI-sponsored stage will include Bruce Robison ("Travelin' Soldier"), Shawn Camp ("Two Pi�a Coladas"), Robert Earl Keen ("This Old Porch") and
From News, posted 9.16.03
Old Crow Medicine Show
The Old Crow Medicine Show recently visited BMI's Nashville office to become affiliated with the organization. The band plays songs from some of the earliest traditions of American music: tunes from jug bands and traveling shows, back porches and dance halls, southern Appalachian string music and Memphis blues. (front) Old…
From News, posted 6.30.02
Dave Alvin
"The characters of these old folk songs and the characters who walk the streets today are pretty much the same people." So says seminal roots-rocker Dave Alvin, whose seventh solo release, Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land, recently won Alvin his first Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album. Ironically, although it's his own vividly insightful compositions that have established the veteran singer/guitarist as one of…
From MusicWorld, posted 6.07.01
Robert Earl Keen Lets the Action Do the Talking
Over the course of nearly two decades, Texas troubadour Robert Earl Keen has emerged as one of America's most distinctive songwriter/performers, albeit one who consistently resists easy stylistic and demographic pigeonholing. His richly detailed narratives balance gritty insight and literate lyrical craft, while maintaining a tough honky-tonk edge deeply rooted in Lone Star roadhouse tradition. Keen's most recent release, 1998's Walking Distance, was an ambitious song cycle…
From MusicWorld, posted 4.30.00
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