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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…
From News, posted 10.18.10
CMA Triple Play Awards Salute BMI Songwriters’ Chart-Toppers
The Country Music Association presented its annual CMA Triple Play Awards on Wednesday, October 14, and the majority of honorees are BMI songwriters. Handed out during the Second Annual CMA Songwriters Luncheon, held at the Pinnacle at Symphony Place in Nashville, the Triple Play Awards celebrate songwriters and artist/songwriters who have penned three #1 singles in a 12-month period. Carrie Underwood received two CMA Triple Play Awards…
From News, posted 10.16.10
Miranda Lambert Leads List of 2010 CMA Nominees
Miranda Lambert made history this morning as nominees for the 44th Annual CMA Awards were announced live on ABC News' Good Morning America. With nine nominations, Lambert has officially collected more nods than any other female artist in the history of the CMAs. In addition to Entertainer, Female Vocalist, and Album of the Year for Revolution, Lambert received two nominations in the Single of the Year field…
From News, posted 9.01.10
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
Music Row Awards Salute BMI’s Country Family
BMI hosted the annual Music Row Awards Thursday, June 24 in Nashville, welcoming a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd there to cheer the community’s biggest success stories of the past year. BMI country trendsetters enjoyed win after win at the reader-voted awards: the Zac Brown Band claimed Breakthrough Artist of the Year, while “The House That Built Me,” co-written by perennial BMI hit-maker Tom Douglas and recorded…
From News, posted 6.29.10
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…
From News, posted 4.01.10
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
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…
From MusicWorld, posted 12.21.09
BMI Serves Up Tunesmiths at Acoustic Lunch
BMI hosted Sony/ATV/Tree and three of its top songwriters at the latest installment of Acoustic Lunch. Featured during the midday song-pitching session were BMI Award winners Casey Beathard ("Right Where I Need To Be," "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems"), Tom Douglas ("Little Rock," "Love's The Only House") and Leslie Satcher ("I Said A Prayer For You," "When God Fearin' Women Get The Blues").…
From News, posted 8.26.03
Andy Griggs
RCA Records artist Andy Griggs (center) recently celebrated his second album Freedom with an acoustic performance and reception in Nashville. Griggs contributed six songs to Freedom, including the title track. Other BMI writers on the project are Tom Douglas, Troy Verges, Don Cook, Jamie Hartford, David Malloy and Wendell Mobley. His debut album, You Won't Ever…
From News, posted 6.17.02
Top Producer Byron Gallimore Is Center Stage at Surprise Party
The guest list was a "Who's Who" of country music makers when BMI Nashville hosted a surprise party for producer Byron Gallimore to celebrate his being named Billboard magazine's #1 "Hot Country Producer" for the third year in a row. Billboard Nashville bureau chief Phyllis Stark gifted Gallimore with a framed listing from the magazine, explaining that his #1 designation represents an astounding 87 charting songs in three years.…
From News, posted 3.06.02
‘I Hope You Dance’ Steps to ‘Song Of The Year’ Tune at 49th Annual BMI Count
BMI staged the 49th edition of its Country Awards last night, with ultimate honors saved for “I Hope You Dance,” songwriters Toby Keith, Marv Green and Aimee Mayo, and publishing titan Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. BMI Citations of Achievement were presented by President & CEO Frances W. Preston and Vice President Paul Corbin to the songwriters and publishers of the past year’s 50 most performed songs…
From News, posted 11.06.01
NCSA Songwriters Summit
BMI was once again a sponsor at this year’s Northern California Songwriters Association's (NCSA) annual Songwriters Summit held at Foothills College in Los Altos Hills, California. The 21st Annual Songwriters Summit took place on September 8 and 9 with BMI’s Paige Sober participating as a panelist during the two days of panels and seminars. BMI songwriter Lamont Dozier of the legendary songwriting trio Holland-Dozier-Holland…
From News, posted 10.15.01
Grown Men Don’t Cry
Friends and fans gathered at BMI Nashville (9/5) to honor the BMI-affiliated talents behind the #1 success of "Grown Men Don't Cry": songwriter Tom Douglas (who co-wrote with Steve Seskin), artist Tim McGraw, publisher Sony/ATV Tree and producers Byron Gallimore and James Stroud. Among the sackfuls of loot handed out at the #1 celebration, including BMI cups and Sony plaques, were extra-special commemorative…
From News, posted 9.06.01
Tom Douglas
For Tom Douglas, Nashville is much sweeter the second time around. Douglas spent a few years on Music Row in the early '80s as a writer and songplugger, only to decide the song business might not be the right place for him. Planning to get married and desirous of a more stable career, the Atlanta native and his wife-to-be headed for Dallas where he became…
From MusicWorld, posted 4.30.00
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