BMI Award-winning songwriter Marcus Hummon -- currently in the running for CMA's Song of the Year prize -- is set to present his latest venture, a musical drama about Jim Thorpe. The Actors Bridge Ensemble will open its 2001-2002 season with the world premiere of Warrior: An… Read more...
The Dixie Chicks, Toby Keith, and Mark Wright were multiple winners at the 36th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, held May 9 in Los Angeles. Reigning BMI Country Artist/Songwriter of the Year Martie Seidel was on hand… Read more...
Al Anderson — who, along with Shania Twain, Skip Ewing and Dixie Chick Martie Seidel, was named a BMI Country Songwriter of the Year this past fall — has in recent years emerged as one of Nashville's most dependable tunesmiths,… Read more...
Click here to see photos from the event Nashville, October 3 — Performing rights organization BMI staged the 48th edition of its Country Awards tonight, with superlative honors reserved for "Amazed," songwriters Al Anderson and Skip Ewing, songwriter/artists Read more...
Shania Twain and Frances Preston The "Amazed" team: Golden Wheat Music's Ben Vaughn and Scott Hendricks, Songs of Nashville Dreamworks'… Read more...
BMI songwriters Vince Gill, Steven Curtis Chapman, Tom Shapiro and the songwriting team of Marv Green, Chris Lindsey and Aimee Mayo were among the top winners at the Nashville Songwriters Association International's (NSAI) 33rd Annual Songwriter Achievement… Read more...
Who says chickens can't fly? If you're the Dixie Chicks, you can. In 1999 and so far in 2000, they've amassed more than two dozen "best of" awards. From a Grammy for Best Country Album to the British CMA for Best International Group, the sassy Texas trio can do… Read more...
Marcus Hummon and Martie Seidel of the Dixie Chicks celebrated another #1 songwriting collaboration - "Cowboy Take Me Away" -- at a party at BMI's Music Row offices. The single, from the Dixie Chicks' 5-times platinum album Fly (Monument), followed their first co-writing venture, "Ready To Run," to the top… Read more...
The writer behind big hits for Wynonna, Tim McGraw, Bryan White and Alabama, Marcus Hummon has been making waves in Nashville for the past decade. However, the artist/songwriter now has hit a creative stride that is turning out to be the most rewarding period of his career - one… Read more...
