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The first annual 30A Songwriters Festival will debut January 15-17 along the resort highway on the Florida panhandle between Destin and Panama City Beach. More than 50 songwriters, including Jeffrey Steele (“The Cowboy in Me” for Tim McGraw, “What Hurts the Most” for Rascal Flatts), BMI Icon John Oates (“Sara…
Green Hills Music & BMI Toast Gordon Bradberry
BMI recently helped celebrate hit songwriter Gordon Bradberry’s new publishing deal with Green Hills Music Group. Bradberry grew up on the gulf coast in Grand Isle, Louisiana, so the revelers enjoyed some of the songwriter’s favorite southern Louisiana cuisine prepared by Chef “Chappy” at Chappy’s on Church. Artists including Montgomery…
Cox TV Execs Get Special BMI Performance
BMI provided musical entertainment at Cox Television's annual management meeting held recently in Florida. BMI Award-winning songwriters Steve Dorff and Bobby Tomberlin not only played their own big hits, but also performed some songs that they had just written together.
GuitarTown Auction Raises $300,000 for Charity
The City of Nashville came out in droves to raise $300,000 at the GuitarTown Auction Gala held recently at BMI's Music Row offices. The arts projected presented by Gibson Guitar culminated in a star-studded gala auction by Juliens Auctions. BMI songwriter Big Kenny of…
Country Stars Tuning Up for GuitarTown Auction
BMI country duo Big & Rich have been announced as the hosts of the upcoming GuitarTown Auction Gala being held on Thursday, February 23 at BMI's Music Row offices. The much anticipated event is the culmination of…
BMI Stars Perform for State Broadcasters
BMI songwriters Steve Dorff and Bobby Tomberlin performed at the 2004 National Alliance of State Broadcasters Associations (NASBA) dinner held recently at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. Steve Dorff, who has written over 20 Top 10 country and/or pop hits and nine #1 film songs, is a…
Del McCoury Strikes With ‘Lightning’ at 2002 IBMA Awards
The Del McCoury Band and the live concert recording Down From the Mountain, featuring artists from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, were each double winners at the 13th Annual International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Awards, held October 17 at the Kentucky Center for…
BMI Superstars Light Up CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards
Country superstars and their sizzling music videos were in the spotlight at the first-ever CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards, held June 12 as a kick-off to Nashville's Fan Fair festival. Telecast live on CMT from the Gaylord Entertainment Center, the Flameworthy awards are country music's only fan-voted awards show;…
BMI Stars Are Hot at CMT Flameworthy Nominations
BMI writer/artists Toby Keith and Martina McBride collected three nominations when the inaugural CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards were announced in Nashville (5/14). Landing two nominations apiece in country music's first ever music video awards were Brooks & Dunn, Faith…
Best Cellars and Best Sellers Raise Top Dollars at T.J. Martell Foundation Dinner
Nashville music’s best sellers joined renowned Chef Norman Van Aken of ‘Norman’s of Coral Gables’ and wine connoisseurs from the best cellars in Nashville for the Third Annual Nashville Best Cellars Dinner at Loews Vanderbilt Hotel on March 11.