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BMI will head south with a slew of Music City’s ace songwriters in tow for the 12th annual Key West Songwriters’ Festival in Key West, Florida, May 2-6. Designed to thrust the writers behind today’s country hits into a deserved spotlight, the festival boasts intimate live performances in…
Country Hitmakers Make Music for a Good Cause in the Caribbean
BMI songwriters and artists hopped a few islands and sang more than a few songs Jan. 13 and 14 during the 3rd Annual Country in the Caribbean. Anguilla hosted two nights of intimate acoustic shows attended by native islanders and tourists alike, featuring sets by Grammy Award…
Nashville in Nassau: BMI Songwriters Play the Bahamas
Another successful Nassau Songwriters' Festival soothed busy, creative minds and perhaps even planted the seeds for future No. 1 hits as BMI sponsored the festival in the Bahamas for the third consecutive year. …
Pat Green & Music Row’s Hit Songwriters Tackle the Caribbean
Live country music drops anchor in Anguilla this month as top notch Music City songwriters head south for the 3rd Annual Country in the Caribbean Music Festival being held Jan. 13-14. Grammy Award-winning and 2006 BMI Country Songwriter of the Year Vicky McGehee ("All Jacked…
Top BMI Writers, Publishers Honored at 54th Annual Country Awards; Merle Haggard Saluted as BMI Icon
BMI, the first home for country music, was also the first to honor the genre's songwriters and publishers with its own awards show in 1953. The tradition turned a healthy 54 years old this year as the BMI Country Awards were held Saturday, Nov. 4 at the performing…
Hit BMI Songwriters Hit the Bahamas for 3rd Annual Nassau Song Fest
The Nassau Songwriters' Festival invades paradise again this year Nov. 10-12. BMI will sponsor the event for the third consecutive year, as the Bahamian town for which the festival is named plays host to an exciting mixture of BMI Nashville's premiere songwriters, artists and stars on the rise, including singer-songwriter…
Vicky McGehee
Songwriter Vicky McGehee didn’t grow up dreaming of the spotlight. Or even backstage. In fact, the hit songwriter says she “never even thought of being a songwriter. This whole thing is kind of a fluke.” This fluke implied fate. McGehee, an Oklahoma native, did not grow up in a musical…
‘Why’ Gives No. 1 Reason to Celebrate
Music Row enjoyed a change of pace as publishers, songwriters and other industry executives gathered downtown at nightclub Mystic to celebrate hot new star Jason Aldean's first No. 1 hit, "Why." BMI songwriters Vicky McGehee and Rodney Clawson co-wrote the soul-searching tune with John Rich, and…
Key West Songwriters Fest a Rousing Success
The 11th annual Key West Songwriter Festival exceeded expectations and cemented its status May 3-7 as a must-attend event for Nashville songwriters. Sixty BMI songwriters and artists performed and mingled during a week's worth of intimate performances and group activities. Hit songwriter Wendell Mobley took…
BMI Sponsors 11th Annual Key West Song Fest
During the first week of May, it's highly possible that not a single hit song will be written in Nashville; that week, the hits will instead pour out of a more tropical songwriting oasis as the Key West Songwriters' Festival invades Key West, Fla., May 3-7, 2006. The…