BMI helped host two VIP receptions for licensing customers and association partners who traveled to the southernmost point in the continental U.S. to enjoy the 2018 Key West Songwriters Festival, held May 9-13. The first event was held in partnership with the Florida Restaurant & Lodging Association at the Southernmost… Read more...
BMI partnered with the Colorado Brewers Guild recently (2/20) to present a workshop on music licensing at the Call to Arms Brewery in Denver. The group of taproom and brewpub owners from across the state gathered to learn more about the Copyright Law and how to legally perform music in… Read more...
The Songwriters Hall of Fame announced its latest class of inductees for 2018, and BMI is very proud to count six of these remarkably talented songwriters as longtime affiliates. We happily join our friends at the Hall in celebrating their amazing music. Dedicated to honoring the contributions of the composers… Read more...
BMI brought a taste of Nashville to the 2017 Nexstar Media Group’s GM meeting held recently in Dallas (6/13). Nashville country hitmakers Aaron Barker, Dylan Altman and Danny Myrick played their # 1 tunes and told the stories behind the songs in front of Nexstar General Managers as well as… Read more...
I have hundreds of songs sitting on shelves collecting dust—instead of royalties. Many of them were written decades ago and they were in sync, lyrically and melodically, to the eras in which they were composed. But as Larry Beaird, top session guitarist and owner of Beaird Music Group, stated, “Times… Read more...
BMI partnered recently (3/11) with Entercom’s 94.1 The Wolf to present the 2nd annual songwriters festival held at the Halloran Centre for Performing Arts and Education in Memphis, TN. Headlining the festival were award-winning BMI songwriters Barry Dean, Casey Beathard, Sarah Buxton and session musician and producer Tom Bukovac. Dean,… Read more...
GRAMMY-nominated country songwriter Tim James lent BMI a hand recently (1/31) as it hosted a session at the Wyoming Governor’s Hospitality & Tourism Conference in Cheyenne. Aimed at educating restaurant and hotel industry executives from the state on how to legally perform music in their establishments, “Pulling Back the Curtain… Read more...
BMI partnered with the Illinois Retail Merchants Association recently on a pilot program designed to demonstrate the power of live music in driving traffic and enhancing the shopping experience at retail establishments. Live music was featured at two of Potash Markets’ locations in downtown Chicago where GRAMMY-nominated BMI country songwriter… Read more...
Songwriting, like any art form, is shaped by both nature and nurture. Hit songwriter and composer Steve Dorff – who has been honored with more than 40 BMI Awards, 11 Billboard #1 songs, and multiple GRAMMY and Emmy nominations – could have viewed his adolescent son Andrew’s interest in writing… Read more...
The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame has announced the upcoming induction of award-winning BMI songwriter Aaron Barker into the prestigious hall on October 9, during the 46th annual Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala to be held at Nashville’s Music City Center. Barker, who was also inducted into the Texas… Read more...
