For the 5th year in a row, BMI partnered with the Texas Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (TRAEF) to present their “Lone Star Bash,” the official opening party for the TRA Marketplace and TRAEF’s major annual fundraiser held July 14 at Minute Maid Park in Houston. BMI artist, songwriter and Texas… Read more...
As has become tradition, BMI Licensing’s Industry Relations department hosted a special dinner for customers and association partners who attended this year’s Mountain High Music Festival, which was presented by BMI Icon Dean Dillon and BMI. The event, held recently (1/16-1/19) in Crested Butte, Colorado, included an evening of great… Read more...
BMI brought Nashville to Maine recently (10/4) to pay tribute to New England’s first craft brewery while celebrating the merger of the state’s restaurant and lodging associations. BMI country songwriters Danny Myrick and Kendell Marvel made the trip up north to Portland to help shine the spotlight on Geary’s Brewing… Read more...
BMI partnered recently (4/17) with Entercom’s 94.1 The Wolf to present the 3rd annual Songwriters Festival at The Halloran Centre for Performing Arts and Education in Memphis, TN. Headlining the event were award-winning BMI singer-songwriters Trent Tomlinson, Marshall Altman and Matt Warren, who collectively have written chart-topping songs for Brett… 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...
BMI hosted a private reception for a group of licensing customers and association partners recently (1/11) at the Mountain High Music Festival, a 3-day charity event presented by BMI songwriting icon Dean Dillon that takes place every year in Crested Butte, Colorado. This year’s line- up included BMI artists Jamey… Read more...
BMI songwriters are again this year overwhelmingly leading the pack of 2016 ACM nominees. Eric Church, who is up for his first ACM Entertainer of the Year award, has an astounding five nods, including his third Male Vocalist of the Year nomination, Album of the Year for Mr. Misunderstood, as… Read more...
As has become tradition, BMI hosted a special dinner for licensing customers and association partners who attended this year’s Mountain High Music Festival held recently (1/13-1/17) in Crested Butte, Colorado. An evening of great food and drink was capped by a performance from two of BMI’s top Nashville songwriters. Kendell… Read more...
At the time this article was written every song in the top-10 on Billboard’s Pop, Country, Christian, and R & B/Hip-Hip charts was the result of collaboration. Out of forty top-10 hits, zero were created by a solo writer. I’m not insinuating that successful songs are never written by one… Read more...
BMI once again partnered with Neuhoff Media and WFMB-FM (on 3/20/15) to present the 4th Annual “Behind the Hits- Songwriters for St. Jude’s,” a guitar pull featuring three award-winning Nashville songwriters with proceeds benefitting St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. BMI songwriters Casey Beathard and Kendell Marvel and country artist Greg Bates… Read more...
