BMI partnered with the Rhode Island Hospitality Association (RIHA) for the first annual Rhode Island Songwriters Festival held recently (8/21/15) in Providence. The event featured five BMI-affiliated artists and songwriters, including Jared Mullins, Travis Denning, Phillip White, George Teren and Frank Myers. The event was held at the Rhode Island Convention… Read more...
BMI provided the musical entertainment for the annual Association of Independent Metropolitan Radio Stations (AIMS) conference held recently (3/1-3/3) at the Omni Hotel in Nashville. Host Tony Richards of Federated Media was intent on bringing the music of Music City to all of the conference events, so BMI songwriters were featured… Read more...
BMI songwriter Phillip White was the featured performer at the Kansas Broadcasters Association Annual Awards Dinner held recently (10/20/14) at the Doubletree in Wichita, KS. White entertained the crowd with “I’m Movin’ On” (Rascal Flatts), “Nobody But Me” (Blake Shelton) and “Billy’s Got His Beer Goggles On” (Neal McCoy). After White’s… Read more...
On October 13, 2014, Broadcast Music, Inc. treated Funeral Service Foundation’s Board of Trustees and donors, in Nashville for the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) Annual Convention, to an intimate performance by award-winning BMI songwriters Dylan Altman, Phillip White and Tommy Lee James. The three hitmakers took the stage at the… Read more...
BMI treated restaurant association executives who were in Music City for the Annual Summer Meeting of the CSRA (Council of State Restaurant Associations) to a good old fashioned Bluebird Café-style guitar pull that featured three of Nashville’s finest songwriters. Award-winning BMI songwriters Kylie Sackley, Clint Daniels and Phillip White played (on… Read more...
BMI partnered recently (10/17/13-10/20/13) with Midwest-based radio group Three Eagles Communications on a songwriter tour that featured workshops and performances in three of their radio markets. BMI award-winning songwriters Rebecca Lynn Howard, Danny Myrick and Phillip White performed at venues in Mankato, Minnesota, Brookings, South Dakota, and Lincoln, Nebraska, in addition… Read more...
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 the… Read more...
ALL JACKED UP Vicky McGehee EMI-Blackwood Music, Inc. Oklahoma Girl Music Gretchen Wilson Epic Records AS GOOD AS I ONCE WAS Scotty Emerick Toby Keith Big Yellow Dog Music Florida Cracker Music Sony/ATV Tree Tokeco Tunes Toby Keith DreamWorks BELIEVE Ronnie Dunn Showbilly Music Sony/ATV Tree… Read more...
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 right… Read more...
Indie Publisher Spotlight: Mentoring Role Helps Murrah Music Thrive In the highly competitive world of music publishing, it can sometimes be difficult to find accord on even the most minor question. Not so when the subject is Roger Murrah. In addition to a songwriting career filled with… Read more...
