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Jun 09, 2011 Thomas Rhett performs at BMI Presents at 12th & Porter with guitarist/producer Ed Williams. View Photo

Jun 09, 2011 Nashville venue 12th & Porter was rocking on June 7 when BMI presented a stacked lineup of some of Nashville’s most promising young singer/songwriters. Featuring Cheryl LuQuire, Florida-Georgia Line, Sarah Jane Madrid, and Thomas Rhett, the show gave the artists an opportunity to show off in front of a room full of industry executives and fans in town for the… View Photo

Jun 09, 2011 Florida-Georgia Line performs at BMI Presents at 12th & Porter. View Photo

Jun 09, 2011 Sarah Jane Madrid performs at BMI Presents at 12th & Porter. View Photo

Jun 08, 2011 Ashton Shepherd performs at a luncheon at BMI. View Photo

Jun 08, 2011 MCA Nashville and BMI hosted a media luncheon on June 7 for rising country star Ashton Shepherd. Hailed by Wall Street Journal as “a potential Loretta Lynn for a new generation,” Shepherd sampled songs from her upcoming release Where Country Grows. Pictured are BMI's Jody Williams, Ashton Shepherd, UMG Nashville’s Beverly Keel, and Vector Management’s Faith Quesenberry Mallloy. View Photo

Jun 08, 2011 Hip hop artist Scrilla, winner of the 2007 BMI Unsigned Urban Showcase, recently stopped by BMI’s offices in Atlanta. Scrilla, whose current single is titled “I Ball, I Stunt,” just signed to Young Jeezy’s record label, C.T.E., Corporate Thugz Entertainment. Pictured are Scrilla and BMI’s Byron Wright. View Photo

Jun 08, 2011 Cowboy and Indian performs at BMI. View Photo

Jun 08, 2011 BMI invited Austin’s Cowboy and Indian to perform for a room of Music Row tastemakers on June 6. The group is currently recording their debut album. Pictured are (l-r): BMI’s Jody Williams; Cowboy and Indian’s Peder Gilham, Dorian Colbert, Stephanie Hunt, Jazz Mills, and Daniel James; Phoebe Hunt; and BMI’s Beth Laird. View Photo

Jun 08, 2011 Fred Cannon (r), BMI Senior Vice President, Government Relations, is pictured at the World Copyright Summit with White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel and CISAC Chairman Kenth Muldin. View Photo