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Oct 21, 2009 Perennial hitmaker Toby Keith receives the Songwriter/Artist of the Decade award from the NSAI at the organization’s annual awards ceremony, held Sunday, October 18. View Photo

Oct 21, 2009 Wynn Varble accepts the NSAI Songwriter of the Year Award at the 2009 Nashville Songwriters Association International Hall of Fame Awards on October 18. Varble also co-wrote Song of the Year “Waiting on a Woman.” View Photo

Oct 21, 2009 Taylor Swift accepts the NSAI Songwriter/Artist of the Year Award at the 2009 Nashville Songwriters Association International Hall of Fame Awards on October 18. View Photo

Oct 21, 2009 The NSAI also revealed the peer-voted “Songs I Wish I’d Written,” which included “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven,” “In Color,” “Johnny & June,” “People Are Crazy,” “Troubadour,” “Waitin’ on a Woman,” and “What Hurts the Most.” Writers behind the “Songs I Wish I’d Written” gathered for a photo. Pictured at the ceremony are Tia Sillers, Marjorie Hall, Sr. VP… View Photo

Oct 21, 2009 Barbara Mandrell inducted Kye Fleming (right) into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame at the 2009 Nashville Songwriters Association International Hall of Fame Awards on October 18. View Photo

Oct 21, 2009 Pictured at the 2009 NSAI Awards dinner and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony are BMI’s Jody Williams, Taylor Swift, Toby Keith, Kye Fleming, Wynn Varble, and BMI’s Phil Graham. View Photo

Oct 21, 2009 Pictured at the 2009 Encompass New Opera Theatre Jazz Gala are Pat Cook, Artistic Director of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop; Nancy Rhodes, Artistic Director of the Encompass New Opera Theatre; Maury Yeston, BMI’s Jean Banks; Frank Evans, Workshop Special Events Coordinator; and Morton Banks. View Photo

Oct 20, 2009 During the Rights, Royalties & Reporting in the Digital World panel at the Digital Music Forum West, participants dove in to the issues currently driving the entertainment industry’s dialogue. Pictured are BMI’s Richard Conlon; Cecily Mak, Assoc. General Counsel & Dir., Music Licensing, Real & Rhapsody; Maurice Russell, VP, Licensing, Collections & Bus. Affairs, Harry Fox Agency; Erik Steigen, Dir.,… View Photo

Oct 20, 2009 Pictured at the Rights, Royalties & Reporting in the Digital World panel staged during the 4th annual Digital Music Forum West are BMI’s Richard Conlon; Cecily Mak, Assoc. General Counsel & Dir., Music Licensing, Real & Rhapsody; Maurice Russell, VP, Licensing, Collections & Bus. Affairs, Harry Fox Agency; Erik Steigen, Dir., Publishing & Royalties, Provident Financial Management; Les Watkins, SVP,… View Photo

Oct 20, 2009 Pictured at the Jazz Foundation of America's Jazz Loft Party are the Smithsonian Institution’s John Hasse, BMI’s Robbin Ahrold and Jazz Foundation Executive Director Wendy Oxenhorn. View Photo