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Aug 31, 2009 Pictured backstage at the Mercy Lounge during BMI’s August 24 installment of 8 off 8th in Nashville are: back row (l-r): BMI’s Beth Mason, Jeremy Lister, BMI’s Jody Williams, Aaron Winters of Space Capone and BMI’s Mark Mason; front row (l-r): BMI’s Leslie Roberts, Erin McCarley, Kristen Dabbs and Trent Dabbs. View Photo

Aug 27, 2009 Grammy Award-winner Harley Allen recently joined the songwriting staff of Harlan Howard Songs, a Nashville publishing company started by the late, legendary BMI songwriter Harlan Howard and his wife Melanie Howard in 1988. Pictured are Harlan Howard Songs’ Alisa Moore and Melanie Howard, BMI’s Jody Williams and Harley Allen (seated). View Photo

Aug 27, 2009 Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood, who are also BMI songwriters, co-wrote the trio’s first #1 single “I Run to You” with fellow BMI troubadour Tom Douglas and Lady Antebellum bandmate Hillary Scott. The creative hive celebrated the song’s success on Monday, August 24, with a party and performance at the Loveless Café and an afternoon reception at publisher… View Photo

Aug 27, 2009 On August 24, Lady Antebellum celebrated the success of chart-topper “I Run to You” not once, but twice, with a party at Nashville’s iconic Loveless Café and later, another reception at Warner/Chappell Music. Lady Antebellum members Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott, and Dave Haywood co-wrote the tune with songwriting mainstay Tom Douglas, yielding the group’s first #1 single. Pictured at the… View Photo

Aug 25, 2009 Award-winning composer and Lab advisor David Newman, Lab advisor Doreen Ringer Ross and Sundance Institute Film Music Program Director Peter Golub pause for a photo during the 2009 Sundance Composers Lab. The trio is standing in front of a shot that captures Newman conducting at the Lab in the 1980s. The 2009 session marks Newman’s first return to the Lab… View Photo

Aug 25, 2009 Pictured during the 2009 Sundance Composers Lab are (front row) Sundance Institute Film Music Program Director Peter Golub, with Fellows Madga Giannikou, Chanda Dancy and Lili Haydn; (back row) advisor Edward Shearmur, Fellows Christopher Lord and Kim Carroll, advisor and BMI Vice President, Film/TV Relations Doreen Ringer Ross; advisor William “Vasi” Vangelos, and Fellow David Poe. View Photo

Aug 25, 2009 Pictured at the 2009 Sundance Composers Lab are (front row) Fellow Kim Carroll, advisors Tracy McKnight and Doreen Ringer Ross, with Fellow Magda Giannikou; (back row) Sundance Institute Film Music Program Director Peter Golub, with Fellows Lili Haydn, David Poe, Christopher Lord and Chanda Dancy. For two weeks in late July at the Sundance Resort in Utah, Fellows collaborated with… View Photo

Aug 25, 2009 Shown at the South Carolina Broadcasters Association’s (SCBA) annual convention are Lee Brice, WPDE/WWMB-TV & SCBA President-Elect Billy Huggins, WCRE-AM & SCBA President Jane Pigg and BMI’s Mason Hunter. Brice, a native of South Carolina, entertained the crowd with his numerous charting singles and his most current, "Love Like Crazy," which debuted on radio this week. View Photo

Aug 24, 2009 BMI artist/songwriter Sunny Helms recently joined the writing staff of Randazz Music Publishing, a co-venture between former Alabama front man Randy Owen and Dale Morris of Dale Morris & Associates. Pictured are Dale Morris of Dale Morris & Associates, Sunny Helms, BMI's Bradley Collins, Randy Owen, and his son, Heath Owen, Vice President of Randazz Music Publishing. View Photo

Aug 21, 2009 America’s Got Talent runner-up Eli Mattson recently treated BMI’s Nashville office to an intimate performance, which included several of his own compositions as well as his highly-praised rendition of Marc Cohn’s “Walking In Memphis.” Pictured after the set are BMI’s Jody Williams, Eli Mattson and BMI’s Clay Bradley. View Photo