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Sep 19, 2012 Phil Madeira and friends, including Emmylou Harris, Shawn Mullins, the North Mississippi All Stars, Buddy Miller, Matraca Berg, and Amy Stroup, pause for a photo with the Americana Music Association’s Michelle Aquilato (far left, standing) and Jed Hilly (second to right, standing) at the Nashville Downtown Presbyterian Church during the Americana Music Festival. View Photo

Sep 19, 2012 Phil Madeira and friends perform songs from MERCYLAND: Hymns for the Rest of Us at the Nashville Downtown Presbyterian Church during the Americana Music Festival. View Photo

Sep 18, 2012 BMI invited three promising young songwriters to perform at its monthly songwriters round on September 13, staged at Nashville’s Two Old Hippies. Featuring the songs of Maggie Chapman, Briana Tyson, and Jenny Gill, the night helped further introduce the writers to music publishers, labels and other key industry tastemakers. Pictured are Chapman, BMI’s Leslie Roberts, Tyson and Gill. View Photo

Sep 14, 2012 Hailey Steele, BMI songwriter and alumna of NBC’s The Voice, recently stopped by BMI in Nashville to celebrate signing with BMG Chrysalis. Pictured are (seated) BMG Chrysalis’s Sara Johnson, Hailey Steele, and Graffam Middleton’s Tyler Middleton; (standing) BMG Chrysalis’s Darrell Franklin, Scott Knabe Management’s Scott Knabe, and BMI’s Bradley Collins. View Photo

Sep 11, 2012 BMI partnered with the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association to present the 3rd Annual Endless Summer Songwriter Series at the Harborwalk Village in Destin, FL over Labor Day weekend. The three-day event featured performances by more than a dozen BMI songwriters who sang country’s biggest hits and told the stories behind the songs. The songwriter shows took place in five… View Photo

Sep 04, 2012 For the fifth consecutive year, BMI proudly partnered with the Radio Advertising Bureau and the MIW Radio Group to present Rising Through the Ranks, a management training program for women radio executives. The two-day seminar took place at BMI’s Nashville offices August 29 and 30, and included a networking dinner featuring live music from Arista Nashville recording artist and BMI… View Photo

Sep 04, 2012 Kristen Kelly, and BMI’s Dan Spears and Alison Smith join the Rising Through the Ranks class of 2012 for a photo. View Photo

Aug 27, 2012 Big Machine Label Group’s Scott Borchetta and Brantley Gilbert huddle for a photo at the “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do” No. 1 party. View Photo

Aug 27, 2012 Friends, industry professionals, and journalists convened on the BMI rooftop patio to celebrate Brantley Gilbert’s No. 1 hit “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do.” View Photo

Aug 27, 2012 Brantley Gilbert (far left) and co-writer Jim McCormick (center left) are joined by fellow songwriters Eric Paslay (center right) and Dylan Altman (far right). View Photo