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Reba and Blake Add Second Tornado Relief Show

• May 6, 2011
Reba and Blake Add Second Tornado Relief Show

Tickets for Reba and Blake Shelton’s May 26 Tornado Relief Concert in Durant, Oklahoma went on sale this morning and promptly sold out in less than two hours. As a result, a second show has been added at the Choctaw Casino Resort for 7:30 pm Wednesday, May 25. Tickets went on sale at 4 pm [...]

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Photos: Martina on GAC; Shania on Nightline

• May 6, 2011
(L-R): GAC host Nan Kelley, Martina McBride, Ava, Delaney and Emma McBride.

Martina McBride and her three daughters on GAC • Shania Twain on ABC’s Nightline

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Belmont Launches Student Think Tank

• May 6, 2011
(L-R): Eric Guroff, Ross Hill, Gia Vangieri, Molly Shehan, and Josh Cypher

Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business has announced the launch of Pipeline, an entertainment industry solutions think tank of Belmont’s best and brightest students. The group’s aim will be developing new concepts and solutions and influencing the entertainment and music industry through its creative capital. CEMB Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives [...]

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Stuart’s Late Night Jam Lineup Revealed

• May 6, 2011
Stuart’s Late Night Jam Lineup Revealed

Marty Stuart has released the lineup for his special 10th Anniversary Late Night Jam on June 8. Joining Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives for performances this year will be country icons Dolly Parton, Mel Tillis and Connie Smith, as well as The Quebe Sisters Band, Doug Kershaw and a few unnamed surprise guests. The event [...]

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Eye On Idol (5/6/11)

• May 6, 2011
Eye On Idol (5/6/11)

Jacob Lusk’s American Idol journey has come to an end after the last night’s (5/5) results show.
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WMG Sold For $3.3 Billion

• May 6, 2011
WMG Sold For $3.3 Billion

Digital Music News and the Los Angeles Times report that Warner Music Group has agreed to be purchased by Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries for approximately $3.3 billion. Included in the “merger agreement” are both recording and publishing divisions plus Access Industries will assume WMG debt of approximately $2 billion. The purchase price calculates to about [...]

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Anderson & Urban Join Walk of Fame

• May 6, 2011
Anderson & Urban Join Walk of Fame

Bill Anderson and Keith Urban are the newest inductees into the Music City Walk of Fame, presented by founding sponsor Gibson Guitar. The honorees will be recognized officially with the unveiling of commemorative sidewalk markers on Sunday, May 15, at 2:30 p.m. at Walk of Fame Park in downtown Nashville. The induction ceremony, sponsored by [...]

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Benefits: Swift, Tracy Lawrence, JDRF Golf Classic

• May 6, 2011
Celebrity/patron golfers pose at tourney start. Photo: Hunter Photography.

Taylor Swift will be opening the last dress rehearsal for her Speak Now Tour to fans as a fundraiser to benefit victims in the recent deadly tornadoes in the Southeast. 13,000 fans will get a first look at Swift’s new show almost a week early at  Speak Now…..Help Now!, her final tour rehearsal, on May [...]

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Weekly Chart Report (5/06/11)

• May 6, 2011
Aria Records Nashville artist David St. Romain has been visiting radio in support of his single "Twenty Years Late.” He recently stopped to catch up with the gang at WOKO/Burlington, VT. (L-R): WOKO MD Bill Sargeant, David St. Romain, Aria Records National Radio Promoter Kristen-Cassidy Hoefel, WOKO Morning Round-Up's CK Coin.

Following the terrible wave of storms that devastated the South and particularly Alabama last week, Brad Paisley’s “Old Alabama” emerges triumphantly in the CountryBreakout Chart’s No. 1 spot. And remarkable guy that he is, Paisley is donating royalties from digital sales of the track to the Alabama Red Cross for relief efforts.

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Don Schlitz To Be Saluted as Poet and Prophet

• May 6, 2011
Don Schlitz Photo:ACM/Getty

Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member Don Schlitz will be featured at the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum’s quarterly programming series Poets and Prophets: Legendary Country Songwriters on June 4. Schlitz is the writer of some of country music’s most iconic hits, including “The Gambler,” “Forever and Ever, Amen,” “When You Say Nothing [...]

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Jewell Launches Jewell Entertainment

• May 6, 2011
Jewell Launches Jewell Entertainment

Genevieve Jewell has launched Jewell Entertainment, a full-service artist management and marketing company, in Nashville. Jewell will be working with artists and companies of all genres of music. One of the company’s initial management clients is guitar prodigy Tyler Bryant, whose story is featured in the recent documentary Rock Prophecies. Bryant is currently on tour [...]

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Organizations Fete “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not”

• May 5, 2011
Pictured (l-r): ASCAP VP and Managing Executive Tim DuBois, songwriter David Lee Murphy, Thompson Square's Shawna Thompson and Keifer Thompson, songwriter Jim Collins

The No. 1 hit “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not” was feted with separate celebrations hosted by BMI and ASCAP on Tuesday, May 3. The song was the first No.1 for husband-wife duo Thompson Square and its label Stoney Creek Records. It was penned by songwriting mainstays and good friends Jim Collins and David [...]

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