Benefits/LifeNotes Daily (6/14/07)

Songwriter Jeffrey Steele and his wife have established the Alex LeVasseur Memorial Fund as a tribute to their 13-year-old son who passed away earlier this year. The first Alex LeVasseur Fund Festival will...

Carroll Opens LP Field Show

06/13/2007

Arista Nashville artist Jason Michael Carroll delivered the first set on the opening night of this year’s CMA Music Festival main stage shows at LP Field. While attending the nightly CMA press conferences, it was announced that Carroll will be opening a stretch of dates later this year on the Brooks & Dunn/Alan Jackson tour.

Pictured (L-R): Carroll’s album producer and co-manager Don Gehman, Sony BMG Nashville Exec. VP Butch Waugh, Carroll, and Sony BMG Nashville Chairman Joe Galante.

Artist News Daily (6/14/07)

Taylor Swift is set to perform at the 2007 American Women in Radio and Television's National Gracie Awards gala in New York on Mon., June 18. The black-tie event will be hosted by CBS...

Artist News Daily (6/12/07)

The Joe Nichols Fan Club and The Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis have established the Mike Nichols Fund of Hope to benefit Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. The fund is in honor of Nichol's father who died in...

Little Big Town Rides For A Cure

06/11/2007

Equity Music Group’s Little Big Town kicked off CMA Music Festival with the first annual Ride For A Cure. Presented by Harley-Davidson of Cool Springs, this motorcycle ride raised more than $20,000 to benefit the T.J. Martell Foundation, which funds research for leukemia, cancer and AIDS. LBT members Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook led the pack of artists, VIP guests and motorcycle riders from the Cool Springs Harley-Davidson store to the Hall of Fame Park in Downtown Nashville, where everyone was treated to a BBQ and live auction.

Pictured (L-R) front row: Phillip Sweet; Fairchild; and Westbrook. Back row: GAC’s Country Music Across America host Storme Warren; Ride For A Cure Co-Chairs Spencer Brooks and Ricky Kelly; Kimberly Roads; and Exec. Dir. T.J. Martell Foundation Laura Heatherly. Photo: Randi Radcliff

Arista Artists At Celebrity Softball Challenge

Jon Freeman – 06/08/2007

Arista Nashville’s Carrie Underwood, Keith Anderson and Jason Michael Carroll were among the artists to take the field at the 17th Annual Celebrity Softball Challenge June 7, benefiting the City of Hope.

Pictured (L-R): Carroll, Underwood, and Anderson.

Artist News Daily (6/8/07)

Dolly Parton is set to become a lifetime member of the Girl Scouts of Tanasi Council on June 15 at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Over 1,000 Girl Scouts will take part in the event...

Checking Little Jimmy For Ticks

06/07/2007

Brad Paisley’s June 6 fan club concert at the Ryman Auditorium brought in special guests Whisperin’ Bill Anderson and Little Jimmy Dickens, both of whom make return appearances as Kung Pao Buckaroos on Brad’s upcoming June 19 Arista Nashville album, 5th Gear.

Pictured (L-R): Arista Nashville VP National Promotion Skip Bishop; Sony BMG Nashville Exec. VP Butch Waugh; Anderson; Dickens; Paisley; Sony BMG Nashville Chairman Joe Galante; and Fitzgerald Hartley management’s Bill Simmons. Photo: Joe Hardwick

Sugarland Celebrates “Settlin’”

06/06/2007

Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush joined co-writer Tim Owens to kick off CMA Music Festival week with a celebration of their recent hit single "Settlin.'" The No. 1 Party was held at ASCAP-Nashville and sponsored by Fallsview Casino Resort.

Pictured (L-R): Windswept Music's Steve Markland, Bud Dog Music's David Corlew, CMA COO Tammy Genovese, Bush, ASCAP Sr. VP Connie Bradley, Nettles and Owens. Photo: Eric England

Artist News Daily (6/5/07)

Trace Adkins has been invited to perform at the 2007 President's Dinner on Wed., June 13 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Over 5000 people are scheduled to attend the annual political event...