A record-breaking $41 million in direct visitor spending was generated during last month’s New Year’s Eve event at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp announced Thursday.
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Country singer and songwriter Keith Urban is set to host next week’s live New Year’s Eve five-hour event in Nashville airing on the CBS Television Network and streaming on Paramount+.
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After three packed days of musical performances, informative panels, and engaging sessions, Country Radio Seminar (CRS) has concluded.
This year’s event was a success, with attendees enjoying a full-day Streaming Summit, with insightful panels and CRS anchor events such as the “Amazon Music Presents: Country Heat at CRS” showcase, Warner Music Nashville’s Luncheon, Bob Kingsley’s Acoustic Alley, “Team UMG” at the Ryman, Big Machine Label Group’s Luncheon, BBR Music Group Decades Party, “Paddle Royale” Ping Pong Tournament, and the New Faces of Country Music Show and Dinner.
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Not being raised in the world of country music, I missed out on knowing about a lot of key players who are part of the foundation of what Nashville has become. Radney Foster is one such person.
While writing my column for the past six years, Foster’s kept coming up, but I was unfamiliar with his work. Then I saw an interview where Darius Rucker credits Foster for the reason he is in country music.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee – Gracie Carol is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. As an athlete, Carol only remembers hearing her parents play country music as a child.
She recalled, “Every time we played games or practiced, my parents would be in the car just blaring new Kenny Chesney and Alan Jackson and George Strait and all the late 90s and early 2000s songs from country radio.”
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The lineup also includes Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, The Struts, Amanda Shires and the Fisk Jubilee Singers along with rising artists Kalie Shorr and Bren Joy.
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The Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival will be September 21 and 22 at The Park in Harlinsdale in historic Franklin, Tennessee.
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American Currents: The Music of 2018 opens Friday, March 8 at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Some of the artists featured include Jason Aldean, Bobby Bones, Brothers Osborne, Kane Brown, Luke Combs, Dan + Shay, Florida Georgia Line, Reba McEntire, Carly Pearce, Pistol Annies, John Prine, Chris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, and more.
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Joining the lineup with 2018 CMA Entertainer of the Year winner Urban were Grammy-winning rocker Peter Frampton; Country artist Brett Young, the Academy of Country Music’s New Male Vocalist of the Year; genre-bending rock/pop band Judah & the Lion; critically-acclaimed pop rock singer/songwriter Caitlyn Smith; contemporary soul and rock artist Devon Gilfillian; and the Fisk Jubilee Singers.
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Diverse Lineup for “Jack Daniel’s Music City Midnight” at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park Includes Peter Frampton, Kelsea Ballerini Judah & the Lion, Caitlyn Smith, Devon Gilfillian and Fisk Jubilee Singers.
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New Year’s Eve in Nashville in 2017 set a record for direct visitor spending as a record percentage of international visitors, and visitors stayed longer, contributing to the growth in visitor spending.
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Garth Brooks Names Entertainer of the Year for the 6th Time; Chris Stapleton, Brothers Osborne Night’s Top Winners at the 51st Annual CMA Awards
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Diverse Lineup for Jack Daniel’s Music City Midnight: New Year’s Eve in Nashville at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park Includes Keith Urban, Maren Morris, Cheap Trick, Carly Pearce, Jonny P and Fisk Jubilee Singers
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The 50th Annual CMA Awards – Show Labor Day got off to a great start for Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Keith Urban and other stars with news that they had been nominated for multiple Country Music Assn. Awards nominations. Miranda, who is already the most awarded female in CMA history with 12 wins, leads this…
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More than three decades of research shows that a focus on “process”—not on intelligence or ability—is key to success in school and in life.
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