Garth Brooks accepted the Dale Franklin Leadership Music Award Sunday night. The award is given to members of the music community that have shown leadership in the Nashville music business.
Country music artists, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bela Fleck, Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, and Irma Thomas will perform October 12, 2009 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Rounder Records. The performances will be recorded for a PBS special which will air sometime in 2010. Tickets go on Sale Aug. 28th.
According to CMT.com, Taylor Swift will host a private concert for the radio industry during the 41st annual Country Radio Seminar set for early 2010 in Nashville. She will also be the topic of “The Taylor Effect,” which is a discussion panel analyzing the marketing strategies that led to her success. The seminar is aimed at country radio programmers, D.J.’s and executives. Taylor’s performance takes place on the first night of the seminar, which will be held February 24-26, 2010 at the Nashville Convention Center.
The Boston Globe announced that 114 people were arrested Saturday (Aug. 15th) at Kenny Chesney’s concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., near Boston, and another 228 were taken into protective custody at the New England Country Music Festival. Most of the offenses were for underage drinking. Police decided to crackdown on the musical events because of Chesney’s concert there last year where two women, who were not ticket holders, were killed in a car accident after tailgating in the parking lot. There were more than 56,000 people at the concert which also featured artists, Sugarland, Montgomery Gentry and Miranda Lambert. This is the 5th consecutive year that Kenny Chesney’s tour has sold out at this venue.
Musician Warren “Gates” Nichols was laid to rest on Aug. 19th in Dallas, GA. Nichols was the steel guitar and keyboardist for the band Confederate Railroad. Nichols, 65, died from pancreatic cancer. The band was best known for hits such as “Queen of Memphis,” “Jesus and Mama,” “ Trashy Women” and “Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind,” all of which were released in the 1990’s.
Several Country artists will be releasing new or debut albums soon. Among the new releases are Brandi Carlile, Give Up the Ghost, set to release Oct. 6th on Columbia Records; Reba McEntire’s Keep on Loving You, out Aug. 18th, on Valory Music Co; and David Nail’s debut album, I’m About to Come Alive, on MCA Nashville, also set to release Aug. 18th. Dolly Parton will release a box set containing four CDs with 99 songs on Oct. 27th. The box set will cover the years from 1957 – 1993. The set will also include seven previously unreleased tracks.
Singer/songwriter Chuck Wicks will be performing at the CMA Songwriters Series at Joe’s Pub in New York City on September 9th. He will be joined by fellow songwriters Marv Green and Ashley Gorley. The event will be hosted by songwriter Bob DiPiero. Tickets are $25.00 for both the 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. shows.
Shania Twain is set to be a special guest judge in Chicago for “American Idol” on August 30-31 according to People magazine. She will be substituting for former judge Paula Abdul, who has recently decided not to return to “Idol” for Season 9.
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