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At 96, Green Hills' Most Persuasive Civic Voice Is Still Making the Case for the Ballot
Frances Edwards is 96, and she lives at Blakeford Senior Life in Green Hills. She is still asking her neighbors to register and turn out bef…
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Three Nights of Costumes and Country at Friends In Low Places
Friends In Low Places is giving Halloween a full weekend. Its Halloweekend runs three nights, starting Thursday, at the lower end of Broadwa…
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Friends In Low Places Sets a Costumed Stage for Halloween on Broadway
Friends In Low Places is turning Halloween into a three-night run it's calling Halloweekend, beginning Thursday. Visitors to downtown Nashvi…
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Music Row's Week Was Busy in the Front Offices
The industry's weekly ledger is out, and the news this time is in the corner offices as much as on the charts. Executives changed desks acro…
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Ella Langley Holds the Top Spot on Radio for Another Week
For a second straight week, Ella Langley's single sits at No. 1 on MusicRow's radio chart. Getting to the top of a radio chart is hard, and …
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Kameron Marlowe Puts His Own Name on Record Number Three
Kameron Marlowe has a new full-length record coming. It's his third, and he's named it after himself. It arrives January 22, released throug…
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Wynonna Calls Her New Record Both Her Toughest Work and Her Finest
After more than forty years of recording, Wynonna has made a new album, and she says it is the most demanding project of her career and also…
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Music and Money Shake Hands Again: BMI and Studio Bank Sign On for More
The songwriters' organization BMI and Studio Bank are carrying their arrangement forward, continuing a relationship that first took shape in…
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The Swon Brothers Put Their Names to a New Label Deal
The Swon Brothers have a new label home: the duo is now on the Adrian James Records roster. In this town a signing is how talent shows its i…
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Ten Years On, Triple Tigers Is Still an Independent Label With Platinum on the Wall
Triple Tigers Records has reached its tenth year as an independent label, with chart successes and records certified Platinum several times …
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"Neon Moon" Gets Another Honor: Brooks & Dunn Pick Up Two RIAA Certifications
Brooks & Dunn have two more certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America. One of the songs being honored is "Neon Moon.…
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Josh Ross Marks His Second No. 1 With the People Who Got Him There
On Sept. 30, Josh Ross toasted a song that reached the top of the chart, his second to get there, at a party in Nashville. The guest list wa…
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The Red Clay Strays Have More Thanks to Give, and a New Year to Give It In
The Red Clay Strays will keep the "Grateful Tour" going into 2027, with a new run of dates now on the calendar. The fresh stretch opens on J…
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Thistle and Rye Pours Pink for October
Thistle and Rye has given its bar and dining room over to a menu called Rosé and Rye, and every item on it is pink. It marks the month set a…
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Pink Gets an Early Start at the Conrad on Sunday
The Conrad Nashville will open its doors on a Sunday morning for Power in Pink, a wellness gathering held for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.…
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Blue Aster Sets the Thanksgiving Table, Three Courses at a Fixed Price
Blue Aster is serving a three-course prix fixe for Thanksgiving, on the holiday itself, Thursday. A set menu suits the day: nobody has to th…
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Thistle and Rye Gives Its Songwriter Night a Holiday Turn
Thistle and Rye is bringing the season into its regular songwriter night with a Holiday Writers' Round. The series already comes around once…
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Four Courses, One Table: Christmas Eve Belongs at Blue Aster
Blue Aster is serving a four-course dinner on Christmas Eve, which falls on a Thursday this year. In a season of crowded parties and rushed …
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Nominations Open for the Country Radio Hall of Fame Class of 2027
The Country Radio Hall of Fame has started taking nominations for the group it will honor in 2027. Nashville gives most of its attention to …
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December's Must-See Bill: Stapleton, King and Dunn Turn Out for Ronnie Bowman
Chris Stapleton, Marcus King and Ronnie Dunn are among the artists who will perform this December at a special evening honoring Ronnie Bowma…
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Sleight of Hand, Served at the Table: Virgin Hotels Nashville Books Three October Evenings
For three nights this October, Virgin Hotels Nashville is putting a magician within arm's reach of your dinner plate. The series is called M…
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Sasha Alex Sloan, Songwriter Who Won't Pick Just One Road
In a new conversation with MusicRow, the trade paper this town reads for the business of the song, Sasha Alex Sloan talks about how she writ…
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The Songwriter of the Year Steps Into the Circle
Blake Pendergrass, who was recently named Songwriter of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association International, has now played the …
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A Three-Way Tie at the Top of Today's Singles Stack
MusicRow's DISClaimer column, its regular round of reviews of new singles, couldn't settle on a single Disc of the Day this time and gave th…
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Two Years In, Cafe Babu Throws Itself a Party
Cafe Babu is turning two, and it's marking the occasion with a celebration that runs the whole of Sunday, start to finish. In a city where n…
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Abbie Callahan Takes Her First Bow on the Opry Stage
On the evening of September 25, Abbie Callahan stepped onto the Opry stage for the first time. In this town, few first nights carry more wei…
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October in Nashville, Already Mapped Out
The town's October is now on paper: a month-by-month guide lays out new songs, upcoming records, trade gatherings and live shows around Nash…
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Kaitlin Butts Takes Hello, Honky Tonk on the Road This Month
Kaitlin Butts has a new album on the way, *Hello, Honky Tonk*, and she is taking the record out to audiences before the month is over. The r…
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The Business Behind the Song Gathers Its Members
The Mechanical Licensing Collective, the organization that handles mechanical royalties for songwriters and music publishers, called its mem…
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The Art Crawl Gets a Second Act This Saturday
When the gallery doors close this Saturday, October 3, the evening keeps going: Portals, the after-party to the art crawl, is on the calenda…
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Produce Place Brings Back Its Autumn Gathering
Fall Fest has returned to Produce Place. Nashville Guru calls it a festive event built around the season, and the return alone says enough: …
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A Seacrest Charity Hands Its Partnerships and Marketing to Clark Sweat
The Ryan Seacrest Foundation has a new senior vice president, and Clark Sweat now leads its partnerships and its marketing. Those two jobs d…
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Live Nation's Truth Opens Its Doors This Thursday, With Room for 4,400
The Truth, the new music venue from Live Nation, opens to the public this Thursday in October. It holds 4,400 people, which puts it between …
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A Nashville Signature With a Worldwide Reach
Tyla Rodrigues has put pen to paper with Sony Music Publishing's Nashville office, and the agreement is global in scope. So the deal is sign…
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A Morning Cup With Dolly's Name on It
Dolly Parton's coffee, Cup of Ambition, can now be ordered online. It is also being poured at the stops of the Sip and Sample Tour, where pe…
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Cadott, Wisconsin Posts the Bill for Hoofbeat's Fortieth Year
The Hoofbeat Festival has named every act on the bill for its fortieth edition. The country festival takes place in Cadott, Wisconsin, a lon…
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Lainey Wilson and Zach Top Join the CMA Foundation's Giving
The CMA Foundation has two new partners in Lainey Wilson and Zach Top. The arrangement is meant to build on investments the foundation has a…
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Rendy Lovelady, the Hand Behind Gulf Coast Jam, Gets a Music Row Close-Up
Every festival needs someone who builds it long before the crowd shows up, and at Gulf Coast Jam, Rendy Lovelady is one of those people as a…
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Hudson Westbrook Shows His Hand Ahead of Album Number Two
Hudson Westbrook has released the running order for "Made You Look," his second full-length record, which arrives November 6. The song lineu…
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Six Mile's Blake Whiten Hands His Road Calendar to CAA
Blake Whiten, who grew up in Six Mile, now has CAA booking his live dates around the world. For an artist, few pieces of paperwork say more:…
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A New Name on the Lost Highway Roster: Emma Ogier
Emma Ogier has put her name to a deal with Lost Highway Records. The label says she made an impression on them right away, and in this town …
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Nick LaPointe Takes a Senior Director's Chair at SESAC's Music Services
Music Services, part of SESAC Music Group, has brought Nick LaPointe aboard at the senior director level. His is one of two new names the co…
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Brandi Carlile Lets the Room Choose the Songs This November
Brandi Carlile will spend November on the road with a pared-down three-piece show built entirely on requests, billed as "Burn The Setlist (T…
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Country Music's Home Office Names Its International Honors for 2026
The CMA has released this year's list of International Award recipients. It's a short announcement, and it matters in this city, where the b…
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The People Who Raise Nashville's Children Are Getting a Hand With Their Own
The Nashville Early Education Coalition has set aside $400,000 for a new scholarship fund, and it goes to the people who spend their working…
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Mark Tillinger Takes the Podium Office at the Nashville Symphony
The Nashville Symphony has a new chief executive: Mark Tillinger now leads the orchestra. In a city that usually hears its talent through a …
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Back Blocks Music Adds a Decorated Writer and Producer to Its Roster
Will Bundy has joined Back Blocks Music, bringing songwriting and production work that has already won awards. In a town that keeps score in…
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Parker McCollum Saves a Surprise for Vincent Mason on the Last Night of His Tour
Parker McCollum used the final stop of his tour, at Doggett, to surprise Vincent Mason. The last night of a run belongs to the headliner, an…
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The Room That Sold Out Is About to Get a Lot Bigger
Every ticket to Miranda Lambert's show at The Truth is already spoken for, and it was only ever booked for a single night. Anyone who missed…
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Chris Stapleton Named as Ohio Stadium Sets Its Country Date for Next Summer
Columbus has a date on the calendar: Buckeye Country Superfest is coming back to Ohio Stadium on July 10, 2027, and the lineup is now public…
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Ten Nights With John Morgan's Name at the Top of the Bill
John Morgan has booked ten more shows for the autumn, and at every one of them he is the headliner. The first of them is on Nov. 12. Ten nig…
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Chris Stapleton Is on the Bill as Buckeye Country Superfest Sets Its Date for Summer 2027
Next summer's country calendar already has one date on it. Buckeye Country Superfest is coming back to Ohio Stadium in Columbus on July 10, …
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John Morgan's Name Goes on the Marquee Ten More Times This Season
John Morgan is going out as the headliner, and he's doing it ten times. He has added ten dates to his calendar for the back half of the year…
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A Songwriter's Name Climbs the Chart That Music Row Reads Closely
Wyatt McCubbin now ranks among the fifteen strongest names on MusicRow's songwriter chart. In this town, that list is how the industry measu…
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An Easel, a Glass and October: Halloween Arrives at the Canvas
Halloween is getting a gentler treatment than usual this year: an evening where guests paint with a drink close at hand, and the brushwork t…
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A Friday Cup at Prickly Pear, and an Invitation to Sit Down With Luke
This Friday, Prickly Pear Coffee Co. is setting aside its counter for "Coffee with Luke," and the name of the gathering tells you most of wh…
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Kenny Chesney Chooses Nashville for the First Night of His Twenty-First Record
Kenny Chesney recently marked the arrival of Silver Sands Marina, his twenty-first studio album, with a show in Nashville to launch it. Twen…
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Gulf Coast Jam Sets Its 2027 Bill, With Pardi, Zeiders and Wetmore Topping the Names
The Gulf Coast Jam has named every act for its 2027 edition, which will mark the festival's fifteenth year. Jon Pardi, Warren Zeiders and Tu…
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Save Sunday, October 18 for TASTE: The New Old Fashioned
TASTE: The New Old Fashioned is on the calendar for Sunday, October 18. The name is the draw here. It takes the most classic order at any ba…
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Potions and Paws Lands on Nashville's October Calendar
Potions and Paws is set for the evening of Thursday, October 22, 2026, a date worth marking now, with the season's invitations starting to p…
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