Industry Ink (11/21/13)

Pictured (L-R): Enation manager Billy Holland, ASCAP’s Michael Martin and LeAnn Phelan, Jackson, ASCAP’s Alison Toczylowski and The Holland Group’s Jason MacDowall . Photo by ASCAP’s Anna White

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Sirius XM’s Joyce Rizer has joined the board of Heart of Worship Ministries, Inc. as Director of Development.  The volunteer organization serves the Christian based Heart of Worship school in Viard, Haiti.  In addition to overseeing fundraising for the school, Joyce will be traveling to Haiti in February and is seeking musical instruments including guitars, tambourines and harmonicas to provide to the children.
“Blame Facebook,” Joyce laughs.  “Those sweet children’s faces kept popping up in my news feed, and I had to help.  And the economics of it are crazy.  What we spend on a latte will feed a child for a month! I’m looking forward to sharing some Music City joy with the children in the mountains of Haiti.”
To donate instruments or provide other ways to help, contact joyce@heartofworship-ministries.org. For more information visit http://heartofworship-ministries.org/ or search “Heart of Worship Ministries, Inc” on Facebook.

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Pictured, L-R: (back row) Dennis Cahill, Buck White, Del McCoury, Bruce Hornsby, Museum Director Kyle Young, Alison Krauss and Martin Hayes; (front row) Sharon White, Ricky Skaggs and Cheryl White

 Ricky Skaggs presented his second Artist-in-Residency show at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s CMA Theater, “Bluegrass Rules” earlier this week. Special guests Alison Krauss, Bruce Hornsby, Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill,  Del McCoury and The Whites, joined Skaggs and his band, Kentucky Thunder, to illustrate the history of bluegrass from its Irish-influenced beginnings to its mainstream popularity.

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Lorie Hollabaugh

Hollabaugh, a staff writer at MusicRow magazine, has over 20 years of music business experience and has written for publications including American Profile, CMA Close Up, Nashville Arts And Entertainment, The Boot and Country Weekly. She has a Broadcast Journalism and Speech Communication degree from Texas Christian University, (go Horned Frogs), and welcomes your feedback or story ideas at lhollabaugh@musicrow.com.

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