Industry Ink: Nashville Film Festival, JRA Fine Arts, CMHoF

CMHoF’s Peter Cooper To Moderate Q&A at NaFF

Peter Cooper of The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will moderate a Q&A following the world premiere of the documentary feature Country: Portraits of an American Sound at the Nashville Film Festival on April 22. Panelists will include director Steven Kochones and award-winning photographers Michael Wilson, Raenne Rubenstein and David McClister, whose works appear in the documentary.

Produced and directed by Kochones for the Annenberg Space for Photography, Country: Portraits of an American Sound also includes interviews with artists such as Lyle Lovett, Keith Urban, Rosanne Cash, Roy Clark, Larry Gatlin, Marty Stuart, Brenda Lee, Lorrie Morgan, Terri Clark, Holly Williams and Kenny Rogers.

As previously reported, the film festival is offering numerous panels about music in movies.

For more information, visit: https://nashvillefilmfestival.org/buy-tickets/

JRA Fine Arts Signs The Willis Clan

Family band The Willis Clan has signed with JRA Fine Arts for exclusive booking representation. The Nashville-based musical family was featured on the 2014 season of NBC’s America’s Got Talent, as well as the 2013 season of The Today Show, as winners of NBC’s Sound of Music Family contest.

Pictured (L-R): Brinson Strickland, President, The Collective Nashville, Brenda Willis, Dan Mann, General Manager, JRA Fine Arts

Producer/Songwriter Rick Hall Welcomed For Conversation at Country Music Hall of Fame

Pictured (L-R): The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Abi Tapia, writer Peter Guralnick, Rick Hall, and Heritage Builders Publishing’s Sherm Smith.
Photo: Jason Davis, Getty Images

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