Industry Ink: Carrie Underwood, Big & Rich, Natalie Hemby

 

Carrie Underwood Launches Album on NBC

Carrie Underwood will sing on NBC’s Today on Oct. 23, the day she releases her new album, Storyteller. Her lead single from the project is “Smoke Break.” RollingStone.com and RollingStoneCountry.com premiered the lyric video earlier this week. Storyteller is produced by Jay Joyce, Mark Bright, and Zach Crowell.

 

 

Big & Rich Join Bass Pro Shops, NRA Country for Memphis Festival

Big & Rich will perform a free show at the Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, on Oct. 24. The concert is co-presented by NRA Country and part of the World’s Hunting & Waterfowl Festival, taking place Oct. 16-25. Other performers confirmed for the festival are Mo Pitney (Oct. 20) and Tim Dugger (Oct. 21), as well as Liz Moriodo and Matt Stillwell (Oct. 22).

 

Natalie Hemby Will Sing at Gala for The Raining Season

Songwriter Natalie Hemby will perform at the inaugural TRS Gala, on behalf of The Raining Season, a non-profit foundation aiding those recovering from a brutal civil war in Sierra Leone West Africa. The gala event will take place at Marathon Music Works in Nashville on Nov. 7. Individual tickets are $75. Hemby’s songwriting credits include seven songs on Miranda Lambert’s 2014 album, Platinum.

Grammy Museum Mississippi Reveals Grand Opening Dates

The Grammy Museum Mississippi will celebrate its grand opening on March 5 and 6, 2016, in Cleveland, Miss. The new location marks the first Grammy Museum to be built outside of Los Angeles.

Built and operated by the Cleveland Music Foundation — a non-profit organization developed in 2011 — in association with the Grammy Museum at L.A. LIVE and The Recording Academy, the 27,000-square-foot Grammy Museum Mississippi will be housed on the campus of Delta State University, home of the Delta Music Institute, the state’s sole accredited music industry studies program.