Moonstruck Management, Hope River Entertainment Merge

Bluegrass organizations Moonstruck Management and Hope River Entertainment have merged under the Moonstruck Management name. The company will provide a full-service agency offering booking, public relations, and album and radio promotion. Moonstruck Management will now offer in-house publicity and other services to their clients that currently do not have those services provided by another agency.

Josh Trivett is the owner of Moonstruck Management. Ben Wilson is a booking agent for the company.

Penni McDaniel, the owner of Hope River Entertainment, will continue providing the following services: management for Dave Adkins and Donna Hughes; public relations services for Larry Cordle, Lonesome River Band, Volume Five, Trinity River Band and more; festival publicity for the Bill Monroe Music Park including the Bill Monroe Memorial Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival; album publicity and radio promotions for Trinity River Band’s Things We Do For Dreams, Lou Reid and Carolina’s Rollin’ On; and a new album coming soon on Mountain Home Music Company.

The agency’s combined roster now includes: Soggy Bottom Boys, Lonesome River Band, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Dave Adkins, Volume Five, Hogslop String Band, Newtown, Sweetwater String Band, Trinity River Band, Bluegrass 45, and Jesse Kramer.

Moonstruck Management is also the talent buyer for the Huck Finn Jubilee in Ontario, California, as well as Uncle Dave Macon Days in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.